The ground should be much more to the liking of Sands Of Mali at Hamilton than the sounder surface at Meydan in March
Del Mar, Deauville, Ascot, Meydan … and Hamilton. It is all in a day’s work for Sands Of Mali, the unexpected winner of the Group One Sprint on Champions Day last October, who will add the Scottish track to his impressively varied CV when he makes his first start of the year in Britain on Thursday.
Hamilton deserve plenty of credit for pulling together the six-runner field for the British Stallion Studs Clyde Conditions Stakes, worth £17,000 to the winner, as Sands Of Mali is not the only Group One winner going to post.
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