Lambourn produced a strong finish to win the Chester Vase Stakes in a leading trial for next month’s Derby at Epsom.<\/b><\/p>\n
The 11-8 favourite, under jockey Ryan Moore, was trailing in third going into the final straight but kicked on and won by a length and a half.<\/p>\n
Lazy Griff finished second as Convergent claimed third.<\/p>\n
“He looked a thorough stayer and while he was a little on and off the bridle, once the penny dropped, he came home really strongly,” said trainer Aidan O’Brien, who won the Chester Vase Stakes for a record-extending 11th time.<\/p>\n
He added: “He got the trip really well and he’s gone through the line nicely.<\/p>\n
“At this stage, you’d have to say he’s on the Epsom team but this is a busy week for the trials. We’ve got Lingfield, there’s Leopardstown and then there’s York too.<\/p>\n
“We’ll just have to see how they all get on but we were thinking of sending him to Epsom, as they learn so much when they go to Chester.” <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Lambourn produced a strong finish to win the Chester Vase Stakes in a leading trial for next month’s…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":83440,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4107],"tags":[1071,79,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-83439","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\/114469849279681708","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83439","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=83439"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83439\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/83440"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=83439"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=83439"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=83439"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}