Joel Stakes

And talk of New York, I mean, This is a horse that has grown up before our eyes during the course of the season, isn't it? I mean, this is a horse that was just too immature, but still ran with credit in the St.

James's Palace Stakes, but threw a big chance away at Goodwood and then came back for the Joel Stakes and completely dominated inferiors at that level.

Although most people would laugh.

I'd love to own them or have them in the stable.

He's a fascinating runner, uh, as is Charlie Appleby's Talk Of New York as well.

Career best effort to win was at the Joel Stakes maybe the last day in, uh, Newmarket, and, uh, it was a Group Two.

He needs to improve, but I think there's a profile there that he is improving.

Charlie Appleby's horses are in cracking form, really finishing the season off well.

Talk Of New York certainly proved himself.

Um, he looks as though he was a more mature and capable horse, and able to take on the best at, at Group One level as a result of winning the Joel Stakes last time, but this will be a whole different order.

That's a Group One horse beating up, uh, lesser horses in a Group Two race.

This is him taking on proper Group One horses.

Yeah, you, you don't really have to rack your brains too hard to, to recall horses like Vercingetorix winning the, the Jabal Hattar and then finishing a brilliant second in the Dubai Duty Free.

Soft Falling Rain winning the Godolphin Mile looking so impressive and then coming for a campaign i- in Britain that, that saw, that saw w- win the, the Joel Stakes.

Uh, uh, what sort of horses do you think you're gonna be, you're gonna be bringing this time?

So the plan has, uh, taken a few, a few turns as we've, um, got closer and closer to executing.

Will Buick held him at the back of the field to try and settle, uh, the horse, and in the end he got to Sheaem too late and was beaten that day.

Now, it looked when he won the Joel Stakes Group Two at Newmarket last time out, he thumped The Lost King that day, and it looked as though they were winning the battle, didn't it, Nick? With the way that this horse was able to conserve his energy during the early stages.

He wasn't, um, overdoing it over the Rowley Mile, and therefore it looked as though he really could build on that potential.

The trainer, Charlie Appleby, said afterwards that obviously he, he's not in the QE II, and they would think about it.