Dick Whittington set for Curragh this Sunday

Dick Whittington set for Curragh this Sunday

The Group 3 Big Bad Bob Gladness Stakes attracts a strong entry of 19 runners.

The race may well include the Aidan O’Brien trained Dick Whittington, who was a Group One winner at the Curragh last season when winning the Keeneland Phoenix Stakes in good style from Richard Hannon’s Kool Kompany.

O’Brien is responsible for four of the 19-entries left in the race on Tuesday afternoon which also features last year’s winner Sruthan, Sabrina Harty’s Ansgar, and British trained runners Cable Bay, Sovereign Debt and That Is The Spirit.

Sruthan will attempt to win the race for a second year in a row according to his trainer Paul Deegan; “It was always the plan to start him back off in the Gladness Stakes and he did a little piece of work Tuesday morning and went brilliant so I’m delighted with him and he looks like he has improved over the winter so I couldn’t be happier with him.

The Dandy Nicholls trained Sovereign Debt was a shade unlucky when only going down by a neck in the Ladbrokes Mile in the All-Weather Championships final at Lingfield on Good Friday and the six-year-old is likely to take his chance if the Curragh ground continues to dry out, according to Nicholls.

Yorkshire Oaks winner Tapestry is another leading name that could be on show at the Curragh on Sunday when the daughter of Galileo gets her season underway in the Alleged Stakes over 10-furlongs.

The Aidan O’Brien trained four-year-old is one of 13 in the listed contest which also features the recent Cork winner Massinga who will bid to continue the brilliant run of form for Dermot Weld, while Jim Bolger’s Parish Hall is also among the possible runners and the Irish Lincolnshire runner-up Aussie Valentine is an intended runner according to Paul Deegan following the horse's win at Leopardstown last weekend.


 

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