Barbican is in for the Ascot and a hat trick on Friday
The three-year-old Barbican out of Hurricane Run and The Faraway Tree will be participating in the Friday’s Keltbray Noel Murless Stakes at Ascot so that he gets all the more experienced, trained and fit for the upcoming season which has some challenging
races in store for him and the connections are pretty convinced that he will perform better than this season and bring back titles.
Barbican is one of those rare horses who get to break their maiden at the very first opportunity, which for him was on 25th February this year with jockey J P Guillambert. After this he ran six times with different jockeys and won half of those
races, one with J P Guillambert, the second with Tom Queally and the last one with Darryll Holland.
Barbican won the SEP Handicap at Doncaster with seven contestants on the field. He stayed in touch with the rest of the lot, raced along four furlong out, went headway over two furlongs out and then pushed towards the final furlong for leading till the end.
Dorcas Lane trained by Lucy Wadham was the runner up under Ryan Moore and the third to finish was Michael Dod’s Well Sharp with Tom Eaves.
At the Newmarket in July, Barbican again made a mark by winning the race with Richard Hannon’s Mariarty on track ending third and Saeed Bin Suroor’s Roayh finishing fourth.
He was an attention seeker as soon as he began the race and started chasing the leader over one furlong out, then he shot into the final furlong for leading the rest of the race and ran on till he had crossed the wire. The runner up for the race stood out
to be Marco Botti’s Halfsin with Adam Kirby onboard.
The race that Barbican won at the Ascot was a real test by all means that he did clear with impression. The lineup had two candidates from John Gosden, Seelo and Rain Mac both not even in the first three positions, Sir Michael Stoute’s Arch Fire and Mahmood
Al Zarooni’s Parlour Games.
Barbican started off with tracking the leading trio, tried to pave out in the second furlong then confronted challenge one furlong out and ended up leading the last 150 yards, held on and finished well in time.
"The trip doesn`t worry me, but a couple of the other horse do”, said Newmarket-based Bailey.
The confession above itself means that it will not be an easy one for Barbican due to the immensely capable lineup with only competition to offer. This victory would make him entitled of a hat trick.
Tags: