Jessica Harrington will wait until Thursday morning before deciding whether to run Green Impact in the King George VI And Queen Elizabeth Stakes at Ascot on Saturday.<\/p>\n
Winner of two of his three starts of a juvenile, the Wootton Bassett colt has this season finished sixth in both the 2000 Guineas at Newmarket and the Irish Derby at the Curragh, with a Listed success at Leopardstown sandwiched in between.<\/p>\n
The three-year-old is being readied for another trip across the Irish Sea this weekend, but whether he heads to Ascot to tackle a mile and a half in the King George or drops back to a mile and a quarter for the Sky Bet York Stakes remains to be seen.<\/p>\n
\u201cNo decision has been made, we\u2019re looking at the ground and we probably won\u2019t make a final decision until declaration time on Thursday morning,\u201d Harrington told Sky Sports Racing.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019ve been in touch with Marc Chan (owner) and his racing manager Jamie McCalmont and we\u2019re open to both options. I\u2019m not sure, depending on the ground, which option we\u2019ll be going for.<\/p>\n
\u201cI just want good ground, I don\u2019t want the ground too soft or too firm, just nice ground.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe seemed to get the mile and a half well at the Curragh, he\u2019s won over a mile and one (furlong) and he won as a two-year-old over a mile, so I think either distance will be fine for him.<\/p>\n
\u201cI think he will improve and has improved each time. He was just unlucky in the Irish Derby, it wasn\u2019t run entirely to how he wanted it and he got too far back, but those things happen in those races.\u201d<\/p>\n
Rebel\u2019s Romance finished third in last year\u2019s King George and is poised for a second attempt following his course and distance success in the Hardwicke Stakes last month.<\/p>\n
His seven previous victories at the highest level have been achieved on foreign soil, but jockey William Buick is confident he can hold his own in what he describes as an \u201celite Group One\u201d in Britain.<\/p>\n
He said: \u201cIn a King George he\u2019s what you need \u2013 he\u2019s very versatile tactically and he can race any which way.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe does prefer fast ground, so hopefully we will get that, but he\u2019s tough \u2013 he showed that in the Hardwicke. <\/p>\n
\u201cHe\u2019s been at the top level now for a number of years and the others are going to have to be at their very best.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe was third in the King George last year and it is an elite Group One. It\u2019s the summer highlight and one of the best races we have.<\/p>\n
\u201cBut if you go back through Rebel\u2019s Romance\u2019s form, when he won the Sheema Classic that was an elite field and he goes there in very good form.\u201d<\/p>\n
With Juddmonte\u2019s retained rider Colin Keane serving a suspension, Oisin Murphy will get back on board Andrew Balding\u2019s top-class filly Kalpana, who has finished third in the Tattersalls Gold Cup and second in the Pretty Polly Stakes in two trips to Ireland this year.<\/p>\n
\u201cI feel really sorry for Colin because anyone can fall foul of the whip rules and it\u2019s disappointing that he has to sit such a long time out,\u201d said Murphy.<\/p>\n
\u201cObviously the King George takes a bit of winning, but if she got her ideal conditions, which would be just slower than good ground, you\u2019d think she\u2019ll have a massive chance.<\/p>\n
\u201cI think she\u2019s very good, her work has been excellent throughout the year, 10 furlongs is a bit sharp for her but she loomed up the last day like she was going to win and she\u2019s a special one to have in the stable.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jessica Harrington will wait until Thursday morning before deciding whether to run Green Impact in the King George…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":15549,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[3004,101,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-15548","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-racing","8":"tag-racing","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15548","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15548"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15548\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15549"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15548"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15548"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15548"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}