Godolphin's Sobetsu misses Irish Oaks at the Curragh


Group One winner Sobetsu will swerve an outing in the Darley Irish Oaks at the Curragh on Saturday.

Trainer Charlie Appleby has ruled this year's Prix Saint-Alary winner out of the mile and a half Irish Classic after failing to be convinced that she stays the trip having beaten only one home in last month's Epsom Oaks. 

Plans are in place to drop the daughter of Dubawi back down to a mile and a quarter for a shot at the Group Two Prix de la Nonette at Deauville on August 19.

The Newmarket handler said: "Sobetsu won't be going for the Irish Oaks. The whole Epsom experience took a lot out of her and I don't know whether she saw out the mile and a half.

"Going there with a lightly-raced filly is quite hard.

"I want to bring her back in trip and we will probably go back to France for the Prix de la Nonette at Deauville.

"I have purposely given her the time off, plus she wants cut in the ground."

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