Hayley Moore previews the British Champions Sprint Stakes at Ascot
Sky Sports Writers Hayley Moore guides One through the leading fancies from the Qipco British Champions Sprint Stakes at Ascot.
It looks set for a curtain-raiser that is cracking. The conditions look as though theyre going to be ahead of the years Champions Day on the testing side so horses that act on earth on the intense side, hefty, are the ones.
After winning it at 17, the Tin Man will look for another success from the race. Sands Of Mali looks like he will have comparable conditions which saw him to be prosperous in the race this past year. At sprinting distances since being kept advertise has had a rewarding season, he is also turned out to be flexible on the ground and his record at Ascot is just yet another positive.
Many of the runners have shot each other on several occasions and inverse type together with one another so it will be a case of who is in greatest heart on the day and that can go further than the six furlongs as they will really need to see it out.
He had been attempted in the 2000 Guineas at the start of the Flat season after finishing second to Too Darn Hot in the Dewhurst but neglected to shape into a miler as soon as the Martyn Meade secure were under a cloud. Sprinting has been forced his match.
The son of Showcasing is edging towards the #1m mark in earnings. Hell confront the conditions he has ever lined up on in his career up to now, but there is hope because his mother Furbelow is by Pivotal he will take care of these conditions.
Once the blinkers went on for the very first time he won the Commonwealth Cup at Royal Ascot on ground and stayed on well over the six furlongs. He ran a terrific race in behind a restored Ten Sovereigns, who flipped the shape on ground with Advertise at the July Cup and came out.
When we last saw him when beating Brando advertise was right back in the winning groove in Deauville over furlongs at August.
Also have swerved the Prix de la Foret so hell be viewed because his swansong before a stallion profession to his greatest on British Champions Day with this race and connections have been required to prevent this Haydock Sprint Cup.
Trainer Kevin Ryan is represented with Hello Youmzain and seven-year-old Brando. The boy of Pivotal is generally consistent and has another fantastic season. Hes a horse that has decent form on earth with ease in it and he runs at Ascot. Like The Tin Man, that he is not getting any younger but hes tough.
The worry is the time out he burst out a blood-vessel after travelling through the Sprint Cup at Haydock, subsequently picked up before being defeated for next by Waldpfad. I would be worried the back of the off, although he was not right that day.
Roger Varians son of Shamardal is showing three this season, four successes in Ascot and a liking to the course, he shot the Victoria Cup at May over seven furlongs. He then won the Wokingham over six furlongs on good to firm. He flopped at the July Cup at Newmarket at the top level thats a worry, but it was firm and away from Ascot.
Then he worked for third-place finish in the Group 2 City of York stakes prior to getting back to winning ways at Ascot in the Group 2 Bengough Stakes over six furlongs on ground. He is a Ascot pro that could see him be competitive here.
Fantasy Of Dreams lined up in the race this past year and only beat on 1 home. Since then he started the year well with wins at Windsor and Chelmsford. This was his next start of the year, in the Diamond Jubilee Stakes in which he had been behind Blue Point by a mind, which could give him an opportunity here.
He has some form on soft ground ands by Dream Ahead but he will require a revival after his recent series that was well and eighth behind Hello Youmzain in Haydock. His run after Royal Ascot at Newmarket in the July Stakes never saw him figure either. Hopefully Ascot will deliver him back on the ideal track.
The son of Kodiac only began racing in August last year and is currently a winner four days from seven starts adding at the highest level when shooting the Haydock Sprint Cup before The Tin Man, even when he had been the fifth three-year-old to win at the race in the past six years.
He came into this race won and fresh it. The target after Haydock was British Champions Day in Ascot in the hope hed have his ground that is preferred.
Hello Youmzain was previously third to Advertise in the Commonwealth Cup – that he was slightly unsettled in the stalls so was slow off and ended up knocking towards the rear before showing a good turn of foot to join the leaders nonetheless just did not really have sufficient kick in the last furlong.
But we know he will love the ground so that he could reverse the form with Advertise. He runs consistently well for a sprinter in his career so far and is quite unexposed.
Comes into this with recent form following an extremely comfortable success from the Proper Waterford Testimonial Stakes at the Curragh on Sunday when yanking clear by a four-and-a-half lengths.
A supplementary entry into the race may see him line up rising through an established liking for testing floor conditions along with the ranks having an abysmal handicap mark.
Make A Challenge began the season rated 66 and will boast a markers of 109. A nicely bred son of invincible spirit from Godolphin that cost these connections just #6,500 from the sales.
Hes a horse of a lifetime for connections and reminds you that anyone can dream when purchasing a racehorse. It could be a fairytale if he works nicely, let alone wins but he will desire a career best finish.
In the united kingdom we saw her again in action for William Haggas over at Longchamp on Arc day level Following a fracture.
Thankfully, waiting and heading to France was the perfect move since she kept on well to choose the Prix de la Foret ahead of City Light in what had been an aggressive renewal to help it become back-to-back successes in the race for this for the daughter of Fastnet Rock.
Soft earth that is very generally brings her very best performances, so relations are individual as to where she conducts, along with the requirements of Saturday are exactly what she relishes.
Clearly 1 Master is flourishing at this time and she heads in to the race in terrific form following a fantastic season so far (like third in the Queen Anne Stakes and second in the Falmouth Stakes) but her very best run was out time. We know she will continue on the six furlongs.
We have not seen much of last years winner this year and in a decent price its possible to back him for that reason. Back to Ascot and on earth which brings the best of him then we can see him rebound .
After Deacon Blues won at 2011 fourth on his very first series in this race because a behind Muhaarar and that he was subsequently successful in the race in 2016 giving trainer James Fanshawe his second success in the competition.
He was then fifth in 2017 when shipped favourite in the past years renewal when Librisa Breeze won and seventh supporting Sands Of Mali. Hes currently lining up for the next time in the race and that he comes after a decent run on his last start into it in great form.
The Tin Man stumbled out of their stalls and needed to go down in defeat when he could reel in Hello Youmzain on tender ground after unsatisfactory at Newbury in July. The Tin Man has some practice lately so hopefully hell be sharper away at Ascot.
He is a classy sprinter that will relish the conditions, he won the Group 1 Sprint Cup at September 2018 on thick ground so the more testing the better and he comes in to the race off the rear of a wise bit of work onto the recently reopened trial ground at Newmarket. Without doubt well be watching winner elect Oisin Murphy was produced late beneath by him.
1 MASTER has been working all season and on earth ideal for her. Year later she won Longchamp she headed to Churchill Downs in which she ran a fantastic race at defeat for fifth position. This year relations once more have options but seem keen to attract her to Ascot that I respect. She will need to reverse the shape Brando and Advertise in August from Deauville, but I feel and shell get her national Group 1 in a track she has won at and also been placed.
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