At this time is an excellent day for sport with the Newmarket Cambridgeshire assembly on ITV and day one of many Ryder Cup taking centre stage.
Regardless of the fixed flicking between the golf and racing channels all through the day, my full consideration turned to the racecards yesterday and consequently, two horses have grabbed my consideration, so let’s see who they’re.
1:50 Newmarket – Tarawa @ 13/2 Normal – 1pt EW
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The Listed Rosemary Stakes opens immediately’s Newmarket motion on ITV and I’m hoping Irish raider Tarawa can get her long-awaited head in entrance.
Sporting the first-time cheekpieces, the Dermot Weld-trained three-year-old has been an everyday runner this 12 months because of her six outings because the begin of Might; in 5 runs, she ran to an RPR in extra of 104, exhibiting her consistency in high quality races.
Tarawa is a horse that entered my tracker after her second run of the season within the Group 1 Irish 1000 Guineas the place she discovered herself tucked away underneath Billy Lee for almost all of the race earlier than staying on in the direction of the end behind stablemate Tahiyra (a four-time Group 1 winner), Meditate, and Comhra.
Tahiyra provides a Basic to her CV in spectacular fashion, profitable the Group 1 @Tattersalls1766 Irish 1,000 Guineas ⭐️
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— Champions Sequence (@ChampionsSeries) Might 28, 2023
Moreover, the supplemented Jackie Oh (now rated 107) completed two lengths behind her in fifth and Breege, the Sandringham Stakes runner-up, was even additional again in seventh, so the type of the Irish 1000 Guineas appears above common.
Her held-up fashion of racing got here to the fore once more final day out within the Group 2 Dullingham Park Stakes at Leopardstown earlier this month, a contest that noticed her full the race in fifth whereas powering by means of the road from the rear of the sector.
If her standard ways are repeated immediately – one thing that has differed up to now, as proven by her third within the Group 2 Romanised Minstrel Stakes in July – she ought to have a couple of horses to goal at because of the distinguished working kinds of Queen For You and Fast Change.
Tarawa appears a powerful contender within the second race at Newmarket immediately and with Shane Lowry lighting up Rome within the Ryder Cup, hopefully, one other Irish star can rise to the highest on abroad soil.
2:25 Newmarket – Novakai @ 6/1 with William Hill – 1pt EW
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Novakai is a horse that I’ve managed to keep away from backing on her final two runs which has labored out each positively and negatively.
The primary of those misses got here in late July when she made an enormous impression within the Listed Aphrodite Fillies’ Stakes underneath Sam James to dash clear by almost 5 lengths; this occurred on her first begin at 12 furlongs, so she appeared to relish the brand new journey.
😍 Far too good
Fillies’ Mile & Musidora runner-up Novakai blitzes her rivals dropped again in grade with a prepared win within the Listed Aphrodite Stakes for @karl_burke & @samjock22 at @NewmarketRace pic.twitter.com/NSidhaTaL1
— Racing TV (@RacingTV) July 22, 2023
The type of this race obtained a lift two weeks in the past because the fourth, Lmay, notably improved to complete a very good third to Sumo Sam within the Group 2 Park Hill Fillies’ Stakes at Doncaster.
On her subsequent begin, the Karl Burke-trained three-year-old obtained loads of market help within the 24 hours main as much as the Group 1 Yorkshire Oaks and even hit a low worth of seven/1 within the morning of the competition.
Nonetheless, the market corrected itself earlier than the off and regardless of her beginning worth of 10/1, she disenchanted to complete seventh, although she started to rally within the closing furlong.
In case you ignore her eleventh within the Group 1 Prix de Diane earlier this 12 months, her second to Soul Sister within the Group 3 Musidora stands out amongst the gang and her runners-up medal in final season’s Group 1 Fillies’ Mile can be an incredible piece of type.
What a end! 🤯
🏇 Commissioning will get the higher of Novakai in an exhilarating conclusion to the Group 1 bet365 Fillies’ Mile for Rob Havlin and John and Thady Gosden 👏@bet365 @thadygosden pic.twitter.com/WBDs7lVoiq
— Newmarket Racecourse (@NewmarketRace) October 7, 2022
With circumstances set to go well with and in receipt of weight from her elders, Voodoo Queen and Peripatetic, her worth of 6/1 appears honest for the explanations acknowledged above.
