By Tom Frary
One of the season's more exciting 2-year-old prospects, Juddmonte's TDN Rising Star Field Of Gold (Ire) bids to emulate his sire Kingman (GB) on Saturday as he looks for a first pattern-race success in the feature G3 Solario Stakes at Sandown. Kept back for this seven-furlong staging post by John and Thady Gosden since his impressive success in a Newmarket novice at the July Festival, the grey meets some other fascinating types in Jeff Smith's clear-cut Salisbury novice winner Royal Playwright (GB) (Lope De Vega {Ire}), an Andrew Balding-trained son of his G1 Juddmonte International heroine Arabian Queen (Ire) (Dubawi {Ire}), and Valmont, Ballylinch and Ecurie des Charmes's Leicester novice scorer Matauri Bay (Ire) (Lope De Vega {Ire}) from Ralph Beckett's talented crop of juveniles.
Ballydoyle Juveniles Out In Force…
In The Curragh's G3 Newtownanner Stud Irish EBF Stakes, Ballydoyle put forward the Goodwood maiden winner Dreamy (Ire) (American Pharoah), while the card's G3 Heider Family Stables Round Tower Stakes sees the stable's impressive course-and-distance maiden winner Ides Of March (Ire) (Wootton Bassett {GB}) also occupy favouritism. Aidan O'Brien sends a rare runner to Craon for the Listed Criterium de L'Ouest Haras de Bouquetot, with the Killarney winner Lambourn (Ire) (Australia {GB}) flying the flag under Christophe Soumillon.
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