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Cash in on Eve’s Age to strike Gold at Haydock
ICE AGE will take some catching in the 32Red Gold Cup (3.15) at Haydock.
Trainer Eve Johnson Houghton has enjoyed the best season of her career to date and Ice Age has done his bit with four victories.
Three have come on his last three outings, with two all-theway successes at Windsor followed by a from-the-front, length-and-a-quarter margin in a valuable event at the Curragh on Irish Champions Weekend.
Under the conditions of the six-furlong event, the reincarnation of last Saturday’s cancelled Ayr Gold Cup, Ice Age carries an 8lb penalty for his last two scores.
But that means Charles Bishop’s mount competes from a perch just 3lb above his winning mark in Ireland, and the Frozen Power four-year-old has more to offer. Elsewhere at Haydock, MUNTADAB
is taken to continue his good run of form by capturing the 32Red.com Handicap (2.05), while TARBOOSH
gets the vote in the nationwidevehiclecontracts. co.uk Handicap (2.40). SANDS OF At Newmarket, MALI
looks the one to be on in the Group 1 Juddmonte Middle Park Stakes (2.55).
The Richard Fahey-trained youngster is unbeaten since finishing seventh at York in July, getting off the mark at the second time of asking in a Nottingham maiden the following month.
Sands Of Mali returned to the Knavesmire for the Group 2 Gimcrack Stakes 23 days later, and his two-andthree-quarter-length defeat of solid yardstick Invincible Army means he is well worth his place at the top table.
Another Group 1 triumph looks in store for Aidan O’Brien, CLEMMIE courtesy of (left) in the Group 1 Juddmonte Cheveley Park Stakes (2.20).
The sister to dual 2,000 Guineas hero Churchill proved too fast for Nyaleti in the Group 2 Duchess Of Cambridge Stakes at Newmarket’s July Festival last time out and there is plenty more where that came from.
O’Brien and Ryan Moore NELSON combine with in the Group 2 Juddmonte Royal Lodge Stakes (1.50).
The son of Frankel impressed when leading home a Ballydoyle 1-2-3 in Group 3 company at Leopardstown three weeks ago and enjoys a class edge.