Strensall Stakes: A look on the history of the event
Named after a village of York, the Sky Bet Mobile Strensall Stakes (Group 3) is a high-profile British horseracing event that is held every year in August. This Class 1 contest is open to three-year-old or more male horses. It is run over 1 mile and 208
yards. The Sky Bet sponsored event is held at York.
Earlier, the race was just confined to fillies who used to run over 7 furlongs. Later in 1987, it was made an event of males and the organizers set the present distance as well. The event gained the Group 3 status in 2003.
Strensall Stakes’ history is adorned with excellent records and interesting incidents. So far, Frankie Dettori is regarded as the leading jockey while Saeed bin Suroor poses to be the top-ranked trainer.
Frankie Dettori has seven triumphs to his credit. He has excellently ridden to victories Shaima, Lower Egypt, Triarius, Naheef, Echo of Light and Rio de la Plata.
On the other hand, Saeed bin Suroor’s five trainees including Triarius, Naheef, Echo of Light and Rio de la Plata have grabbed the glorious title of Strensall Stakes so far.
The 2011 edition of the race was won by the H. J. Brown trained bay gelding, Green Destiny. The veteran horse was the joint favourite candidate with Dux Scholar.
The triumphant gelding delivered an outstanding performance under Kieren Fallon to finish first by the margin of 1 ¼ lengths.
Among his competitors, Tazahum finished as the runner-up while Dux Scholar stood third on the podium. The fourth and fifth spots went to Anmar and Penitent respectively.
Green Destiny derived a lot of confidence from that victory and went on to claim the ace title of the Dubai Duty Free Arc Trial (Group 3) at Newbury on September 17.
As a whole, the son of Marju out of Mubkera has half a dozen victories to his name.
Strensall Stakes 2012 is going to be held on August 24. There is found great excitement among the sport lovers ahead of the amazing event. Let us see who manages to claim the glamorous title this time.
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