Wathnan Racing’s promising juvenile TERMINOLOGY justified favouritism to win a fillies’ novice stakes at Lingfield Park at the end of June, setting herself up for some potentially bigger targets as the summer unfolds.
The daughter of Havana Grey improved on her debut third at Nottingham, finishing strongly under our talented apprentice Harry Vigors to beat market rival Havana Flash by a comfortable neck.
Terminology, a daughter of five-furlong Listed placed two-year-old winner Daphinia, was a 360,000 euros purchase by Blandford Bloodstock at the Arqana Breeze Up Sale at Deauville in May.
There was a breakthrough success, too, for the Saain-owned two-year-old Nasserein in a Leicester maiden two days earlier. She left her maiden form well behind to spring a 28-1 surprise under Pierre-Louis Jamin, scoring by half a length in the five-furlong dash.
Earlier in the month, our Mehmas gelding Real Trouble built on his debut experience in a Newcastle maiden to take a Ffos Las novice by a hard-fought neck in the hands of Kieran Shoemark, displaying a smart turn of foot and enjoying the step up from six furlongs to the extended seven.
Middleham Park Racing’s Kodi Bear gelding Alpe D’Huez, who made a winning start at Lingfield in April, ran with great credit in the Woodcote Stakes at Epsom’s Derby meeting, beating all but Hickory Lad in the six-furlong event. He was unable to build on that in the Windsor Castle Stakes at Royal Ascot and has since been gelded.
Lieutenant Sir got off the mark at the fifth attempt in a six-furlong Ffos Las handicap at the end of the month. Ridden closer to the pace by Luke Morris, our son of Mayson confirmed the promise of his re-appearance third at Brighton for owners Juxtaposition Records.
by Simon Mapletoft
