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Gosden issues upbeat bulletin on stable star Field Of Gold
Trainer John Gosden has issued an upbeat bulletin on their stable star Field Of Gold, who continues on the road of recovery having picked up an injury during his Sussex Stakes defeat at Glorious Goodwood.
Following victories in the Irish 2000 Guineas and St James's Palace Stakes, the striking grey was sent off a 1/3 chance to emulate his great father Kingman by completing the Group 1 hat-trick on the Sussex Downs.
However, he failed to reel in the 150/1 chance Qirat and had to settle for fourth-place, with connections revealing the following day that he had come out of the race lame.
Connections will now look towards an autumn return to action for the Juddmonte-owned three-year-old.
"The good news is he's come sound. There was considerable filling there, but that itself has diminished now," said John Gosden on the Nick Luck Daily podcast.
"We're gingerly finding our way forward again with some trotting and we may possibly be able to do an easy canter next week.
"It's one step at a time, it was certainly a significant enough injury, it's looking like it was a bad wrench of the joint. The filling the next morning was considerable, and he was quite lame on it, but fortunately two sets of X-rays and an ultrasound scan have come back clean.
"We put it down to him wrenching a joint in the race as it was noticeable that he didn't quite level off properly, he was lugging right which means he was trying to keep the weight off it.
"We'll see what we have in store for him in the future, we won't be rushing back to any races right now."
He added: "Very much so, that (autumn) would be the aim. He's got a great mind on him and from that point of view he's a pleasure to train."
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