Porta Fortuna on course for 1000 Guineas
Filly won the Cheveley Park and was second at Breeders’ Cup.
Porta Fortuna is on course for the Qipco 1000 Guineas having pleased trainer Donnacha O’Brien in a recent racecourse gallop. The Caravaggio filly won the Albany Stakes at Royal Ascot in June but showed she was far from just a precocious type when winning the Cheveley Park at the end of September. Stepped up to a mile for the first time at the Breeders’ Cup, she went down by just half a length to Chad Brown’s Hard To Justify in the Juvenile Fillies Turf. “She’s done well over the winter and we had her at Leopardstown for a day away on the Guineas Trials day and she went very well,” said O’Brien. “We’re very happy with her and aiming for Newmarket. “She barely won a maiden on heavy but all her best form is on quick ground, so I’d say the better the ground the better for her. “She ran well over a mile at the Breeders’ Cup, but a Newmarket mile is different than around Santa Anita. “We are happy to give it a go and if it doesn’t work we can always come back (in trip).”Follow us on Twitter racing365dotcom and like our Facebook page.
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