Gosden ‘got it wrong’ with Too Darn Hot

Horse Racing

Racing365
July 1, 2019 5:30 pm

John Gosden believes his team have ‘got it wrong’ with Too Darn Hot this year and hopes a drop in trip pays off this weekend.

Gosden’s charge enjoyed an incredible season as a two-year-old last year, with four wins in as many attempts, but Too Darn Hot remains without a victory after three races in 2019.

Too Darn Hot came in second in the Dante Stakes and Irish 2000 Guineas before third place at Royal Ascot in the St James’s Palace Stakes.

The son of Dubawi will contest the Qatar Prix Jean Prat at Deauville on Sunday and Gosden feels the seven-furlong race offers the perfect chance for Too Darn Hot to get back to winning ways.

‘Too Darn Hot worked very nicely yesterday morning and the plan is to go for the Prix Jean Prat,’ he said, as reported by the Racing Post.

‘I think we’ve been running him beyond his trip.

The stiff mile of the Curragh [Irish 2000 Guineas], the stiff mile of Ascot and an extended mile and a quarter at York [Dante].

‘I’ve made it very clear that I think we got it wrong with this horse this year and hopefully the straight seven furlongs will suit him, as I think an easy mile would.

‘He’s a very fast horse.

He’s quick and his best races [in 2018] were the Dewhurst and the Champagne Stakes, and I think it’s about time we played to his strengths.’