Pat Eddery has booked Olivier Peslier to ride Hearts Of Fire in the StanJames.com 2000 Guineas – and believes his colt is overpriced for next month’s Newmarket Classic.
The three-year-old won three times as a juvenile under the French jockey – who won the Guineas on Cockney Rebel in 2007 – and rounded off his campaign with Group One success in Italy.
Eddery certainly knows what it takes to win the season’s first Classic having landed the race three times as a jockey on Lomond (1983), El Gran Senor (1984) and Zafonic (1993).
“He’s done very well through the winter and I’m really pleased with him,” Eddery told At The Races
“He won a Listed race at Deauville and then went to Baden-Baden in Germany and won a Group Three very easily.
“We then sent him over to Milan for a Group One and he came from last to beat a horse of Godolphin’s which went on to win at the Breeders’ Cup (Vale Of York), so his form is solid.
“He’ll definitely go there with a real sporting chance as the horse is in great form and Olivier Peslier is very confident in the horse.
“I’m not too bothered what the ground is like as he’ll go on firm and he’s won on very soft.
“I ride the horse every day and he’s been in great shape – he’s got me off once or twice!
“He was only a £13,000 purchase but he won a lot of prize-money last year and gave the owners a really happy time, so hopefully he’ll continue to do that.
“He definitely goes to Newmarket and is not a 25-1 shot, not in my view anyway.”
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