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SATURDAY, 8 JULY, 2017 GINGERNUTS BEING PRIMED FOR OZ RETURN TOTAL ECLIPSE? G1 Rosehill Guineas winner Gingernuts (NZ) (Iffraaj {GB}) will be aimed towards a second trip across the Tasman Sea with the G1 Caulfield Cup as his Spring Carnival aim. The New Zealand-trained gelding, who landed the G1 New Zealand Derby at Ellerslie prior to his successful Australian sortie, has recently returned from a spell at his owner's Te Akau Stud and is now back at the Matamata stable of Stephen Autridge and Jamie Richards. "I don't think I've seen a horse improve as much as he did," Autridge told nzracing.com. "He was battling away at the easier race meetings, Stratford and Te Teko, but as soon as we stepped him up over ground he found his niche and his confidence grew with it. He's a horse that won the Avondale Guineas, our Derby and the Rosehill Guineas and wasn't under any stress to win Cliffs of Moher | Racing Post them, so we wouldn't know what we've really got next season until we step him up against the best older horses." Sandown=s G1 Coral-Eclipse is tagged the Afirst clash of the The 3-year-old's co-trainer added, "He's put on 40 kilos with generations@ and the betting seems to suggest it will be the 3- his spell at Te Akau Stud and since he came back into work in year-olds who prevail in Saturday=s renewal. Heading the quintet May he's been bouncing around like a 2-year-old. We're rapt from that age group is >TDN Rising Star= Cliffs of Moher (Ire) with the way he's going and the way he looks--he has certainly (Galileo {Ire}), who is the selected of several Ballydoyle possibles improved." Cont. p10 (click here) and who bids to emulate the stable=s former luminary Hawk Wing in going one better here than in the G1 Epsom Derby. Caught close home by stablemate Wings of Eagles (Fr) (Pour Moi {Ire}) in the June 3 blue riband, the May 12 Listed Dee S. winner has been the subject of positive vibes from Rosegreen. AWe=ve been very happy with him since Epsom,@ commented Aidan O=Brien, who has five wins to his name already. AIt was a mile and a quarter when he won at Chester and then we went to the mile and a half at Epsom. Maybe the last 50 yards caught him between fitness and maybe getting the trip. We=re looking forward to seeing him run over a mile and a quarter.@ One of Ballydoyle=s finest, Giant=s Causeway, was the last colt to win this on the back of success in the G1 St James=s Palace S. at Royal Ascot and Richard Hannon is happy that this year=s hero Gingernuts | Trish Dunell of that mile feature Barney Roy (GB) (Excelebration {Ire}) is ready for the step up in trip. Runner-up to Churchill (Ire) (Galileo {Ire}) in the G1 2000 Guineas at Newmarket May 6, he was firing IN TDN AMERICA TODAY on all cylinders as that rival backtracked at the Royal meeting June 20 and is poised to provide Godolphin with a sixth edition YOSHIDA ON THE RISE IN BELMONT DERBY and the Maktoum family with a 14th. ‘TDN Rising Star’ Yoshida (Jpn) (Heart’s Cry {Jpn}) tries graded company for the first time in the GI Belmont Derby Saturday. Click or tap here to go straight to TDN America. Cont. p2 TDN EUROPE/INTERNATIONAL • PAGE 2 OF 11 • THETDN.COM SATURDAY • 8 JULY, 2017 commented. AWe think this is the right race for our horse. You can analyse it until you are blue in the face about the form and the going. It=s a test, but we had to do what we have done with him. We had to run in the Guineas, even though it didn=t prove a great success and we really had to run in the Derby where we were a bit unlucky. It sounds a terrible sob story, but this has to Total Eclipse? Cont. from p1 be the time for him. He has had that experience now. I was very AHe=s been in great form since Ascot. He came out of the race happy with how he came out of Epsom. The Derby can be very very well and very fresh,@ his trainer said. AHe did a piece of hard on horses and can sometimes set them back, but he=s work on Tuesday and Sean [Levey] said he felt as good as he=s raring to go.@ ever felt. He=s relaxed and we=re very pleased with him. A mile Despite giving away 10 pounds to the 3-year-olds, the older and a quarter looks to be well horses have held sway within his compass, but you recently with 13 of the last 20 don=t know that until you=ve renewals going their way. been there. You=re also taking Decorated Knight (GB) on older horses and the mile (Galileo {Ire}) and Ulysses and a quarter round Sandown (Ire) (Galileo {Ire}) were is not an easy mile and a separated by a short head quarter. He=s going to have to when second and third get it well. He has always run respectively behind Highland to the line in his races which Reel (Ire) (Galileo {Ire}) in the makes you think he would get G1 Prince of Wales=s S. at the trip, and he gets a 10- Royal Ascot June 21 and the pound pull off the older former already has a Group 1 horses. It=s a very difficult win on his resume having task, but we=ve been very plundered The Curragh=s pleased with him, we think Decorated Knight | Racing Post Tattersalls Gold Cup May 28. he=s a very good horse and AEvery time Decorated Knight has run, he has produced a better hopefully he=ll show that on Saturday.@ performance. It was no disgrace to be beaten by Highland Reel,@ Completing a high-class trio of sophomores is Sir Peter Vela=s trainer Roger Charlton said. AHe=s a tough, sound, genuine Eminent (GB) (Frankel {GB}), who has missed the mark in two racehorse suited by fast ground and a mile and a quarter. We=ve tries at the Classics but who may be racing over an ideal distance no need to look beyond that distance for him. He has come out now. Sixth in the 2000 Guineas and fourth in the Derby, his of his run at Royal Ascot in very good shape, especially trainer Martyn Meade has been in confident mood in the lead- considering how hot it was. He got very sweaty that day, but up to this showdown. ACertainly I think Sandown will suit him that=s just him and it does not affect his performance.@ very well. He=s only run at Newmarket and Epsom and I think Sandown and a stiff mile and a quarter will help him,@ he TDN EUROPE/INTERNATIONAL • PAGE 3 OF 11 • THETDN.COM SATURDAY • 8 JULY, 2017 GIANT STRIDES When it comes to size, Abingdon (Street Cry {Ire}) has plenty in hand on her peers and Ballymacoll=s homebred bids to put that physical advantage to full effect in Saturday=s G2 bet365 Lancashire Oaks at Haydock. Over-achieving for her stature at three, the homebred captured the Listed Lord Weinstock Memorial S. over 10 furlongs at Newbury in June and Listed VICE PRESIDENT, INTERNATIONAL OPERATIONS Galtres S. at this trip at York in August but it was her comeback Gary King effort that confirmed her as potential top-drawer material. Twitter: @garykingTDN [email protected] Successful by 10 lengths in the Listed Pontefract Castle Fillies= S. + 1.732.320.0975 June 25, she has every chance at this stage of becoming the next big thing for her famed breeders and the stud=s manager Peter International Editor Kelsey Riley Reynolds said, AShe was impressive at Pontefract, but I=m not Twitter: @kelseynrileyTDN sure about what she beat. Ryan [Moore] said she was more [email protected] ready than he expected that day, but you=d be hoping she=d European Editor improve from her first run to her second run. It was quick Emma Berry ground at Pontefract and her wins last year were on good-to- Twitter: @collingsberry [email protected] firm. I think she just wants genuine good ground. She won so easily the other day. It will be interesting to see how she goes on Associate International Editor Saturday.@ Heather Anderson Twitter: @HLAndersonTDN Contributing Editor Alan Carasso Newmarket Bureau, Cafe Racing Sean Cronin Tom Frary [email protected] Irish Correspondent Daithi Harvey Regular Columnists Bill Oppenheim Andrew Caulfield John Berry Kevin Blake Tom Peacock Send Press Releases to: [email protected] Abingdon | Racing Post John Gosden has won this six times and looks to equal the late Sir Henry Cecil=s record of seven with The Black Princess (Fr) (Iffraaj {GB}) and Hertford Dancer (GB) (Foxwedge {Aus}). The former beat the subsequent G1 Grand Prix de Saint-Cloud third Armande (Ire) (Sea the Stars {Ire}) in Chantilly=s G3 Prix Allez France over 10 furlongs Apr. 30 before finishing second in the G2 Middleton S. at York May 18, while her stablemate collected the May 13 Listed Lingfield Oaks Trial prior to filling third spot in the G2 Ribblesdale S. at Royal Ascot 16 days ago. Cont. p4 TDN EUROPE/INTERNATIONAL • PAGE 4 OF 11 • THETDN.COM SATURDAY • 8 JULY, 2017 Giant Strides Cont.