Horses in training

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This son of Motivator is a real chip off the old block in that he possesses the typical Motivator head, shoulder and general outlook; a very nice colt with plenty of ability.

This colt has done particularly well and there is no question that he is a more substantial horse to look at this year. He has a somewhat wintry coat and perhaps he doesn’t quite look as right in his skin as some of the others I saw but this will all change when his exercise is stepped up in February. Like all of Michael Bell’s horses he will only be trotting throughout January. The long term plan is to aim him at the Dee Stakes (Gr 3) at Chester on 7th May and to very much take it one step at a time from there.

Pollenator is a neat, strong, racy filly who has similar characteristics to her sire and was very eye-catching on the gallops as a two year old. She followed up her Newmarket maiden victory with a fantastic win in the DFS May Hill Stakes (Gr 2) at Doncaster in the Autumn before coming to Highclere Stud for a well deserved break.

I was thrilled to bits with this filly when I saw her today at the Stud recently. She really has developed in all of the right places and looked an absolute picture of health. She will return to Richard Hannon towards the end of January and she is likely to head for one of the 1,000 Guineas trials or possibly even go straight for the race itself. It will be interesting to see how far she stays but we will know a lot more when she has taken on the best fillies over a mile. I suspect that she will stay up to a mile and a quarter but who knows whether she will get the Oaks trip!

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