Blustery Newmarket Breeze for Economics and Dubai Honour

[Wandering Eyes]

Amid swirling winds across the Rowley Mile, Economics (Night Of Thunder) made a long-awaited public appearance when galloping prior to racing at Newmarket on Saturday with stable-mate Dubai Honour (Pride Of Dubai). 

Ridden by Ted Durcan, the four-year-old Economics surged ahead of lead horse Irish Admiral heading into the dip and, followed through by Dubai Honour and Andrew Tinkler, stretched out nicely on the rising ground.

The winner of the 2024 G1 Irish Champion Stakes and G2 Dante Stakes, Economics could reappear in the G1 Champion Stakes, in which he finished sixth last year, with another key gallop next week set to determine his racecourse return. The globetrotting four-time Group 1 winner Dubai Honour meanwhile has potential forthcoming engagements in Italy, Germany or France and also holds an entry for the Japan Cup.

Trainer William Haggas said of Economics, “He was a bit rusty, but he moved well and finished off well and it was good. I was hoping there would be a bit more of a crowd here to gee him up, but everyone stayed inside.

“We're trying to get him to Ascot and this is part of the process and I suppose he will be doing another piece of work Thursday or Friday and then we'll know if he is another step closer, but that has gone as well as we could have hoped for.

“Ascot is a big, prestigious race so we would like to get him there if we can but he needs to run properly, there's no point running him there just for a day out, we can do that anywhere.”

He continued, “There's a big race in Bahrain [the $1m G2 International Trophy] which the owner looks after which is obviously a big factor and there's a little Listed race [James Seymour Stakes] here in November which we could do, but that would make Bahrain difficult and I'm not sure I want to do that, so we'll see.”

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