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BBC News
01-05-2025
- Entertainment
- BBC News
Gosden eyes 2000 Guineas win with Field Of Gold
John Gosden will saddle leading contender Field Of Gold as the top trainer looks to finally win the 2000 Guineas at Newmarket on 74-year-old, who set up as a trainer nearby in 1989, has won all four of the other British Classics and more than 3,000 races in training alongside son Thady, he hopes his impressive Craven Stakes winner can close the missing gap in his illustrious CV."It has never weighed on my mind. It seems to be glaring to everyone else but not to me," said Gosden senior."It's nice to have a horse who at the moment is favourite, but it doesn't mean that you're going to win it."Field Of Gold heads 11 contenders for the big Appleby's Ruling Court is another leading fancy after a six-length victory in Dubai in March, with the Godolphin handler also fielding Shadow Of Light, winner of both the Middle Park and Dewhurst Stakes last Court is the choice of first jockey William Buick, with Mickael Barzalona taking the ride on Shadow Of also has a third runner in the Saeed bin Suroor-trained Tornado O'Brien, seeking an 11th 2000 Guineas victory, has Dewhurst runner-up Expanded as his sole Harrington's Green Impact and the Joseph O'Brien-trained Scorthy Champ complete the Irish second Wimbledon Hawkeye represents James Owen while fourth-placed Benevento also features, along with Yah Mo Be Eleven runs for owners that are all current or former Brighton and Hove Albion footballers, including James Milner and Danny Welbeck. 2000 Guineas runners and riders Benevento David EganExpanded Ryan MooreField Of Gold Kieran ShoemarkGreen Impact Shane FoleyRuling Court William BuickScorthy Champ Dylan Browne McMonagleSeagulls Eleven Tom MarquandShadow Of Light Mickael BarzalonaTornado Alert Silvestre de SousaWimbledon Hawkeye Harry DaviesYa Mo Be There Jamie Spencer
Daily Mirror
29-04-2025
- Sport
- Daily Mirror
Aidan O'Brien suffers major 2,000 Guineas blow as leading fancy 'unlikely' to run
The Ballydoyle trainer had named Twain as his main hope of capturing the first British Classic of the Flat season but the colt has delivered an unsatisfactory scope Aidan O'Brien's challenge for the 2,000 Guineas has suffered a huge blow after his leading hope Twain was declared a major doubt on Tuesday. Two weeks ago Twain was favourite for the Newmarket Classic after the Ballydoyle trainer signalled the colt had become his number one hope for Saturday's big race over stablemate Expanded. Underlining his potential, O'Brien asserted, 'Twain is the Group 1 winner, so if the two are going well at the time we might let Expanded go to the Curragh on the Monday after because he's not a Group 1 winner so he could start in the Irish 2,000 Guineas Trial. 'It was probably impossible what we asked Twain to do last year. He won his maiden then five or six days later we brought him back to France for a Group 1. He was very green in France but still won very nicely." However he is set to rearrange his team after a statement posted by Coolmore revealed that all was not hundred percent with Twain, whose position at the head of the betting has since been taken by Craven Stakes winner Field Of Gold. A statement on owners Coolmore's X page read: 'Following his work this morning, Twain didn't scope 100% so is unlikely to run in the 2,000 Guineas at Newmarket and may now be aimed at the Irish 2,000 Guineas instead. "Expanded is likely to be Ballydoyle's only runner in the 2,000 Guineas on Saturday.' Expanded has raced twice, winning a Curragh maiden in October last year before finishing second to Godolphin's Shadow Of Light in the Group 1 Dewhurst Stakes. Twain had been the general second favourite behind John and Thady Gosden's Field Of Gold with Betfred. They have cut the Craven winner to 7-4 while Expanded assumed Twain's position as chief market rival on 5-1 with the same firm. The pair are the same odds with Ladbrokes and Coral, whose spokesman David Stevens said: "Although Twain had been displaced as Guineas favourite by the Craven winner, Field Of Gold, Aidan O'Brien's charge was clear second best in the market, so his potential absence from Saturday's race has shaken up the betting, and left Field Of Gold as an even firmer favourite."
