A week to go until Bow Echo and Gstaad meet for a second time at Royal Ascot. Here's a reminder of what happened when they met in the 2000 Guineas.
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Super Impressive TDN Rising Star, 6 1/2 Length Winner on Debut. LEADING CHANGE by Gun Runner at Churchill Downs Sunday. Definitely one for Your Note Book or Stable Mail
Francis Graffard on Calandagan after finishing 40 lengths behind Coronation Cup winner Bay City Roller
🗣️ "It's awful ground and awful weather. My horse never travelled and I'm upset with myself. I've never seen him having a hard blow like that [after a race]. I just hope he comes out well but the ground was terrible for him today.
"Mickael said he never travelled comfortably and that the ground is too testing for him. I shouldn't have run him. I walked the course with Mickael. We decided to come on the stands' side but the race before changed the minds of everybody. I was sure we should have come to the stands' side but Mickael said he was beaten before that. It's frustrating but it will be the last time he meets that ground.
"To be fair, I walked the course at the end of the morning and it's changed a lot since then. It was a messy race and horses were all over the straight. I don't like that and I'm upset for my horse, but hopefully he comes out of it okay and we'll regroup and be positive.
"I think he'll go for the Grand Prix de Saint-Cloud and then back for the King George. Mickael looked after him in the straight, but mentally he'll be upset himself. He was ready to compete but it's just too testing ground today and it didn't work out."
In case you missed it, here's @BrianSheerin91's story from last week in TDN on the background of Oaks winner Thundering On and her owner Shapoor Mistry's purple patch on the track in the last few weeks.
https://t.co/3zXmsxfpw6
West End Kid is now a graded stakes winner! The son of Twirling Candy took the G3 Pennine Ridge by 1 ¼ lengths for his third straight victory.
“I just can't speak highly enough of this horse,” trainer Will Walden said. “He's super talented.”
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