Prince Gagarin to step up

Connections feels Prince Gagarin would be better suited to a step up in trip after his third-place finish at the Curragh on Sunday.

The three-year-old made most of the running but was overhauled at the business end of the Group Three Gallinule Stakes, as Curvy came through to land the spoils by a neck from Aidan O’Brien‘s Giovanni Canaletto.

But Prince Gagarin was far from disgraced and trainer Ed Dunlop agrees with jockey Adam Kirby, who advised him after the race that the son of Dubawi now needs a mile and a half.

“Prince Gagarin ran a respectable race in the Gallinule – we decided to try to make all with no other likely pace candidate in the line-up and he was only collared late,” he told edunlop.com.

“The winner is a beautifully-bred filly who is on a steep upward curve and Adam Kirby suggested we try a mile and a half with our horse now.”