New Bay’s Bayside Boy Takes The Champagne

[Wandering Eyes]

With the Gosdens and Frankie in such hot form and given the silks he carries, there was understandably a keen focus on The Queen's G3 Solario S. winner Reach For the Moon (GB) (Sea the Stars {Ire}) in Saturday's G2 Champagne S. at Doncaster but Bayside Boy (Ire) (New Bay {GB}) ripped up the script to get up late and deny the royal runner by a head. Last seen finishing runner-up in Newbury's Listed Washington Singer S. over this seven-furlong trip Aug. 14, Teme Valley and Ballylinch Stud's bay was keen early under restraint from David Egan as Dettori set out to test his three rivals. As the 8-13 favourite failed to get away from Twilight Jet (GB) (Twilight Son {GB}), the warning light was on and ultimately it was the Roger Varian trainee who wore him down close home. “I was so disappointed last time, as he was in front before and after the line and he is a nice, progressive horse,” Egan said. “We came into today knowing it could be trappy as a four-runner race, so I nursed him along and I thought he hit the line strong and won a shade cosily in the end. He'll keep progressing into an even better 3-year-old, it's just a case of getting him switched off and saving as much energy as possible on that slow ground. He's so straightforward and getting him to relax early on is probably the key. That slow ground takes the turn of foot away from the others and maybe when it rides quicker he will need to be more handier.”

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