14:35 Newcastle
Tuesday 22 October 2019
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Ladbrokes Where The Nation Plays EBF Novice Stakes (Plus 10)
- 2YO only | Class 4 | 7f 14y | Standard | 13 Runners | Allweather | Weighed In
- Off time: 14:36 | Winning time: 1m 27.03s
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Dawn Approach gelding; penalised for his 20-1 debut win at Leicester (7f, good to firm); backed up with a solid run in defeat to Rovaniemi at Lingfield (7f, standard) 19 days ago.
Out the back on both starts so far (limitations fully exposed); impossible to fancy on that evidence; stablemate of Double D's.
Son of Lope De Vega (cost €700,000 as a juvenile); shaped encouragingly on debut at Yarmouth (1m, good to firm) when finishing fourth of seven to Ursa Major (a stablemate of Grand Bazaar); trainer known to saddle winners at this track.
Son of Lope De Vega (160,000gns yearling); has run to a similar level of form on both starts, including when finishing a couple of places behind today's rival Carlos Felix at Yarmouth (1m, good to firm); stablemate of Ziggle Pops.
41,000gns yearling; 20-1 for debut at Ayr (7f, good), slowly away and never on terms last of ten to Gravity Force; stablemate of the less inspiring Bouncing Bobby.
Teofilo colt (57,000gns foal, 80,000gns vendor yearling); eighth foal; half-brother to four winners including the Group-placed I Love Me (7f); trainer is 8-35 (23%) with his juveniles at Gosforth Park (AW).
Showcasing colt (62,000gns yearling); raced keenly on debut at Ayr (1m, good) before backpedalling from the two furlong pole to finish last of 12 to Morisco.
First foal from the 5f-7f winner Skinny Love (inc AW); mildly interesting to see how he figures in the market for Karl Burke (9-75 (12%) with juveniles at Newcastle) although others are expected to prove stronger.
Golden Horn colt (210,000gns foal); turned over at short odds (4-6f) on debut at Haydock (1m, soft) seven weeks ago; could appreciate the switch to a sounder racing surface; John Gosden has a 53% juvenile strike-rate (18-34) on the AW at Newcastle.
Dubawi colt out of a half-sister to the talented hurdler Supasundae; second foal; half-brother to the 1m winner Moqtarreb; noteworthy at the very least on racecourse debut for the in-form Newmarket handler Roger Varian.
Cityscape colt; third foal from a moderate dam; half-brother to the 7f-1m winner Wigan Warrior; others make more appeal.
Casamento colt; second foal from a moderate dam (raced only as a juvenile); very surprising if he's primed to strike on debut; look elsewhere.
Shamardal colt; has shown little to get excited about on two starts to date (turf and Fibresand); clearly isn't among the high rank of juveniles in Middleham.
Non-Runners
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(6)
Ziggle Pops40
Weight: 9-8| Age: 2
T: R Hannon J: S M Levey
NR
Forecasts
Grand Bazaar (5/6), Carlos Felix (3/1), Ziggle Pops (9/2), Amaan (11/2), Count Of Amazonia (14/1), Khaloosy (16/1), Foreshore (25/1), Doubling Dice (28/1), Rulers Kingdom (100/1), Dreaming Blue (100/1), Double D's (150/1), Phoenix Strike (150/1), Monsaraz (200/1), Bouncing Bobby (200/1)
A potentially above average novice contest featuring a couple of previous winners (Amann and Ziggle Pops) as well as a number of interesting newcomers, most significantly Doubling Dice (Hugo Palmer) and Khaloosy (Roger Varian). Furthermore, with the Golden Horn colt Grand Bazaar representing John Gosden (has a 53% strike-rate with juveniles on Tapeta at Newcastle) this will almost certainly take some winning. In truth, this race appeals more as a watching brief for future as opposed to a betting medium, but it could be worth chancing the expensively acquired Lope De Vega colt CARLOS FELIX who travelled like a useful horse on debut at Yarmouth (1m).
- Carlos Felix
- Grand Bazaar
- Doubling Dice
Previous Winners
Prize Money
1st: £4,787.002nd: £1,424.003rd: £712.004th: £356.00
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