Mark Wallis has had a rather slow start to the year. Last night, however the champion trainer saw the return of a few popular names among his kennel, who didn’t disappoint at a rain-soaked Sittingbourne.
The first to represent Wallis in a BAGS meeting across 450m was Jogadusc Ace (6-4 favourite) who was looking to put last week’s disappointing defeat behind him, and did so by clocking an impressive 28.18secs and taking the first race.
Eye Onthe Storm (1-5 favourite), the ante-post market favourite for this year’s William Hill- sponsored Derby, also made a return to Sittingbourne, and managed to replicate last week’s performance with another successive victory which marked 15 from his last 17 starts.
Storm clocked an impressive 29.68secs, defeating runner-up Plassey (12-1) by three-and-a-half lengths and Wallis believes Storm is now fully fit and will take part in next week’s Racing Post Juvenile.
Kinda Easy (6-4 favourite) and Corrig Vieri (5-2) doubly represented team Wallis in the Stayers over 642m. The St Leger hero Easy took first in 41.12secs, as the 2009 Arc champion Vieri trailed behind, clocking 41.39secs.
A new rising star Jodu Fame (5-4favourite) who made his debut in January, gave Wallis his fourth success on the night, as he added another victory to his name and clocked an impressive 31.26secs across 500m.
Wallis literally cleaned up at Sittingbourne and has his sights set on a first major competition of the year by taking the Racing Post Juvenile. The Juvenile line up was announced in full this week and it looks set to be a fantastic race with all the leading Puppy competition winners in 2009 present plus Pat Buckley's Irish raider Newlawn Class who got the better of Eye Onthe Storm on Oaks final night.
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