Royal Sovereign Stakes Field – 2014

Race 4 – 1:55PM ARROWFIELD ROYAL SOVEREIGN STAKES (1200 METRES)
Of $500,000.1st $300,000, 2nd $100,000, 3rd $50,000, 4th $25,000, 5th $10,000, 6th $5,000, 7th $5,000, 8th $5,000 GROUP 2
Set Weights, Three-Years-Old, Apprentices cannot claim.Field Limit: 16 + 4 EM

 

No Horse Trainer Jockey Barrier Weight
1 SIDESTEP Peter Snowden 5 56.5kg
2 SAFEGUARD Peter Snowden 10 56.5kg
3 DOTHRAKI Gerald Ryan Nash Rawiller 3 56.5kg
4 IN CAHOOTS Phillip Atkins Damien Oliver 6 56.5kg
5 NEVER CAN TELL Anthony Cummings Zac Purton 1 56.5kg
6 TURQUOISE KING Michael, Wayne & John Hawkes 8 56.5kg
7 BOSS LANE Ron Quinton Sam Clipperton (a) 4 56.5kg
8 HAVANA Paul Messara Craig Williams 11 56.5kg
9 CHAUTAUQUA Michael, Wayne & John Hawkes 9 56.5kg
10 THUMP Kris Lees Jim Cassidy 7 54.5kg
11 BOUNDING Ken Kelso Mark Du Plessis 12 54.5kg
12 SHAMALIA Bart & James Cummings Glyn Schofield 2 54.5kg

 

In the news:

Talented colt Sidestep has snapped a year-long absence from the winners’ circle and could have earned himself a shot the $2.5 million TJ Smith Stakes.

The three-year-old had not won since the Pago Pago Stakes at the corresponding Rosehill meeting last year but trainer Peter Snowden is hoping the victory in Saturday’s Listed Darby Munro Stakes (1200m) is the confidence-booster the colt needed.

Sidestep will line up in the 2014 Royal Sovereign Stakes Field
Sidestep will line up in the 2014 Royal Sovereign Stakes Field

“It was a race he needed to win,” Snowden said.

“He’s a talented horse.”

Snowden will consider winkers or blinkers for the colt’s next start, which will be in either the Group One TJ Smith Stakes against older horses or the Royal Sovereign Stakes against his own age.

Sidestep finished second in the Golden Slipper last year but had a fruitless spring where interference in his early campaign starts cruelled his chances.

Snowden said Sidestep had started thinking about other horses around him and hadn’t been concentrating on the task at hand which is why he thinks winkers or blinkers would help.

“At home he works as good as any horse in the stable, so you know he’s got the ability,” Snowden said.

Snowden said the TJ Smith Stakes, where he would likely get a genuine speed, could suit the colt.

“But if we choose not to go there, the Royal Sovereign is the race we’ll go to,” he said.

Sidestep ($4) settled back in the field with 59kg and finished down the outside to beat Bound For Earth ($13) by a half head with three-quarters of a length to Northern Glory ($9) third.

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