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• My Ambition a real eyecatcher and Ruskin Red gets a little tired at Lingfield

  02 December 2021

  Jockey Cieren Fallon felt that My Ambition only needed a clearer run through to get close to winning his race yesterday at Lingfield. Without having to ride him vigorously he travelled up readily behind a wall of horses and was still on the bridle at the close. Better luck next time and he should be winning a similar race, and he was noted as an eyecatcher in the Racing Post notes. Ruskin Red didn't quite get home in his mile and a half race and so Cieren felt that he perhaps needs a break until the spring now, after having run competitively in a series of races over quite a short period of time.

• Two good runs at Lingfield Park - Hoornblower and Caribou

  01 December 2021

  Yesterday at Lingfield two horses from the yard acquitted themselves well on the track under rides from Cieren Fallon. Hoornblower made his racecourse debut over a mile and he ran a fine race to finish very close up in third after having been cut up twice in the finishing straight, This was a very good first outing, and with a clearer run at the front two he would have possibly won, as Cieren finished with plenty of horse only two lengths back. This augurs really well for Hoornblower's racing prospects next year - another one of Chris van Hoorn's string showing great promise for next season. Caribou stepped up to a mile and a quarter for the first time in what looked like a very competitive race, although one without a front runner to set a pace. Cieren therefore had to send Caribou forward and he certainly got the longer trip very well, but he did not relish the tightness of the left handed track so he hung a little as race leader and did not rail well throughout. In the home straight he was passed by three but he finished off his race very well to be a close fourth home. The wider sweep of Kempton going the other way round should suit him much better next time, and he has a good chance of returning to winning form if he can find a race there soon.

• Midfield finish for Caribou at Chelmsford

  12 November 2021

  Jockey Tom Marquand felt that the surface at Chelmsford was too quick for Caribou yesterday evening, and so he was not able to race further forward than mid division or to make up ground in the closing stages over a mile. As a result he will probably be aimed at a Kempton Park race in the near future, and a contest over a longer trip might even suit him now.

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