AASY RIDER
Crowley aiming for big race double
TWO of the top prizes on the first day of Newmarket’s July Festival tomorrow will be coming home to Jim Crowley – if he can find the back of the net.
Punters have backed the top jockey to score on Group Two Princess Of Wales’s Tattersalls Stakes favourite Al Aasy.
The hugely exciting Baaeed follows the headline act by putting his unbeaten record on the line in the Listed Edmondson Hall Solicitors Sir Henry Cecil Stakes.
Both will be expected to live up to the hype, like England, as they go head-to-head with Denmark tonight for a place in the Euro 2020 final. If Al Aasy scores – he is 8-13 with Ladbrokes for his race tomorrow – all routes will lead to the King George VI and Queen Elizabeth Stakes on July 24 at Ascot.
“We will be disappointed if he is beaten,” Crowley said.
“He is the standout horse in the race. The experience of having a battle at Epsom will have done him good as he was winning easily before that.
“Hopefully this will be a nice stepping stone to his next target.” Crowley (left) is yet to ride Baeed on the racecourse as Dane O’neill steered him home for a seven-and-ahalf length rout over course and distance.
Prior to the eye-catching display, he overcame a slow start to win his maiden – form that has since been franked by the second and third.
“The clockwatchers have been very excited by him,” Crowley added.
“He ticks all the boxes at the moment.”
LIGHTS ON waltzed clear to win the Weatherbys Bloodstock Pro Pipalong Stakes at Pontefract in splendid fashion yesterday.
Ryan Moore’s task was made easier when four of the six runners shunned the near-side rail, which is heavily favoured when the ground rides soft. The pair strode clear by 10 lengths.
It was a fifth win in the race for Cheveley Park Stud.