Ado ready for more Arabian adventures Formerly a Group 3 winner in France, Pretreville looked another smart recruit for Ado McGuinness when beating the classy Thunder Moon at Dundalk on Friday. Afterwards, the Lusk handler remarked that the seven-year-old entire may be aimed at targets in either Doha (in a race the yard won with Bowerman last year) or Dubai in the coming weeks. McGuinness has been outlining plans for some of his other talented performers who will be in action abroad before the Flat turf season resumes here at the end of March, including his Prix de l'Abbaye winner A Case Of You "We have an entry to run A Case Of You (last seen finishing fifth in the Breeders' Cup Turf Sprint) in both the dirt and the grass in Saudi. It’s worth a lot of money but it’s not a Group 1 and for a stallion career to win another Group 1 would be a lot better. “He'll probably go to Dubai for Super Saturday and we'll then leave him out there for the Al Quoz on World Cup night. He’ll stay out there for the three weeks. “I feel he needs a run to prepare for the Group 1. He put on 40 kilos in a month and we had to start riding him out before Christmas because he got too heavy. “He’s back now in great form and will do his first piece of work in the next week. He’s strengthened up and we’re very happy with him. We’ll target those big races for the year and hopefully we’ll click with one or two. Regarding his dual Ahonoora Handicap and Group 3 Concorde Stakes winner Current Option, McGuinness remarked: "Current Option’s rating is not high enough. His international rating is 105 yet he runs off 107 here — if he was 107 I’d get him into Saudi. “We have him entered for Super Saturday in Dubai and he’ll go there along with A Case Of You. “Harry’s Bar and Pierre Lapin are out in Dubai at the moment. “Pierre Lapin (yet to win for McGuinness but formerly a Group 2 winner for Roger Varian) runs this week over six. There is a nice handicap over seven the first week in February so we are going to give him a pipe-opener over six. “Harry will run there over six as well. I was very happy with him when he finished seventh in a good race (on January 14th at Meydan). He stayed at it well over five and is great form out there. “They are good ground horses and I’d have nothing here until June so they would be sitting at home for six months doing nothing so they might as well be out there trying to earn some money.” Additional reporting by Alan Magee
