Godolphin's Blue Point and Poetic Charm Headline Thursday Racing At Meydan
Godolphin's Charlie Appleby has declared two top rated stars for this weekend's race meeting at Meydan Racecourse, Godolphin’s Group One winner
Blue Point headlines the Gr. 2 $250,000 Meydan Sprint over 1000m on turf, a race in which he was second last year to the late, great
Ertijaal. The well-regarded son of Shamardal was last seen finishing a somewhat disappointing third in the Gr.1. Nunthorpe Stakes during the Yorkshire Ebor Festival.
The colt is pointed towards Al Quoz Sprint on Dubai World Cup night once again. “He has been training well,” Appleby said. “He was disappointing in the Nunthorpe and came up with a dirty scope afterward. We knew then that his future would be in Dubai during the Carnival.”
Appleby's other charge Poetic Charm towers over her fellow fillies and mares in the Gr.2 Balanchine and looks to emulate her overpowering four-length local debut in the Gr.2 Cape
Verdi.
The half-sister to Teofilo earned her second win over a mile in the process and will be attempting new territory when stepping up to 1800m for the first time in her career.
“She’s been doing well,” Appleby said. “The Balanchine field consists of the same horses she beat on her first outing here,”
A small field will go to post for the Balanchine, with Poetic Charm the highest-rated runner in the field with Cape Verdi runner-up Asoof and multiple Gr.1 winner Furia Cruzada re-opposing. Victory on Thursday will have connections dreaming of bigger things to come, with turf riches luring the royally bred daughter of Dubai to return to Europe.
“We think she will do well. This is probably her last run here and then she will likely go back to Europe,” Appleby concluded.
Credit: Dubai World Cup