Voice offers plenty of promise
Jeremy Noseda and British Horseracing Authority chairman Paul Roy have a bright prospect to look forward to in 2008 if the manner of Forgotten Voice’s debut at Lingfield is anything to go by.
The owner-trainer partnership have enjoyed success with the likes of St Leger winner Sixties Icon and team up with Strike The Deal – who is part-owned by Roy - in Friday’s Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Turf race.
Forgotten Voice looks a promising three-year-old sort after swooping late under Tom Queally for a half-length victory from the 3-1 favourite Formation in the Racing Ahead Weekend At All Newsagents Maiden Stakes.
Roy’s racing manager Jane Allison said of the 4-1 winner: “He is a super horse, although he was a bit babyish.
“Tom said he is a very, very nice sort and that it was a messy race.”
Queally initiated a double as Ed Dunlop’s Malibu Girl (8-1) made the perfect start to her career with a smooth success in division one of the Racing Ahead Weekend Every Saturday Maiden Fillies’ Stakes.
Dunlop said: “She had been working nicely but is an immature filly so we will put her away for the year now and see what happens over the winter.”
Dual Classic-winning trainer Geoff Huffer failed to sign off with a victory with his final two runners, Bobski and Sonny Parkin, both failing to register success.
Huffer saddled Cockney Rebel to dazzling victories in both the English and Irish 2000 Guineas earlier this season, but after the colt’s retirement he has decided to call it a day himself.
Bobski, the 7-2 favourite, was a two-length third to the Sir Michael Stoute-trained Manaal in the Racing Ahead Weekend Only £1 Handicap.
And Sonny Parkin was well in arrears in the Racing Ahead Weekend Newspaper Handicap, with William Haggas’ Kaateb securing victory under Richard Hills.
Title-leading Seb Sanders moved on to the 171-winner mark for the season with a 35-1 double initiated as the Alan McCabe-trained Capricorn Run (7-1) forged clear for a resounding two-length success in the Racing Ahead Weekend Time Order Racecards Handicap.
His second success came as Maybe I Wont obliged as the 7-2 favourite for Simon Dow in the Racing Ahead Weekend The Punters’ Paper Claiming Stakes.
Sanders headed off to Kempton’s evening meeting for another five rides leading Jamie Spencer by four wins after his arch rival drew a blank at Bath.
But there was a sting in the tail for as he picked up a one-day ban (November 4) for careless riding on Pagan Sword, third home in the race won by Kaateb.
Dunlop’s younger brother Harry was among the winners in the following Racing Ahead Weekend Newspaper Claiming Stakes as Rosy Dawn (9-1) tasted success for the first time in seven starts as she made all under Franny Norton.
Division two of the fillies’ maiden fell to the Michael Jarvis-trained Elysee Palace as she left her debut running behind to register a 7-1 success.
