Trainer William Knight
will saddle Aussie Reigns and Modernstone in the £40,000 Listed
£500 Free Bets At Betdaq Wild Flower Stakes (6.00pm) over a mile and a half at
Kempton Park on Wednesday, November 27, the latest high-profile race during the
new All-Weather Championships.
Aussie Reigns has improved
more than 20lb this year and enjoyed turf handicap successes at Windsor and
Newmarket in May and June respectively. The three-year-old improved again when
last seen, coming home third behind the highly-regarded Pethers Moon in the
Listed Winners Are Welcome At Betdaq Floodlit Stakes over the course and
distance on November 6.
Knight, who trains near
Arundel in Sussex, reported: "It was a good run from Aussie Reigns last
time in what looked a strong race for the grade. This looks slightly weaker
and, if he can reproduce that form, he would have a chance.
Modernstone raced once at
two and made a winning return after almost a year off with a comfortable length
success in a mile maiden on turf at Windsor in September.
The daughter of Duke Of
Marmalade followed that up with a third in handicap company at Newmarket on
November 1, before a fast-finishing head second to Paris Rose in a competitive
10-furlong handicap on Polytrack at Lingfield Park on November 15.
Knight added:
"Modernstone is a nicely bred filly and is in good form. Obviously, we are
trying to get some black type and this could be a good opportunity for her,
receiving weight from the rest of the field.
"It was a good run
from her at Lingfield and she was still lightly raced going into that, so she
would have learnt a lot. I am pretty sure the step up to a mile and a half will
be fine and you couldn't rule her out."
Aussie Reigns, with Andrea
Atzeni up, and Modernstone, partnered by Shane Kelly, will face five rivals
headed by Fattsota, who was third in the Listed James Seymour Stakes at
Newmarket on November 2, and Cheshire Oaks heroine Banoffee.
Dick Doughtywylie, Livia's Dream and
German raider Jeanie Johnston complete the field.
A seven-race card at
Kempton Park also features the £19,000 Betdaq 1st UK Race Commission Free
Handicap (7.00pm, nine runners) over six furlongs. The weights are headed by
Group Two scorer Tiddliwinks and progressive three-year-old Lancelot
Du Lac.
Lingfield Park also races
on Wednesday, November 27, with a competitive eight-race programme headlined by
the £19,000 Coral App Download From The App Store Handicap (2.35pm, 10 runners)
over a mile and quarter. The line up includes James Seymour Stakes runner-up
Proud Chieftain, Glorious Goodwood victor Viewpoint and Listed
course scorer True To Form.
The All-Weather
Championships continue at Wolverhampton on Saturday, November 30, with the
£45,000 Ladbrokes Handicap (8.50pm, 16 entries) over an extended mile taking
centre stage.
Galician, placed in two Listed
contests on the All-Weather recently, is one of three entries for Mark
Johnston, while David Barron could run high-class handicapper Tres Coronas,
who was last seen finishing third in the Cambridgeshire at Newmarket on
September 28. Ralph Beckett could be represented by Spring Cup hero Haaf A
Sixpence and Ian Williams has entered Italian Listed scorer Tellovoi.
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.
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