Guild Goes For Summertime Success
Guild steps up to Grade Two level for the Summertime Oaks over an extended mile on dirt at Santa Anita, USA, on Saturday, June 20.
Time/Date - 16.00hrs local time/Saturday, June 20, 2015
Racecourse/Country - Santa Anita/USA
Surface/Distance - Dirt/1m 110y
Guild steps up to Grade Two level for the Summertime Oaks over an extended mile on dirt at Santa Anita, USA, on Saturday, June 20.
The Eoin Harty-trained filly has made two appearances in dirt allowance optional claimers at the Californian course so far this year, coming home second over the same distance on May 24 and fading to fourth in a mile race on April 17.
She was third in a mile allowance race on dirt at Turf Paradise in December, and stretched clear in the closing stages for a comfortable victory in an extended seven-furlong turf maiden at the same course in November.
Eoin Harty said: "Guild faces a very stiff task. It looked like it might be a small field at the entry stage but it has gone from a race where she had a chance to becoming a very tough contest.
"She is an improving filly and certainly likes the dirt at Santa Anita but, realistically, she is coming up against some very good fillies."
Flavien Prat, on board last time out, takes the ride again on Guild, who faces nine opponents headed by Grade One Santa Anita Oaks winner Stellar Wind.
Eoin Harty © www.godolphin.com
