Ruby Walsh: Shoemark left counting the cost of tarnished Field Of Gold ride
Jockey Kieran Shoemark waiting outside the weighing room at Newbury this month. Pic: Steven Paston/PA Wire.
When Field Of Gold broke from the stalls in the 2000 Guineas at Newmarket earlier this month, Kieran Shoemark had a decision to make: pass Benevento and slide forward into the slipstream of Seagulls Eleven, parking Ruling Court behind and outside him, or take back and allow Shane Foley on Green Impact to track Seagulls Eleven, putting himself behind Green Impact, allowing William Buick on Ruling Court to pass him and sit on Green Impact's quarter.
He chose the latter, and the history the race created will never hold fond memories for Kieran Shoemark. It took 13 seconds to unfold, but once Ruling Court headed Field Of Gold, the destiny of the result was in William Buick's hands, and Shoemark was left hoping Buick would move forward early enough to give him time to catch up.
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