Tattersalls Gold Cup next for 'special' Found

Aidan O'Brien feels top-class older filly Found is developing into "something very special".

Last year's Breeders' Cup Turf heroine suffered defeat on her seasonal reappearance in the Alleged Stakes, but bounced back to win the Mooresbridge and will return to the highest level in the Tattersalls Gold Cup on Sunday week.

O'Brien said: "You would have to be delighted with Found. The plan was to give her two runs before the Tattersalls Gold Cup. The first day she just did plenty in soft ground. She let go towards the end of the race. The next day we knew she had progressed and the thing was to let her relax again and she did."

The Ballydoyle handler went on: "We are seeing what she is starting to turn into now. She is starting to turn into something very special.

"After the Tattersalls Gold Cup, we have either the option of the Coronation Cup or the Prince Of Wales's Stakes.

"After that she will have a break and be trained for the autumn with the Arc in mind. She will have a run or two before it - probably only one I'd say."

Pencilled in to make his debut for Ballydoyle on the same Curragh card is exciting Australian import Vancouver.

The Golden Slipper winner could make his Irish introduction in the Weatherbys Ireland Greenlands Stakes.

"We are very excited about him, but we've not got a lot of time as we know he is going back to Australia after the July Cup," said the trainer.

"What we have pencilled in with him is the Greenlands. We are probably going to go there on a fact-finding mission, but he is very exciting at home.

"He is a powerhouse of a horse when you see the size of him. When you look at what he did as a two-year-old in Australia, you would be surprised that he did it when you see him.

"It is probably going to take a little bit of time to adjust. He hasn't been away from home. It's going to be his first day away but if he is going to go to Ascot, we feel he needs to get competitive fairly quickly.

"He is only going to be ready for a racecourse gallop, but he has got to have a race if he is going to be ready for Royal Ascot, where he will probably go for the Diamond Jubilee."