Duo set for return to G1 company following impressive wins

Man Of Promise and Speaker’s Corner set themselves up for major G1 targets over the coming months with exciting victories in Dubai and North America on Saturday.

Emerging sprinter Man Of Promise continued his outstanding start to 2022 with a stunning display in the G3 Nad Al Sheba Turf Sprint Sponsored By Emirates SkyCargo on Meydan’s Super Saturday fixture, beating G1 winner A Case Of You by almost five lengths. The five-year-old ran a creditable race to finish a close eighth in last year’s G1 Al Quoz Sprint but heads back into the Dubai World Cup Night feature this time in the form of his life.

Speaker’s Corner also made it two-from-two this year with an equally dominant win at Gulfstream Park, scoring by five and a half lengths in the G2 Gulfstream Park Mile. After landing G3 and G2 contests so far in 2022, another rise in class is on the cards for the Street Sense colt, with the G1 Met Mile at Belmont Park under consideration – a race famously won in devastating fashion by Frosted in 2016.

Progressive four-year-old Storm Damage provided a double on Super Saturday as he led home a Godolphin 1-2-3-4 in the new Ras Al Khor Sponsored By Emirates Airline.

Charlie Appleby was honoured at Meydan as well as he received the Best Trainer accolade at the His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum Horse Racing Excellence Awards following an exceptional 2021 for Moulton Paddocks.

In Australia, Anamoe narrowly missed out on becoming the third horse to complete the Caulfield Guineas-Randwick Guineas double as he went down by a neck to Converge on a heavy track.

The G1 Australian Cup takes place at Flemington this weekend, with Cascadian in the frame for the 10-furlong feature following his victory in the G2 Peter Young Stakes last month.