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Spring promise for Club runners

10 June 2019

Constancio's second win in Club colours at the start of June was just one highlight in a fairly busy string both on and off the track for the Elite Racing Club string.

Having been unfortunate to bump in one too good on several occasions over hurdles this spring, Constancio (pictured here at the recent Club visit to Donald McCain's Bankhouse Stables) deserved to go one better and did just that when landing a valuable handicap hurdle at Stratford on 1 June. There could be further scope for success over hurdles this summer, as well as on the Flat in staying handicaps.

On the Flat, several Club runners have run with promise. The Sir Mark Prescott-trained Mon Frere made a promising start to his 2019 campaign when a staying-on fifth at Lingfield earlier this month.

Mon Frere - a three-year-old gelding by the Derby winner Pour Moi out of the Club broodmare, Sistine - was making his handicap debut at Lingfield and can be expected to be seen to better effect over the middle-distances and beyond in the coming months.

At the end of May, on her second start, the James Fanshawe-trained Sincerity improved to finish third in a 1m 1f maiden at Carlisle. Sincerity looks one who could be making a mark in handicaps and she is in training with James Fanshawe, who so successfully trained her dam's half-sister, Soviet Song, and also one of Sincerity's two winning half-sisters, Zest.

One of 10 Club homebreds currently in training, Sincerity is a three-year-old filly by Iffraaj out of Affinity, a winning daughter of the legendary Sadler's Wells and a half-sister to the Club's top-class miler, Soviet Song. Sincerity's greenness visibly lessened as she went through the race at Carlisle and she looks more than capable of adding to the Club's tally of more than 100 homebred winners.

Away from the track, all the Club's current string of broodmares have been confirmed in foal to their coverings for 2019. This is great news and testament to the hard work of all the studs where we board our mares.

Perhaps our highest profile covering is that of our Listed-winning mare Marlinka to the Group 1 sire, Showcasing. In her relatively short career at stud, Marlinka has also already foaled the dual Group 1-winning Marsha and the prolific winner (including Group 3), Judicial. In late February, Marlinka produced a gorgeous colt foal by the superstar sire, Frankel.

The Frankel colt foal could be anything, but he looks the part and he is one of five foals to hit the ground this year, as part of the Club's long-established breeding programme. Further to this, we have two yearlings developing nicely, by Lope De Vega and Dutch Art, and hopes are high for further Club homebred successes in the seasons ahead.