Thursday, October 27, 2022

Two Listed Races at the All-Weather Track

Lingfield, Thursday 27 October: Two Listed races will be decided at the all-weather track at Lingfield today.

Over the long way is the River Eden Fillies Stakes (4th race/16.15pm/£45,000/2615m). Twelve contenders are vying to succeed Sea La Rosa saddled by William Haggas, who has won the fixture three times in the last five years. This time he is saddling Bartzella (Cieren Fallon), who has already won at list level this year. John and Thady Gosden are represented with three horses. This year`s winners One Evening (Ryan Moore) and Darmoiselle (Robert Havlin) are expected to be in the front-runners as well as last year`s runner-up Pennymoor (James Doyle), who was not convincing on her seasonal debut in Yarmouth and finished far behind Viola (Daniel Muscutt), who was third behind Pennymoor twelve months ago. Pearl Beach (Neil Callan) and Strawberri (Andrea Atzeni), who finished second and fourth respectively, also finished ahead of the Godolphin mare at Yarmouth.

In the Fleur De Lys Fillies Stakes (5th race/5.00pm/£45,000/1609m), twelve fillies have the opportunity to qualify for the Final Day at Newcastle in April 2023. Crystal Caprice (Ryan Moore) from the stable of Sir Michael Stoute could solve the ticket. She has already won three times this year and most recently finished third at List level in Newmarket ahead of Improvised (Daniel Tudhope). The fresh runner-up Queen Aminatu (Cieren Fallon) and Internationalangel (James Doyle), who finished fourth at Group 2 level on 7 October well ahead of Oscula (Clifford Lee), are not considered to be much weaker.