Al Quoz Goes To America’s Extravagant Kid

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The Brendan Walsh-trained Extravagant Kid (Kiss The Kid) picked up his first graded stakes win in his 50th career start in Saturday's G1 Al Quoz Sprint. Racing in the middle of the group that broke off down the centre of the track and eventually joined with the stand's side group, Extravagant Kid was put to a drive by Ryan Moore passing the 400 metre mark. He overtook the pacesetting Equilateral (GB) (Equiano {Fr}) while Acklam Express (Ire) (Mehmas {Ire}) put in a valiant rally at the head of the small inside rail group, but Extravagant Kid proved too powerful at the finish, prevailing by a half length over Final Song (Ire) (Dark Angel {Ire}) with Acklam Express grabbing third. Heavily favoured Space Blues (Ire) (Dubawi {Ire}) came in midpack.

Saturday, Meydan, Dubai
AL QUOZ SPRINT SPONSORED BY AZIZI DEVELOPMENTS-G1, $1,000,000, Meydan, 3-27, 3yo/up, 6fT, 1:09.26, gd.
1–EXTRAVAGANT KID, 131, g, 8, by Kiss the Kid
1st Dam: Pretty Extravagant, by With Distinction
2nd Dam: Dancing Dawn, by Seattle Dancer
3rd Dam: Kathy W., by Grey Dawn II (Fr)
1ST GROUP WIN. 1ST GROUP 1 WIN. O-DARRS, Inc.; B-Vicino
Racing Stable (FL); T-Brendan P. Walsh; J-Ryan Moore.
$580,000. Lifetime Record: MSW & MGSP-US, GISP-Can,
50-15-16-6, $1,581,610. Werk Nick Rating: A. Click for the
   eNicks report & 5-cross pedigree.
2–Final Song (Ire), 127, f, 4, Dark Angel (Ire)–Rahiyah, by Rahy.
O/B-Godolphin (IRE); T-Saeed bin Suroor. $200,000.
3–Acklam Express (Ire), 122, g, 3, Mehmas (Ire)–York Express
(GB), by Vale of York (Ire). (€26,000 Ylg '19 GOFSPT; 55,000gns
RNA HRA '20 TAAUT). O-MPS Racing and M B Spence; B-Mr R
Ryan (IRE); T-Nigel Tinkler. $100,000
Margins: HF, NK, 1 1/4.
Also Ran: Equilateral (GB), Motafaawit (Ire), True Valour (Ire), Royal Crusade (GB), Man of Promise, Space Blues (Ire), Cowan, Speak In Colours (GB), Moss Gill (Ire), Khaadem (Ire).
Click for the Racing Post chart or the free Equineline.com catalogue-style pedigree. Video.

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