Racing live: Tuesday’s runners, tips, news, gossip and results as the St Leger build-up begins – The Sun
Racing live: Tuesday’s runners, tips, news, gossip and results as the St Leger build-up begins The Sun
Your one-stop shop for all of Tuesday’s racing action as Epsom hosts the second day of its August meeting.
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We’re back to the grind now in the lull before the St Leger storm, and we’ll have all the latest as the build-up to the end of the season begins.
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Thomas Bull2 days agoAugust 27, 2019
That’s all folks!
Tune in again tomorrow for more of the latest as it comes in…
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Thomas Bull2 days agoAugust 27, 2019
Templegate looking for the Treble on the day….
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Thomas Bull2 days agoAugust 27, 2019
No Hazzard
Paul Cole will try to turn Duke Of Hazzard into a Group One winner next year, after deciding to draw stumps for the season with his latest stable star.
Although Duke Of Hazzard holds an entry in next month’s Prix du Moulin at ParisLongchamp, his Derby-winning handler is keen to bide his time before returning him to the top table.
The Lope De Vega colt took his form to new heights at Goodwood on Saturday when making it a hat-trick of wins for the season as he vindicated his connections’ decision to supplement him for the Group Two Celebration Mile.
Cole said: “I think he has had quite a busy time. We are now thinking of another plan – and that plan is to look at the Lockinge and Queen Anne next year.
“His last two races have not been run to suit him, but he has still won.
“On Saturday it looked like he was never going to get a run. But he has what everybody wants – he is a horse with a great turn of foot.
“He has had a busy time, and I don’t want to prejudice his chances next year by asking too much this year.”
Recent form figures next to the name of Duke Of Hazzard make for impressive reading – but Cole feels it could have been even better if had not been for a foot issue holding him back earlier in the campaign.
He said: “He had this cavity last year – we treated it, and we thought we got away with it.
“He was cruising in the French 2000 Guineas, and he flattened out a little bit when he came off the bridle – and the same thing happened in the Jersey (Stakes).
“I made a rather big mistake of sending him to race at Haydock – and you could say it was lucky rather than unlucky that his shoe came off, because it exposed the cavity.
“When horses are feeling things they can learn to pull up. So we put the blinkers on when we sorted it to help him concentrate, because he was getting a bit tired in feeling the problem before.”
Given how Duke Of Hazzard has finished his last three races, distances beyond a mile may be within his capabilities.
Cole will resist pursuing those options for the time being, however.
He added: “He was always a good two-year-old, and he was unlucky not to win a second Listed race, but we made the mistake of racing him around five furlongs early on.
“He is always finishing his races well, so he may get further. But while he is operating over a mile like he is ,we will stick at that.”
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Thomas Bull2 days agoAugust 27, 2019
Another Harrington Star
The Prix Marcel Boussac at ParisLongchamp has emerged as the most likely target for Alpine Star following her thrilling victory in the Debutante Stakes at the Curragh last week.
Having confirmed the promise of her Leopardstown debut by posting an impressive victory on her second start at the Galway Festival, Jessica Harrington’s filly successfully graduated to Group Two level with a narrow verdict over Aidan O’Brien’s Petite Mustique on Friday.
The half-sister to the brilliant Alpha Centauri is set to test the water in Group One company on her next appearance – and while she holds an entry in the Fillies’ Mile at Ascot, connections are currently favouring a trip across the Channel on Arc weekend.
Alan Cooper, racing manager for owner-breeders the Niarchos Family, said: “We were delighted with Alpine Star at the Curragh. She’s a tough filly who Jessica has always liked a lot. It was great to see her confirming Jessie’s opinion.
“The current plan is to run her in the Marcel Boussac. We think she’ll appreciate stepping up to a mile – and that will probably be her next race, all going well.”
Alpine Star is one of two high-class juvenile fillies the leading owners have in training with Harrington this term – the other being the unbeaten Albigna.
The daughter of Zoffany has won a maiden and the Group Two Airlie Stud Stakes at the Curragh, and will bid to complete a hat-trick at the home of Irish Flat racing in the Moyglare Stud Stakes on September 15.
Connections are thrilled, of course, to have unearthed two such promising fillies just a year after the retirement of four-time Group One winner Alpha Centauri.
Cooper added: “Albigna is fine ,and her objective remains the Moyglare in just over two weeks’ time. Both she and Alpine Star are only two-year-olds – and even though Alpine Star is a half-sister to Alpha Centauri, I’m loth to compare horses from different generations.
“Alpine Star might be more of a staying filly than Albigna – Jessica thinks Alpine Star could be one for middle-distance races next year, but let’s wait and see.
“I prefer to take things step by step.”
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Thomas Bull2 days agoAugust 27, 2019
Solario for Simon
Simon Dow is keen to test the Pattern-race potential of hat-trick seeking Hector Loza in the Betway Solario Stakes at Sandown.
Since meeting with defeat on his debut at Kempton, the son of Kodiac has not looked back – posting victories at Chelmsford and under a penalty at Lingfield last time out.
With Hector Loza’s latest success coming over seven furlongs, Epsom trainer Dow believes Sandown will play to the strengths of his rising star on his turf debut over the same trip in Saturday’s Group Three.
Dow said: “This race is something we have been thinking about since his last run. He has always had that little bit of something.
“It is easy to say that when they have done well, but he is a horse that we have had in mind might be a bit special.”
Dow is respectful of Hector Loza’s likely opponents, but optimistic nonetheless.
“There are a couple with big ratings in there, and sometimes fortune favours the brave,” he added.
“We might get smashed to pieces. But if he settles he is such a strong finisher -and with the bend and the hill, the track should be perfect for him.”