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Misheer set for Group One bid

MISHEER IS set to bid for a first Group One success in the Moyglare Stud Stakes at the Curragh on Sunday

Wed Aug 26 2009 - 01:00

MISHEER IS set to bid for a first Group One success in the Moyglare Stud Stakes at the Curragh on Sunday. Clive Brittain’s filly found only new Godolphin recruit Jealous Again too strong in the Queen Mary at Royal Ascot on her penultimate start and confirmed that promise with an impressive victory in Newmarket’s Cherry Hinton Stakes.

“The plan is that we go for the Moyglare with Misheer. She was impressive at Newmarket and I was very pleased with her that day,” said Brittain.

“I thought she had improved on her Ascot run and, looking at the distances by which she had beaten the other fillies that ran in the Queen Mary and then reopposed at Newmarket, I was probably right to think that.

“She is a good filly and is in very good form, so hopefully she stays that way for Sunday. I think once we get the Moyglare over with I would be looking at the Cheveley Park Stakes at Newmarket (October 2nd).

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“I did win both races one year with Sayyedati, so that would be a possible route. Her options are open after that, so it would be up to the owner if he wants her to go to the Breeders’ Cup.”

Misheer is one of 12 possibles for the Group One contest at the latest entry stage, with Brittain also leaving in Amary.

Impressive Debutante Stakes winner Lillie Langtry is one of three contenders, along with Famous and Queen Of Troy, for Aidan O’Brien, while Long Lashes could represent the in-form Godolphin team.

Jim Bolger has left in Gile Na Greine, Gold Bubbles and Style Queen, while Kevin Prendergast’s trio of Alshahbaa, Termagant and Wrong Answer complete the possibles.

Brian Hughes sustained a possible broken collarbone in a fall at Sedgefield yesterday. The jockey was taken to hospital after suffering a crashing fall in the John Wade Waste Recycling Selling Handicap Hurdle .

The jockey was on board Alan Swinbank’s Itsallyours Al when his mount came to grief at the third-last, bringing down Safin in the process, and causing Sands Of Barra to pull up.

Hughes was taken by ambulance to the University Hospital of North Tees for precautionary X-rays. The four other races on the card were subsequently delayed 25 minutes.