Question Answered: Tactics or Straight Race
Conduit Ire (Dalakhani Ire) earned a respectable 127 RPR for a solid mid-level performance in winning the Betfair King George VI And Queen Elizabeth Stakes on Saturday.
The Aga Khan's Alamshar and Coolmore's Montjeu posted the highest KG rating in the last 10 years at 133.
Given that Conduit peaks later in a year, trainer Sir Michael Stoute is seriously considering entering him in the August Juddmonte International to run against Sea The Stars Ire (Cape Cross Ire) again as well as the Qatar Arc de Triomphe and Breeders' Cup Turf which he won in 2008.
Sea The Stars absence from the KG was felt pre-and-post race. Every horse is being measured by his form this year and, according to the experts, his form looks better and better as horses he has beaten win other good races.
Questions now arise as to how good the Arc favourite Fame and Glory (Montjeu Ire) is. Stoute has every reason to see him as vulnerable to his Conduit.
The Arc is the one race Stoute has not won and he has five horses he may enter.
Conduit produced Stoute's first St Leger; perhaps he can give the Master his first Arc.
Alwaary USA (Dynaformer USA), the exciting fourth horse of the race, has created intense speculation about his next race and is quoted at 8.1 for the St Leger, but his owner Sheikh Hamdan Al Maktoum prefers keeping him at a mile and a half.
Racing Manager Angus Gold thinks that York's Great Voltigeur might be his next stop.
Sadly, the St Leger (once considered the final lap of the UK Triple Crown) cannot draw the best middle-distance horses.
Answer to Tactics or a Straight Race: Both
Two teams of three each using acceptable team tactics, Ballydoyle-Coolmore vs Stoute-Ballymacoll, battled it out and the best horses placed of the better-balanced team.
The three lone rangers only had a look-in with Alwaary's experienced jockey Richard Hills giving him his best chance from an out-of-the-way near last to fourth on the outside.
The Aga Khan's Alamshar and Coolmore's Montjeu posted the highest KG rating in the last 10 years at 133.
Given that Conduit peaks later in a year, trainer Sir Michael Stoute is seriously considering entering him in the August Juddmonte International to run against Sea The Stars Ire (Cape Cross Ire) again as well as the Qatar Arc de Triomphe and Breeders' Cup Turf which he won in 2008.
Sea The Stars absence from the KG was felt pre-and-post race. Every horse is being measured by his form this year and, according to the experts, his form looks better and better as horses he has beaten win other good races.
Questions now arise as to how good the Arc favourite Fame and Glory (Montjeu Ire) is. Stoute has every reason to see him as vulnerable to his Conduit.
The Arc is the one race Stoute has not won and he has five horses he may enter.
Conduit produced Stoute's first St Leger; perhaps he can give the Master his first Arc.
Alwaary USA (Dynaformer USA), the exciting fourth horse of the race, has created intense speculation about his next race and is quoted at 8.1 for the St Leger, but his owner Sheikh Hamdan Al Maktoum prefers keeping him at a mile and a half.
Racing Manager Angus Gold thinks that York's Great Voltigeur might be his next stop.
Sadly, the St Leger (once considered the final lap of the UK Triple Crown) cannot draw the best middle-distance horses.
Answer to Tactics or a Straight Race: Both
Two teams of three each using acceptable team tactics, Ballydoyle-Coolmore vs Stoute-Ballymacoll, battled it out and the best horses placed of the better-balanced team.
The three lone rangers only had a look-in with Alwaary's experienced jockey Richard Hills giving him his best chance from an out-of-the-way near last to fourth on the outside.
Posted by susan trevelyan-syke at 7/30/2009 8:53 AM 
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