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• Two Kempton runners finish down the field

  22 October 2020

  Supersonique ran her third race over seven furlongs, after which she will now be given an official rating. She finished a little tired, fading into tenth, and she will now be given time to strengthen up and to take on races up to middle distances next year. Lisdarragh had a wide draw to overcome and also got a little unsettled in the first two furlongs of six, so that he was racing wide around the bend and therefore he had a lot of ground to make up in the straight. He stayed on well enough but this was disappointing from the Hit It A Bomb colt, by comparison with his work at home, and he will now be stepping up to race in handicaps over seven furlongs.

• Holding ground at Windsor a little too testing

  20 October 2020

  The last two races on the 2020 calendar at Windsor saw outings for Tony Killoran's gelding Party Island and Una Loughrey's mare Tiar Na Nog. In his race Oisin Murphy took Party Island well forward past the intersection, moving up from fourth to second up the straight but with the field spreading across the track. This gave the gelding nothing to target in racing and the winner bolted up near the rail and stretched clear from his only two rivals to win easily, with Party Island six lengths back in third place. A straighter track would suit him much better next time. Tiar Na Nog went well in the amateur riders race for Patrick Millman, who had her going nicely in midfield before being crossed and badly hampered about three furlongs from the finish. She kept on very gamely after this for seventh place on a track she has always liked, but potentially lost her chance of finishing in the first four because of the interference.

• Yearlings now added to Horses in Training page

  20 October 2020

  The two colts and two fillies purchased at last week's Newmarket Tattersall's Yearling Sales have now been added to the updated horses in training page, with the Book 3 fillies bought by Denis currently available for sale.

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