Terror takes on Tiggy in Cheveley Park
The Sir Mark Prescott-trained Pallasator scored comfortably on his first attempt at two miles and now heads to Ascot for QIPCO British Champions Day on October 18 when he will run in the £300,000 Long Distance Cup, which has been upgraded to Group Two this year.
Newmarket's Cambridgeshire meeting continues today when Qatar Racing's Stroll Patrol tackles the Gr.2 Shadwell Rockfel Stakes. Trained by Charlie McBride, she was third in the Gr.3 Dick Poole Stakes at Salisbury on her latest start, and the winner, New Providence, is in opposition again. A return to seven furlongs should suit Stroll Patrol, but there are a number of classy fillies in opposition - not least the likely favourite Lucida from Jim Bolger's yard - and it will take a Group One performance to land the prize.
Tomorrow's card features the famous Cambridgeshire (15.50), a £160,000 handicap run over a mile and a furlong and first held in 1839. Within 50 years three horses had won it and the equally renowned Cesarewitch, which takes place in two weeks' time over two miles and two furlongs, a double of such diverse distances it is hard to imagine in modern times.
God Willing, who is owned by Qatar Racing and Essafinaat and trained by Ed Dunlop, gets into the Cambridgeshire near the bottom of the handicap and has Oisin Murphy in the saddle.
Purists of bloodstock and pedigrees will find greater interest in the preceding £200,000+ Gr.1 Connolly's Red Mills Cheveley Park Stakes (15.15), a race for two-year-old fillies. Ten have been declared, headed by the very quick Tiggy Wiggy from Richard Hannon's stable, but Qatar Racing's Terror is an intriguing member of the field. She was bought by David Redvers Bloodstock for €75,000 at Goresbridge Breeze-Up Sale in the spring.
David Simcock sent Terror to Warwick for her racecourse debut last month, and she won by ten lengths, a hugely impressive performance against race-fit and experienced rivals. Simcock said of that contest: "It was a great introduction and she was thoroughly professional in every respect. She came out of the race very well both mentally and in terms of soundness."
Another smart two-year-old, Elm Park, carries Qatar Racing colours for the first time in tomorrow's Gr.2 Juddmonte Royal Lodge Stakes (14.35) after a share in him was purchased from Kingsclere Racing. Successful in two of his three starts, including the Listed Stonehenge Stakes on his latest outing, Elm Park has been supplemented for tomorrow's race.
Other Stakes-race runners for Qatar during the next two days include Violet Symphony, who runs in a Listed race at Saint-Cloud (14.20) today, and Caravan Rolls On, who is trained in Australia by Danny O'Brien, and who tackles a Listed handicap at 07.00 UK time tomorrow.