Time For Sandals shocked the 1000’s in attendance at Royal Ascot, holding off Arizona Blaze to land the Commonwealth Cup at Royal Ascot for Harry Eustace.
Despatched off at 25-1 within the palms of Richard Kingscote, she cruised to the entrance on the far aspect with a furlong to run and confirmed nice resolve to edge out Arizona Blaze by a neck with the supplemented Rayevka half a size additional again in third.
“It’s the first time she’s had a fast horse to follow, I don’t want to say (we were) very confident, but we felt like we hadn’t seen the best from her for one reason or another,” mentioned Eustace.
“The voice is in dire straits, I can assure you of that! She’s always shaped to be pretty good and at home we felt we had excuses for her; she never ran a bad one, she was always right there but hadn’t quite put it all together.
“We had been all the time assured in a race like this the place there could be quick horses taking her alongside, that is actually what she wanted; do not get me fallacious, we did not dream that we might get right here, however she was all the time fairly good.”
He added: “It’s been extraordinary (the meeting), but that’s the team at home, it’s all the little things all the way through and I can’t thank them enough. The owners will be in there, they’re relatively new, this is the second ever horse they’ve had and they’re pretty lucky people.”
Kingscote – who gained the Derby for Sir Michael Stoute on Desert Crown in 2022 – mentioned: “I’ve had good horses to experience since Sir Michael retired, it was all the time going to be a 12 months of constructing again up, I had a pleasant little bit of help and I am delighted to get on a filly like her.
“Last year she was a very unlucky placed horse in the Super Sprint and she progressed all the way through. She was unlucky last time I felt.
“She did a spectacular piece of labor a few weeks in the past at Newmarket and I am delighted to experience Harry an enormous winner as a result of he is a gentleman and his yard is such a contented yard.
“I’m delighted, he’s a lovely man and his staff are always so positive and happy so it’s great to get them a nice winner. He’s only just trained his 100th winner, so I’d say two Group Ones at Royal Ascot is pretty special to him.”
Venetian Solar shines in Albany Stakes
Venetian Solar backed up Karl Burke’s confidence in her capacity with a dominant show within the Albany Stakes.
Ante-post favorite within the construct as much as the race following a formidable successful debut at Carlisle, she was despatched off at 7-1 in the long run with Burke having drawn a clean with a number of different fancied juvenile runners this week.
She additionally needed to overcome what regarded a disadvantageous attract stall one underneath Clifford Lee, but regardless of having no cowl, she was in entrance with a furlong to run and pulled a size and a half away from Awaken and Balantina.
Burke mentioned of his daughter of Starman, who’s owned by Tony Bloom and Ian McAleavy: “She’s a beauty of a filly. She was asleep in the prelims, she’s done it the hard way, stuck on the worst draw on paper so I’m just delighted for everybody.
“Her work from home has been fairly particular, I actually have not had a two-year-old work the best way she has. She’s kicked some correct horses out of the best way, a lot in order that the primary time she did it I needed to change to a different good lead horse simply to show a degree and she or he did the identical to him.
“She’s a special filly. I was gutted we got the draw that we had and to be honest, she’s won despite that because it’s not really the way we like to ride her – loads of daylight.
“She’s obtained an important flip of foot and she will be able to get in amongst them and use it. She’ll keep additional, I feel six or seven, she’s obtained an important likelihood subsequent 12 months of being a Guineas filly however we’ll get pleasure from right now and plan for the long run.
“She’s a ravishing trying filly, she was an costly E-book One filly. She wasn’t a precocious early one, which sounds unusual as she’s gained now however she was by no means going to be a five-furlong filly, despite the fact that she’s gained over 5.
“The two older horses she’s been working with, Spycatcher and Lethal Levi, they’re good old work horses and proper Group horses – almost Group One horses – I haven’t had a two-year-old that would do that to that type of animal before.”
Bloom, who has loved enormous success along with his runners over jumps, mentioned: “Yes, 7-1 looks a good price now, and she was 12-1 this morning as well. Given the confidence Karl gave us, we had to have a decent bet. We’ll leave it to the boss, but we’re looking ahead to next season and to a potential 1000 Guineas, so that would be something really to look forward to.”
