Kingman: will be ridden by James Doyle for the first time at Sandown
PICTURE: Martin Lynch (racingpost.com/photos), BY PETER SCARGILL7:00PM 30 AUG 2013
AFTER a week of reasons being forwarded about why Kingman should not be Qipco 2,000 Guineas favourite, the unbeaten juvenile gets the opportunity to show why he should be when he takes on three rivals in the Betfred Mobile Solario Stakes.
Sandown SATURDAY, 31 AUGUST 2013. BETFRED MOBILE SOLARIO STAKES (Group 3) (CLASS 1) (2yo)
- Winner: £22,684, Runners: 4, Distance: 7f16y, Going: Good, Channel: CH4
£40,000 guaranteed For 2yo Weights colts and geldings 9st; fillies 8st 11lb Penalties a winner of a Group 3 race 3lb; of a Group 1 or Group 2 race 5lb Entries 11 pay £ 200 Penalty value 1st £22,684.00 2nd£8,600.00 3rd £4,304.00 4th £2,144.00
| NO. DRAW FORM |
HORSE | AGE | WGT OR |
JOCKEY TRAINER RTF% |
TS | RPR | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 121512 |  |
EMIRATES FLYER
 35 |
2 |
9-0
100
|
110 | 112 | ||
| 241 |  |
KINGMAN
 63 |
2 |
9-0
—
|
110 | 115 | ||
| 31211 |  |
MUSIC THEORY
16 |
2 |
9-0
105
|
94 | 115 | ||
| 43319524 |  |
ROSSO CORSA
31
|
2 |
9-0
95
|
88 | 110 | ||
| John Gosden has won this three times in the last 11 years and can enhance that record with the exciting KINGMAN who is already as short as 5-1 for next year´s 2,000 Guineas. The form of his runaway debut win has substance to it and he can account forthe Godolphin pair Music Theory and Emirates Flyer on his way to better things. | ||||||||
Trainer John Gosden labelled prices of 5-1 for Khalid Abdullah’s colt to win next year’s Classic as “absurd” while racing manager Teddy Grimthorpe was keen to stress that Kingman had only run once and only won a maiden when doing so.
The Solario Stakes will also offer the opportunity for James Doyle to partner Kingman for the first time after being named as Abdullah’s retained rider in Britain on Thursday.
Kingman’s reputation seems to have had some influence on the small field for the Group 3 Solario at Sandown with just a pair of Godolphin runners and the Mick Channon-trained Rosso Corsa taking their chance and Gosden’s runner is as short as 2-5 to win on Saturday.
“It was certainly a promising debut and nobody could disagree, but the form is okay, without being spectacular and he is Guineas favourite almost by default,” Grimthorpe said on Friday.
Gosden sent out the classiest recent winner of the Solario Stakes in the shape of Raven’s Pass, a seven-length winner at Sandown before going on to win the 2008 Breeders’ Cup Classic at Santa Anita.
Grimthorpe hopes Kingman can also go on to better things following the Solario Stakes and added: “Of course we all hope he is going to be a nice horse, and that all that has been said and written about him is correct, but if he isn’t a good horse this will give us a pretty good idea of where we are and we can campaign him accordingly.”
fonte: RacingPost
