Attraction to attempt rare 1000 Guineas double
Trainer Mark Johnston and owner the Duke of Roxburghe have decided their star filly will head next to the Boylesports-sponsored Classic at the Curragh on Sunday, May 23.
A statement from Johnston’s Middleham stable read:
“Mark Johnston and the Duke of Roxburghe have agreed on running plans for Attraction.
“She will be aimed for the Irish 1000 Guineas, provided that the ground at the Curragh is no softer than good.
“The filly is extremely well after her Newmarket win and cantered for the first time this morning.”
The daughter of Efisio gave a brilliant front-running performance in the UltimateBet.com 1000 Guineas at Newmarket last Sunday to defeat Sundrop by half a length.
That stretched her unbeaten run to six on what was her first race for 10 months.
She had been off the track since last July, first with a knee problem and then after fracturing a pedal bone following her victory in the Cherry Hinton Stakes over Newmarket’s July course.
Meanwhile John Gosden yesterday added Shady Reflection to the Tattersalls Musidora Stakes at York on Tuesday.
The race was re-opened as only eight horses had been entered for the Group Three contest.
The filly made all the running over a mile at Ascot last week when short-heading Glen Innes.
The latter, trained by David Loder, was among the original entries, along with stablemate Bay Tree.
