Complicit likely to target All-Weather Championships Final after Lingfield Park victory in record time today

12.55pm £14,000 32 Red Conditions Stakes, 7f, Polytrack, Win & You're In.

 

Complicit, the winner of the seven-furlong 32Red Conditions Stakes at Lingfield Park today, Saturday, November 23 in course record time, gained a guaranteed free place for next year's All-Weather Championships Finals Day.

The two-year-old son of Captain Rio, trained by Paul Cole and ridden by Graham Lee,  came with a smooth run to go past the front-running Evens favourite Sir Robert Cheval well inside the final furlong in the fifth of the 16 Win & You're In races for All-Weather Championship Finals Day.

The colt can now take part in the £150,000 32Red.com Three-Year-Old Final, also over seven furlongs on Polytrack at Lingfield Park, on Good Friday, April 18, 2014.

Complicit, who has overcome stalls' problems, was having his fourth run, after finishing sixth in a Deauville, France, Listed race on his June 27 debut, landing a five-furlong maiden at Ripon on July 20 and previously being seen out when second in a decent six-furlong conditions race at Salisbury on October 2.

Today the 9/2 chance beat Sir Robert Cheval by a length, with a further four and a half lengths back to the third Ifrika, in a new course record time for a two-year-old of 1m 22.67s for the seven furlongs on Polytrack at Lingfield Park. The previous record time was 1m 23.88s, set in October, 2008.

Cole commented: "He ran at Deauville first time out and would not go in the stalls initially and Christophe Soumillon go at bit annoyed at him. Complicit finished sixth and we thought a bit of him because that was a Listed race.

"Then we have had this stalls' problem, but we seem to have got the better of that and he was as good as gold today. Oliver (his son and assistant) and the team at home have done a very good job with Complicit. I would have bet on him going in today.

"He got the trip well and will probably get another furlong. He is a jolly nice horse and probably improving. He has grown a lot in the last couple of months.

"At Salisbury, we were there really to see if we could get him started and we perhaps did not attack the race as much as we should have done. We did get him started and he has refused again (to go in the stalls).

"Anyway, we are on track now and have cracked the problems - onwards and forwards.

"He is a conditions race in Deauville in a fortnight or so time and I would be keen to go for the final, after consulting the owner, as it is a nice race to aim for."

The next Win & You're In contest for the All-Weather Champions Finals Day is at Lingfield Park on January 11, 2014.

As well as by taking a WIN & YOU'RE IN race, horses qualify for the six championship contests on All-Weather Championships Finals Day by running in a minimum of three races at Britain's All-Weather tracks - three owned by ARC, Lingfield Park, Southwell and Wolverhampton, and The Jockey Club's Kempton Park - between October 26 and April 12.

The winners of the four previous Win & You're In races:-

1)    31/10/13 Listed 32Red / EBFstallions.com Fleur De Lys Fillies' Stakes, Lingfield Park, Forgive gained a guaranteed place, with free entry, in the £150,000 32Red Fillies & Mares Stakes, run over seven furlongs, on All-Weather Championships Finals Day, Good Friday, April 18, 2014 at Lingfield Park.

2)    16/11/13 Listed coral.co.uk Churchill Stakes, Lingfield Park, Prince Alzain gained a guaranteed place, with free entry, in the £200,000 Coral Middle Distance Final, run over 10 furlongs, on All-Weather Championships Finals Day, Good Friday, April 18, 2014 at Lingfield Park.

3)    16/11/13 Listed Best Odds At bookmakers.co.uk Golden Rose Stakes, Lingfield Park, Valbchek, gained a guaranteed place, with free entry, in the £150,000 bookmakers.co.uk Sprint Final, run over six furlongs, on All-Weather Championships Finals Day, Good Friday, April 18, 2014 at Lingfield Park.

4)    20/11/2013 Listed Winners Are Welcome At Betdaq EBF Stallions Hyde Stakes, Kempton Park, Sirius Prospect gained a guaranteed place, with free entry, in the £150,000 Ladbrokes Mile Final on All-Weather Championships Finals Day, Good Friday, April 18, 2014 at Lingfield Park.