Cork Oaks Trial target for Queen
A high-class juvenile last season and an encouraging third on her return to action in Leopardstown’s Derrinstown Guineas Trial, the daughter of Hurricane Run was quietly fancied for the Curragh Classic but beat only one home.
Fahy now plans to step her up in trip, with the Cork Oaks Trial a potential target.
The trainer said: “The vet handled her on Monday and she was found to be in season.
“She seems fine and is out in the paddock. She’s fine, physically, but she would have been ripe for covering that day. She never shows it (that’s she’s in season), unlike other fillies.
“It’s a shame because everything had gone right for her and we had hoped for a good run.
“We have her in the Cork Oaks Trial, but she’s also due in season around then so we’ll have to find a way around that.
“If she performs well there, we’ll build her up for the Irish Oaks.
“We’d love to come over to England again because she’s a brilliant traveller, but, for now, we just want to see her running to form again.”
Meanwhile, trainer Joseph Murphy is eyeing a tilt at next month’s Pretty Polly Stakes with Euphrasia following her fine run in defeat in the Tattersalls Gold Cup at the Curragh on Sunday.
The five-year-old was a 50-1 outsider pitched in against the boys in the Group One, but turned in a career-best effort to finish a close-up third behind Noble Mission and Magician.
Murphy said: “She’s a filly still on the up and I wasn’t surprised she ran so well.
“She might have been a 50-1 shot, but she was 33-1 when she won the Blue Wind Stakes at Naas last year, so that didn’t bother me.
“She’s a very good filly on her day and I think she could be capable of running a serious race in a very big race somewhere along the line.
“She’s very game and tough and with another furlong it would have been interesting on Sunday, as she was the one staying galloping at the line.
“Anything from good to yielding to soft to heavy ground is fine for her. She wouldn’t want it firm.
“She’ll go for the Pretty Polly (June 29) back at the Curragh now.
“You’re always afraid of the younger fillies coming through, but I’m sure she won’t let us down.”
