Nightime a 1,000 Guineas possibility after easy maiden success

DERMOT WELD has high hopes for Nightime, a daughter of Galileo and owned by his mother, Gita, which won the Coolmore Spartacus Maiden before a huge crowd at Cork yesterday.

Nightime made a lot of the running and lengthened in fine style from the furlong pole to beat the flattering David Wachman trained newcomer, Miss Dela, unextended by two lengths.

“I trained the dam, Caumshinaun, which won the Platinum Stakes here”, said Weld. “I hope she will make into an Irish 1000 Guineas filly. She may head next for a 1000 Guineas trial at Leopardstown and I see her getting ten furlongs as the season goes on.”