
By Peter Moore at Newbury Saturday 20 the July 2024
Weatherbys Super Sprint day at Newbury featured seven races on the card including the prestigious Weatherbys Super Sprint Stakes run over five furlongs.
The class two race featured 19 two-year-olds with Caburn under Dylan Hogan narrowly getting the better of Hollie Doyle on Vingegaard.
Caburn made a winning start to his career at Salisbury over six furlongs last month, with the drop in trip proving no problem to the colt to give Newmarket trainer Jack Jones a Class 2 winner in just his second season of training.
The Group 3 Hackwood Stakes went to the Karl Burke trained Elite Status who followed up his previous run over C&D 63 days ago in a listed race. The horse missed Royal Ascot after knocking a joint.
“He’s been very frustrating and we were gutted he couldn’t run in the Commonwealth,” said Burke. “It’s not a serious injury, it’s just an annoying one. It’s like having a cut on your foot and you keep touching it.
“He’s wrapped up all the time and, as long as he doesn’t touch it at exercise, which he hasn’t done since Ascot, it heals. They grow out of it and I think he’s very talented.
“He has a huge stride on him but I don’t think we’d want to stretch him any further than six. Haydock would be the plan for him and Swingalong.”
Burke had July Cup runner-up Swingalong pencilled in for Haydock’s Group 1 on September 7 and was quick to add Elite Status to the team after he came from off the pace to beat Lake Forest by half a length, with last year’s Sprint Cup winner Regional back in fourth.
A week after his stable star Isle Of Jura was ruled out for the season with injury, George Scott saddled Phantom Flight to victory in the opener on the card a mile and two furlongs Class 1 Listed Race on his debut for the yard.
Isle Of Jura landed the Triple Crown in Bahrain during the winter and a trip to the Middle East could be on the agenda for Phantom Flight.
“We bought him for the Bahrain International and just wondered whether he’d end up being rated high enough but he certainly will be now,” said Scott. “He looks a really exciting recruit and the boss, Shaikh Nasser, gets all the credit. He lets me try to find horses wherever I can and he’s so supportive and willing.”
Temporize could well bid for a repeat victory in the Two mile four and a half furlong at Glorious Goodwood after making all under Connor Beasley in the two mile half a furlong Mettal UK Handicap to give trainer Syd Hosie his first winner at Newbury.
“I thought he’d have gone close at Royal Ascot last time but he just didn’t get a run,” said Hosie. “We decided to be positive and turned him loose from the four-furlong marker.” Hosie added “We might go back for the race he won last year and perhaps have another go at the Cesarewitch afterwards.”