Siren’s Song to go straight to Epsom

SIREN’S SONG was a hot topic of discussion after last Sunday’s racing in Navan and I have to say she won the Salsabil Stakes very well. I said last week I thought she might be good and she certainly indicated that with a strong finish to win by a length and a half.

There was a 13 minute delay to the start of the race after Gemstone had to be re-shod but she (Siren’s Song) didn’t get upset by that which was a very good sign of a horse that had made its first start three weeks previously. She will probably go straight to the Epsom Oaks now if all goes well in the meantime and we’ll just keep hacking away between now and then.

She wasn’t even in training last year. She was broken and pre-trained by Dick Brabazon and then sent to a farm in Limerick. She was to come to me at the back end of the season but they decided that she was still a bit backward. Then she was to arrive at the start of January but with the weather, she didn’t make it until the end of the month. So we haven’t had her that long.