Golden Horn Given Derby Go-Ahead

Thursday’s eye-catching G2 Dante S. winner Golden Horn (GB) (Cape Cross {Ire}) will be supplemented to the G1 Epsom Derby June 6, trainer John Gosden confirmed late Saturday. Owner Anthony Oppenheimer will therefore pay £75,000 to run his colt in the Epsom Classic rather than go to France for the G1 Prix du Jockey Club May 31. 

“Quite correctly, he wanted to wait to see how the horse came out of the race. But I’m very happy with [the horse],” Gosden told The Guardian. “That [supplementing] will be the decision; we will go ahead and supplement the horse. Obviously, we don’t do that until five days before the race, so, as long as everything’s all right then and everything’s in order, we are planning to run the horse.” 

Gosden added, “He’s a handy horse, he’s well balanced, so he suits the race, really. As long as he switches off, he should get the trip well.” 

Golden Horn, a 190,000gns buyback at Tattersalls October, is now three-for-three, having won at Nottingham in his lone juvenile outing last October and Newmarket’s Listed Feilden S. Apr. 15.