Champions day- Newmarket 17th October

Ashalanda is one that I found interesting as she made it 3 wins from 4 starts. I read in the press when I was overseas that she won first time out at Langon before winning a Gr 2 second time out at one of the Paris tracks. If you know where Langon even is, let alone that it has a racecourse, you should enter the Weakest Link. It equates I guess to winning a Kimberley maiden on debut and then a Gr 2 at Turffontein second time out. One never knows, eh?

Twice Over team eyeing Breeders' Cup Classic


OWNER Khalid Abdullah could add the Emirates Airline Champion Stakes winner Twice Over to his strong team of runners at the Breeders' Cup meeting in Santa Anita next month.

While Twice Over is guaranteed a run in the $3m Turf, connections are eyeing the $5m Classic if he is added to the owner's team.


Lord Grimthorpe, the owner's racing manager, said after Twice Over's Group 1 success: "We hadn't been looking at the Breeders' Cup before today but he has come back and won this race very well so the Classic would be under consideration. The question mark is that the race is on a surface that he's never raced on."

He outlined the owner's contenders for Santa Anita: "At the moment, we are likely to take Zacinto [TVG Breeders' Cup Mile], Midday [Emirates Airline Breeders' Cup Filly & Mare Turf] and Spanish Moon [Emirates Airline Breeders' Cup Turf].

"Father Time may go for the Marathon and Famous Name could run in the Dirt Mile. Then we have Ventura and Proviso who are in America already."

Jumeirah Dewhurst Stakes winner Beethoven is under consideration for both the Grey Goose Breeders' Cup Juvenile - for which the Aidan O'Brien-trained stablemate Alfred Nobel is an intended runner - and Breeders' Cup Juvenile Turf.

Godolphin's Buzzword, a close fifth in the Dewhurst, is a confirmed Breeders' Cup candidate.

Trainer Saeed Bin Suroor said: "We were very pleased with his run today, he ran a very solid race and was beaten by better horses on the day. We are going to aim him for the Breeders' Cup for one of the Juvenile races but have not decided which one."