You Send Me winning her maiden at Cork last year (Picture: Healy Racing)
A Gaynor Rupert part-owned Starspangledbanner filly will be running in a Gr 2 in Ireland at 15H35 on Sunday at The Curragh’s big world pool 1000 Guineas meeting and is rated a general 7/1 shot.
The James Stack-trained filly You Send Me is owned in partnership by Craig Bernick & Cayton Park Stud & Mrs Paul Shanahan. Cayton Park Stud is Gaynor’s UK-based breeeding operation.
The four-year-old You Send Me has had six starts for one win and last time out finished second in a Gr 3 over seven furlongs at The Curragh by a mere head.
As a three-year-old she was second in a Gr 3 over a mile at Leopardstown by just half-a-length, so clealry has plenty of ability.
On Sunday, she is due to run in the Gr 2 Lanwades Stud Stakes over a mile at The Curragh.
She is currently a general 10/1 shot.
The favourite is the Joseph O’Brien-trained Rogue Millenium, who won the Gr 2 Duke Of Cambridge Stakes over a mile at the Royal Ascot meeting last year.
James Stack, trainer of You Send Me, is the son of the legendary Tommy Stack, who rode Red Rum to his third and most famous Grand National victory.
Tommy Stack was a twice national hunt champion jockey who became a successful trainer out of Golden, County Tipperary. He trained a 1000 Guineas winner (Las Meninas 1994) and an Irish 1000 Guineas winner (Tarascon 1998) and his other notable successes were winning a Gr 1 in France and two Gr 1s in America.
James “Fozzy” Stack took over his father’s yard in 2017.
Meanwhile, the Gaynor Rupert homebred Dubawi colt God’s Window (a homebred owned outright by Cayton Park Stud) was beaten ten lengths after setting the pace in the Gr 2 Dante Stakes over a mile and two-and-a-half furlongs at York last week, but the John and Thady Gosden-trained horse is still standing his ground at this stage in the Epsom Derby.
The final declarations are on Thursday May 30 and the race is on June 1.
God’s Window is generally quoted at 100/1 after being well beaten in both of his build up races.
Before the Dante he was beaten six lengths in the Listed Dee Stakes at Chester, also over a mile and two-and-a-half furlongs.
As a juvenile he won on debut over a mile and then finished a two length third in a Gr 1 over a mile.
His last two runs were preceded by an easy win over a mile and half-a-furlong.
He holds an entry in the Gr 1 St. James Palace Stakes over a mile at the Royal Ascot meeting on June 18.
It would be no surprise to see him skip the Derby in favour of that race.
