Anam Allta’s credentials weigh heavy on the Lodge Park Stud European Breeders Fund Park Express Stakes field at the Curragh
With the first of 18 exciting race days, the Curragh race course’s countdown has well and truly started as the 2012 season will go underway on 25 March, 2012, and the Irish meet will conclude on 29 June, 2012, with the with the exciting and yet intriguing
Dubai Duty Free Irish Derby.
For now the meet has just begun, and it will officially kick off on 4:00 local time, but the race in spotlight today is the Group 3 Lodge Park Stud European Breeders Fund Park Express Stakes for 3-year-old and above fillies and mare.
The race will be run over a distance of 1 mile, with 12 runners to compete in the race and vie for the €52,000 winner’s share on 25 March, 2012.
The lightly raced 4-year-old D. K. Weld trained bay filly, Anam Allta, is looking good for the prize money on offer, as she is sent at 4 to 1 for today’s race.
She has been real consistent throughout last year. Winning two and being placed in as many times in 4 starts last year the daughter of Invincible Spirit is expected to take today’s race, which will also be her seasonal debut.
Owned by Ballylinch Stud, out of mare Kiltubber by Sadler’s Wells, Anam Allta capped off her 2011 season by defeating the 3 to 1, Bay Knight, by a massive margin of 6 lengths in the Group 3 Coolmore Stud Home of Champions Concorde Stakes.
At the Curragh she has run twice, winning her maiden race there at about 6 furlongs on 29 August, 2010, and then turning in a third place finish in the Barrettstown Cannonball Run European Breeders Fund Summer Fillies Handicap (Premier Handicap) at the Curragh
on a yielding to soft surface going over a distance of seven furlongs.
She was beaten by, Future Generation, by a small margin of 1 ¼ lengths. Last year in July at Galway race course, Anam Allta, landed another race called the Arthur Guinness European Breeders Fund Fillies Handicap at about seven furlongs on a surface labelled
as good.
Anam Allta has quite a few sprint races under her belt, and trainer D. K Weld is looking to stretch the filly in distance going from seven furlongs to 1 mile, which will not be a problem because she is ready to get stretched out in distance as a 4-year-old.
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