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• Supersonique returns to action after her break

  10 August 2022

  At Lingfield Park yesterday Supersonique ran in a ten furlong race wearing a tongue tie for the first time, Jockey George Bass had her breaking sharply and sent her into the lead entering the first bend. Racing a little keenly at first, he did manage to get some cover for her along the far side of the track and she was better settled and ran prominently around the inside rail in third place. Turning in for home Supersonique made a promising run up the inside from the top of the straight, but got a little tired inside the last hundred yards to fade into seventh place, only beaten just over four lengths behind the winner. Off racing since March she seemed to benefit from the application of the tie this time, and George felt that she would be better suited by a more galloping turf track, provided she can get her toe into a softer surface than current weather conditions have allowed. The Cable Bay filly is sure to come on from this run and hopefully she can remain competitive in this grade in the near future for the Poachers' colours.

• Last Saturday gallops action photos now posted in the Gallery pages

  09 August 2022

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• Juanita so unlucky to only make a place at Windsor

  09 August 2022

  Having waited a long time to get a favourable draw in her races, Juanita had just that with a stall 2 draw in a 6f race at Windsor yesterday evening. On the break from the stalls, however, the horse next to her - the winner - came abruptly across to the right and bumped her badly so that she was last in the field and thus detached from the main group through the first furlong. This really left her with little chance of winning and Juanita had to make a great deal of ground up, which she managed to do quite readily only to find the front runners wavering in their runs up the straight. Two of the jockeys reported to the stewards that their mounts hung to the right. and the first two home were the subject of an enquiry by the stewards. George Bass did his best to find a way through horses, which only came ultimately well inside the last hundred yards, and Juanita closed rapidly for third, beaten only a neck and half a length at the post. With only a fair degree of fortune she will surely be winning next time out - in what seems to be her ideal ground and trip.

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