Trainer Jessica Harrington has booked Oisin Murphy to ride Millisle (Ire) (Starspangledbanner {Aus}) in next weekend's G1 1000 Guineas, Racing Post reports. Shane Foley has been aboard Millisle in four of her five starts, including a last-out victory in the G1 Cheveley Park S. on Sept. 28, but COVID-19 restrictions mean that the Irish-based Foley would have had to quarantine for 14 days upon his return home were he to make the journey to Newmarket.
“Shane [Foley] can't ride Millisle so I've gone and booked Oisin Murphy good and early for her,” Harrington told Racing Post. “I'm not slow out of the gates, you know. I've been thinking ahead.”
Harrington added, “Millisle heads to the 1000 Guineas at Newmarket and I see no reason why she won't stay a mile. Her breeding suggests she will get it anyway. She's done very, very well over the winter and you'd have to be excited about her for the season.”
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