Race cards · Sun 15 Sep
Sunday 15 September · Curragh, Eire
13:50 Irish Stallion Farms European Breeders Fund Bold Lad Sprint Handicap (Premier Handicap)
- Distance
- 0m 6f 0y
- Going
- Good (Good to Yielding in places)
- Class
- 0
- Prize
- EUR 150000
- Runners
- 25
Race preview
Course winner STRIKE RED is ground-versatile, ideally suited by this distance and finished second in a decent heritage handicap at York last month. He hasn't won since landing the Scurry Handicap here in July 2023 but has performed consistently well in similar hot handicaps and, notably, finished ahead of today's rival Torivega at Royal Ascot and is now 4lb better off with that rival. Torivega, out of a Group 2-winning dam, has had three luckless runs here this year but, being a four-year-old, might continue to progress further. Heavenly Power beat Apache Outlaw (second) to win the August C&D race in which Torivega finished third and the pair have obvious form claims.