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Recent form came to the fore on day two of the Tattersalls February Sale on Friday, with the concluding session of live online trade headed by Wolverhampton scorer Fayathaan, who is bound for Italy after drawing a bid of 85,000gns from Marco Bozzi.
Catalogue updates are generally a major asset at horses-in-training sales and the progressive three-year-old had enhanced his profile when registering a third career success at Wolverhampton just ten days before coming under the hammer.
Bozzi said: He s going to Italy to be trained in Milan by Mr Biondi and is for owner Mrs Roveda. This is a nice horse, we vetted him and he ticked all the boxes. He is a good peformer, a sharp horse and should suit seven furlongs or a mile in Italy.
Betway Conditions Stakes | 2m½f | 4yo+ | Sky
There is a smattering of quality in this Fast-Track Qualifier for All-Weather Finals Day at Lingfield and that s particularly true of Mekong, who comes straight out of a Group 1.
That wasn t just any Group 1, either. Mekong was last seen competing in the Gold Cup at Royal Ascot in June, when he finished 23 lengths behind Stradivarius in fifth.
He never got into that race after a slow start and was evidently outclassed, but this time it s Mekong who could outclass his rivals now he is dropped significantly in grade.
This time last year Mekong was enjoying the sunshine in the Middle East, where he produced solid efforts to finish fourth in a Listed handicap at Meydan and second in a valuable event at Riyadh. A reproduction of either run would give him a big chance here.
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Grangee will dominate the narrative in this bumper. She will be Willie Mullins’ first runner in Britain since November and only his second jumper to venture across the Irish Sea since the Cheltenham Festival. That would have seemed unthinkable at this time last year.
Turn the clock back 12 months and Mullins won this race with Panic Attack, his first and only previous runner at Market Rasen, so this should be a formality for Grangee to maintain the master trainer s 100 per cent record at the track, shouldn’t it? The answer is ‘no’.
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