Tenability and trainer William Haggas both remained in excellent form as success in the valuable Silent Pool Gin Handicap was the highlight of a fruitful afternoon at Ascot.<\/p>\n
The three-year-old has run six times to date and after getting off the mark at Windsor in June, he has followed a consistent upwards trajectory into the handicapping sphere when winning his three most recent starts.<\/p>\n
A course-and-distance triumph at the Shergar Cup led into a return to Ascot, where he went off at 85-40 under Cieren Fallon and proved he had more to offer still with a one-length victory.<\/p>\n
\u201cI had to just pull him out and light him up when I needed him most, in hindsight I could have sat longer and he probably would still have won anyway,\u201d Fallon told Sky Sports Racing.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe\u2019s a horse that is going through the ranks, he did very well to win here the last day and he\u2019s improved from then.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhen he felt a bit of pressure, I could feel I still had a bit of horse left underneath me. I really like this horse, he\u2019s done everything the right way round.\u201d<\/p>\n
It was also successful day at the office for Fallon, who won the Silent Pool Gin \u2018Confined\u2019 Handicap as Haggas\u2019 Crown Of Oaks came out on top by six and a half lengths as the 8-11 favourite.<\/p>\n
The trainer said: \u201cHe ran a nice race as a two-year-old but he was awful at Redcar earlier in the year so we gelded him. He was good today in a trappy race. I thought he\u2019d half ran off with Cieren to start with, but he settled into a good rhythm and won well.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe\u2019s in the Cambridgeshire and everyone else seems to think he\u2019s got a chance, but he\u2019s got to get in. The penalty for winning today will help. I don\u2019t suppose he\u2019ll run off 85 again for a while, so we probably ought to have a look at that.\u201d<\/p>\n
The Haggas treble was then completed by Abloom in the tote UK British EBF Premier Fillies\u2019 Handicap, who won in good style under Marco Ghiani as the 2-1 favourite.<\/p>\n
The Schweppes Handicap, another significant prize, went the way of Native Warrior, ridden by Jamie Spencer and trained by Karl Burke for owners Wathnan Racing.<\/p>\n
After starting as the 100-30 favourite, the four-year-old built on some competitive efforts this season to prevail by a length and a half.<\/p>\n
\u201cKarl just said to get plenty of cover, I was a bit further back than ideal but he came alive,\u201d said Spencer.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe was quite lazy early in the race and when he hits the front he doesn\u2019t do much, James Doyle has ridden him and he said the same.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe was a little bit unlucky at Goodwood because he was slow away, it\u2019s a bit easier on a straight track when that happens.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tenability and trainer William Haggas both remained in excellent form as success in the valuable Silent Pool Gin…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":119084,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[3004,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-119083","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-racing","tag-racing","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119083","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=119083"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119083\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/119084"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=119083"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=119083"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=119083"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}