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Owner rues rain for Limato Lockinge bid

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Limato - James Doyle wins from the field

Limato: could go for the Queen Anne or Diamond Jubilee at Royal Ascot

  PICTURE: Mark Cranham (racingpost.com/photos)  

 By Stuart Riley 7:21PM 11 MAY 2016 

LIMATO’S owner Paul Jacobs was on Wednesday left cursing the deluge of rain at Newbury that he believes has cost the 4-1 favourite his best chance of Group 1 glory this season in Saturday’s Al Shaqab Lockinge Stakes.

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More than 35mm of rain in 24 hours has changed the going description to soft, heavy in places (from good) and a wistful Jacobs said: “It’s so frustrating, to put it mildly. It’s at times like this it seems foolish to have turned down those big money offers from overseas!

“It looks an open race for a Group 1, with no standout performers or international horses, and given how he’s done over the winter and the way he’s been working we felt he had every chance. If we’d known this would be the case we could have gone for the Duke of York, but that’s history.”

Henry Candy’s four-year-old has never finished out of the first two in nine starts and filled the runner-up position in the Group 1 Commonwealth Cup and Prix de la Foret last season.

Between a rock and a hard place’

His trainer said: “I will talk to Paul in the morning and finalise plans. He will have the final say if he runs but he wouldn’t be suited at all by soft ground and I’m not sure Paul would want to do that. We might consider the John of Gaunt at Haydock as a possible alternative.”

The Group 3, run as the Timeform Jury Stakes, is over seven furlongs on May 28 but Jacobs expressed concerns over the proximity to Ascot.

“He needs three or four weeks between his races, so there is not really anything else for him before Ascot. We really are between a rock and a hard place. We wanted to run in the Lockinge as he’s in the Queen Anne and the Diamond Jubilee and it would have told us which way to go,” he said.

Limato, who drifted to a general 6-1 for the Lockinge after the rain, is a best-priced 10-1 with Stan James for the Queen Anne and 12-1 with Coral for the Diamond Jubilee.

Limato - James Doyle

Limato found only last season’s star sprinter Muhaarar too good in the Commonwealth Cup

  PICTURE: Mark Cranham (racingpost.com/photos)  

On plans for the rest of Limato’s season, he added: “Whichever race he ends up in [at Ascot] will be tougher against the international raiders like Tepin, plus you could get the likes of Time Test turning up and he won’t have the benefit of a run. Ascot certainly looks tougher than Newbury.

International options

“If it dried to good to soft we might be tempted to run for that reason, but that looks very unlikely and I don’t know if we’ll get a chance as good as this one looked all season.

“Being a gelding it’s hard to plan his season as he can’t run in a lot of the Group 1s in France and we may consider travelling him towards the end of the season to Japan, Hong Kong, even America, but we’d like to know a bit more about his ideal trip this season before doing that.

“The only advantage of missing races like this is it means he has fewer miles on the clock and as he’s a gelding he’ll have a long career. Look at what Solow did, it can be done a bit later and hopefully we can get him there.”

 

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