Fine Form
High Degree AS – 4.40
can do the honours in the Ascot Iron Stand Membership Handicap.
Trained by William Haggas, the Too Darn Hot colt progressed nicely through maidens and novices before making his handicap debut in the Kincsem Handicap at Goodwood.
There he was a respectable fifth of 18 when stepping up to 10 furlongs for the first time, a promising run considering he was drawn widest of all in a relatively big field.
He remains on the same mark of 93 and looks to have plenty more to offer when again partnered by a top rider in Tom Marquand.
Connections of
Raaheeb AS – 2.20
will be eagerly awaiting his debut in the Charbonnel et Walker British EBF Maiden Stakes on the same card.
Trained by Owen Burrows for owner-breeder Shadwell, the juvenile colt has a mighty pedigree and will attract plenty of interest when seen for the first time.
By the great sire Sea The Stars, the bay is out of Shadwell’s outstanding broodmare Aghareed – making him a full sibling to both Baaeed and Hukum.
Those two horses, both now sires themselves, won eight Group races each and the same dam also produced the useful campaigner Naqeeb.
Naturally Raaheeb will have to live up to weighty expectations on his debut but he can hardly be endowed with a more promising pedigree.
In the Wesco Anixter EBF Maiden Fillies’ Stakes, it is John and Thady Gosden’s
Maneuver AS – 2.55
who can strike under Oisin Murphy.
The Sea The Stars filly, who cost 600,000 guineas as yearling, made her debut on the all-weather at Kempton in August.
She was beaten over two lengths there when the market suggested she could win comfortably, but it is fair to say the race did not pan out in her favour and with a smoother passage it may have been a different story.
A Fillies’ Mile entry suggests she has impressed connections at home and she looks poised to get her head in front here.
At Haydock,
Yorkshire Queen HY – 3.50
can build on her debut to take the Tattersalls £40,000 EBF Fillies’ Novice Stakes for Grant Tuer, Oliver Stammers and Nick Bradley Racing.
Beaten a length and a half in a Musselburgh maiden on debut, the filly now drops down in trip to six furlongs and takes on her own sex having faced colts last time.
The winner there, Charlie Johnston’s Born A Star, set a new juvenile track record so there was plenty to take from that effort in second from Yorkshire Queen.
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