Duke Of Clarence confident to complete hat-trick
Duke Of Clarence’s profile shows two triumphs off six starts. He has run five of his races over standard courses and one on good surface. Today at Windsor, the legendary trainer Richard Hannon’s grey colt is going to face an entirely different track in the
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The class 4 race will take place over the soft course of 1 mile, 2 furlongs and 7 yards. Since the three-year-old Irish colt is not familiar with such sort of race conditions, it will be pretty hard for him to adjust his pace according to the ground.
But, Hannon seems to be quite satisfied with the young colt’s preparations who is coming straight from two consecutive triumphs.
Hopefully, the son of Verglas out of Special Lady will make his maiden Windsor trip successful as he has been preparing for this constantly for the last couple of weeks.
Much to his advantage, Duke of Clarence will run under Richard Hughes who was on his back when the maverick sprinter broke his maiden at Kempton by winning the Free Betdaq Cheltenham Preview Here Tonight Median Auction Maiden Stakes on March 7.
Following that epic victory, the skilled runner stunned all the sport fans by beating the hot favourite runner, Scottish Boogie, for the sake of the title of BNP Paribas "Be Hopeful" Handicap (Div I). That race went down at Bath on October 1.
These two back-to-back victories have spiked up his confidence level greatly. Thus, he will not take much time to adjust to the course and outplay his competitors. The only thing he needs is consistency of pace.
Play Street is the only runner who can prove to be a threat for him. The Jonathan Portman trained chestnut filly broke her maiden with the title of Shares In Ishi Amy @ chrisbeekracing.com Fillies' Handicap on July 13----the track was soft.
During the same month, she won Tony Foxwell Memorial Fillies' Handicap at Bath. However, she failed to retain her form and delivered a couple of below-par performances during August-September.
In this scenario, a head-to-head battle is imminent between Play Street and Duke Of Clarence. Good luck to the duo.
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