Showcasing’s Soldier’s Call Takes the Flying Childers

[Wandering Eyes]

   Two major autumn tests await the dynamic Soldier’s Call (GB) (Showcasing {GB}) after the diminutive sprinter dominated Friday’s G2 Wainwrights Flying Childers S. at Doncaster. Sent straight to the lead by Danny Tudhope, the June 23 Listed Windsor Castle S. and Sept. 1 G3 Prix d’Arenberg scorer had all rivals on the stretch inside the final quarter mile and galloped relentlessly to a 2 1/4-length verdict over Well Done Fox (GB) (Acclamation {GB}) as the 4-1 second favourite. “He’s got to go for a group 1 now and it’s a choice of either the G1 Prix de l’Abbaye or Breeders Cup Juvenile Turf Sprint or both,” trainer Archie Watson said. “He recorded a faster time than Marsha when she won the Abbaye over the same trip at Chantilly last time and he’d be getting a load of weight from the older horses in the Abbaye. When he gets a good break he’s impossible to catch and on this track he could really stretch out. We ran Corinthia Knight in the Breeders Cup race on the undercard last year and we’d be delighted to go back–the 5 1/2 furlongs around a turn would suit the European 5-furlong horses.”

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