A few horses offloaded and retired. After one run Dust Cover has been sold for 7500 gns, while Bouquet de Paris is now shown as owned by Andrew Balding. Handcuffed looks as if she's been retired. She didn't look to me as if she'd grown. That leaves Balding with only one Royal horse, the 2yo Seance. Haggas has two further geldings entered in the July Sales. However The Kings Falcon has been entered for the John Smith at York in July, and that entry went in days after his Carlisle win. The other entry is Golden Handshake who may get a chance to show he should be kept. Brotherhood of Man is entered for a 7f maiden at Sandown on Friday. He would be expected to improve on his debut.
The 2yo I expected to be the earliest Royal runner gets an entry on Monday. She's Seance, who's a Dark Angel filly out of Kinematic and a half-sister to Group 2 winner King's Lynn. He ran well first time out, finishing 2nd, so hopefully Seance might be forward too. She's probably the best bred of Kinematic's foals. 5 of the first 6 of her foals have won but with Dark Angel being the leading stallion used so far. Her third foal was by Oasis Dream and has now won 5 races but nothing of the class of the races run in or won by Kings Lynn. Kinematic's yearling is a colt by Blue Point and her foal is a filly by Starspangledbanner.. Brotherhood of Man was to run tomorrow but has been withdrawn. I hope that doesn't mean he's to be overtried at Royal Ascot. Talking of Royal Ascot, on Wednesday entries have been made for Rainbow's Edge in both the Gp2 Duke of Cambridge Stakes and the Kensington Palace Handicap. Treasure, who needs soft ground, is also entered in the latter race.
