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Time Test ruled out as Found bids for Curragh gold

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Found (Seamie Heffernan) wins

Found: beat Golden Horn in a memorable Breeders’ Cup Turf

  PICTURE: Patrick McCann (racingpost.com/photos)  

 By Johnny Ward 8:00PM 21 MAY 2016 

AIDAN O’BRIEN has won Sunday’s Group 1 Tattersalls Gold Cup six times and looks odds-on to make it seven, thanks to the brilliant filly Found.

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Black Sam Bellamy (2003), Powerscourt (2004), Duke Of Marmalade (2008), Fame And Glory (2010) and So You Think (2011, 2012) have scored in this event for the master of Ballydoyle, who now bids to win the Group 1 with a filly for the first time and Found’s task was made considerably easier on Saturday after Roger Charlton ruled Time Test out of the race on account of the softening ground.

Found will retire to stud with the distinction of having beaten Golden Horn in a memorable Breeders’ Cup Turf at Keeneland last October.

She is being aimed at an autumnal campaign again, with a view to bettering her effort when an unlucky five-length ninth in the Prix de l’Arc de Triomphe.

‘This race has always been the plan’

O’Brien is on record as saying she will get a mid-season break with a view to running in the Arc and possibly the Breeders’ Cup, but there was little in her dismissal of Fascinating Rock in the Curragh’s Mooresbridge Stakes last time to suggest she was under-cooked at this stage of the campaign.

The trainer said: “She came on nicely from her first run of the season to win the Mooresbridge and we’ve been happy with her since. She’s in good form. This race has always been the plan for her first Group 1 run of the year.”

Weld bids for sixth win

Dermot Weld, trainer of Fascinating Rock, also has a fine record in the race. Cockney Lass (1987) was his first success in an event he has also won with Definite Article, Dance Design, Grey Swallow and Casual Conquest.

The Grey Gatsby, who has gone six runs without a win, was hot favourite in this race last year. Sent off 11-10, he could finish only fourth to Al Kazeem.

More showers expected

There is the chance of more downpours at the Curragh on Sunday after heavy showers on Saturday resulted in the ground easing.

The straight course was changed from good, good to yielding in places, to yielding to soft and the round course to yielding from good.

Clerk of the course Brendan Sheridan said on Saturday night: “More showers are expected although it will be a hit or miss situation.”

Read more from connections in Sunday’s Racing Post – available on your iPad now

 

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