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Plenty of promise for the season
10 November 2016
Elite Racing Club had six runners for Members to watch last weekend, which resulted in some very promising runs from our young team. The weekend began with two-year-old SENTINEL (pictured) running with some credit in his first race at the November Handicap meeting at Doncaster. He has been hard to train all summer, but Newmarket trainer Charlie Fellowes has been very patient with our homebred son of Australian sprinter, Sepoy. Charlie is keen to run Sentinel again shortly, while the race is still fresh in his memory, before having a break ready for running in handicaps next season.
Our next runner was another homebred, ELGIN. Our son of Duke Of Marmalade won his second start last season in impressive style, and Alan King was keen to give him another run in a bumper to help him gain extra experience. He finished second at Aintree to an older rival last Saturday, when conceding a penalty for last season's win. Alan was delighted with this warm-up for the season and will now send Elgin over hurdles, as he has already schooled very well.
The Nicky Henderson-trained pair CLEMENCY and BARDD both ran well at Sandown last Sunday. Clemency ran on right to the line to finish fourth in a decent race for conditional jockeys, which was very encouraging, while Bardd won the bumper. The runner-up in Bardd's race must be held in high regard, as he was backed into odds-on favourite, pushing Bardd's price right out, which hopefully please some of our Members who may have supported him. Bardd goes hurdling now and looks to be a very decent prospect for the Master of Seven Barrows.
The following day the Club was again in victorious form with Flat recruit TOP TUG. Our chestnut son of Halling made an encouraging start in his first hurdles race for Alan King at Kempton under Wayne Hutchinson. He started odds-on, as his Flat form was very decent in comparison to his opposition, and he never looked in any danger throughout the two-mile race. Top Tug should remain at this level for the time being, before hopefully moving onto more prestigious engagements.
Our final runner of this spell was MARSEILLE at Newcastle. Julie Camacho's daughter of Excelebration ran much better than on debut, when she anticipated the start and failed to stay six furlongs. She was much more at home over five furlongs and stayed on well to finish second, beaten a length by a much more experienced horse. Marseille is now likely to have a break before returning to the course next season.
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