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The Sunday Syndicates Post – Vol. 2, Issue 11

Less than twelve months on from our mighty mare Cabaret Queen tackling the Grand National fences she gave birth to a Cokioro filly on Monday night. She has taken to motherhood as well as she took to the Aintree fences last year where she was the first mare home after a superb round of jumping. She was a fairytale success story for us and we can’t wait to watch and hopefully race some of her progeny in the future.

The Queens foal weighed in at 55kgs which is a good size for a maiden foal. Cokioro is a very exciting young sire who has produced some eye catching results from very small books of poorer quality mares. Cabaret Queen would rank very highly in his book so we’re very excited to see how this lady does in four to five years time. Cabaret Queen will now visit the highly exciting Group 1 winner Fifty Stars who stands his first season at Sunnyhill Stud this year.

Mise is back

Mise le Meas made a very exciting 3yo debut at Gowran Park on Thursday going down by just half a length to a much older, much bigger, much wiser, much better handicapped rival in what will turn out to be a very good race. The key targets for us was that she settled pre-race and in her race two boxes which she ticked which was great.

She was last to go in and probably lost a bit of ground at the start but settled well just at the front of the mid division. Turning for home Ben got a dream run up the rail and when he asked her to quicken she duly obliged and looked like she had the race put to bed, so much so that she hit 1/2 in running.

Jockey Ben Coen and trainer Johnny Murtagh give their feedback directly after Mise le Meas’s 3yo debut.

The 5yo Red Heel towered over Mise all the way to the line coming out on top by half a length but our lady didn’t back down from the battle and stuck her neck out the whole way to the line. In the end the 13lb swing in the weights to an older, battle hardened rival was too much of an ask on seasonal debut but we came away buoyed from a great run. The Sandringham at Royal Ascot is target number one so whether we run again before then or not remains to be seen but one thing is for certain is that we have an exciting season ahead with Mise le Meas. Timeform rated her Gowran run 100 showing she has trained on and ran a career best on ratings.

No joy for Nós

Speaking of career best runs Patrick Mullins mooted that Nós na Gaoithe’s 5th placed finish in last weekends Listed Bumper at Fairyhouse was a career best run for the 5yo. We said last week that 4th/5th in a race of this nature we’d be delighted and thats exactly what she did. Again, like Mise, getting her settled was priority number one something which she did when bounded out in front to make use of her stamina. The others just inevitably had too much pace for her.

Photo credit: Emma O’Brien

We’ll now look toward a hurdling campaign and she may make her maiden hurdle debut before the season is out. She may even end up in Galway but we’ll see how she takes to the hurdles. We know from Sonny’s that she jumps very well. Her close relation Kildisart lined up in yesterdays Grand National and her half brother was second in it so we’ll be hoping that Nós herself may develop into a National filly like her family members and her stable mate Cabaret Queen.

Trainer’s in form

We spoke about the scintillating form which Jessica Harrington started the season with last week and she looks set to unleash another well fancied 2yo today in the shape of Panic Alarm. She joined the Syndicates.Racing training roster this year along with another man who has started the season in red hot form, Jack Davison, who trains our Muhaarar filly.

Jack is already operating on a 20% strike rate this season with 2 winners from 10 runners, two 2nds, one 3rd and one 4th. One of those 2nds compromises of a very unlucky Mooneista who went down by a neck on seasonal debut in the Listed Cork Stakes. She is a filly worth following this season as she targets Group 1 glory.

The other second was Massaman who has been a revelation of late. He won a 1m handicap at the Curragh on his seasonal debut after gaining the first win of his career over 1m2f in Dundalk in December. Seven days later he attempted to follow up in a 1m Leopardstown handicap where he bumped into Zahee who looked to have 10lbs in hand based on his AW rating. Four days later on Thursday in Gowran (3rd run in 12 days) Massaman was dropped to 7f, cheekpieces were fitted and he bolted up by 7 lengths in what was a career best performance. Timeform rated that a 92 and he looks the type that will keep on progressing.

There is a host of exciting horses yet to be unleashed from his Kilarkin Stud base so safe to say we are very much looking forward to seeing what Jack can do with our filly. We ran a Grand National competition yesterday giving away a free share in this filly and safe to say it was our most popular recent comp that we have launched. It was won by Paul Fetton who successfully picked Noble Yeats to win yesterdays race.

We see this filly as a pure ball of speed much like her stable mate Mooneista. She’s sharp, she feels quick and has a great attitude toward her work. She eats, sleeps and gallops which we love to see in our fillies. She comes from a proven stakes producing family and is one we expect to have a lot of fun with this season. If you’d like to get involved click here.

Golden Mayflower set for seasonal reappearance

Our other exciting 3yo filly Golden Mayflower may also be set to reappear this week as she holds an entry in Bath on Thursday. She is not guaranteed to take up her place in the field but we’re highly excited for her anticipated return to the track.

Grangee build up

Just as the Grangee chants were beginning to fade into little echoes one can only imagine that they will gradually start to get louder and louder as the week builds to the Grade 1 Mares Novice Hurdle at the Easter Festival on Sunday. In typical Willie fashion we have no idea if we will run or not it all depends on her work this week. We have a good crew stoked up to come and we’ll look forward to the challenge of taking on Love Envoi again, this time on our home soil.

Thank you.

As always thank you for reading. This is a great time of year as we have the best of the Spring Jumps Festivals whilst the flat is gearing up. We’ve been very busy with runners under both codes and we’re only going to get busier so thank you for joining us on the journey and we’re set for a mightily exciting next few weeks and months. If there is anything I can do for you please get in touch john@syndicates.racing.

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