Dermot Weld’s exciting filly Homeless Songs is on course for Sunday’s Tattersalls Irish 1, 000 Guineas where she could deliver her trainer a landmark 20th Curragh Classic success.
It is 40 years since Prince’s Polly supplied Weld with a first Irish 1,000 Guineas victory and he has won the fillies’ Classic three more times since, most recently with the Pat Smullen-ridden Bethrah in 2010.
Along with Flash Of Steel’s 2, 000 Guineas victory in 1986, a pair of Oaks victories, as well as a trio of Derby wins, are a record nine successes in the Leger.
It is a notable catalogue for the man who trains little more than a stone’s throw from the racecourse and is approaching 4,500 career winners in all.
Homeless Songs cont …
- May 17, 2022
