Cotter expecting more to come from Pinar Del Rio Pinar Del Rio has served connections well over the past couple of years, and now with the Kieran Cotter yard hopes are high that there is more to come. The Havana Gold gelding has certainly begun in a promising vein for the County Laois-based handler, with a brace of second placings secured in May. Mrs Kathleen Whelan's six-year-old just came up short when going down by a neck at Naas, and again in the hands of Paddy Harnett he found one too good when losing out to Goal Exceeded in a big field at the Curragh on 2,000 Guineas Day. "Super performance by him (runner-up in the Curragh), he's progressing nicely and has just been a little bit unfortunate. The drier ground up the rail (in Curragh) did him," reflected Cotter. "I put him in the seven furlong premier handicap in Cork that we won three years ago with Lord Dudley. It will be tight, but I think if he gets in off 8-7 we will let him have a crack at that. "He has been second twice for me, he got beaten a neck in Naas. I'd say it was a career-best effort off a mark of around 80 the last day in the Curragh. "He's a nice, honest, genuine horse and he deserves a big pot. "He loves the Curragh and they will have plenty of fun, and he will earn his way the whole year." Additional reporting by Michael Graham
