Ger’s Funk fancies Lockinge
PSYCHEDELIC FUNK could have a crack at the Lockinge Stakes at Newbury after giving weight and a beating to his rivals in the Gladness Stakes at Naas yesterday.
Making his reappearance, Ger Lyons’ classy colt tracked the front-running Downforce in the Group Three until taking the lead off him approaching the last of the seven furlongs.
Despite the layoff, Psychedelic Funk (5-1) lacked nothing in the way of fitness and ran right the way to the line to cross it with two and a quarter lengths in hand of Downforce.
The success completed a double for jockey Colin Keane, who also struck on Noel Meade’s newcomer Dadoozdart in the opening maiden.
Lyons said: “That was lovely. He’s heavy and has grown into some beast of a horse.
“He loves the ground, loves Naas and I’d love the Lockinge to to be run in Naas if someone could sort that for us!
“I think he deserves to go over there if conditions are right. Knowing our luck it’ll dry up between and it’ll go against us, but anything bar fast ground.
“He holds the entry there and that’s the next obvious target.
“I hate putting blinkers on them on their first run back, but he’ll literally do nothing without them.
“That’s probably as good a performance as he’s put up in his career and he just seems to be getting better and stronger.
“I think he has every right to go for a Lockinge. We just need a bit of luck that the conditions stay in our favour.”