Gosden gives update on Field Of Gold

John Gosden has issued an upbeat bulletin on Field Of Gold after the dual Group One winner picked up an injury in his Sussex Stakes defeat at Goodwood.

The colt’s co-trainer is hopeful he will run again this season, with an autumn comeback in mind.

“The good news is he’s come sound. There was considerable filling there, but that itself has diminished now,” he told the Nick Luck Daily podcast.

“We’re gingerly finding our way forward again with some trotting and we may possibly be able to do an easy canter next week.

“It’s one step at a time, it was certainly a significant enough injury, it’s looking like it was a bad wrench of the joint. The filling the next morning was considerable and he was quite lame on it, but fortunately two sets of X-rays and an ultrasound scan have come back clean.

“We put it down to him wrenching a joint in the race as it was noticeable that he didn’t quite level off properly, he was lugging right which means he was trying to keep the weight off it.

“We’ll see what we have in store for him in the future, we won’t be rushing back to any races right now.”

He added: “Very much so, that (autumn) would be the aim. He’s got a great mind on him and from that point of view he’s a pleasure to train.”