Equinties - last of a Kind

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It was good to land another bumper winner yesterday in LA MARQUISE, the half sister to MISTER POLICEMAN certainly looks a nice prospect for Jamie Snowdon moving forward.

Boy, we love bumpers. Sadly there isn’t one today, in fact there’s no jumps at all as the rain continues to cause havoc for the schedule. Today’s meeting at Wetherby has been abandoned due to water-logging, fingers crossed the Charlie Hall will be on tomorrow… everyone want’s to see BMG back.

All is not lost though, for tonight, the fastest horses in the world meet…

IT’S BREEDERS CUP WEEKEND!

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HEADLINE ROUND UP

LAST OF A KIND

It feels strange the racing at HQ is starting so early, but that does mean there is less time wait to see the last of a KIND.

The half-brother to the GOAT FRANKEL, Roger & Harry Charlton’s KIKKULI, will make his eagerly-awaited debut at 11:15 in the 7f novice stakes at Newmarket this morning.

The 2yo by Kingman has heavy ground and 12 other rivals to take on, including INDIVIDUALISM, a half-brother to SUBJECTIVIST, the 290,000gns purchase SO DEUCE, and ZOUM ZOUM, a very impressive Kempton novice stakes winner who, despite carrying a penalty today, has been smashed. 

KIKKULI is the final offspring of the great broodmare KIND who died as a 20-year-old in 2021, and with this being Roger Charlton’s final year training horses, today’s well-bred debutante is a special runner for many reasons. 

MORE FRANKEL

Further FRANKEL chat this morning as the GOAT has five sons retiring to stud this year; WESTOVER and ADAYAR are off to Japan and CHALDEAN is off to Juddmonte HQ Banstead Manor Stud, MOSTAHDAF to Beech House Stud and TRIPLE TIME will stand at Dalham Hall for Godolphin.

THAT IS INSANE. LITERALLY, INSANE.

MOSTAHDAF, will sign off his career this weekend and head off for breeding duties. He completed the rare feat of winning the Prince Of Wales and Juddmonte International in the same year,  beating some talented horses in both races; PADDINGTON, NASHWA, LUCEMBOURG, MY PROSPERO, ADAYAR and BAY BRIDGE.

Currently preparing for the Breeders Cup Turf on Saturday, he has got some stamps in his passport. A wide margin win in Riyadh, before shipping over to Meydan when stepping up in trip and found the beast from the East EQUINOX too good.

His pedigree is beautiful as you would expect from a Shadwell homebred. He’s by FRANKEL, (whose other son CRACKSMAN has produced the best horse in France in ACE IMPACT) and his half sister is NAZEEF who won the Gr1 Sun Chariot and Gr1 Falmouth. 

Further down his page are two Champion Sprinters PASTORAL PURSUITS and GOODRICKE.

Smartly, Japan are keen to get a bit of FRANKEL fever into their blood lines too as they’ve swooped in for both WESTOVER and ADAYAR. 

WESTOVER is a homebred of Juddmonte, a tough as teak 4yo trained by Ralph Beckett. Second in 4 Group 1s this year, behind EQUINOX, EMILY UPJOHN, ACE IMPACT and HUKUM. He did notch a Group 1 in France when beating ZAGREY in the Grand Prix de Paris. He won the Irish Derby and he was 3rd in the Epsom Derby but got badly hampered up the straight. 

ADAYAR was the shock 16/1 winner of the Epsom Derby in 2021, ridden by Adam Kirby in the red Godolphin hat. He conjured up the rare double when taking the King George a month later, a feat that resembled the brilliant GALILEO, ADAYAR’s grandfather. 2022 was a bit of a write off for ADAYAR, but a promising 2nd in the Champion stakes behind BAY BRIDGE gave the team in blue hope. A powerful display in the Gordon Richard’s Stakes this year before placing in the Prince Of Wales at Ascot. The fire looked gone when soundly beaten in the Princess Of Wales on the July Course.

RETURNING HERO

After 18 months off the track, two-time Ryanair Chase winner ALLAHO has been given his first entries of the season with Thursday’s Grade 2 Clonmel Oil Chase looking a likely starting point.

Last seen demolishing a deep field in the 2022 Punchestown Gold Cup, the nine-year-old has been given entries for Clonmel and the Grade 1 John Durkan Memorial Chase at Punchestown towards the end of November, though Willie Mullins might send GALOPIN DES CHAMPS to the latter.

ALLAHO is a general 6/1-shot to claim his third Ryanair at Cheltenham in March, which got us thinking, who else is there in the division?

Of the horses who competed in the open company last season, ENVOI ALLEN is sketchy and things kind of fell his way last year, ENERGUMENE is out, and BANBRIDGE is a good animal but does need good ground to run well.

Stepping out of novice company, JONBON has the potential to move up in trip though Nicky Henderson has stated that two miles looks likely to be his distance this year, STAGE STAR is progressing but the ceiling of his ability is uncertain, and THE REAL WHACKER looks like a Gold Cup horse.

So, jumps fans, if you are happy to take a chance on his well-being, are you taking the price?

AHOY, DEREK 

And finally, AHOY SENOR will be partnered by regular jockey Derek Fox for Saturday’s Grade 2 Charlie Hall Chase after he successfully appealed against a 10-day ban that he received last month. 

The 31-year-old was given the ban for his ride on GARDE DES CHAMPS at Wetherby on October 18th for failing to take all reasonable measures to ensure his mount finished in the best possible position. Fox argued that GARDE DES CHAMPS had been first off the bridle and that he was going as fast as he possibly could; this was accepted and will now ride AHOY SENOR in the big four-runner contest at Wetherby.

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RISK ON

Only a small single today, we’ll be posting Breeders Cup plays tonight.

12.50 SERENE SERAPH

We were impressed with the way she won so easily at Newbury albeit she didn’t beat much but her debut was hot. That was won by CARLAS WAY who is fave for the BC juvenile filllies turf and the form stacks up. Slop lover. Price bigger on exchange than books to be able to make your own ew. 5.4 win and 2.2 top 3. Small.

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