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Tattersalls Gold Cup switched to July in Irish reshuffle July 26 event will be open to three-year-olds. Tuesday 19 May  2020 News Share this         tote Get a £10 risk-free first bet This year’s Tattersalls Gold Cup will be open to the Classic generation when it is run on a revised date in July, Horse Racing Ireland has announced. The Group One event is usually for four-year-olds and over when it is contested during the Irish Guineas meeting in May, but following the delayed start to the 2020 Flat campaign due to the coronavirus crisis, it has been moved to July 26 to fill “a significant gap in the revised Pattern”. The Tattersalls Gold Cup and the first Classics of the year – the 1000 and 2000 Guineas, are the only Group One events to have new dates in the calendar, will all other top-level contests remaining in their usual slots. HRI intends to run a full complement of Group races through the year, but the Irish two-year-old...

Champion jockey Brian Hughes is back riding out as he awaits the start of the new jumps season. Racing has been suspended in Britain since March 17 due to the coronavirus pandemic, with the National Hunt action currently scheduled to return on July 1. Hughes has been keeping himself fit during the enforced lay-off and has recently returned to riding out. He told VBET: “I’ve obviously been in lockdown for six weeks and didn’t leave the house. We live in the countryside, though, so it hasn’t been too bad to keep busy. “Over the last few weeks, I’ve also been able to get back riding out again. “I’ve also been able to maintain my fitness by running every morning and doing the programme that Danny Hague, from Jack Berry House, has set us out to keep me fit and relatively in shape. “I’m really looking forward to July, when jumps racing will hopefully resume. It’s been the longest break I’ve ever had in my career, but, obviously, there’s greater things going on around the world...