Amiloc

Winner Al Riffa the better stayer but a nice effort by this 3yo in what was a truley run race 

I think 2400m is maybe more his GO & looks like the Breeders Cup maybe next !! 

Ralph Beckett on top level targets for Amiloc

Ralph Beckett has highlighted running plans for Pride Of Arras and Amiloc after watching the latter take second in the Irish St Leger at the Curragh.

Amiloc may have lost his unbeaten record when no match for Al Riffa in the Classic but Beckett was delighted with the performance.

"Very happy, very proud of him. Everything went to plan, we just got done by a better one," he told Racing TV.

"This horse is still relatively inexperienced, I was delighted with him. I thought Rossa [Ryan] had got first run on him at the top of the straight so we went at the right time, he got to the line well, he was just beaten by a better one. 

"Always felt he'd enjoy this ground and Rossa confirmed that. He just loves racing so I wouldn't get hung up on ground necessarily. He did take a long time to get over the Edward VII, we knew that, the only concern I really had coming to today was whether he'd done enough but he clearly had."

This was just the sixth start for Amiloc and the first time that he had travelled but he could now be set to test himself in international waters with a trip to America in the offing.

"He'll probably go to the Breeders' Cup Turf; I think it will really suit him," he opined. 

"We'll probably go there and have a think after that but hopefully with that pedigree and make-up of horse he is that he should get better as he gets older, still quite a frame of the horse. I think it's all in front of him."