The Niarchos Family’s homebred Highest Ground (Ire) (Frankel {GB}), who bounded to TDN Rising Stardom after enduring a bloopers moment at the break in his Sept. 23 debut over seven furlongs at Leicester, faced fellow ‘TDN Rising Star’ and Listed Newmarket S. third Waldkonig (GB) (Kingman {GB}) upped to an extended 10 furlongs for his seasonal return in Wednesday’s Racecourse Live Streams On Racing TV Novice S. at Haydock. The homebred bay, from a family featuring GI Shoemaker Breeders’ Cup Mile runner-up and MGSW sire King of Happiness (Spinning World), maintained his perfect record with an impressive 2 1/2-length success. Starting as the 13-8 second favourite and vocal in the preliminaries, Highest Ground did not repeat his debut mishap and was away on terms this time, stalking the leading duo in a patient third initially. Improving into second before halfway, he joined the pacesetting Waldkonig with three furlongs remaining and stayed on strongly under mainly whipless coaxing inside the final quarter mile to win going away from that rival at the line.
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