{"id":1050329,"date":"2026-06-26T01:30:29","date_gmt":"2026-06-26T01:30:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/1050329\/"},"modified":"2026-06-26T01:30:29","modified_gmt":"2026-06-26T01:30:29","slug":"thundering-on-faces-pretty-polly-field-at-curragh-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/1050329\/","title":{"rendered":"Thundering On Faces Pretty Polly Field At Curragh"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Oaks winner Thundering On will face nine rivals in Saturday\u2019s Group 1 Pretty Polly Stakes at the Curragh<\/strong> after declarations for the Paddy Power-sponsored 10-furlong contest were confirmed on Thursday morning.<\/p>\n<p>The Joseph O\u2019Brien-trained filly, owned by Shapoor Mistry, has been drawn in stall seven and will again be ridden by Dylan Browne McMonagle. That draw carries a neat recent echo: last year\u2019s winner Whirl came from the same stall, as did Mistry\u2019s 2021 Pretty Polly winner Thundering Nights.<\/p>\n<p>O\u2019Brien also has depth around his headline runner. Wemightakedlongway, runner-up in last year\u2019s Irish Oaks, has been handed stall five, while German Oaks third Nyra will break from stall nine. That gives the Carriganog team three live chances in one of the key older-filly and mare races of the Irish summer.<\/p>\n<p>Pretty Polly field gives Joseph O\u2019Brien a strong hand<\/p>\n<p>Britain\u2019s challenge is led by Cheveley Park Stud\u2019s Estrange, the dual Group 1-placed Lancashire Oaks winner, who has drawn stall six. The confirmed field also includes Juddmonte\u2019s Red Letter in stall three, Wathnan Racing\u2019s One Look in stall ten, and Charlie Johnston\u2019s 1000 Guineas third Venetian Lace in stall eight.<\/p>\n<p>The declarations, first reported by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thoroughbreddailynews.com\/oaks-heroine-thundering-on-to-face-nine-in-saturdays-g1-pretty-polly\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Thoroughbred Daily News<\/a>, set up a significant midsummer test for Thundering On as she returns to Group 1 company over 10 furlongs at the Curragh.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Oaks winner Thundering On will face nine rivals in Saturday\u2019s Group 1 Pretty Polly Stakes at the Curragh&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1050330,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[4107],"tags":[98185,288400,288,1071,79,16,15],"class_list":["post-1050329","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-racing","tag-curragh-racecourse","tag-dylan-browne-mcmonagle","tag-horse-racing","tag-racing","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/116813825938617959","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1050329","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1050329"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1050329\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1050330"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1050329"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1050329"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1050329"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}