Gleneagles Likely to Irish Guineas

Saturday's G1 2000 Guineas victor Gleneagles (Ire) (Galileo {Ire}) will likely resurface in the May 23 G1 Irish 2000 Guineas at The Curragh, trainer Aidan O'Brien re-confirmed Sunday on At the Races. Gleneagles, who has crossed the wire first in all but one of his seven starts, earned his second Group 1 when besting Godolphin's French shipper Territories (Ire) (Invincible Spirit {Ire}) by 2 1/4 lengths Saturday. 

“He traveled well and he has the ability to quicken– that's what he showed us last year,” O'Brien said of the Michael Tabor colorbearer. O'Brien compared Gleneagles to the six-time Group 1 winner Giant's Causeway, a full-brother to Gleneagles's dam, You'resothrilling. 

“He's very much like Giant's Causeway, so he could get a mile and a quarter, but he looks to be a miler, really,” the conditioner noted. “What you want in a good miler is the ability to travel and then quicken, and that is what he can do. I think the Irish Guineas will be next but we'll have to see what the ground is like and the boys will talk about that. It looks the obvious race, though.”