Trainer Ger Lyons has revealed that Siskin “won’t go” to Royal Ascot this year, after winning the Irish 2,000 Guineas on Friday.
The three-year-old, who returned the 2/1f, held off the challenge of Aidan O’Brien‘s Vatican City to win the Curragh classic by a length-and-three-quarters, with O’Brien’s Lope Y Fernandez back in third.
The Khalid Abdullah-owned colt remains unbeaten after five starts and connections now have their plans set on success across the Irish sea, although Lyons admitted that Royal Ascot is not in their plans.
The trainer said: “He won’t go to Royal Ascot. It’s all about the 14-day quarantine here and I want Colin (Keane) to ride him. At the same time it’s the horse’s three-year-old career and we have to do the right thing, but the Sussex Stakes at Goodwood is the most likely option.”
Lyons, who was celebrating his breakthrough Classic victory, was full of praise for the jockey for the way he led Siskin to victory – his fifth success on the spin.
Lyons added: “He and the horse got it right. The horse is a legend, he bailed him out, but you don’t get a Guineas handed to you and the two of them were men enough to do it. Colin had to be on his game and he had to have a horse that was going to take him out of trouble.”
