{"id":196073,"date":"2025-06-19T03:17:22","date_gmt":"2025-06-19T03:17:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/196073\/"},"modified":"2025-06-19T03:17:22","modified_gmt":"2025-06-19T03:17:22","slug":"oisin-murphy-royal-ascot-thoughts-see-the-fire-reflections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/196073\/","title":{"rendered":"Oisin Murphy Royal Ascot thoughts: See The Fire reflections"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Oisin Murphy regrets not giving See The Fire an even more patient ride in Wednesday\u2019s Prince Of Wales\u2019s Stakes.<\/p>\n<p>Andrew Balding\u2019s charge eventually finished third in the Group One feature but made her move before both the winner Ombudsman and runner-up Anmaat.<\/p>\n<p>The champion jockey told Sporting Life: \u201cI was disappointed I didn\u2019t show more restraint and follow a little further back. We were always going to roll along, the race set-up was obvious, and I didn\u2019t show enough confidence and enough resolution to really believe in what I wanted to do.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think it\u2019s very strong form. Anmaat is a machine and speaking to William Buick afterwards he was very impressed with Ombudsman. I suppose he could go to the Eclipse yet, he\u2019s only been beaten once before and that\u2019s pretty good going.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Goodwood now beckons for Murphy and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportinglife.com\/racing\/profiles\/horse\/1114040\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">See The Fire<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Nassau has been the target since the start of the year, she was second in the race last year, and I always felt she wants to be ridden quietly and today I rode her a little bit closer,&#8221; he continued.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think we\u2019ll resort to just letting her go back in her races at Goodwood.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>On Thursday he rides Coltrane in a Kyprios-free Gold Cup. Does that aid his chance?<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI suppose it does, I still respect Trawlerman and I do think Illinois has a chance of staying. If he\u2019s a very good winner of the race it\u2019s good for the Gold Cup, we start thinking he\u2019s a young horse, how many years is he going to be around to compete in the staying division?<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I\u2019m looking forwards to Coltrane but there\u2019s no pressure. They\u2019re going to put five millimetres of water on again overnight but it\u2019s going to be the same again for all those older stayers, they don\u2019t want it rattlingly fast.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Coltrane is a gelding, he doesn\u2019t carry too much condition and if he\u2019s in the best shape he can he in, he can run a nice race, but he is getting older,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Oisin Murphy regrets not giving See The Fire an even more patient ride in Wednesday\u2019s Prince Of Wales\u2019s&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":192450,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4107],"tags":[1071,79,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-196073","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\/114707866778633349","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196073","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=196073"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196073\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/192450"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=196073"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=196073"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=196073"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}