Thundering Blue Supplemented For York

[Wandering Eyes]

Clive Washbourn, the owner of Thundering Blue (Exchange Rate) has taken the bold step of supplementing his G2 Sky Bet York S. winner for next Wednesday’s G1 Juddmonte International at a cost of £75,000. The 5-year-old gelding, trained in West Sussex by David Menuisier has been a revelation this season and his last start defeat of Brorocco (GB) (Shirocco {Ger}) over the Juddmonte course and distance last month has seen his rating climb to 109, a figure that still sees him with a lot to find against the principals next week. David Menuisier took to Twitter earlier in the week to ponder the decision to supplement and obviously the sportsmen within Washbourn and Menuisier won out with the trainer commenting on Thursday, “Thundering Blue has been supplemented this morning to run in the Juddmonte International at York Racecourse next Wednesday. Horse racing is a sport and therefore the right decision has to be a sporting one.” Thundering Blue needs to finish in the top four to recoup Washbourn’s investment and with the likes of Poet’s Word (GB) (Poet’s Voice {GB}), Saxon Warrior (Jpn) (Deep Impact {Jpn}), Roaring Lion (Kitten’s Joy) and Cracksman (GB) (Frankel {GB}) among the 11 horses still in the mix, it will be a big ask for the horse.

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