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Equinties - Michael in Melbourne
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February 23, 2026
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Get the sun cream ready, ladies and gents. Melbourne is on the cards!
Let’s dive in.
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LIVERPOOL BOOKED
POTTERS CHARM will provide the Twiston-Davies family and his connections a good day out at Aintree later in the season.
He looked good winning Fontwell’s National Spirit hurdle yesterday when fending off the late charge by old boy and total legend BREWINUPASTOM and Sammy puot up the suggestion he will go to Aintree instead of Cheltenham, despite his entries.
That would see him staying a two and a half miles which looks to be his optimum trip.
Elaborating on POTTERS CHARM, Sammy said he’ll go to Aintree ‘fresh and well’ with a plan to go over fences next season. He is another another nice ‘big spring festival target’ horse for owners Ferguson and Mason.
MICHAEL IN MELBOURNE
After CONSTITUTION HILL’s demolition job Friday night, we guessed that Hendo and Michael Buckley would strongly favour showcasing their beloved star on the flat.
No firm plan has been made for him and we know the next two weeks are going to be savagely difficult in terms of decision making but they are now very much toying with the idea of targeting the Melbourne Cup. We suggested they look at the Ebor and then Aus and lo and behold, Buckley said he’d like to do just that:
“I think that the horse (CONSTITUTION HILL) should be running in late August or the start of September in either the Ebor or a race at Goodwood or in the Irish St Leger, with the view of going to Melbourne”.
If he goes, we will be there.
KA YING RISING
Hong Kong superstar YA KING RISING continued to stamp his name all over the history books over the weekend as he notched his 18th win in a row, and 8th Group 1 win.
His winning streak, which began in February 2024 and remains unbroken, includes racings richest prizes amassing over 13mil in prize money. Back-to-back wins in the Hong Kong Sprint (‘24 and ‘25), the Centenary Sprint Cup (‘25 and ‘26), Australia’s The Everest (‘25), the Chairman's Sprint Prize (2025), and now consecutive Queen's Silver Jubilee Cup successes (‘25 and ‘26), no one can beat him.
KA YING RISING’s insane career record of 19 wins from 21 starts, with his only defeats being two narrow seconds early in his three-year-old campaign has allowed his trainer David Hayes to describe him as operating "in a league of his own”.
A New Zealand bred horses, by SHAMEXPRESS out of a PER IINCANTO mare, he has established himself as one of the greatest sprinters the world has ever seen.
But will we ever see him at Royal Ascot (so racing fans actually can call him the worlds greatest?
We think not.
His trainer David Hayes has been happy to mop up everything in sight but that has meant he’s been very busy through out a period where most of the opposition he’d face here are slowly waking from their winter hibernation. Their summer for our winter, he’s raced 6 times and keeping him going for a crack at Ryal Ascot might be an impossible task.
That said, it would be an incredible training feat should Hayes be able to mind him and ready him again in time for RA.
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