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Current Option (IRE) b g 4th Apr 2016
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Current Option (IRE) b g 4th Apr 2016
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Exceed And Excel (AUS)
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Grangecon Holdings Ltd
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Oct 2019
Autumn Horses in Training, Tattersalls (Tattersalls (UK))
Shamrock Bloodstock
Purchaser: Lot Withdrawn
Lots Sold: 985
Prices
Avg: £25,780
Median: £12,000
Maximum: £625,000
Jul 2019
July Sale, Tattersalls (Tattersalls (UK))
Somerville Lodge Ltd. (W. Haggas), Agent
Purchaser: Shamrock Thoroughbreds
£85,000
Lots Sold: 535
Prices
Avg: £23,830
Median: £12,000
Maximum: £450,000
Oct 2017
October Yearling Sale Book 2 (Tattersalls (UK))
The Castlebridge Consignment
Purchaser: Stroud Coleman Bloodstock
£62,000
Lots Sold: 613
Prices
Avg: £78,339
Median: £55,000
Maximum: £850,000
Reports in which Current Option (IRE) was mentioned
Whispersinthewind (11/1) added to her fillies' maiden victory in Naas last month when delivering in the rated race over seven furlongs at Dundalk.
Fri 22nd Nov
The veteran Current Option bounced back to winning ways when taking the seven-furlong Tote Handicap in good style at Fairyhouse.
Fri 07th Jun
Statement quickened up in style to run out an impressive winner of the Coolmore U S Navy Flag Concorde Stakes at Tipperary.
Sun 02nd Oct
Current Option became the first horse ever to win the Ahonoora Handicap three years in succession, when landing the feature race on day seven of the Galway festival.
Sun 31st Jul
Following a dry night on Saturday, the ground remains soft on the national hunt course and soft, soft to heavy in places on the flat course for the final day of the 2022 festival.
Sun 31st Jul
Trainer Brian Duffy scooped a big pot for the Magic Lads Syndicate when Magic Chegaga forged home in the Colm Quinn BMW Mile Handicap.
Tue 26th Jul
Ger Lyons' Markaz Paname continued his march through the ranks when delivering in the Group 3 Gladness Stakes at the Curragh.
Sun 10th Apr
Last season’s 1000 Guineas heroine Mother Earth is the star attraction on the first afternoon of the Irish Flat turf season at the Curragh on Saturday.
Sat 26th Mar
Ado McGuinness’ top sprinter A Case Of You is set to return to action at Dundalk today ahead of a trip to Dubai for the Super Saturday fixture.
Fri 11th Feb
Snapraeterea (13/2) made all to win the Listed Platinum Stakes by an emphatic four lengths under Declan McDonogh.
Sat 07th Aug
The topweight Current Option (5/1) repeated last year’s victory in a very dramatic Irish Stallion Farms EBF 'Ahonoora' Handicap.
Sun 01st Aug
It's the final day of the Galway races and the ground remains good for the concluding eight race Flat card with the weather set to stay dry.
Sun 01st Aug
Ado McGuinness won the featured COLM QUINN BMW Mile Handicap for the third year in succession as reserve Sirjack Thomas took full advantage of getting a run.
Tue 27th Jul
Roger Varian expects Angel Power to improve for the run when she makes her belated reappearance in the Kilboy Estate Stakes at the Curragh this afternoon.
Sun 18th Jul
Lancaster House quickened up impressively to land back-to-back runnings of the TRI Equestrian Gladness Stakes at the Curragh.
Sat 17th Apr
Trainer Ado McGuinness registered a first Group winner on grass at Tipperary today as his Current Option scored a short-head win in the featured Group 3 Coolmore US Navy Flag Concorde Stakes under jockey Gavin Ryan.
Sat 03rd Oct
Trainer Ado McGuinness registered his first flat Listed winner today at Cork as his Galway festival winner Current Option won the Listed Platinum Stakes under in-form jockey Gavin Ryan.
Sat 08th Aug
The roars of the crowd at this year’s Galway Festival were provided by Ado McGuinness and his assistant Stephen Thorne as they cheered home Premier Handicap winners Saltonstall and Current Option. The Lusk Co.Dublin trainer sends the latter back into action again at Cork today in the Listed Platinum Stakes over seven furlongs.
Sat 08th Aug
The final race of the Galway Festival - the Fr. Breen Memorial Handicap - went the way of Willie Mullins' Eight And Bob to give the trainer 10 winners for the week.
Sun 02nd Aug
Gavin Ryan sealed a fifth winner of Galway Festival week on board Current Option in the feature race of the final day - the Irish Stallion Farms EBF 'Ahonoora' Handicap over seven furlongs.
Sun 02nd Aug
Ado McGuinness' Saltonstall (11/1) made it back to back Colm Quinn BMW Mile Handicap's at the Galway Festival with a last-gasp success.
Tue 28th Jul
Big Baby Bull built upon his Irish debut to bag a decisive victory in the seven furlong premier handicap at the Curragh.
Sat 27th Jun
Ado McGuinness has enjoyed a fine season with his handicappers and, after Saltonstall’s win in the big mile handicap at the Galway Festival (also for winning owners Dooley Thoroughbreds), he hit the jackpot again when Current Option (11/2) landed a first prize of over 88,000 Euros in the concluding Irish Stallion Farms EBF ‘Sovereign Path’ Handicap.
Sat 14th Sep
Young apprentice Paddy Harnett made it two winners in successive days when Massa Lubrense (20/1) scored by two and a half lengths in the Curragh Rose Of Tralee Handicap.
Fri 30th Aug
Andrew Slattery continued his fine season, and his profitable association with Dermot Weld, as Jassaar (10/1) took the Tote Irish Cambridgeshire.
Fri 30th Aug
Dual-Champion Trainer Jim Bolger sent out his first runners to Cork's new seven-furlongs straight track today and was rewarded with a treble supplied by stable jockey Kevin Manning, as the pair achieved the feat in the Barry's Tea Supporting Marymount Hospice Handicap with Bopedro.
Sat 17th Aug
After race at
Fairyhouse Fri, 7th Jun, 2024 (1st)
Class is permanent and form is temporary! It's been a while since he won but he ran a great race in the premier handicap at Cork (last month), where he finished fourth,. We ran him in the Curragh the last day where he was drawn right out on the wing and he got very upset in the stalls and he ran very freely. He was in good form and we just felt that Fairyhouse would suit him, around a bend, that he'd be able to relax and drop it, which he did. Adam gave him a good ride, he was very cool on him. The plans for the boys are that they're always over for the end of July and that's where he'll go. I'll see what the handicapper gives him and we'll try and get him into those two big handicaps in Galway. If he's going to get in off his current mark I'll leave him but if not I might have to run him again. He's a horse of a lifetime and you just don't get many horses like him.
Adrian McGuinness
After race at
Galway Sun, 31st Jul, 2022 (1st)
I might never get a horse like him again. He’s been fabulous to have and the lads are great supporters. He’s a Group 3 winner, a Listed winner, won a list of Premier Handicaps and taken us everywhere. He just loves this place and was unlucky in the Mile the other night. He’s just down to a very nice mark and we’ll probably try for the big handicap in Leopardstown. He’s won that before as well. Some of my horses were a bit out of form in June but they have come back and we always primed this fellow for here. We give him the same routine each year and try and prepare him for here. It works. I could make a case for everyone of the horses I ran today and On A Session’s trainer mustn’t like me as we keep beating him!. Laugh A Minute has run a cracker and watch him in the autumn for a good handicap on soft ground. Casanova didn’t get a clear run.
Adrian McGuinness
After race at
Galway Sun, 1st Aug, 2021 (1st)
I fancied him because I thought he was the class horse in the race,. He ran a cracker last week in the Group 2 (fourth in the Minstrel Stakes at the Curragh) and I knew he was going to improve from it. He ran well the other night when Cian got blocked in. I love when you drop these Group horses back into handicaps like that. He's proved that he's a very good horse. They were travelling so well, they were running away the two of them, and I said 'they're going to have to sprout wings to catch them'. I know the hill takes a lot of getting but they were going that well and I was praying that they were going to kick. We had four in the first six (Laugh A Minute sixth) and I can't believe it. I'm delighted for all the lads again, they've been very good to me. They are over for the week and don't know when they are going to go home now after this!. I felt sorry for Cian the other day because he was to ride Sirjack Thomas but when he was reserve I put him on Current Option. We were going to change but I said no because I thought this horse would win and I'm delighted for Cian that he's got another premier handicap. He's a very good kid and he's a very good lad to ride. He gave him a smashing ride. Of course we got a big scare up the hill with the loose horse but it worked out great. We'll probably go to the Listed race next week in Cork because he won't carry a penalty. We did it last year so if all goes well we'll do it again and then give him a break.
Adrian McGuinness
After race at
Tipperary Sat, 3rd Oct, 2020 (1st)
that's my first Group winner on the grass; it's so easy after 20 years!. This is brilliant and is great for the lads; this horse keeps improving and we've had so much fun with him. It is great for the Dooley brothers in England and the late Bart O'Sullivan was a great supporter too and only for them I wouldn't be here. He wasn't a cheap horse (85,000gns at Tattersalls in July 2019) but he has well and truly covered himself long before today and today we are in bonus territory. We'll see what's on the agenda in Ireland but more than likely he will go out foreign to the the middle east for some of their festivals. We haven't killed him with racing this year either way and we'll sit back and think about things now.
Adrian McGuinness
After race at
Cork Sat, 8th Aug, 2020 (1st)
I said he was a Stakes horse so he has proved me right; that's my first Listed winner and most horses I'd have for those races I'd usually sell, so it's great to be able to hold on to him. we weren't going to run and he was declared at the last minute as we found out Madhmoon and Sonaiyla weren't running so we said we'd give it a go. The big worry was he had two quick runs in Galway but he is tough. He is a smashing horse and we're going to have a lot of fun with him. He is progressing all the time and Gavin gave him a serious ride and settled him well. There is a Listed race in three weeks time at Leopardstown and then we'll probably find something for him on Champions Weekend and there's a Group 3 at Dundalk after that. He is very versatile ground-wise and I'm delighted for the lads that own him. He could go travelling later in the year, covid permitting.
Adrian McGuinness
After race at
Galway Sun, 2nd Aug, 2020 (1st)
He’s a very good horse and will probably go to Stakes company now. His work and Saltonstall’s was like chalk and cheese. The other horse came out and won the other day but the draw killed this horse. The draw is crucial here. The kid was very good on him again and I’ve had a week I’ll never forget with three winners. The Dooley’s and Bart (O’Sullivan), who started it all off, I have to really thank and the Shamrock boys are involved in this horse as well. I thought when he got 5lb (for finishing second) at the Curragh that it would goose us for Galway but I was wrong and he (the handicapper) was right! . I’ve never won a Stakes race before, so hopefully I have a few horses that are capable of doing it now.
Adrian McGuinness
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