Tattersalls Gold Cup, The Way The Ground Acts

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By ARSENE ABITBOL - 20 May 2009 - 23.55 pm
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A Coronation Stakes winner, two title-holders at Group I level in France and in Italy, a third in NewApproach's Derby, and runner-up in the French Derby. Between them, all contestants have accumulated over 3,000,000 £ in prize money. This sets the standards of this year's renewal, in other words, a fascinating contest not to be missed.

TheWayYouAre's full sister is a certain Peeping Fawn, a four-time Group I winner who defeated Light Shift on heavy ground in the 2007 Irish Oaks. I am not stating that he's as smart as Sis, but the fact that he recorded his career-best in testing conditions when landing the Gr I Criterium International, aged two, does prove his ability. This may seem a long time ago now, but generally a juvenile who scores in such events is a classy animal and provided that all the bits and pieces are coming together at the right time, the road to success is imminent. I believe that's the case of TheWayyouare.

Previously trained by Andre Fabre, Sean Mulryan's four-year-old is now in the hands of Aidan O'Brien. On his reappearance in the Prix Ganay (Gr I), he disputed the lead before being outstayed in the last 200 yards. There was no disgrace in being defeated by Vision d'Etat and Loup Breton, far from it, and more importantly, this recent outing has shown very positive signs as to his fitness and fighting spirit and the bottomline is that he'll have come on for the run. Add to that the fact that with only eight outings to date, the son of Kingmambo is far from exposed and this means there is still room for improvement. Off a best rating of 117, he doesn't have much to find on his best form to be in the shake-up.

Co-headed by Famous Name and Casual Conquest , in that order, the market is made up of a horse who should like the ground and a horse who might cope with it. Only in Sunday's Tattersalls Cup, the deciding factor will be the heavy ground, and there's one horse who is sure to love it, his name is TheWayyouare.

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Sources : http://www.racingPost.com/
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