Observations on the European Racing Scene turns the spotlight on the best European races of the day, highlighting well-pedigreed horses early in their careers, horses of note returning to action and young runners that achieved notable results in the sales ring. Wednesday’s Insights features the return of two ‘TDN Rising Stars’.
1.10 Haydock, Novice, £5,400, 3yo/up, 10f 100yT
HIGHEST GROUND (IRE) (Frankel {GB}) makes his eagerly-awaited return, having earned TDN Rising Star status a long time ago when impressing on his winning debut at Leicester in September. The Niarchos Family’s relative of the sire King of Happiness (Spinning World) encounters another TDN Rising Star in Gestut Ammerland and Newsells Park Stud’s Waldkonig (GB) (Kingman {GB}), the John Gosden-trained half-brother to Waldgeist (GB) (Galileo {Ire}) who was third when odds-on for the Listed Newmarket S. earlier this month.
2.10 Haydock, Novice, £6,400, 2yo, 7f 37yT
CAIRN ISLAND (IRE) (Kodiac {GB}) cost trainer Kevin Ryan 525,000gns at the Tattersalls October Book 1 Sale and debuts for Sheikh Mohammed Obaid Al Maktoum in this intriguing affair. The half-brother to the useful Galileo (Ire) pair of Cameron Highland (Ire) and Field of Miracles (Ire) gets seven pounds from Russell Jones’s Tom Dascombe-trained Devious Company (Ire) (Fast Company {Ire}), who beat some rivals who fared well in last week’s Listed Chesham S. including March Law (Ire) (Lawman {Fr}) on his debut at Haydock earlier this month.
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