By Tony Calvin - 14 September 2025
GOING – Good to soft, soft in places
Going stick: 6.1, Sunday 7.30am
Sunday morning course update: 2.8mm yesterday; Sunday – dry and bright through this morning. Showers moving in from approx 2pm, turning potentially heavy at times and lasting through until the end of racing. Southerly winds, gusting at times. Temps 18C
Weather: 4mm+ starting from 2pm according to main site I use (and they could get a lot more than 4mm)
14 September 8.10am – Following a dry & breezy 24hrs, The Curragh is now yielding, good to yielding in places (Straight) & remains good to yielding, yielding in places (Round). Possibility of 5-7mm (approx) of rain this morning. Slight headwind in Straight at present
Ger Lyons, Suzie Songs hood, 2.40pm Curragh; 8-30; 26.67%; +17.5pts – PRETTY IMPRESSIVE
Aidan O’Brien, Whistlejacket blinkers, 3.15pm Curragh; 67-386; 17.36%; -37.07pts
Ross Burdon, D Day Major Winter hood (reserve 3.35pm Doncaster)– this is first time he’s used a hood
Roy Bowring; Hiya Maite blinkers, 4.40pm Doncaster; 5-82 ; 6.1% -13pts; (he has had 25-1 and 14-1 winners in first-time blinkers)
NB in the opener James Ferguson re Papagei; this is the first time he has used blinkers (he has used hood, cheekpieces and visors before)
2.30pm Doncaster: The Waco Kid (drawn 13) , Tiger Mask (5) – Intrusively, Sarab Star and Indian Springs are NRs
2.40pm Curragh: Beautify (6), Composing (4), Precise (7), Suzie Songs (3)
3pm Doncaster: Ten Pounds (7), Aleezdancer (12), Baldomero (11), Desert Falcon (8) (Royal Velvet NR as at 7.50am – going – followed by Aalto and Ten Pounds and Indian Run)
3.15pm Curragh: Art Power (3), Bucanero Fuerte (2), Night Raider (8), Two Stars (12), Arizona Blaze (4), She’s Quality (13), Grande Marques (9) – Saratoga Special NR
3.35pm Doncaster – this is the Legends race, so who knows but Ayr Poet , Finn Ironside, Shazani – Golden Pharoah, Siam Fox and D Day Major Winter are NRs (going)
3.50pm Curragh: Dorset (4), North Coast (3)
4.10pm Doncaster: Spiritual (1), Fair Angelica (6), Stop The Cavalry (18), Sunfall (11) – Hey Boo is a NR
4.25pm Curragh: Al Qareem (2), Dallas Star (6), Illinois (7), Leinster (8), Queenstown (4)
4.40pm Doncaster: Super Saiyan (14), The Bell Conductor (11), Hiya Maite (1), Dakota Gold (17) – Emperor Spirit, Ventura Express, Harvanna, Reigning Profit and Tees Spirit are NRs
Good: Charlie Appleby, Karl Burke, Hamad Al Jehani, James Fanshawe, Ralph Beckett, William Haggas, Kevin Philippart De Foy, James Owen, George Boughey, Geoff Oldroyd (very small sample), Roger Varian. Mick Appleby, Scott Dixon, Ivan Furtado, John Mackie (very small sample), Jamie Osborne, Faye Bramley, Craig Lidster, Adrian Keatley, Ollie Sangster, Stuart Williams, J A Stack, Tim Easterby, John and Thady Gosden, Andrew Balding. Aidan O’Brien (turned it around in storming fashion on Saturday)
Fair: Hugo Palmer, Tom Clover, Richard Hannon, Ed Bethell, Muir and Grassick, Harry Charlton, Michael Dods, David O’Meara, Ian Williams, William Knight, Kevin Ryan, Julie Camacho, Jim Goldie, Richard Fahey, Ed Walker, Eve Johnson Houghton, Adrian Nicholls, David and Nicola Barron (no winners), Robert Cowell (borderline good), Charlie Fellowes, Nigel Tinkler, Iain Jardine, Daniel James Murphy, Andrew Slattery, Jack Davison, Joseph O’Brien, Jessie Harrington, Archie Watson
Moderate: Jack Channon, David Loughnane (12-1 winner on Friday, though), Kevin Frost, Dylan Cunha, Richard Hughes, John Gallagher, Adrian Murray, Michael Keady, Ruth Carr, Paul Midgley, Jessica Macey, Joseph Murphy, Willie McCreery, Ger Lyons
Don’t know: Edward Smyth-Osbourne, Tim Vaughan, John Wainwright, Roy Bowring, Ross Burdon, Billy Aprahamian, Henry Dwyer, Gerard Keane, P Vovcenko
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