Race # 3. Ascot March 6th 2010. Oh so close

What a heart pounder!! Here for the result.

Young Sonny raced courageously in his first city outing in finishing a close 2nd to the fast finishing Saytorio. It was pretty much as we had established pre-race. We had the field covered but did not know how good Saytorio was, and we found out that he is pretty damn smart. There are big wraps around the city for him and although he got us, Sonny held out the rest of the field.

He had to do a fair bit of work early in making the position on the outside of Prosaic. Watching the replay over and over again you can see it was a very smart move by Alan Kennedy, the jock on Saytorio, to drop out of the leaders race and assume the one-out one-back spot from which he launched the final attack.

They clocked a 1:10:41 for the race, that was a little slower than the main 1200m of the day 1:09:94 and quite a lot slower than the 2yos who ran a cracking 1:09:35. Sonny's closing 35:32 was a bit slower than I thought he was capable of, and showed that he ran out of fuel towards the end.

The forward plan is a spell for a couple of months and then back as a stronger 4yo.