Won 12 months ago by Field Of Gold, a host of other subsequent Group-race performers have been successful in the seven-furlong contest and the first two home\u00a0both had their supporters.<\/p>\n
Distant Storm (5-6 favourite) cost \u20ac1.9million at the Arqana breeze-up and the Night Of Thunder colt boasts an exceptional pedigree as the penultimate foal of the mare Date With Destiny, who in turn was the sole progeny of multiple Group One winner George Washington.<\/p>\n
He had to prove he was tough as well as classy to see off Aidan O\u2019Brien\u2019s Wootton Bassett colt Constitution River, but Distant Storm managed to win by a short head to provide Charlie Appleby and William Buick with another July meeting winner.<\/p>\n
The front two were well clear of the rest, and Appleby said: \u201cWe came here with confidence \u2013 he\u2019s been a very straightforward horse to deal with.<\/p>\n
\u201cObviously he was bought from the Arqana breeze-up, so you would expect them to know a little bit more and he has a pedigree to get excited about, but as an individual he\u2019s a very normal horse.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe\u2019s not flashy and doesn\u2019t draw attention to himself, he just goes out and does what he\u2019s asked to do and in a nice manner, so hopefully he\u2019s a horse that will mentally progress quicker than some of those buzzy ones.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe first two pulled nicely clear and he\u2019ll have learned plenty today. We\u2019ll give him a bit of time as he\u2019s unfurnished still and he needs to strengthen before you pitch them in that (Group One) level as if you pitch them in too soon or before they\u2019re ready, you will go quickly backwards.\u201d<\/p>\n
Appleby could now look to next month\u2019s Ebor meeting at York with Distant Storm, adding: \u201cThere\u2019ll be races we can dip our toe in and allow him to progress \u2013 with his mindset he might be an Acomb Stakes horse maybe.<\/p>\n
\u201cIf he goes and ticks the next box, then you have a chance of looking towards a Group One target.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Won 12 months ago by Field Of Gold, a host of other subsequent Group-race performers have been successful…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":256986,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4107],"tags":[1071,79,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-256985","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-racing","8":"tag-racing","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114836310770691715","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256985","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=256985"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256985\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/256986"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=256985"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=256985"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=256985"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}