Equinties - St Leger day

Gm Equinauts

Another good day yesterday with two nice priced winners, our strong bet landing on the easiest winner of the day in WHO’S GLEN.

Let’s go again, let’s dive in.

HEADLINE ROUNDUP

ALLAHO RETIRES

As the Racing Blogger rightly put it, ALLAHO was a Cheltenham legend and de Bromhead has called time on his amazing career.

All the best in retirement - on your day, you were brilliant and brought smiles to every one’s faces.

JUVENILE ASCOT FORM

It was hard not to be impressed by AESTERIUS in the Group 2 Flying Childers as beating BIG MOJO, TROPICAL STORM and AIN’T NOBODY crosses off a few good two-year-old form lines.

He comes from the Norfolk Stakes at Royal Ascot, a piece of form that looks rather hot as TROPICAL STORM has won a Listed race, ARIZONA BLAZE was second in the Goffs sales race at York, WHISTLEJACKET has won a Group 1, and now AESTERIUS is a Group 2 winner.

As for the performance in isolation, he successfully made all, but he could have easily faulted when BIG MOJO came to challenge, so annoyingly he showed plenty of attitude to stay ahead. We really wanted BIG MOJO to win!

Archie Watson has always thought plenty of him, and it seems like the Breeders’ Cup is next on the agenda.

Watson said: "The Breeders' Cup will be his end-of-season target, that should really suit him. Do we have a crack at the Abbaye in the meantime? He's a course-and-distance winner at Longchamp and he'd get 18lb off his elders. Soldier's Call was only beaten a neck in it by Mabs Cross after winning this and it's something we'll have a good discussion about.

"The weight is a big thing and there's a fair draw bias. The way he jumps and travels, if he was to be drawn low in an Abbaye he might be hard to peg back."

WHISTLEJACKET, SHAREHOLDER and ARIZONA BLAZE are all entered for the Middle Park at Newmarket, so they should be worth watching from the Norfolk, though SHAREHOLDER could also take up his engagement in the Mill Reef at Newbury.

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