No one can complain about the quantity of runners at Monday’s four meetings, and at the two evening fixtures at Beverley and Windsor in particular, where the field sizes average above 12 and 10 respectively. Quality, as would be expected on a Monday, is spread a little more thinly. But on pedigree at least there are several interesting runners in the 10-furlong maiden at Windsor, including Stormy Blues (8.15), a half-brother to this year’s Ascot Gold Cup winner, Big Orange.
Stormy Blues is one of three runners for the Godolphin operation in the 16-strong field, along with Adjacent, a half-brother to three winners, and Clearly, a half-sister to three winners whose dam was a half-sister to the Lammtarra, the Derby and Arc winner in 1995. Other runners with interesting pedigrees include Fujaira Prince, a half-brother to Willie Mullins’s top-class hurdler Nichols Canyon, who won at listed level on the Flat, and Graphite, a gelded son of Galileo, whose dam, Simply Perfect, was a dual Group 1 winner in the Fillies’ Mile and Falmouth Stakes.
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