Sea Moon an entry for Chester Vase by Sir Michael Stoute - Horse Racing
The racehorse that was a betting favourite for the Investec Derby on Friday, Sea Moon, is now also named among sixteen other horses as entrants at the six-day stage for the Group 3 event of the MBNA Chester Vase. The race is held over a distance of one mile
and four furlongs and is scheduled for Thursday.
Sea Moon, trained by the excellent Sir Michael Stoute, is the colt who was cut across the board for Epsom to the general odds of 16-1. The spread was for the Classic by Pricewise’s Tom Segal in Friday’s Racing Post. If Sea Moon takes his chance and manages
to triumph over the others in the Chester Vase, he will have given trainer Stoute his third victory in the last six runnings of the Derby trial. Stoute’s earlier two victories came when Doctor Freemantle won the race in 2008 and Papal Bull bagged it two years
before that.
Meanwhile, trainer Adrien O’Brien, will be entering three of his horses in the Chester Vase. This is a race which he won two years ago with the help of Golden Sword. The three competitors from O’Brien’s side will be Memphis Tennessee, Treasure Bench and
Soldier Of Fortune, who ended up placing second in the Ballysax Stakes at Leopardstown earlier in the month.
Another prominent racehorse among the entries is Nathaniel, who is trained by John Gosden and finished second behind first placed Frankel and then Picture Editor on his two starts last year before suffering a loss in his maiden tag just recently at the ground
in Haydock.
Stoute, winner of four of the previous six runnings of the Betfair Huxley Stakes, has only a single entry for the running of the Group 3 event this year. The colt named Verdant, in his most recent appearance in the john Porter Stakes at Newsbury, finished
the race down the field.
Trainer Gosden, who was successful in the race a year ago on account of Debussy, also has a single entry for the Betfair Huxley stakes this year in Taqleed, a replacement for Lincoln who was withdrawn quite late.
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