Rebel Added To Curragh Field

Rebel Rebel, a running-on second in the UltimatePoker.com 2000 Guineas at Newmarket earlier this month, will bid to go one better in the Irish equivalent at the Curragh on Saturday.

Connections of the colt have paid out ?40,000 to add him to the field for the Boylesports-sponsored Classic at today´s supplementary stage.

Neville Callaghan´s charge was sent off one of the rank outsiders on the Rowley Mile at 100-1 but belied those odds to grab second place under Oscar Urbina, a length and a quarter behind Footstepsinthesand.

'He´s fine, absolutely fine so we´ve supplemented him and we are going to take our chance,' Callaghan said.

'Everything is right so if we can stay sound and in one piece until the day we´ll be there.

'I knew he´d run well (in the 2000 Guineas). I didn´t say he´d be second but I thought we might get in the first six where there was prize money.

'It was a surprise to be second but I expected him to run better than 100-1 suggested.

'So I thought we´ve beaten some of these, we´ll take them on again. We´ve got prize money from second to play with although it´s a steep supplement.

'A good, stiff Curragh mile should be in his favour and if we can get in the first four we´ll get our money back.'

Aidan O´Brien´s Footstepsinthesand is on course to bid for a Classic double last achieved by the same trainer´s Rock Of Gibraltar three years ago.

The Ballydoyle maestro is also responsible for Ad Valorem, Albert Hall, Dark Cheetah, Grand Central, Hills Of Arran and Showdance.

Dubawi, who lost his unbeaten record when finishing fifth behind

Footstepsinthesand, is the sole representative of Godolphin.

The Dubai Millennium colt´s chances at Newmarket were not helped by the fast ground, plus a slight stumble early on and a strong tendency to hang left running down into the Dip.

The going at the Curragh is currently described as good, good to firm on the round course.

? PA Sport