After the race Dermot Weld said "It is a very special day for me. Nightime overtook the favourite a furlong and a half from the finish and drew clear of her opponents to win by six lengths from the 50/1 outsider Ardbrae Lady. Confidential Lady set the pace with Smullen settling Nightime behind the leaders before making steady progress in the straight. The other Irish runners included Race For The Stars ( Oh So Sharp Stakes), Ugo Fire, Queen Cleopatra ( Derrinstown Stud 1,000 Guineas Trial), Abigail Pett ( Silver Flash Stakes, Round Tower Stakes) and Kamarinskaya ( Leopardstown 1,000 Guineas Trial). The betting was dominated by three British challengers with Confidential Lady (winner of the Prix du Calvados and runner-up in the 1000 Guineas) heading the market from Short Dance ( Radley Stakes, Michael Seely Memorial Stakes) and Nasheej ( Sweet Solera Stakes, May Hill Stakes, Fred Darling Stakes). On 28 May Nightime was stepped up to Group One class and started at odds of 12/1 in a fifteen-runner field for the Irish 1000 Guineas over one mile on heavy ground at the Curragh. Ridden by Pat Smullen, who partnered her in all her subsequent races she disputed the lead for most of the way before pulling ahead in the final furlong and winning by two lengths from Miss Dela. On her first run as a three-year-old Nightime started the 9/10 favourite in a ten-runner maiden over eight and a half furlongs at Cork Racecourse on 16 April. Ridden by Pat Shanahan she started at odds on 12/1 and finished seventh of the eight runners, three and a half lengths behind the winner Ugo Fire. Rather than beginning her career in a maiden race, Nightime made her debut in the Group Three C L Weld Park Stakes, a race named in honour of Dermot Weld's father (and Marguerite's husband), over seven furlongs at the Curragh on 1 October. She was a distant descendant of the British broodmare Springtime (foaled 1932), the ancestor of numerous major winners including Blakeney, Morston and Classic Cliche. Nightime's dam Caumshinaun, who produced seven other winners, was a successful racemare who won five races including the Listed Platinum Stakes in 2001. His other progeny included Cape Blanco, Frankel, Golden Lilac, Nathaniel, New Approach, Rip Van Winkle, Found, Minding and Ruler of the World. Galileo became a very successful breeding stallion and has been champion sire of Great Britain and Ireland five times. She was from the first crop of foals sired by Galileo, who won the Derby, Irish Derby and King George VI and Queen Elizabeth Stakes in 2001. She was trained throughout her racing career by Weld's son Dermot at the Curragh in County Kildare. Nightime is a chestnut mare with a broad white blaze and a long white sock on her left hind leg bred in Ireland by her owner Marguerite Weld.
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