Gabriel's Lad will bid to continue his
improvement of last year in the £50,000 Listed Ladbrokes Lady Wulfruna Stakes
(2.20pm, 16 entries) over seven furlongs at Wolverhampton on Saturday, March 8.
The Denis Coakley-trained
five-year-old captured a seven furlong handicap at Newmarket in August and was
just denied in a valuable contest over the same trip at Ascot in September,
beaten a neck.
After finishing ninth in
the Ayr Gold Cup over six furlongs, he put up a career-best performance to
finish a staying-on fifth to Fiesolana in the seven-furlong Group Two Challenge
Stakes at Newmarket on October 12.
Coakley reported:
"Gabriel's Lad seems as good as ever and will probably run in the
Ladbrokes Lady Wulfruna Stakes.
"I was pleased with
how he progressed last year and it was a good final run at Newmarket. He was
forced to race wide the whole way and got too far back, but he made up some ground
and did best of those held up.
"I would expect him
to run very well on Saturday and the only reason he's running is to try and
qualify for All-Weather Championships Finals Day."
The Ladbrokes Lady
Wulfruna Stakes is a Fast-Track Qualifier for the £150,000 Ladbrokes Mile at
Lingfield Park on All-Weather Championships Finals Day, Good Friday, April 18.
Also among the entries is
Group Two scorer Highland Knight (Andrew Balding), impressive course
winner Chookie Royale (Keith Dalgleish) and Polytrack specialist Grey
Mirage (Marco Botti). Alfred Hutchinson (Geoff Oldroyd),who is also
entered in the Ladbrokes Lincoln Trial Handicap, has been in superb form this
season and is another possible starter.
Wolverhampton's seven-race
programme also features a pair of Class 2 handicaps - the £50,000 Ladbrokes
Lincoln Trial Handicap (2.55pm, 22 entries) over an extended mile and the
£25,000 Compare Bookmakers At bookmakers.co.uk Handicap (4.40pm, 15 entries)
over six furlongs.
Strictly Silver could bid for back-to-back
victories in the Ladbrokes Lincoln Trial Handicap for Newmarket handler Alan
Bailey, while David Barron has entered Cambridgeshire third Tres Coronas.
Horses qualify for the six
championships contests on £1-million All-Weather Championships Finals Day (Good
Friday, April 18, 2014) 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 or else by
succeeding in one of the 16 Fast-Track Qualifiers.
Lingfield Park Race
Programme All-Weather Championships Finals Day, Good Friday, April 18, 2014
13.45
£50,000 coral.co.uk All-Weather Championships Apprentice Handicap (1m 4f)
14.20
£150,000 32Red.com All-Weather Fillies' & Mares' Championships Conditions
Stakes (7f)
14.55
£150,000 32Red All-Weather Three-Year-Old Championships Conditions Stakes (7f)
15.30
£150,000 32Red Casino All-Weather Marathon Championships Conditions Stakes (2m)
16.05
£150,000 bookmakers.co.uk All-Weather Sprint Championships Conditions Stakes
(6f)
16.40
£150,000 ladbrokes.co.uk All-Weather Mile Championships Conditions Stakes (1m)
17.20
£200,000 Coral Easter Classic All-Weather Middle-Distance Championships
Conditions Stakes (1m 2f)
The dedicated website www.awchampionships.co.uk has more details,
including the leaderboards and the twice weekly blog from Luke Morris.
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