Kairyu and Colin Keane© Photo Healy Racing
Kairyu followed up her June debut maiden win with a Group 3 success for owner/trainer Michael O'Callaghan at the Curragh today, landing the Jebel Ali Racecourse Anglesey Stakes under champion jockey Colin Keane.
Held up in rear-division, the Kuroshio-filly quickened to lead a furlong out and scored by a length and a quarter from Pearls And Rubies
Regarding Kairyu, purchased for €80,000 at Goresbridge's Breeze-Up Sale in May, O'Callaghan commented “she looks very smart. Colin said she doesn't want that ground, it was plenty soft - she was just good and tough.
“He said she has a savage turn of foot where she can go and put a race to bed. He said the gaps appeared a little bit before he wanted them. He feels she relaxes so well that she'll probably get seven furlongs in time.
“I was thinking about going to the Duchess Of Cambridge at Newmarket last week but I just wasn't 100 percent happy with her work so we just waited another week.
“Colin thinks she'll be better on better ground and she'll probably go for something like the Lowther now.”
He added “Patrick Turley sold her, his father is here and she's the first foal out of a Lope De Vega mare that they have. They are better known in the jumping ranks but they are very good at what they do and they know the time of day. Paddy highly recommended the filly and I really liked her.”
“She's still a little bit high behind and she's going to grow plenty so she could potentially be a very nice filly.
“My wife Siobhan named her, it's Japanese after the stallion."
Quotes from Gary Carson
