Fintry can join André Fabre's select few at Sandown
French trainer André Fabre has a high strike-rate when sending three-year-old runners to Britain
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Your support makes all the difference.André Fabre, France’s 24-time champion trainer, is an infrequent visitor to these shores, but when he does send runners it is wise to pay serious attention.
Especially when he brings over a three-year-old. He has run just five in England in the past five years and three have won, including the 2011 Derby victor Pour Moi and this year’s 1,000 Guineas winner Miss France.
Fintry (3.15 Sandown), penalised for winning a Group Two event at Chantilly in June, has to give weight to her elders in the Atalanta Stakes at Sandown today, but this is an extremely classy filly, rated so highly in the Fabre camp that she holds entries in the very best mile races this autumn, when she might even take on Kingman. There will be some long faces if she does not pass this comparatively straightforward test in her stride.
Kingman won the Solario Stakes on this card 12 months ago and it is safe to say that there is nothing of that calibre, or anything approaching it, in today’s substandard line-up.
Aktabantay has the best form in the book, but there are some doubts concerning his temperament and others appeal more, in particular Pallister (2.40 Sandown), who should appreciate the ease in the ground and the track’s stiff finish after failing to do himself justice at Goodwood.
The last time the opening sprint was run on soft ground it was won by Ajjaadd (2.05 Sandown), who, three years on, is as good as ever and ready to strike again from his good draw.
Charlie Hills’ York raiding party last week were on fire and more success is predicted with Forgotten Hero (3.50 Sandown), back to his best at Ascot last time.
The trailblazing sprinter B Fifty Two (2.20 Chester), nabbed close to home, was one that just got away for Hills at the Knavesmire, but back at a circuit where he blitzed the opposition in June and, most importantly, drawn low, everything looks in place for quick compensation.
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