The Irish Derby

[my miss storm cat]

Sunday July 2 2006
Curragh 15:50
Budweiser Irish Derby (group 1)
£1500000.00 added, 3yo only, 1m 4f, Class 1, £847500.00 penalty

1 (7) Best Alibi (IRE) 29 3 9-0 Sir Michael Stoute M J Kinane

2 (4) Best Name 28 3 9-0 R Collet C P Lemaire

3 (5) Classic Punch (IRE) 27 3 9-0 D R C Elsworth J F Egan

4 (3) Cougar Bay (IRE) 22 3 9-0 b D Wachman W M Lordan

5 (2) Darsi (FR) 28 3 9-0 A de Royer-Dupre C Soumillon

6 (12) Dragon Dancer 29 3 9-0 G Wragg D Holland 120

7 (9) Dylan Thomas (IRE) 29 3 9-0 A P O'Brien K Fallon

8 (8) Gentlewave (IRE) 42 3 9-0 A Fabre J P Murtagh

9 (10) Heliostatic (IRE) 22 3 9-0 J S Bolger K J Manning

10 (6) Land Before Time (IRE) 32 3 9-0 R J Osborne R M Burke

11 (13) Monsieur Henri (USA) 18 3 9-0 J C Hayden N G McCullagh

12 (11) Mountain (IRE) 29 3 9-0 A P O'Brien J A Heffernan

13 (1) Puerto Rico (IRE) 35 3 9-0 A P O'Brien C O'Donoghue

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So who do you all like? As expected, Papal Bull was ruled out this morning.

Dylan Thomas / Best Alibi

Come home safe, all of you.

[my miss storm cat]

Hopefully, they'll be showing it here.....

http://live.ae/

[brockguy]

heading to watch it tomorrow. I like Gentlewave and the other French horses..

[my miss storm cat]

DYLAN ROMPS!!!!!

Dylan Thomas / Gentlewave / Best Alibi

What a GREAT race!

[blackthroatedwind]

Wow....first " A Child's Christmas in Wales " and now the Irish Derby.

The crowning achievement in a brilliant career.

[my miss storm cat]

Originally Posted by blackthroatedwind

Wow....first " A Child's Christmas in Wales " and now the Irish Derby.

The crowning achievement in a brilliant career.

From Racing Post...

Dylan Thomas is poetry in motion

by Martin Kelly (July 2)
DYLAN THOMAS turned the Budweiser Irish Derby into a procession with a blistering display in the hands of Kieren Fallon at The Curragh on Sunday afternoon.

Aidan O'Brien's colt quickened up in the style of a top-class horse to justify 9-2 favouritism in the 12-furlong contest.

Gentlewave came with a late flourish to take second while Best Alibi stayed on for third.

Fallon showed admirable patience aboard Dylan Thomas as Dragon Dancer, and then Heliostatic, took them along at a generous pace.

The latter still held the lead as they turned for home, with O'Brien's Mountain in second.

But the winner, third behind Sir Percy in the Vodafone Derby at Epsom, had his rivals comfortably within his radar.

And after finding a lovely gap on the rail, Fallon settled the race within a matter of strides as Dylan Thomas produced a telling burst of speed inside the final furlong.

The outcome was never in doubt as O'Brien's three-year-old powered to a three-and-a-half length victory over Andre Fabre's Gentlewave, who came wide and late under Johnny Murtagh.

Best Alibi, trained by Sir Michael Stoute and ridden by Michael Kinane, ran a blinder to hold on for third at odds of 9-1.