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Like the look of this 3yo colt by Sea The Stars who debuted @ Leicester over the 1600m a couple of days ago He blew the start by about a length n a half ears scrubbed off midway down the home straight but geeee I liked the way he opened up his last 150m really lengthening stride POWERING LATE very SOFT through the line …… He’s a full brother to a horse allready showing promise 4yo Hukum who’s had the 7 starts so far knocking up 4 wins once over 1600 - 2400 (twice) and 2671m Will be interesting how this guy goes stepping up in trip and not really sure what kind of horses he beat on debut but his win looked very good to me Looks a VERY PROGRESSIVE type n will be watching where he goes with interest !! |
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Nominated Saturday 19th June 3yo EBF Novice Stakes @ Newmarket |
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Race 4 @ Newmarket tonight early morning 12.20am
Loved his debut let’s see how promising this guy really is … up in class here again over the 1600m
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Didn’t miss the kick tonight parked 4th in the run and when asked for the effort @ the 400 just exploded away … Very very promising !! |
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Steps up to Listed Level @ Newmarket on Thursday in the Sir Henry Cecil Stakes (1600m) Has a serious engine this colt plenty of GRUNT !! |
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R/6 @ Newmarket tonight - 1.10am Field of 6 including G3 winner One Ruler who was only 0.9L off Mac Swiney in G1 company over the mile a few runs back and a few others dropping back from G1 G3 level Will be a good test for this colt he’s currently $2.70 n I’ve UNLOADED !! |
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Ada, you have hooked up with another super smart one.
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Keeps winning and doing it in impressive fashion Djebel Should be jumping straight to Group Level next start where and when will be interesting He’s definitely got more speed then his full brother Hukum the 1600m looks his sweet spot so far you knew he had that race in the bag inside the final couple of furlongs …… am very curious how he’d go stretching it to 2000m tho he’s bred to be a mile n a quarter horse but packs an explosive turn of foot over the mile through the line you can see there’s more there (how much more I’m not really sure) Looks extremely DANGEROUS over the mile G1 material I reckon |
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Looks like he’s targeting the G2 Celebration Mile Stakes @ Goodwood Saturday 28th August !! Will be a CRACKING race if stablemate Mohaafeth (also nominated) shows up Looks highly doubtful tho as he’s also nominated for the G1 Juddmonte International (2000m) 10 days prior Would love to see these 2 at it !! They look the best 3yos in the Haggas stable Baaeed more bombproof tho can produce on wet or dry tracks Mohaafeth a one trick pony needs it DRY !! Armory Benbatl My Oberon also amongst the other noms … |
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He must be thriving this colt cause they keep pushing the button with him Stepping him up to G3 level @ Goodwood on Friday in the Bonhams Thoroughbred Stakes (1600m) 11.25pm Then all going well the G2 Celebration Stakes next month |
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Another very easy win for Baaeed in the Gp3 Thoroughbred Stakes. He scored by a wide margin & was virtually untouched. Definitely appears to be up to Gp1 standard. While the opposition wasn't particularly strong, the second horse, El Drama, was beaten six and a half lengths in the Eclipse Stakes last start & I suspect the margin was similar today. |
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Wow what a horse Absolutely destroyed them 4 starts 4 wins now hasn’t really been challenged even his maiden win where he bombed the start and got a mile back producing blistering late splits leaving everything for dead and doing it with ease !! The mile looks his bread n butter too he’s nursed into the race and explodes off it He’s the most exciting 3yo I’ve seen for a while !! |
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This horse is something
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From the great Highclere female family. Will be worth a fortune.
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'Our most exciting horse in a long time' - plans set out for electrifying BaaeedBy Peter Scargill Baaeed was labelled “as exciting a horse as we have had at Shadwell for quite a long time” by the owner’s longstanding racing manager Angus Gold on Sunday with the dominant Goodwood winner likely to test his top-level credentials in the Group 1 Prix du Moulin next month. The three-year-old took his unbeaten record to four with a six-and-a-half-length victory in the Group 3 Thoroughbred Stakes on Friday, earning a Racing Post Rating of 124+ in the process to place himself alongside 2,000 Guineas and St James’s Palace Stakes winner Poetic Flare as the leading miler of his age group. Such was the dominance shown by Baaeed, it has been suggested that he could end the season as the top overall miler in Europe and Gold said he could understand why so many have been keen to talk up the colt’s prospects. “It’s not surprised me how people have spoken about him and he’s a very exciting horse, there’s no doubt about that,” he said. “He’s got the class to do it at a mile even though his pedigree says it should be too short for him, and Jim Crowley said after he won the other day he can go a mile and a quarter whenever we want him to. “So it’s exciting he’s showing the speed he is and the class, and if anything I think it’s that class which is winning him his races right now.” Baaeed has made rapid progress since winning on his debut in a Leicester novice at the start of June for trainer William Haggas, with Racing Post handicapper Paul Curtis believing the three-year-old would have been a serious contender in the Sussex Stakes if he had contested the race. The Group 1 was won last year by the late Hamdan Al Maktoum – whose horses now run under the Shadwell Estate banner overseen by his daughter Sheikha Hissa – with Mohaather, and Gold is hoping Baaeed can go on to surpass those achievements. “I think he’s as exciting a horse as we have had at Shadwell for quite a long time,” he said. “I mentioned that to Jim in the paddock before Friday’s race, while noting that we had Mohaather last year, and Jim gave me this old-fashioned look as if to say there’s no doubt this horse is better. “I don’t like beefing horses up – it’s not my style and I know it’s not William’s either – but when he’s done what he’s done you have to.” Gold indicated that concluding the season with Baaeed running in the Qipco Queen Elizabeth II Stakes on Champions Day at Ascot would be the preferred option for the owner, with Sheikha Hissa planning to keep her nascent star in training next year. The Prix du Moulin on September 5 is the likely next step for Baaeed, according to Haggas, with the Prix Jacques le Marois on August 15 deemed to be too close to his most recent run, although the Group 2 Ladbrokes Celebration Mile at Goodwood is also under consideration. “It’s a very English thing to heap praise on every up-and-coming individual, whether they are a person or a horse,” Haggas said. “Baaeed has done very well and I’m very pleased with him – how could I be anything other than that after what he’s done? He’s got to run in better races now and I think it’s right that he does. “The Prix Jacques le Marois comes too quick so I think it’ll be the Celebration Mile or the Prix du Moulin as there are no mile Group 1s in Britain until the QEII at Ascot on Champions Day, but I’d say it’s likely to be the Moulin.” |
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Goes for his G1 tonight 11.48pm in the Prix du Moulin 1600m Taking on The 3yo filly Snow Lantern who beat Mother Earth (Guineas Winner) in the G1 Falmouth Stakes - O’Brien trained 4yo n G1 winner Order Of Australia and G1 winner Lope Y Fernandez If he can demolish this field could possibly be the best 3yo on the planet !! |
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He has scared off Jim Bolger and Poetic Flare. Very disappointing.
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Very disappointing Djebel you want the decent horses facing off not running scared … |
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Got the job done but more workman like than impressive.
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Didn’t demolish them but liked the way he was holding them at bay through the line G1 Queen Elizabeth II Stakes will be next no doubt a bigger n better field then today That will be his acid test |
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Baaeed is a 'very special horse' Crowley also provided an update on unbeaten Group One winner Baaeed, who won all six of his starts last season and looks set to take in the Lockinge Stakes at Newbury in May before all roads lead to Royal Ascot. "He's a very special horse," he added. "It's testament to Sheikh Hamdan's breeding operation to be breeding horses like this. "There's lots to look forward to. I'm pretty sure William Haggas will have a plan but the obvious races are to go down the Frankel route with the Lockinge and Queen Anne and then go from there. Maybe we can gradually step him up in trip as the season goes on. I'm confident that he'll stay further and he's certainly bred to - its very exciting. "He's got a very good mind on him and very laid back. He's bred to be winning over a mile and a half but he's winning Group Ones over a mile so that probably shows how good he is. "We'll see when he steps up in trip if he can progress and get even better." |
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A BIG YEAR FOR... BAAEED We've never been starved of a great miler for so long - could this be the one?Senior features writer Peter Thomas talks to Baaeed's trainer William HaggasYou don't have to go back as far as Brigadier Gerard. Not even as far as Kris, Warning, Miesque, Rock Of Gibraltar or the teak-tough Giant's Causeway. In fact, arguably the greatest miler of all time was around as recently as Frankel. Nonetheless, Frankel was ten years ago now and it's hard to remember ever waiting as long for another truly great miler to come along. Indeed, if you use a Racing Post Rating of 130 as the key metric by which to bestow such a title, then the recent dearth of miling talent has been extraordinary. Not one horse in Europe since Frankel has reached such a figure, when in the previous 20 years there had never been a wait of more than three years for another 130+ miler to emerge. Kingman, with his four successive Group 1 wins in the summer of 2014, was pretty good, certainly, though only worthy of an RPR of 128. And in the last two years Palace Pier wasn't half bad either. But the sport is always looking for one who might take us into the stratosphere and, ever since Baaeed made his way on to the launchpad last year, the possibilities have been otherworldly. As he notched victory after victory, Baaeed quickly became that most sought-after of beasts: the unbeaten horse. By the time he had polished off Palace Pier in the last of his six races in 2021, there were already people seeking to have him elevated to the sainthood, probably some more who were keen for him to be treated with kid gloves, campaigned with caution to preserve his unbeatenness; for the mass of his fans, however, he will emerge from spring quarters with their hopes and dreams on his back. The possibilities at this stage are boundless, and while William Haggas has been around the block enough times to know that boundless possibilities are no guarantee of success, there can scarce be a racing person whose pulse hasn't already quickened when Baaeed's future has flitted across the conversation. Although he missed his two-year-old season – immaturity, niggles, incoming late-season soft ground, his trainer isn't quite sure why – he was far from forgotten at Somerville Lodge, which makes it all the more surprising that his debut success in June, in a mile Leicester maiden under Dane O'Neill, by a cosy length and a quarter from the now 88-rated Tamaamm, was achieved at odds of 6-1. As he was stepped up through the grades, such generosity wasn't repeated, and he was sent off at odds-on to win in novice and Listed company at Newmarket, always over a mile, although Haggas confessed he initially looked at the pedigree (brother to the 1m6f Group 3 winner Hukum out of a 1m2f French Listed-winning mare, by Derby and Arc winner Sea The Stars) and saw a potential stayer. Then Baaeed breezed through his Group 3 test at Goodwood in July by six and a half lengths, and we all started to consult our notional programme books, wondering if we might be able to be there when he took his next electric step onwards and upwards. He was going through the gears so quickly and smoothly that it surely wasn't going to be long before he was sent to be measured against the very best, and wouldn't it be a treat to see first hand if he was as good as we thought? As he and Jim Crowley walked back into the winner's enclosure at Goodwood, more than one trainer – Haggas aside – was heard to mutter the word 'special' in his direction. There was an unspoken belief that we might have just seen a true superstar in the making, so when he was sent into the fray in the Group 1 Prix du Moulin at Longchamp in September, he was accompanied by more expectation than trepidation. He was a 1-2 shot and he won like 1-2 shot, dismissing good Irish, French and German rivals in the same way he'd dismissed British ones along the way. Where once he was a rising star with a liking for quick ground, he'd now confirmed that a little give held no terrors for him and that Ascot in October was not a place to be avoided. His owner Sheikh Hamdan may have died before this latest embodiment of his blue and white values had set foot on a racecourse, but it was fitting that the new custodians of the Shadwell ethos were being so quickly rewarded with a creature of such achievement and potential. His season-ending defeat of Palace Pier may have been by only a neck, but he was beating the best miler on these isles and doing it with authority, on ground Crowley described as softer than ideal. It was "laboured", said the jockey, but that didn't detract from the now evident fact that Baaeed was "a beast", to be feared wherever he went. Haggas quickly confirmed that he'd been given the opportunity to marshal this great talent for another year, and then headed into a winter of waiting, wondering and, no doubt, a little worrying. "You try not to think about it," says the trainer. "You just get on and try to treat him as normally as possible. It's not very easy but it's the best thing to do, treat him like another horse. "People like an unbeaten horse, we know that, but I don't really feel any added pressure. Then again, we're not near the race yet, so ask me in a couple of weeks' time and I might be getting a bit wobbly." The race he's talking about is the Lockinge, which has been earmarked as Baaeed's first target of the season, but this is the time of year when best-laid plans can very quickly go awry. "So far, so good," confirms Haggas, "but we're into dangerous territory now. As any athlete will tell you, once you get fit, life becomes a little easier and maintaining that fitness is not as difficult, but getting fit is hard, muscles get sore, everything gets sore, and that's the process he's going through. "Luckily, he's not difficult. He's done well from three to four, but then he was almost certain to. He's not huge, just a good medium-sized horse with a good backside, and he's charming, very kind and relatively straightforward." All of which is not to say that, even if the road to action remains smooth, the direction of travel will remain constant. That search for a great miler has another complicating factor.
"I think it's pretty straightforward," says Haggas, "but the question I keep asking myself is when, or if, we step him up in trip. His pedigree suggests he'll be better over further, or at least just as good, and if he's not sharp enough over a mile now he'll have to go up in trip quite quickly. "The Lockinge is the obvious starting point and he'll have entries in both the Queen Anne and the Prince of Wales’s Stakes to keep our options open." All of which leaves the Baaeed fan club in a state of high excitement regardless of trip, while the trainer tries to stave off such indulgences for the time being. "Excited isn't the word that readily springs to mind for me," he says in deadpan fashion. "I'll try to keep everybody's feet on the ground, including my own, although when these horses come along, you want to enjoy them. I'm not sure we'll be able to enjoy him until afterwards, but we must try." |
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Tonight is the morning.
Should absolutely bolt in. Very ordinary line up of milers.
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