I’m backing Joseph O’Brien’s and INTRICATELY to land the Irish 1000 Guineas today at Curragh.
He’s a Group One winner at the track and the form of that Moyglare Stud Stakes win gives him a big shout in this, particularly as the rain has come.
He’s by Fastnet Rock, whose progeny appreciate slower going and generally stay well, and he only finished a length behind the subsequent English 1000 Guineas winner Winter when giving that filly 3lb at Leopardstown last month.
Winter is the odds-on favourite for this, and also involved in that bunched finish at Leopardstown was second-favourite Rehana, who was also receiving weight to suggest a reversal of form is likely.
More likely than the massive 16/1 price suggests, anyway.
The big price is down to defeats at the Breeders’ Cup and English Guineas, but both were on fast ground and there’s every chance that was decisive.
0.75pt each-way Intricately @16/1, 15:25 Curragh, Sunday (SkyBet, 1,2,3, 1/5)
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