| R5 IRE - CURRAGH | 29 June 2014 |
| Newbridge Silverware Pretty Polly Stakes (Fillies' Group 1) G1 3UF OPEN ($261,560), 2012m 2:05.58 | |
| FP | Horse Age & Sex | Trainer Jockey | WT SP | |||||||
1st | 7. THISTLE BIRD (GB) 6yo Mare | R CHARLTON GEORGE BAKER | 61.5 $5.00 | |||||||
| SELKIRK (USA) - DOLMA (FR) | ||||||||||
| LADY ROTHSCHILD | 2nd | 8. VENUS DE MILO (IRE) 4yo Mare | AIDAN O'BRIEN JOSEPH O'BRIEN | 61.5 $4.50 | ||||||
| DUKE OF MARMALADE (IRE) - INCHMAHOME (GB) | ||||||||||
| MRS JOHN MAGNIER,MR M TABOR & MR D SMI | 3rd | 4. JUST THE JUDGE (IRE) 4yo Mare | C HILLS J P SPENCER | 61.5 $6.50 | ||||||
| LAWMAN (FR) - FARADAY LIGHT (IRE) | ||||||||||
| Qatar Racing Limited & China Horse Club | ||||||||||
| 4th | 2. MY AMBIVALENT (IRE) 5yo Mare | ROGER VARIAN ANDREA ATZENI | 61.5 $2.88 | |||||||
| 5th | 5. PEACE BURG (FR) 4yo Mare | AIDAN O'BRIEN SEAMIE HEFFERNAN | 61.5 $29.00 | |||||||
| 6th | 6. PEARL OF AFRICA (IRE) 4yo Mare | EDWARD LYNAM C T KEANE | 61.5 $11.00 | |||||||
| 7th | 9. AVENUE GABRIEL (GB) 3yo Filly | P D DEEGAN CHRIS HAYES | 56.0 $13.00 | |||||||
| 8th | 3. HARASIYA (IRE) 4yo Mare | JOHN M OXX D P MCDONOGH | 61.5 $26.00 | |||||||
Thistle Bird, trained by Roger Charlton and ridden by George Baker, was an impressive winner of the Pretty Polly Stakes at the Curragh.
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LordMontystink Says:
2/07/2014 5:14:09 AM
Really pleased to see the admirable Thistle Bird land her first Group 1. The only way I could be happier would be if I were lucky enough to own her. Well done her and all those who work with her.
GBeret83 Says:
1/07/2014 3:55:01 AM
Thistle Bird is such an honest filly. Rarely will ever see a sub-par run out of her. A lot of money went down on Ambivalent in this race, but to be fair, she'd already had a pretty tough 2014 campaign coming into this race having already ran in the G1 Dubai Sheema Classic, G2 Middleton Stakes, & G1 Coronation Cup since the end of March. Add to that asking her to carry top weight of 136 pounds, quite a lot of weight for a filly or mare, and it basically sealed her fate. I thought Venus De Milo might be the one in this race coming off that solid win in the G3 Munster Oaks Stakes at Cork. But once she made the lead and you saw Joseph O'Brien pull out the whip, you could tell George Baker was cruising on Thistle Bird with a lot of filly left under him.