{"id":111965,"date":"2025-05-18T15:02:11","date_gmt":"2025-05-18T15:02:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/111965\/"},"modified":"2025-05-18T15:02:11","modified_gmt":"2025-05-18T15:02:11","slug":"elite-arc-favourite-kalpana-on-track-for-curragh-group-1-after-plan-a-aborted","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/111965\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Elite&#8217; Arc favourite Kalpana on track for Curragh Group 1 after plan A aborted"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-testid=\"Text__0__GlideArticleBody\"><a target=\"_blank\" data-testid=\"Link__01__GlideArticleBody\" id=\"kalpana\" class=\"sc-b2c32ca0-0 dLKaTt\" href=\"https:\/\/www.racingpost.com\/profile\/horse\/5507022\/kalpana?_sgm_campaign=product&amp;_sgm_source=H5507022%7Cbrand&amp;_sgm_action=search&amp;_sgm_term=kalpana&amp;_sgm_pinned=false\" rel=\"noopener\">Kalpana<\/a>, a high-profile absentee from York&#8217;s May meeting, is set to make her seasonal comeback in Sunday&#8217;s <a target=\"_blank\" data-testid=\"Link__03__GlideArticleBody\" id=\"tattersalls-gold-cup\" class=\"sc-b2c32ca0-0 dLKaTt\" href=\"https:\/\/www.racingpost.com\/racecards\/178\/curragh\/2025-05-25\/891111\/\" rel=\"noopener\">Tattersalls Gold Cup<\/a> at the Curragh.<\/p>\n<p data-testid=\"Text__1__GlideArticleBody\">Winner of last season&#8217;s Group 1 Champions Fillies &amp; Mares Stakes at Ascot, Kalpana was ruled out of last week&#8217;s Middleton Stakes with a dirty scope, but trainer <a target=\"_blank\" data-testid=\"Link__12__GlideArticleBody\" id=\"andrew-balding\" class=\"sc-b2c32ca0-0 dLKaTt\" href=\"https:\/\/www.racingpost.com\/profile\/trainer\/15605\/andrew-balding\" rel=\"noopener\">Andrew Balding<\/a> expects her to be fighting fit when she lines up in Ireland at the weekend.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-testid=\"Text__2__GlideArticleBody\">&#8220;We&#8217;d have liked to have gone to York, but she had a slightly dirty scope,&#8221; said Balding. &#8220;She worked well on Saturday morning and scoped clean afterwards so we&#8217;re all systems go for Ireland at the weekend.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Read the full story<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-eb0b4133-2 cgVXXE\">Read award-winning journalism from the best writers in racing, with exclusive news, interviews, columns, investigations, stable tours and subscriber-only emails.<\/p>\n<p>Subscribe to unlock<\/p>\n<ul class=\"sc-eb0b4133-5 hJkQDn\">\n<li data-testid=\"Text__SubscriptionFeature\" class=\"sc-eb0b4133-6 kCjOjY\">Racing Post digital newspaper (worth over \u00a3100 per month)<\/li>\n<li data-testid=\"Text__SubscriptionFeature\" class=\"sc-eb0b4133-6 kCjOjY\">Award-winning journalism from the best writers in racing<\/li>\n<li data-testid=\"Text__SubscriptionFeature\" class=\"sc-eb0b4133-6 kCjOjY\">Expert tips from the likes of Tom Segal and Paul Kealy<\/li>\n<li data-testid=\"Text__SubscriptionFeature\" class=\"sc-eb0b4133-6 kCjOjY\">Replays and results analysis from all UK and Irish racecourses<\/li>\n<li data-testid=\"Text__SubscriptionFeature\" class=\"sc-eb0b4133-6 kCjOjY\">Form study tools including the Pro Card and Horse Tracker<\/li>\n<li data-testid=\"Text__SubscriptionFeature\" class=\"sc-eb0b4133-6 kCjOjY\">Extensive archive of statistics covering horses, trainers, jockeys, owners, pedigree and sales data<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.racingpost.com\/subscriptions\/\" data-testid=\"Link__Subscribe\" class=\"sc-eb0b4133-7 yLNHi\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Subscribe<\/a><\/p>\n<p data-testid=\"Text__Login\" class=\"sc-eb0b4133-8 gRoJBC\">Already a subscriber?<a data-testid=\"Link__Login\" href=\"https:\/\/www.racingpost.com\/api\/auth\/login\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Log in<\/a><\/p>\n<p data-testid=\"Text__PublishedDate\" data-article-publish-date-string=\"Published on 18 May 2025\" data-article-publish-date=\"18 May 2025\" class=\"sc-baabe586-8 isYWMR\">Published on 18 May 2025in<a data-testid=\"Link__PrimaryTaxonomy\" data-article-primary-taxonomy=\"Ireland\" class=\"sc-baabe586-10 fCsTLE\" href=\"https:\/\/www.racingpost.com\/news\/ireland\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ireland<\/a><\/p>\n<p data-testid=\"Text__UpdatedDate\" data-article-update-date-string=\"Last updated 15:00, 18 May 2025\" data-article-update-date=\"15:00, 18 May 2025\" class=\"sc-baabe586-8 isYWMR\">Last updated 15:00, 18 May 2025<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Kalpana, a high-profile absentee from York&#8217;s May meeting, is set to make her seasonal comeback in Sunday&#8217;s Tattersalls&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":111966,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4107],"tags":[1071,79,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-111965","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-racing","8":"tag-racing","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114529445038609105","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111965","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=111965"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111965\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/111966"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=111965"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=111965"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=111965"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}