Favourite Bloomfield takes the feature at Gowran Bloomfield added to her Noblesse Stakes gains from last month, to again upstage Glamorous Approach in the featured Listed Irish Stallion Farms EBF Vintage Tipple Stakes at Gowran. Glamorous Approach was game from the front here as she endeavoured to provide her trainer and jockey Jim Bolger and Kevin Manning with a double after their earlier success with Dream Of Words. However, Bloomfield, the 6/4 favourite for Willie McCreery and Billy Lee, asserted from the furlong pole to put two lengths between herself and Glamorous Approach. There was a gap of five lengths then back to Remarkable Lady in third. John Connaughton owns and bred Bloomfield. "We'll go back down for the Munster Oaks at Cork which closed today. I was hoping for a bit better ground to see what she's like as she's only ever run on soft ground. She has a big knee action and I'd like to see her on better ground to see how she gets on," said McCreery. "Billy wants to go further as all she does is gallop. She settled nicely there but he thought she could settle a bit more. She doesn't have that much experience and is learning the whole time." The Irish Horseracing Regulatory Board Veterinary Officer examined Detailed, trained by Joseph Patrick O'Brien, at the request of the Stewards and reported the animal to be post race normal. (AM & EM)
