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Sprints stars ready to roll this week

22 September 2017

Roubles is the first Club runner of the week as she lines up for a five-furlong maiden at Newcastle this evening. She is Soviet Song's final foal, and we would love for our beloved five-time Group 1 winner to breed a winner. Soviet Song only had one other foal of racing age who was not effective on the racecourse, but Roubles has already shown good speed in her previous two races. She has been transferred to Julie Camacho in Malton, North Yorkshire after finding Newmarket too busy for her, and Julie has dropped her down to five furlongs for her stable debut. Previously, she has run too freely in the early stages of her races, but we hope she will settle well and can finish off her race well under Julie's regular jockey, Joe Doyle.

On Saturday, Judicial is running in the Group 3 Dubai World Trophy at Newbury, which is an exciting five-furlong sprint. Judicial won three successive races during the summer, but has showed good form in Listed races since then. After finishing fourth to many of the horses reopposing at Newbury, Judicial finished second in unfavourable conditions in a Listed race at Chester in August. This was a fair effort over six furlongs, which is a trip he has never really seen out that well. He should be much more suited to the minimum trip tomorrow and we hope he can run well. He is drawn in the middle of the 17-runner field, so we hope he can be covered up early and stay on well in the final furlong. He is a class act on his day and has already broken two course records this season, and is the only horse to ever win a race at Beverley in under a minute, which is quite an achievement considering he won very easily! He has won nine races in total and six for the Camacho team, so we hope he can extend his CV into double figures tomorrow.

On Sunday 1 October, Marsha is entered in the Group 1 Prix de l'Abbaye at Chantilly's impressive Arc de Triomphe meeting. Marsha won the race last season at a decent price, but is general favourite to follow in the great Lochsong's footsteps and win her second successive renewal of Europe's premier five-furlong contest. Marsha has been in good form following her famous nose defeat of America's finest sprinter, Lady Aurelia, in the Nunthorpe Stakes at York last month, so we are very hopeful for a good run in Paris. It would be a pipedream to think our homebred daughter of Acclamation can add a third Group 1 to her already incredible portfolio, and the main opposition appears to be Battaash, who finished fourth in the Nunthorpe, having previous beat Marsha in soft ground in the King George Stakes.

A group of around 50 Club Members are making the trip on a Club organised visit to the Arc meeting, so we hope they will be able to cheer home our beloved filly in front of packed stands. All in all, we have plenty to look forward and let's hope Roubles can set the ball rolling this evening.