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[email protected] • WWW.BLOODSTOCKNEWS.EU NH ONE TO WATCH | YORTON FARM | RACING REVIEW | NH SIRES TABLE TODAY’S HEADLINES RACING NEWS ALL-WEATHER CHAMPION SEEKS FURTHER GLORY Last season’s All-Weather Horse of the Year Grendisar will attempt a second victory in the Listed Quebec Stakes at Lingfield Park on Saturday. The Marco Botti-trained son of Invincible Spirit comfortably beat Energia Davos (Torrential) in the ten-furlong contest in 2014 and went down by a neck to Don’t Be (Cape Cross) in the same race twelve months ago. Clovis Du Berlais (King’s Theatre) and Lester Futter Following last year’s narrow defeat, he completed a hat-trick of pictured at yesterday’s stallion parade at Yorton Farm. (Ce) wins over the same course and distance, taking the Listed Winter See Spotlight feature on pages 6-7. Derby Trial and Gr.3 Winter Derby before storming to victory in the Middle Distance Championship Final on Good Friday. The six- year-old returned to action at Lingfield Park on the 12th His Newmarket-based trainer commented: “Grendisar is going November, his first start for new owners Middleham Park Racing, to run on Saturday. This was the target we had in mind for him since and stayed on strongly to take fourth in the Listed Churchill the Churchill Stakes and I think he has come on for that run. He looks Stakes. well and, based on the entries, he should have a very good chance.” In all, the entire has a record of ten wins and 13 second places Botti is also set to be represented in by the four-year-old filly from his 33 outings on artificial surfaces, for earnings of more Brandybend, who is due to make her second all-weather than £400,000, a fine return on the 75,000gns he cost at the appearance after finishing second on her debut in a Chelmsford Tattersalls Guineas Breeze-Up Sale.