Bayside can make splash
BAYSIDE BOY appears to have been a very good opportunity in the Chasemore Farm Fortune Stakes at Sandown.
Roger Varian will still be on a high after winning the final Classic of the season when Eldar Eldarov claimed the St Leger, but he will have been scratching his head over Bayside Boy’s campaign.
Having ended last season looking like one of the best juveniles in training, winning the Champagne Stakes and placed in the Dewhurst and Vertem Futurity, Varian would surely not have believed he would have reached September without adding to his record.
Ability
Having missed the 2000 Guineas due to fast ground ground he ended up in the French version, where in the end he had no chance from stall 14.
He then showed his ability still remains, when beaten just two lengths behind the illfated Coroebus in the St James’s Palace Stakes at Royal Ascot.
Sent off favourite Goodwood last time however, he took a at out, step backwards when only fourth in a Group Three.
He perhaps was not comfortable on the track there, though, and any horse can be forgiven a run at Goodwood. So with headgear on for the first time he is taken to return to winning ways.
William Buick rides Bayside Boy and also looks to have solid claims in the following Coln Valley Stud Fillies’ Handicap with I’ll Be There.
Now trained by George Boughey, she has not been seen since breaking her maiden at Goodwood when with Andrew Balding, beating a 75-rated rival comfortably.
She handicaps off 78 and as the least-exposed filly in the field more is expected.
Local Dynasty looks another likely winner for Buick in the Time Test British EBF Novice Stakes as he continues his march towards a first title.
A winner on debut at Newmarket, he was thrown into the Acomb at York and sent off favourite but had no answer to winner Chaldean.
Given how Chaldean followed up in the Champagne Stakes at Doncaster at the weekend that form now has a new complexion and Local Dynasty can defy a penalty.
John and Thady Gosden’s
Obelix caught a tartar on debut in the shape of Richard Hannon’s Classic who fairly bolted up.
But it was a run full of promise in second and while he probably will not be seen to best effect until next season, this 300,000 euro purchase, who holds an entry in the Futurity later in the season, will take some beating in the EBF Future Stayers Maiden Stakes at Yarmouth.
The seaside track’s feature of the year, the EBF Stallions John Musker Fillies’ Stakes, can throw up the odd surprise.
Classy
It might be worth chancing what looks the second string from the Gosden yard in Queen Of The Skies.
Stablemate Shaara is progressing quickly, but when last seen over 100 days ago Queen Of The Skies bolted up at Chelmsford having chased home the classy Sea Silk Road on her debut.
The yard have a good record in the race having won it three times since 2016 and threeyear-olds have dominated.
The best bet at Beverley looks to be Karl Burke’s Tele Red in the Churchill Tyres Handicap.
He has only been out of the first two once in his last five outings.