Ireland: You Got To Me beats favorite to win Irish Oaks

In the hours before Saturday’s Group 1 Irish Oaks at the Curragh in Ireland, the fixed odds on the British shipper You Got To Me fell steadily with European bookmakers.

She went from 20-1 to a final price of 15-2. The gamble was successful.

You Got To Me, who paid $20.40 in American pools, closed from the middle of the field of 14 to reach the front in the final sixteenth, avoiding the trouble that plagued second-place finisher Content.

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The $544,000 Irish Oaks for 3-year-old fillies at 1 1/2 miles was You Got To Me’s first success at the group stakes level.

The result was a turnaround from You Got To Me’s recent form in Britain – fourth-place finishes in the Group 1 English Oaks at Epsom on May 31, and in the Group 2 Ribblesdale Stakes at Royal Ascot on June 20.

Trained by Ralph Beckett for the Valmont partnership and Newsells Park Stud Bloodstock, You Got To Me was ridden by Hector Crouch. For Crouch, 27, the Irish Oaks was his first classic win.

You Got To Me finished three-quarters of a length in front of Consent, the 5-2 favorite in American pools. Trained by Aidan O’Brien and ridden by Ryan Moore, Consent had an unlucky trip, racing in traffic with more than a quarter-mile remaining. She closed steadily to be closest to the front at the finish.

Consent finished 1 1/2 lengths clear of 10-1 Purple Lily in the field of 14.

You Got To Me, by Nathaniel, has won 3 of 6 starts. The Irish Oaks was her second win in four starts this year, a campaign that began in the Oaks Trial Fillies’ Stakes at 1 7/16 miles at Lingfield Park near London in May.

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