Kalpana Pointing Towards Curragh Return; Field Of Gold Resumes Cantering

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Juddmonte's Kalpana (Study Of Man) is among 15 fillies remaining in contention for Saturday's G1 Paddy Power Pretty Polly Stakes at the Curragh. She could take on Coolmore's Oaks runner-up Whirl (Wootton Bassett) and Estrange (Night Of Thunder), Cheveley Park Stud's emerging force in the fillies' middle-distance ranks. 

“That's the current plan,” Juddmonte's racing manager Barry Mahon said of Kalpana on Tuesday morning. “We're just waiting on the forfeits today to see what's in the race and we'll check on France [Grand Prix de Saint-Cloud] tomorrow but Plan A seems to be the Curragh.”

Kalpana's sole outing since winning the G1 Qipco British Champions Fillies and Mares Stakes last October has also been at the Curragh, where she was third to Los Angeles (Camelot) and Anmaat (Awtaad) in a hot running of the G1 Tattersalls Gold Cup.

“She finished behind those two and it was big run. Hopefully that will put her bang there for this weekend,” Mahon added.

The Juddmonte team has already enjoyed 15 stakes wins in 2025, led by Field Of Gold (Kingman), who backed up his win in the Irish 2,000 Guineas with a sensational victory over his fellow Classic winners Henri Matisse (Wootton Bassett) and Ruling Court (Justify) in the St James's Palace Stakes. He could head next to either the Sussex Stakes or Prix Jacques le Marois.

Mahon said of the John and Thady Gosden-trained colt, “All good, he's happy and has started back cantering, and everybody seems happy with him. We don't really have a plan as such but it feels like we will be heading either to Goodwood or to Deauville and see where that brings us. He has come out of the race well.”

He added of Field Of Gold's performance on the opening day of Royal Ascot, “He was very impressive, wasn't he? John said after Ireland that he thought he was as good as Kingman, and everyone has seen it now. He was justified in what he said. 

“The scary thing about him is that I thought, personally, that every time he ran he had improved physically. He looked like he has got stronger every run this year, and that's the exciting bit. Hopefully he can keep getting stronger and keep improving.”

 

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