Gold Cup Favorite Ground Dependant
Updated: July 21, 2015 at 4:17 pm
Moyglare homebred Forgotten Rules (Ire) (Nayef) is training well ahead of an intended assignment in the G1 Gold Cup at Royal Ascot June 18, but trainer Dermot Weld insisted the unbeaten 5-year-old gelding will not run if the ground is too firm.
“Forgotten Rules is very well and we’re very happy with him, but he’s ground dependent and I can’t stress that enough,” Weld told At The Races. “He loves to get his toe in, so he’s ground dependent.”
Forgotten Rules made his racecourse debut last April, in the spring of his 4-year-old campaign, winning a flat race for National Hunt prospects at Punchestown by 13 lengths. He took the G2 Long Distance Cup on Qipco British Champions Day in just his third start, and got his season off on the right note with a win in Navan’s G3 Vintage Crop S. May 17.
Weld could also saddle Sheikh Hamdan’s Mustajeeb (GB) (Nayef) in the G1 Diamond Jubilee S. on the meet’s closing day. Mustajeeb won last year’s G3 Jersey S. at the Royal meeting, and took the May 23 G2 Greelands S. on seasonal debut at The Curragh.