{"id":10300,"date":"2024-10-11T15:04:48","date_gmt":"2024-10-11T15:04:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bettingsitesreviewed.co.uk\/?p=10300"},"modified":"2024-10-11T15:08:38","modified_gmt":"2024-10-11T15:08:38","slug":"dubai-future-champions-festival-day-2-preview-dewhurst-stakes-cesarewitch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bettingsitesreviewed.co.uk\/blog\/2024\/10\/11\/dubai-future-champions-festival-day-2-preview-dewhurst-stakes-cesarewitch\/","title":{"rendered":"Dubai Future Champions Festival Day 2 Preview \u2013 Dewhurst Stakes & Cesarewitch Headline Card"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Newmarket<\/p>\n

Another edition of the Dubai Future Champions Festival from Newmarket concludes on Saturday, 12 October with the Group 1 Dewhurst Stakes. This is one of the top juvenile races of the entire calendar and always shapes the markets for the following season’s Classics.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Supporting this are a couple of other trials for young horses hoping to go on to better things next term. The Group 3 Zetland Stakes and Autumn Stakes offer greater tests of stamina than the Dewhurst. Elsewhere on the Newmarket card, there’s another Group 3 for older horses in the Darley Stakes.<\/p>\n

The big saying race of the meeting and one that horse racing betting sites<\/a> often take most money on is the Cesarewitch Heritage Handicap. Just 25 are declared in this edition when the maximum field is 10 more. Five races having ITV Racing coverage from here, so let’s see what our experts think about those.<\/p>\n

Newmarket Dubai Future Champions Festival Saturday Preview<\/h2>\n

1:15 – 1m 1f Group 3 Darley Stakes<\/h3>\n

\"SheikhIt’s hard to get away from impressive Cambridgeshire winner\u00a0LIBERTY LANE<\/strong>, who looked like a pattern performer masquerading as a handicapper over course and distance last month. Karl Burke’s four-year-old was so impressive off topweight in that big Heritage Handicap.<\/p>\n

Liberty Lane also landed the Suffolk Stakes here during the Guineas Festival, so a Rowley Mile nine-furlong hat-trick beckons. There may still be more to come from\u00a0Lead Artist<\/strong>, however, and he’s back up in trip for the Gosdens after a good second to Kinross over 7f at Doncaster.<\/p>\n

Although penalised for his win in this grade during Glorious Goodwood, the way he shaped that suggests the extra furlong will suit. Skellet is a notable non-runner for the same owners as Lead Artist, so\u00a0Ancient Rome\u00a0<\/strong>sneaks onto the revised shortlist back on home turf after a couple of runs on firmer ground across the Atlantic.<\/p>\n

1:50 – 1m 2f Group 3 Zetland Stakes<\/h3>\n

\"Marc<\/p>\n

Aidan O’Brien has won this twice before including with Kew Gardens and runs a couple. Clear preference is for\u00a0Shackelton<\/strong>, a colt by Camelot, who will need even further next year. He built on his Tipperary second by making all over nine furlongs at the Curragh. Ryan Moore chooses Shackelton over\u00a0County Mayo<\/strong>, who has something to find with him on a previous encounter.<\/p>\n

Ralph Beckett saddles Leicester novice scorer\u00a0Starzintheireyes<\/strong>, whose previous Newmarket maiden second has worked out pretty well. The winner went on to Group 3 success at Sandown, while the third home tasted victory in a valuable race over in France on Arc Weekend.<\/p>\n

Of the others, Epsom Wild Card winner\u00a0Too Soon\u00a0<\/strong>only needed riding out to punch his ticket to free entry into next year’s Derby. Wide-margin Yarmouth winner\u00a0Green Storm\u00a0<\/strong>is also worth a mention for the Johnston stable that often target this race at the Dubai Future Champions Festival.<\/p>\n

2:25 – 1m Group 3 Autumn Stakes<\/h3>\n

\"DerrickCharlie Appleby has won this in each of the last four years, so Haydock novice winner\u00a0Silver Peak\u00a0<\/strong>obviously commands respect. The Ballydoyle pair are big dangers, though, and none more so than Leopardstown Group 2 second\u00a0DELACROIX<\/strong>. The Rowley Mile being straight and undulating offers him a stiffer test of stamina than he encountered last month.<\/p>\n

The O’Brien second string\u00a0Genealogy\u00a0<\/strong>isn’t out of this either as his form ties in with Delacroix through another stable companion Acapulco Bay. It’s difficult to rule any of the six out, so it wouldn’t be a surprise if Beckett’s Stanhope Gardens\u00a0<\/strong>or\u00a0Wolf Of Badenoch\u00a0<\/strong>got involved for Hugo Plamer. The market doesn’t favour Nightwalker.<\/p>\n

3:00 – 7f Group 1 Dewhurst Stakes<\/h3>\n

\"MichaelAppleby and O’Brien have farmed this feature race of the Dubai Future Champions Festival in recent years, and it looks between the superpowers of Godolphin and Coolmore. THE LION IN WINTER <\/strong>is favourite for The Derby next term, least exposed of the high-profile horses and has two others for the same connections as potential pacemakers.<\/p>\n

A colt by Sea The Stars, he impressed when landing the Group 3 Acomb Stakes at York during the Ebor Festival. As the runner-up, Wimbledon Hawkeye, came out and won the Group 2 Royal Lodge here last month, the form of The Lion In Winter received a major boost.<\/p>\n