Next stop the Curragh for Green Impact after Listed strike
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Harrington revealed the Curragh for the Irish Derby on June 28 will be the target, saying: 'Nobody wanted to go on and he only dosses in front. Shane said he was squeezing him along all the way. When the other horse came to him it looked like he was going to go past him, but he keeps lengthening.
'All being well he'll go straight to the Irish Derby. Shane can't wait to see him run over a mile and a half.
'I know he's by Wootton Bassett, but he's out of a Galileo mare so you'd hope he will stay.
'I think he can go on any ground. That's ideal for him, it's good ground and there is no yielding in it.'
Paddy Power make the winner a 16-1 shot for the Dubai Duty Free-sponsored Irish Derby and 33-1 for the Eclipse at Sandown.
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