Onwards And Upwards For Kingman’s Exciting Cosmic Year

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Impressive enough in his two starts to prompt much thought about a crack at the 2,000 Guineas, Juddmonte's Cosmic Year instead went to Newmarket for a gentler education on Friday and duly stayed on track in the Listed King Charles II Stakes. As he had at Sandown in September and at Kempton on his return in April, the Harry Charlton-trained son of Kingman and Passage Of Time travelled with purpose throughout the deep seven-furlong test. When asked by Ryan Moore, the 6-4 favourite settled the contest with a bit in hand inside the final furlong and had 1 1/2 lengths to spare over Marvelman at the line.

Harry Charlton gave the lowdown afterwards. “The race didn't pan out exactly how you would have wanted it to, as the two to his right split right. Ryan said he thought they were all going to go that way, but they didn't and he wished he would have followed them as he would have been more impressive if he had that lead to the one pole,” he explained. “He has not handled the dip perfectly, but Ryan liked the way he knuckled down in the final furlong. Barry [Mahon] and Prince Khalid's family have made the right call in that they had three horses that could have run in the 2,000 Guineas–Ryan said he could see why I didn't want to come here for a quick ground 2,000 Guineas.”

“Oisin had said this before and Ryan said he would be quite comfortable trying the quicker ground when meeting the rising ground at Ascot,” he added. “We have come here with the view to going to the Irish Guineas. I think the plan will still be to go to Ireland and I think that will suit better. You get a good pace there and you can ride them a bit differently. Whether that leads on to a St James's Palace Stakes, I think that will depend on results, and results of the 2,000 Guineas tomorrow.”

Cosmic Year strikes in the Listed King Charles II Stakes for @HarryJCharlton and Ryan Moore @TrustATrader | @NewmarketRace pic.twitter.com/WJ1L7zMguw

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Passage Of Time captured the G1 Criterium de Saint-Cloud and G3 Musidora Stakes and was placed in the G1 Nassau Stakes, G1 Prix Vermeille and GI Breeders' Cup Filly and Mare Turf. This is her third black-type winner, with the former two being Dubawi's multiple Group-winning sire Time Test and Kingman's dual Group winner Tempus. A half to Zamindar's G1 Falmouth Stakes heroine Timepiece, she is also the second dam of Frankel's dual G3 Princess Royal Stakes winner Time Lock and hails from the excellent family of the champion Twice Over and Bated Breath's GI Matriarch Stakes winner Viadera. Her 2-year-old full-brother to Time Test is named Start Of Time.

TRUSTATRADER KING CHARLES II STAKES-Listed, £55,000, Newmarket, 5-2, 3yo, 7fT, 1:24.04, gd.
1–COSMIC YEAR (GB), 131, c, 3, by Kingman (GB)
     1st Dam: Passage Of Time (GB) (G1SW-Fr, GSW & G1SP-Eng, GISP-US, $651,668), by Dansili (GB)
     2nd Dam: Clepsydra (GB), by Sadler's Wells
     3rd Dam: Quandary, by Blushing Groom (Fr)
TDN Rising Star. 1ST BLACK TYPE WIN. O-Juddmonte; B-Juddmonte Farms Ltd (GB); T-Harry Charlton; J-Ryan Moore. £31,191. Lifetime Record: 3-3-0-0, $53,847. *Full to Tempus (GB), GSW-Fr, GSW-Eng, $309,597; 1/2 to Time Test (GB) (Dubawi {Ire}), MGSW & G1SP-Eng, MGISP-US, $830,948.
2–Marvelman (Ire), 131, c, 3, Invincible Spirit (Ire)–Varamini (Fr), by Siyouni (Fr).
1ST BLACK TYPE. (140,000gns Ylg '23 TATOCT). O-Mr & Mrs R. M. Gorell; B-Gigginstown House Stud (IRE); T-Andrew Balding. £11,825.
3–Diego Ventura (Ire), 131, c, 3, Mehmas (Ire)–Leoube (Ire), by Kodiac (GB). (€88,000 Ylg '23 GOFOR; €72,000 2yo '24 TATBRU). O-Wathnan Racing; B-Sean Ronan & Caroline Hanly (IRE); T-Hamad Al Jehani. £5,918.
Margins: 1HF, 3, HD. Odds: 1.50, 16.00, 7.50.
Also Ran: La Botte (GB), Port Light (Ire), Symbol Of Honour (GB), Chancellor (GB), Big Cyril (Ire), Pellitory (GB), The Waco Kid (Ire).

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