Most impressive on his Newbury debut, the Night Of Thunder colt was heavily-supported at odds on to follow up at Listed level in the Ascendant Stakes at Haydock and displayed a willing attitude to see off the highly-regarded Publish in a driving finish.<\/p>\n
Boughey initially suggested he could put his Sheikh Mohammed Obaid-owned youngster away ahead of a tilt at next year\u2019s 2000 Guineas, but is now leaning towards giving him another run, this time in Group Two company over the Rowley Mile.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe could supplement him for the Royal Lodge,\u201d the Newmarket handler said at Doncaster on Thursday.<\/p>\n
\u201cI thought he was very impressive with his attitude the other day and I was in two minds whether to keep going with him this year or put him away, but just looking towards next year and a Guineas preparation, it\u2019s quite hard to trial a horse that\u2019s won twice over a mile.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019ve had a long chat with Sheikh Mohammed Obaid and he was happy to supplement for Newmarket and give him a trial on the track and if we were to do that and everything went well, he\u2019d go straight to the Guineas.\u201d<\/p>\n
Another Boughey-trained juvenile with big-race ambitions this autumn is Hilitany, who defied a penalty in some style when making it back-to-back wins at Windsor on Monday.<\/p>\n
The Group Two Mill Reef Stakes at Newbury was mooted as a potential target, but he is instead set for an immediate step up to Group One level.<\/p>\n
The trainer added: \u201cHe\u2019s very likely to go straight to the Middle Park, I think. I don\u2019t think he\u2019ll mind a bit of ease in the ground and I think the extra week is key \u2013 it\u2019s only nine days from today until the Mill Reef, whereas the Middle Park gives us 16 days.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe\u2019s a pretty exciting horse, I think.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Most impressive on his Newbury debut, the Night Of Thunder colt was heavily-supported at odds on to follow…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":416177,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4107],"tags":[1071,79,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-416176","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\/115186509045369605","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/416176","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=416176"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/416176\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/416177"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=416176"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=416176"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=416176"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}