Autumn Campaign For Dan’s Dream

[Wandering Eyes]

Trainer Mick Channon is planning an autumn campaign for Dan’s Dream (GB) (Cityscape {GB}) after an unsatisfactory scope ruled her out of the G1 Tattersalls Irish 1000 Guineas at The Curragh on Sunday. “She has just got a bit of mucus in her and she scoped bad, otherwise we would have gone to Ireland with her,” the trainer said. Channon was expecting the filly to bounce back from an underwhelming effort in the G1 QIPCO 1000 Guineas at Newmarket having previously taken the G3 Dubai Duty Free S. at Newbury in April. That victory came when there was plenty of give in the ground and with the benefit of hindsight Channon reckons missing The Curragh may not have been the worst thing to have happened. “It’s probably a blessing with how the ground was. What we will probably do now is miss Ascot and the Coronation Stakes and prepare for the autumn when we get some soft ground again. We hope we can have a nice fresh filly for the back-end of the season. She will stay a mile. It didn’t go right in the Guineas but some times things like that happen,” he added. Channon still had a weekend to remember at The Curragh when his Opal Tiara (Ire) (Thousand Words {GB}) signed off her racing career with a win in the G2 Lanwades Stud S. The mare was co-bred by Channon in partnership with Gill Hedley and as Opal Tiara is currently in foal to Churchill (Ire) Saturday is likely to have been her final race. “We have a half-sister by Kodiac at the stud and it just goes to show how a bit of patience and determination can lead to fun further down the line,” Channon said. Opal Tiara had previously won at Group 2 level when winning the G2 Balanchine S. at Meydan last year and her trainer added, “Everything she’s done since hosing up as a two-year-old at Wolverhampton had her down as a talent who would take us places and she’s picked up black type all the way through her career and Saturday was the icing on the cake.”

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