Oh So Sharp Stakes next on the agenda for Guineas favourite Quadrilateral
By Racing TV
Last Updated: Mon 22 Jan 2024
Roger Charlton currently prefers the Oh So Sharp Stakes at Newmarket as the next target for his exciting filly Quadrilateral.
The daughter of Frankel leapt to the head of ante-post lists for next year’s 1000 Guineas with a brilliant display at Newbury on Friday – following up last month’s narrow debut victory at the Berkshire circuit with a nine-length demolition job in a conditions race.
She is set to step up in class at Headquarters on October 11 – and while Charlton is not ruling out the possibility of supplementing his charge for the Group One Fillies’ Mile at a cost of £40,000, he is in favour of running at Group Three level on the same card.
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He said: “She’s really good – and all being well, she’ll head to Newmarket in just under three weeks’ time for either the Fillies’ Mile or, more likely, the Oh So Sharp Stakes on the same day.
“She’d need to be supplemented for the Fillies’ Mile. That wouldn’t be a problem, but I think we’d probably prefer to keep her at seven furlongs for the time being.
“I’ll speak to her connections, but that would be the thinking at the moment.”
Meanwhile, John Quinn is hoping Liberty Beach can return for a possible 1000 Guineas bid next spring, after confirming his Molecomb Stakes winner will miss the rest of this season because of injury.
Liberty Beach was being readied for next weekend’s Group One Juddmonte Cheveley Park Stakes at Newmarket.
But after pleasing Quinn in a midweek gallop, she was stiff the following morning – leaving the North Yorkshire trainer no option but to call time on the current campaign.
Quinn said: “She worked really well on Wednesday, but then she was stiff on Thursday morning and sore behind – and she’s pulled muscles in her hindquarters.
“She needs three or four weeks off, so that’s the end of the year really – so we’re putting her away.”
Liberty Beach was runner-up in York’s Group Two Lowther Stakes on her most recent outing last month, to fellow Cheveley Park entry Living In The Past, on her first attempt beyond five furlongs.
Quinn set aside the disappointment of being unable to take part in that potential rematch, as he reflected on Liberty Beach’s four wins from six starts in her stellar juvenile season – and cast his mind forward to next year’s possibilities.
He said: “She’s had a great year. She’s been at all the big gigs.
“It is very disappointing, but sometimes these things can work in your favour in the long run. She’ll have a rest now, and be back in at Christmas time.”
As for the feasibility of Liberty Beach staying further in 2020, Quinn added: “We’ll stretch her out and see. We’ll get her ready and run her in the Nell Gwyn (over seven furlongs), and go from there.”
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