Irish Tattersalls Gold Cup

Anmaat has a good form profile,but slight drift in betting a slight negative.
Initial betting moves indicated that Los Angeles was a lay,but the betting  is now dithering all over the shop,so this race is a good one just to watch,may the best horse win.

After the rain we've had, I will chuck a few quid at White Birch.

Sticking with Kalpana although 10 furlongs is a bit short for her. Very good race though.

Usual guessing game in regard to fitness and race targeting. You wouldn't think this it for him, more important stuff later in the season. Doesn't mean he can't win of course, and Dwyer stated that Crowley was very hopeful of a big run last night. Ascot form doesn't always hold up either, and that was a very odd race.

Yes sageform it’s a very good race

Best historic edition of the race

.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sE-P1cFUbsE

A soft/softer ground is not Los Angeles conducive; his price contraction is trainer induced. The ground will play into the hands of Anmaat and White Birch. I think a 1st race for Kalpana (distance is not ideal too) is a negative for me; Ghostwriter has had many chances last season, and is exposed.

White Birch if best to his annihilation of Auguste Rodin will be too good, I think.

Sunday - The Curragh 3.05 – Anmaat
This fellow is a real old favourite of mine now, and I’m really looking forward to getting back on him. He’s a lot further forward this year than he was last year, when he still won first time up after a long time off, albeit that was a Group Three, and this is a good looking Group One.

He’s been to Kempton for a racecourse gallop, and Owen Burrows was very happy with him, he’s not easy to get fit at home as he’s a real old pro and very relaxed about the job, so whatever he does here, he will improve, but as I say, we’re very happy with where he is. We’re drawn in stall six, and slightly lower would have been preferable in order to drop him in, but that said, he’s versatile enough to be up with the pace or sat off it, he doesn’t need to be ridden one way.

There is rain forecast on Saturday, good ground will be fine, good to soft would be great for us, but we’ll take what we get. Of his rivals, Los Angeles and White Birch are match fit, while Kalpana is starting her season like us, but we are the highest rated in the field, and I’m not sure any of these could have done what he did at Ascot in the Champion Stakes, he showed an unbelievable turn of foot that day.

Agree with maleuk01, the only worry is the drift but that could be down to the long lay off, a lay off that he has overcome before though. Beat Los Angeles fair and square in the Champion Stakes, has to be a decent bet for a place at least. White Birch the biggest danger.

Lads
last night on RUK Martin Dwyer said he was talking to Jim, he said the horse was really well plus he was really looking to the Curragh tomorrow.

A great 3 day fixture something for everyone

Certainly is Jimnast, i was there on Friday, met up with Workrider. Wish i had stayed the full 3 days.

Hello Andrew hope your well

Never been to this fixture if the fixture list is the same next year I will definitely go.

Couldn’t believe the price big gossey was sent of yesterday what an insult,he should have won ,I fancied my mate Alfie to win the race who was a little disappointing.

Jimnast, agree with Big Gossey, the times i've backed him over the years, we all thought he was over-priced. Unfortunately, i was travelling back so didn't see the race.

Once I realised my mate Alfie wasn’t going to win I was cheering for big gossey as he is my favourite horse in training and he owes me nothing,also Debbie did back him so at least I would have got a drink out of it.

Hope the owners run him at royal Ascot it would be a great day out for them with a horse who would run very well even allowing for how much of a curragh horse he is.

wow some drift on ANMAAT  14.5 on here

Looks a very price. No fluke about his Champions day win IMO. As for Big Gossey.....I had nightmares about that ride last night

jesus I thought he had that

Keanne got into an alley with no where to go. I hope Gosden was watching this. The same could happen with Field Of Gold in the SJP at Ascot.

Colin Keane going up the inside, to track Continuous, 3 out

oh lordie... Crowley made a balls of that

looked like a non-tryer

Lack of peak fitness, fine margins.

from years reading Jims blog he has no hesitation in telling readers he is always easy on first time out horses but having looked at that ride he was poor.

Pacemaker did his job

The second perfectly produced but the race fit winner found plenty

Colin keane was atrocious imo and I had winner backed in double with moored earlier winner

White birch had every chance to go past kalpana looked like he didn’t want to

Agree however not the brightest of rides

Rapid time, harder to tell with the strong wind but suggests much quicker than White Birch wants it

CT Keane would not have gone up the inside if he was riding for Juddmonte. It is what your up against backing the smaller owners, it was a no f00ks given ride. If it comes off I am amazing, if it dont I still have my job at Juddmonte and will take my fee, then make up some old wives tale as to why it wouldnt have won anyway. All pilots are unregulated, overpaid ego's that are anwswerable to nobody.

Omg

Sosie ground it out at Longchamp, and similar from Los Angeles here. Both looked beat, and neither looks to have that big gear change associated with the very best. The second looked to be cantering all over the winner. Got there too soon, or not good enough? His record first time is pretty good. I thought Kalpana was the one given the shocker. She broke very well but Murphy has allowed her to drift back into a very poor position. That gave her no chance, and you have to think she is better than that. Murphy 0/3 on the horse, other jocks 5/6. I would be looking for a different jock.

Keane was piss-poor. He only had the winner to beat yet followed the winner's pacemaker. What a plonker of the higest degree! A Group 1 down the swaney courtesy of Keane.

Grade 3….

Westover at Ascot KG…..laughable to this day….

Where next for the horses that ran in this race? Prince of Wales for Anmaat.... Hardwicke/King George Los Angeles .... White Birch &  Kalpana ?

As I said I had winner backed but for me keane costed connections that race just look at the difference there once again with Moore I understand he's mostly on the best horses but his consistency is top top class imo

There have been hundreds of occasions where the O’Brien horse looks there for the taking a furlong out and just keeps going until it wins.

Kalpana wants further and White Birch wants the mud

wasnt that long ago everyone was slating moore and suggesting coolmore bin him

I’m watching on rte can’t believe O’Brien just said we went to Newmarket for a racecourse gallop regarding the 1,000 guineas

May 25, 2025 -- 3:48PM, uptheirons wrote:

Kalpana wants further and White Birch wants the mud

Run White Birch in France if he wants the mud....
Will Kalpana turn out next week for the Coronation Cup..

The Owner decides where they run not me

For a horse that wants mud if he was beaten under 2 lengths while being given very little chance of winning by keane imo

I’m watching on rte can’t believe O’Brien just said we went to Newmarket for a racecourse gallop regarding the 1,000 guineas.    UTTERLY DISGUSTING

You should know how Coolmore operate by now elisjohn

White Birch has been a "softie" where Coolmore is concerned. He treated Auguste Rodin with contempt to win easily in this race last year. Then, and suddenly off the track every time one of Coolmore's was a protagonist race after race. And, today White Birch gave a walkover to Los Angeles. He gave Los Angeles a freebie!

TRUE, UPTHEIRONS ,   and i backed LV FOR THE ENGLISH 1000 , AND HENRI MATTISE FOR 2000

They are utterly uncallable unless anybody thinks that they are smarter than them

AOB did the same thing with The Lion In Winter. He treated The Dante, and the runners in the Dante with disdain turning up with a horse as big as 'Five Bellies', the close mate of Paul Gascoigne. Let's hope he'd redeem himself at Epsom.

Horrible,dreadful outfit …..bad for uk racing imo…

I'd be ok if they declared that before the race that the horse was only out for a run... "She's expected to win but she's not fit"
caveat emptor

What is a killer, and should results in fines/suspensions, is when they come up with a post race excuse of "She wasn't fit and we are only here for a day out"

At least i have the wonderful memories of the middle 70s to 2000 era , plus the frankel years  , this lot with mullins destroyed the game imo, i tbh dont even look forward to the classics , group1 any more

Like life it's not fair but Coolmore can do whatever they want and do so

Integrity in UK Horseracing is not what it used to be. My word is my bond no longer exists; commercialisation before pride and professionalism. Sad, but very true.

By the way,good luck guessing the Lion in Winter's likely performance at Epsom

I hope Beckett wins the one and a half mile race at Epsom…

Saying that he has a few gamblers in the yard (allegedly)…

The frankel years elisjohn

I do not mind gamblers in a stable. What I do mind is a stable in the satchels of bookies eg a shortie drifts like a barge, and 2nd string backs as if the shortie has lost a leg. The 2nd string is given an unassailable lead at the start, and wins easy.

This sharp practice happens fairly regularly in Ireland - Flat and National Hunt. The IHRB does nothing because it occurs with big stables of high profiled patronages.

No Stables are in the pockets of Bookmakers implausible

Top class trainers prefer not to train for gamblers tbh….pressure and foul language….