Lancashire Oaks

[Pedigree Ann]

Originally Posted by NoChanceToDance

It is a great way to do it for the smaller trainers. Buying well bred flat horses for next to nothing and giving them experience in bumpers (when you know they are good enough). It gives horses so much confidence when able to win that easily. Then transfer them to the flat when they have experience and their confidence is sky high.

Except that Turbo Linn is anything but well-bred for the flat. Sire hasn't actually had any flat runners except her (and not many period). And female family is all jumpers for a couple of generations, complete with NH sires.

[Scurlogue Champ]

Originally Posted by Pedigree Ann

Except that Turbo Linn is anything but well-bred for the flat. Sire hasn't actually had any flat runners except her (and not many period). And female family is all jumpers for a couple of generations, complete with NH sires.

Add that to her race record and the bitch is still undefeated.

[NoChanceToDance]

by David Carr



THE next chapter of the Turbo Linn fairytale is setto be written at Newbury, where the remarkable filly will put her unbeaten record on the line in next Saturday's Group 3 Geoffrey Freer Stakes.

It will be a return to Pattern company for the four-year-old, who started out in bumpers but has made giant strides since and has quickly become one of the most popular horses in training thanks to wins in the Lancashire Oaks and a Listed race at Newmarket this summer.

“She will be entered on Monday for the Geoffrey Freer Stakes at Newbury on Saturday,” trainer Alan Swinbank said on Friday.

“Hopefully, they will get a drop of rain, but the plan is to go there. Newbury does a marvellous job with watering, it will be one of the safest tracks in the country. I hope Neil Callan will be able to ride her again.”

Explaining the decision to go for the 1m5f event, Swinbank said: “There is not a lot else in the next three or four weeks and the owners don't want to put the money in to supplement for the Yorkshire Oaks - it is £26,000.

“She isonly four years old, so let us get this out of the way and then we will see where we go. She has only got a 4lb penalty for winning the Lancashire Oaks, the track will suit, it is a mile-five and that will suit, and there will be more frightened of us than we are frightened of them.”

Swinbank is also set to run recent Newcastle runner-up Sheekey in the two-year-old seven-furlong race on next Saturday's Newbury card.

No physical reason has come to light as to why Jamie Osborne's stayer Geordieland faded so quickly in the final furlong to finish fifth when 6-4 favourite for last week's Goodwood Cup.

When trained in France, Geordieland wore blinkers on one occasion when beaten fourth lengths in seventh by Manduro in the Group 2 Prix d'Harcourt. However, Osborne has no plan to fit the headgear again.

“We're just taking stock of the situation, and there's no race in mind for him at this stage,” he said.