Horse racing tips: ‘Superstar will be bang there on return' – Templegate's NAP to score for Aidan O'Brien
TEMPLEGATE'S TIPS Horse racing tips: 'Superstar will be bang there on return' – Templegate's NAP to score for Aidan O'Brien
TEMPLEGATE'S Sunday picks are below.
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LAKE VICTORIA (3.40 Curragh, nap)
Looked like a superstar in an unbeaten juvenile campaign that culminated in a trio of impressive Group 1 wins. She snagged top-level successes at 6f, 7f and the mile trip, running riot in the Cheveley Park before her remarkable win in the Breeders' Cup Juvenile Fillies Turf. She was below her best on return in the 1,000 Guineas at Newmarket, but Aidan O'Brien's horses tend to improve for their returns and he has a habit of bringing them forward from below-par Guineas runs.
KALPANA (3.05 Curragh, nb)
Looked the real deal last season, rounding off the campaign in the manner of a filly going places. After winning Listed and Group 3 races at Hamilton and Kempton in a common canter, she stepped into Group 1 company at Ascot and ran riot in the British Champions Fillies & Mares on Champions Day. Given that she did not race as a juvenile, there has to be a lot of hope she will blossom even further as a four-year-old.
MATTERHORN (3.48 Uttoxeter, 3.48)
Paul Nicholls saddles this seven-year-old who should have more to offer upped in trip.
Templegate's tips
CURRAGH
1.20 Composing
1.55 Albert Einstein
2.30 One Look
3.05 Kalpana (nb)
3.40 LAKE VICTORIA (nap)
4.15 Varshini
4.50 Robbies Rock
5.25 Gifted
UTTOXETER
2.03 Getuptheyard
2.38 Kaituna River
3.13 Service Minimum
3.48 Matterhorn (treble)
4.23 Leading Force
4.58 Tara Iti
5.33 Bushstreet Bowman
KELSO
2.13 Pergamon
2.48 Spartan Warrior
3.23 Wee Alki
3.58 Rewired
4.33 Theirshegoes
5.08 Cushendall
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1.48 Just A Heartbeat
2.23 School For Scandal
2.58 Doc McCoy
3.33 Thirtyfour Thirty
4.08 Man Of The Sea
4.43 Jack Sparrow Grey
5.18 Hyperbole
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