Christophermarlowe looks to stay perfect in Lingfield Derby
Trial
Christophermarlowe (Tapit) puts his unbeaten record on the line in Saturday’s
Lingfield Derby Trial, the latest
prep for Epsom’s blue riband, having already proven adept around those
Surrey contours when winning the April 22 Derby Trial over
10 furlongs.
Luca Cumani’s horses have thrived in the last fortnight and
Bartholomew Fair (Dansili) represents the stable successful with the subsequent
Derby (Eng-G1) heroes Kahyasi in 1988 and High-Rise in 1998. He took a Yarmouth
maiden in style in September before finishing seventh in the
Autumn S. (Eng-G3) at Newmarket in October.
“We feel that he is up to this sort of
level, but whether he will stay the trip is something we are not quite so
certain of,” his conditioner commented. “His dam, Rebecca Sharp, was a
miler and she is by Machiavellian who raced over six furlongs to a mile.”
Aidan O’Brien puts forward the April 24 Dundalk maiden scorer Kilimanjaro
(High Chaparral),
while Ralph Beckett supplies the unexposed Magic Dancer (Norse Dancer), who returns
after a convincing Windsor maiden success in late October.
Lingfield’s Oaks Trial is more likely to throw up a main protagonist for the Epsom
classic than the colts’ equivalent, with a subsequent Oaks (Eng-G1) winner and two
runners-up having contested this in the last seven editions.
O’Brien sends across the maiden Wedding Vow (Galileo), whose latest piece of form
when second to Legatissimo (Danehill Dancer) in Gowran Park’s Victor McCalmont Memorial S. April 26 took on another dimension
after last Sunday’s One Thousand Guineas (Eng-G1).
Last year’s May Hill S. (Eng-G2) fourth Supreme Occasion (Teofilo)
offers more proven black-type form to the mix, while the unexposed types
include Team Valor’s unbeaten Affileo (Teofilo). Unbeaten in two starts at
Wolverhampton, she is stepped up markedly in trip following her latest
outing over 9 1/2 furlongs on the Tapeta there April 2.
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