Kempton Park stages the
fourth WIN & YOU'RE IN race for the All-Weather Championships Finals Day,
the £40,000 Listed Winners Are Welcome At Betdaq EBF Stallions Hyde Stakes
(6.00pm), on Wednesday, November 20.
The winner of the mile
contest gains a guaranteed place with free entry in the £150,000 Ladbrokes Mile
Final at Lingfield Park on Good Friday, April 18, 2014.
The Winners Are Welcome At
Betdaq EBF Stallions Hyde Stakes is the feature event of a six-race card under
the floodlights at Kempton Park on Wednesday, November 20 and all the contests
are part of the new All-Weather Championships.
As well as by taking one
of the 16 WIN & YOU'RE IN races, 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.
Wednesday's mile contest
has been won by some high-class horses since its inception in 2007, including
the inaugural winner Ventura, who subsequently captured four Grade Ones in
North America and the Breeders' Cup Filly & Mare Sprint.
A total of 15 entries for
this year's race include Graphic (William Haggas), who has won on four
of his past five starts, including when scoring over the course and distance in
the £50,000 London Mile Handicap Series Final on September 7.
Tullius (Andrew Balding) was
successful in the Group Three Sovereign Stakes at Salisbury in 2012, while Sirius
Prospect (Dean Ivory) was fifth on his latest appearance in the Group Two
QIPCO British Champions Sprint Stakes on British Champions Day at Ascot in
October.
Roger Varian is
considering the Kempton race for his lightly-raced filly Lanansaak, who
finished last of six on unsuitably soft ground in the Listed Ben Marshall
Stakes at Newmarket on November 2.
The three-year-old
daughter of Zamindar was third in the Listed Rosemary Stakes, also over a mile
at Newmarket, on September 27 and beat subsequent Lingfield Park Listed winner
Forgive by four and a half lengths on her seasonal return in a mile handicap at
Ascot on September 7.
Varian commented:
"It's very possible that Lanansaak will run at Kempton Park. The going was
too soft for her in the Ben Marshall Stakes and she wants better ground.
"This will probably
be her final run of the season and she is in very good form. She has a lot of
ability and has trained nicely on an all-weather surface at home.
"She was slow to come
to hand with the cold spring at the start of year and our horses were not 100
per cent in August, so everything got delayed with her."
Other contenders for the
Winners Are Welcome At Betdaq EBF Stallions Hyde Stakes include Bertiewhittle
(David Barron), who went down by a neck in an Ascot heritage handicap on
October 5, and Galician (Mark Johnston), who was runner-up in the Listed
32Red/ebfstallions.com Fleur de Lys Fillies' Stakes at Lingfield Park on
October 31.
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