{"id":366460,"date":"2025-08-23T05:11:17","date_gmt":"2025-08-23T05:11:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/366460\/"},"modified":"2025-08-23T05:11:17","modified_gmt":"2025-08-23T05:11:17","slug":"wayne-lordan-eyeing-up-group-two-curragh-double-the-irish-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/366460\/","title":{"rendered":"Wayne Lordan eyeing up Group Two Curragh double \u2013 The Irish Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Judged even by the heights Wayne Lordan has scaled this season, a potential Group Two double at the Curragh on Saturday wouldn\u2019t be insignificant for the rider. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">With Ryan Moore on duty in York, Lordan steps in for an enviable book of rides, including Constitution River in the Coolmore Futurity and Composing in the Alpha Centauri Debutante Stakes. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Both races have a proven pedigree of identifying future Classic horses and indicative of Lordan\u2019s crucial role as Ballydoyle\u2019s number two is that he\u2019s already won on both this season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">That role delivered the 43-year-old jockey a landmark Epsom Derby victory on Lambourn in June, as well another Group One success on Scandinavia in last month\u2019s Goodwood Cup.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Top-level hopes are also likely for Constitution River, who managed to win his maiden around Galway\u2019s tricky test. Perhaps the course and distance winner Geryon will be his major threat in a Futurity that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/aidan-o-brien\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/aidan-o-brien\/\">Aidan O\u2019Brien<\/a> has won 17 times in total.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Composing is already a Group winner after landing Leopardstown\u2019s Silver Flash and she could get the better of another Ger Lyons runner in Suzie Songs who landed the Anglesey on her last start.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Lordan\u2019s attention switches to Goodwood on Sunday, where he teams up with the Cork winner Precise in the Group Three Prestige Stakes. The one to beat looks to be Mark Prescott\u2019s impressive Yarmouth scorer Moon Target. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Naas has a Group Three of its own on Sunday and a pair of cross-channel sprinters travel for the Tally Ho Ballyogan Stakes. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Sky Majesty is the higher rated of the pair but Jack Channon\u2019s Miss Attitude could prove the overall betting value. Winner of a Listed race at Deauville on her last start, the mare bypassed Friday\u2019s Nunthorpe Stakes to wait for this easier task and can run down her opposition late on.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Judged even by the heights Wayne Lordan has scaled this season, a potential Group Two double at the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":366461,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4107],"tags":[10281,288,1071,79,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-366460","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-racing","8":"tag-action","9":"tag-horse-racing","10":"tag-racing","11":"tag-sports","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115076365366831943","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/366460","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=366460"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/366460\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/366461"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=366460"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=366460"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=366460"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}