Cuis stakes Classic claim

Jim Bolger sowed the first seeds for another bumper Classic harvest in 2009 as Cuis Ghaire justified weighty market support in Royal Ascot’s Albany Stakes yesterday.

This season’s Derby fell to the irrepressible County Carlow trainer’s New Approach, and Cuis Ghaire has now raced to clear favouritism for next year’s 1000 Guineas – a race Bolger captured with Finsceal Beo in 2007.

Whispers had been circulating for the daughter of Galileo since the previous evening and she had been backed for both the Guineas and this Group Three.