Sweet Lightning to bolt through the Vincent O’Brien Ruby Stakes (Listed Race)
The Vincent O’Brien Ruby Stakes (Listed Race) has gathered quite an assorted line-up with a handful racing with the graded company experience and even has an entry who just cleared a maiden hurdle. The mile and 100 yard race will be held at Killarney on Wednesday, 29th August. Nine three-year and above contestants will try their luck for the €26,000 prize money.
The 4 to 1 entry for the race, the seven-year-old bay gelding, Sweet Lightning, is the most reliable candidate in the field today. He has raced through five seasons already, the 2008 campaign being his very first one.
The Andrew Tinkler owned had his first racing experience at the graded level through the 2012 seasonal debut. Fantastic Light’s bay gelding ended as the runner-up in the Group 3 Amethyst Stakes on 13th May, 2012 at Leopardstown over a mile. He missed the race by the margin of 4 ½ lengths as the favourite entry, Famous Name, won.
All the four races that followed his second position in the group 3 were at Curragh.
The fourth outing of the season was once again at the graded level and surprisingly the winner was the same for a second time. The favourite entry, Famous Name, won the Group 3 Friarstown Stud International Stakes on 1st July, 2012 at Curragh over a mile and two furlongs.
Sweet Lightning ended last in the field of five with jockey, N. G. McCullagh, riding.
The most recent attempt of the Thomas Carmody trained was in the Irish Stallion Farms European Breeders Fund Irish Cambridgeshire (Premier Handicap) on 25th August, 2012 at Curragh over a mile. The race was won by, Punch Your Weight, as the bay gelding ended third with Ben Curtis onboard.
He did not pace up right after exiting the tenth gate and had quite a bit to cover even when there remained the final two furlongs. He stayed strong inside the final furlong but could not impact the positions of the leading pair.
Today the seven-year-old has drawn the sixth trap with jockey, N. G. McCullagh, and the duo will need to look out for, Tenth Star, who settled second against Daddy Long Legs in a Group 2 event at Newmarket last season.
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