{"id":129706,"date":"2025-05-25T04:02:19","date_gmt":"2025-05-25T04:02:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/129706\/"},"modified":"2025-05-25T04:02:19","modified_gmt":"2025-05-25T04:02:19","slug":"irish-2000-guineas-favourite-field-of-gold-bounces-back-from-newmarket-disappointment-in-style","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/129706\/","title":{"rendered":"Irish 2,000 Guineas: Favourite Field of Gold bounces back from Newmarket disappointment in style"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">Field of Gold was a dominant winner of the Irish 2,000 Guineas as the evens favourite finished three and three quarters of a length clear of Cosmic Year at the Curragh.<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">After a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sport\/horse-racing\/articles\/cy0yey0xydko\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">fast-finishing second<\/a> at the 2,000 Guineas at Newmarket this month, jockey Kieran Shoemark was replaced by Colin Keane as Field of Gold matched the feat of his sire, Kingman, who won the race in 2014. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Starting from wide, the horse trained by John and Thady Gosden emerged from the pack with a few furlongs to spare before sprinting clear of the remainder of the nine-strong field.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Cosmic Year (4-1) came home three quarters of a length ahead of Hotazhell (10-1) in third. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;It was as good a feel as I&#8217;ve had off a horse in a long time,&#8221; Keane told RTE Sport. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;He&#8217;s just so straightforward and powerful.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I just stepped in for today, but he seems to be a horse going the right way.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Keane added that he had been in contact with Shoemark before the race.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Kieran is an absolute gentleman.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;He put me straight and told me everything I need to know. I&#8217;m very thankful for that.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Field of Gold was a dominant winner of the Irish 2,000 Guineas as the evens favourite finished three&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":129707,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4107],"tags":[1071,79,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-129706","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\/114566486110144942","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129706","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=129706"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129706\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/129707"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=129706"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=129706"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=129706"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}