Spinning World takes 2,000 Guineas

SPINNING WORLD, the first French trained winner of the Irish 2,000 Guineas compensated for a luckless defeat in the French equivalent with a comprehensive two length victory in yesterday's First National sponsored classic.

The Aidan O'Brien trained surprise packet Rainbow Blues was second with the English trained Beauchamp King, fifth in the Newmarket Guineas, a length and a half away third.

Both Guineas days attracted a great crowd, despite the showery weather and the betting was well up on last year.

Backed as if there was no settlement day Spinning World was confidently ridden by Cash Asmussen who set his mount alight inside the final furlong to collar Rainbow Blues and draw clear. The latter's trainer said be was not that surprised as the colt had "really got it together" in his last two bits of work.

Winning Chantilly trainer, Englishman Jonathan Pease saddled Turgeon to capture the Irish St Leger in 1991 but has yet to win a race in Britain. He has been training in France for the past 20 years. He trains Spinning World for the Niarchos Family who will now be consulted as to the colt's next race. "He is in the St James's Palace Stakes. He is so good over a mile we will probably keep him Lo a mile," he said.

Definite Article landed a gamble from 3 to 1 to win the Group Two Tattersalls Gold Cup by a length from Timarida. The winner may be best over 10 furlongs but Dermot Weld points out that he failed by only a short head to win last year's Budweiser Irish Derby and has nominated the King George VI and Queen Elizabeth Stakes as his prime target this season. "Hopefully we will have a big year with him," he said. The Moyglare Stud Farm colt will first run in the Gallinule Stakes but he is also in the Hardwicke Stakes and the Eclipse Stakes.

Timarida's trainer John Oxx said that she ran too freely early-on and bad to be settled. She was then asked to quicken twice. However, to quote Dermot Weld "it was a bloody awful month for man and beast" and both the winner and runner-up who was running for the first time since winning the Grade Two E.P. Taylor Stakes at Woodbine last October - will come on appreciably as a result of yesterday's race. Timarida will next run in either the Queen Anne Stakes or the Prince of Wales' Stakes at Royal Ascot.

Once she had shaken off the attentions of the Mark Johnston colt Polar Eclipse on turning for home the well backed Identify drew further and further away to win the listed Conrad International Dublin Silver Stakes eased down by five and a half lengths.

This was a smashing performance by the Jim Bolger trained filly who had beaten Saturday's winner Ger's Royale in a nine furlong handicap at Leopardstown on her previous appearance.

"She was backward but she keeps on improving. She will make a really good four-year-old," said Jim Bolger of Identify who is not in the Classics but will run in the Ribblesdale Stakes at Royal Ascot. By Persian Bold she is of the same family as Chalon and Executive Perk.

You couldn't get a much easier two-year-old winner than Bob The Broker who had the Irish Equine Centre Maiden won a. long way out. But what a meeting for trainer Pat Flynn who added this event to his two handicap successes on Saturday and was to complete another weekend double when Cooraclare won the European Breeders Fund Handicap, like Bob The Broker, ridden by Pat Gilson.

Bob The Broker was not fancied on his debut at Leopardstown and ran very green when short headed by Irish John at Navan. "I didn't think he'd make a two-year-old at all," said his handler of this neat Bob Back colt who he now plans to send to Royal Ascot for the six furlongs Chesham Stakes. Incidentally, Ger's Royale the stable's winner of Saturday's Gypsum Industries Handicap may run in the Royal Hunt Cup.