Appleby could be minded to work back from Middle Park with Inner City Blues
By Racing TV
Last Updated: Mon 3 Aug 2026
Charlie Appleby is willing to exercise patience with exciting juvenile Inner City Blues, who could be saved for Newmarket’s Tattersalls Middle Park Stakes next month.
The €900,000 breeze-up buy has excelled in his two outings to date, following up a taking York debut in the July Stakes at Newmarket, a piece of form that was boosted when Hugo Palmer’s runner-up Adaay Of Scarlett again ran with credit at Goodwood last week.
The son of Blue Point holds upcoming entries in the Curragh’s Keeneland Phoenix Stakes on Sunday, York’s Gimcrack Stakes and the Prix Morny at Deauville.
Charlie Appleby spoke to Racing TV after Inner City Blues landed the July Stakes.
However, the priority appears to be for the colt to be tuned up to concert pitch on September 26, where he could be tasked with providing Appleby with a third successive win in the Rowley Mile’s autumnal Group One for the youngsters.
Appleby said: “I think he’s just doing a bit of growing at the minute, he looks well but I’m very much of the mindset that he’s a breeze-up horse who is two from two and it is very much an autumn campaign I have in mind.
“We could work back from the Middle Park, so whether we go (to Ireland), I’d probably be hedging against it.
“We could look at the Morny as a potential option, but I’m not going to be pushing him to do anything in the near future as he looks like he’s doing some growing.”
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