Equinties - like father like son

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BGP Capital
July 05, 2024

Equinties

Gm Equinauts

Well, we have a new government!

Labour got the inevitable landslide that was so strongly predicted but, not in the way most thought it would happen, which would have been Labour converting life long Tory members. No. Labour’s landslide effectively happened because most people, especially Conservative voters, are apparently so fed up with the politicians on offer, they couldn’t be arsed to turn up and vote. Every one has turned apolitical.

And who can blame them? We get it!

That said, one can’t just sit there do nothing and hope chance occurs by proxy. If you do that, you give up the right to bitch and moan about how the country is run.

The disengagement from the British public and the explosive rise of the Reform party suggests this country wants something different and it’ll be very interesting to see how things play out over the next decade.

But what about right now? Our first thought was, what’s Labour’s stance on horse racing - is it in danger? Only time will tell. We hope they embrace and support our sport as well as the Conservatives did.

Suppose it’s a good job King Charles still have horses in training!

Let’s dive in.

HEADLINE ROUNDUP

LIKE FATHER LIKE SON

Aidan O’Brien is hoping AUGUSTE RODIN can emulate his dad DEEP IMPACT later this season as the Prince Of Wales’s Stakes winner could finish his year running in the Japan Cup.

DEEP IMPACT won the race in 2006 and the four-year-old is a majorly important sire to Coolmore thanks to his Japanese breeding with a view to his future at stud.

On how his season will look, O’Brien said: "Auguste Rodin would have been in the mix for the Eclipse but it looks the right fit to go back to Ascot for King George with him and the lads obviously felt it was the right call for City Of Troy to go to the Eclipse.

"Auguste Rodin could be a Japan Cup horse. He has won at the Breeders' Cup already and maybe the lads might decide to go back."

So, it looks as if he will try to make up for last year’s 126.75 length defeat in the Group 1 King George VI and Queen Elizabeth Stakes later this month before either Japan or America. Exciting times.

NO QUESTIONS ASKED

The post-Royal Ascot dispersal of some Ballydoyle horses is in full swing as UNQUESTIONABLE has left Aidan O’Brien for Richard Hannon.

The three-year-old by WOOTTON BASSETT won the Group 1 Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Turf at the end of last year and has since finished fourth in the Irish Guineas and St James’s Palace Stakes.

Why has he moved? Well, Al Shaqab Racing's Ali Begley said: “After Ascot, Sheikh Joaan has bought 100% of the horse and he has moved over to Richard Hannon’s.

“Obviously, Aidan has done brilliantly with him, but now that the Coolmore team haven't got a percentage of him, we've moved him over to Richard who is really one of our principal trainers. We've had a lot of success with him and he [Unquestionable] moved over there at the beginning of this week. Richard was excited to have him and he's just settling in there now.”

“He's in every big race there is at the moment from seven furlongs to a mile and a quarter. He's got entries in all of those races. The Qatar Goodwood Festival is very important to Sheikh Joaan, so it might be that he runs in something like the Group 2 Lennox Stakes, but we'll let him settle in at Richard's first and sit down with the team and Richard and make a plan going forward.”

LOOKING FOR THREE

Clive Cox is aiming his sprinting stable star JASOUR to next weekend’s Group 1 July Cup in hopes of gaining a third win in the race.

The three-year-old by HAVANA GREY finished third in last month’s Group 1 Commonwealth Cup at Royal Ascot having won the Group 3 Commonwealth Cup Trial in May.

JASOUR was meant to have an intended prep race between his two runs this season but he missed it, so he’s likely to come on for Ascot.

"Jasour's come out of Ascot well but he was probably just a little bit too fresh," Cox said. "We'd intended to run him in the Sandy Lane but had to miss it due to the extremely soft conditions there, which wasn't ideal, so it may have made a difference at Ascot. He's worked really well this week though and I'm encouraged by the way he's seemed since Ascot.

"The July Cup looks a very strong race by the entries, but we're delighted he's got track form and I'm pleased he's heading in that direction, especially with the three-year-olds having such a good record in the race."

RISK ON

The racing is hard today and most of the punters we know are cancelling it. Might be a no betting day but will tweet if anything comes through.

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