Richard Fahey on weekend runners including The Platinum Queen at Longchamp
Richard Fahey discusses his week at the sales and The Platinum Queen's bid for Prix de l'Abbaye glory at Longchamp on Sunday.
It’s been a busy enough week as we prepare The Platinum Queen for Arc weekend, while we bought four at the Goffs sale, too, so we were pleased enough.
The ones we really want have taken a bit of buying, I’m not surprised by that, but the four we got we were delighted with. I’d expect us to be a bit more active at the Goffs Sportsman Sale this week.
We got a nice Mehmas colt, a Dark Angel, who we’ve had plenty of luck with, same with Acclamation and a Dandy Man, too, who we’ve also done well with. We've had the likes of Ventura Diamond, who runs this weekend, and Peniaphobia, who was a star, from him.
We're not getting the opportunity to buy the ones we really want but we’re making the best of it, so hopefully we get a bit of luck.
Sunday
THE PLATINUM QUEEN – 4.25 Longchamp
She’s in great form ahead of the Prix de l’Abbaye de Longchamp Longines, she really has been thriving at home.
We’re pleased with her, she looks great and we’ll see what happens now. I’d be a little bit worried if it got heavy, but at least she proved at Doncaster she handles a bit of cut in the ground.
It would be great if she can get out quickly and get them at it in behind, that would be the plan. The main thing is how she is physically and I couldn’t have been happier since Doncaster.
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