Racing: Carroll says Cambridgeshire should be just right for his Swiftly Done

Tuesday 25 September 2012

THE Godolphin operation is not aversed to running some of their charges in the better handicaps on the racing calander these days, and the organisation, the idea of Sheihk Mohammed, has Quick Wit in the Cambridgeshire at Newmarket on Saturday, where he will be burdened by top weight.

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With David O'Meara taking out Set The Trend, the Saeed bin Suroor-trained Quick Wit, who picked up a 4lb penalty for a recent win at Doncaster, will head the weights, should he run.

Really looking forward to the race is trainer Declan Carroll with Swiftly Done, who has had his eyes on the big prize since the five-year-old won at Doncaster in early June.

He had a troubled passage last time out in the Betfred Mile at Glorious Goodwood when beaten just more than three lengths into seventh. "This has been the plan since he won at Doncaster in June," said Carroll. "If the forecast for rain is right, that should suit him as we know he handles testing ground well."I've been pleased with him all season and he's been training well since Goodwood. He was unlucky not to be closer in the Betfred Mile. I'm not saying he'd have won, but he would have been closer."That form is top class. It proved to us he's worth his place in races like this. I thought he'd get in off 94 so we didn't see any need to run him again to get him any more weight and this has been the plan anyway."I'm sure he'll get the trip, certainly the way he finished at Goodwood suggested it."Hugo Palmer has not yet made up his mind whether or not to run his filly Making Eyes. She is also entered in the Mawatheeq Rosemary Stakes at Newmarket 24 hours earlier. "She's been confirmed for the Cambridgeshire but holds an entry in a Listed race on Friday," said Palmer yesterday. "She worked this morning and went extremely well and as the rain falls in Newmarket that means the ground might go our way."We'll have a long look at the Listed race and if it looks like cutting up we could go there instead of the Cambridgeshire, but Joviality is entered in the Listed race and I don't see the point in taking on a horse rated 112 only getting 5lb. We're rated 99.* TRAINER Roger Charlton is considering his options for his promising colt Dundonnell, who was runner-up in the Champagne Stakes at Doncaster after winning at York.The colt has entries in the two major autumn Group 1 events for juveniles, the Dewhurst Stakes at Newmarket on October 13 and Racing Post Trophy at Doncaster two weeks later."I've no idea where he's going to go next. He was never going to run in the Royal Lodge," said the trainer. "The Dewhurst and the Racing Post Trophy are still possibles. He's very well."The unbeaten Rosdhu Queen is among 15 two-year-olds left in the Cheveley Park Stakes at Newmarket on Saturday. The William Haggas-trained youngster has won all her three starts, culminating in the Group 2 Lowther Stakes at York last month.She now goes for success at the highest level in this prestigious contest also over six furlongs.Trainer Jeremy Noseda would love to see fast ground for The Gold Cheongsam following her win in the Weatherbys Insurance £300,000 Two-Year-Old Stakes at Doncaster. "I was delighted with her performance because she won a competitive race on ground which was far from ideal for her," he said."When horses do that you know they are in good nick. To me, the ideal ground for her would be firm. We don't get that very often nowadays but that would be what she wants."We go to Saturday and she's in tip-top form, my concern is ground conditions."If Doncaster had been a £50,000 race, I wouldn't have run. It's £300,000 and it had been in our minds for a good few months that was the race to go to, because conditions as far as weight suited. We just had to give it a go and take a chance."* Linda Perratt, who only trains five minutes from the track, landed the Racing Post Form With Totepool Handicap with High Resolution at Hamilton Park yesterday where racing was given the go-ahead after two inspections.The gelding, sent off at 8-1 and owned by her mother, Helen, came from last to first to pip long-time leader Robert The Painter by half a length under Hawick-born appretince Garry Whillans.Perratt, who operates from her yard just outside East Kilbride, said: "My mum couldn't be here today as she had a little fall in the house on Sunday but she's fine and will feel even better after this. She's leading owner at Hamilton in 2012 with one meeting to go and her colours could be flying from the grandstand next year if she remains in front."Lambourn-based Jo Hughes ended a spell on the cold list when 8-1 chance Exzachary upset the 3-1 on favourite Fraserburgh in the British Stallion Studs Supporting British Racing EBF Maiden Stakes.After 56 days and 35 runners without success, the winning trainer said: "It's good to be back in the winners' enclosure. Our horses have been a bit quiet after a good start to the season but, overall, I can't complain as its been a great first full year for me. J P [Guillambert] said this horse handled the ground well but was still a little bit green. He tried the hood on him for the first time and we will probably look at a nursery for him now."* Shantaram may return to action in the Qatar Prix Chaudenay at Longchamp on October 6 after being forced to miss key engagements.The three-year-old colt, trained by John Gosden, skipped the Great Voltigeur Stakes at York last month after having mucus on his lungs.Connections then ran out of time to have him ready for the Ladbrokes St Leger at Doncaster. He has not run since winning the Bahrain Trophy at Newmarket in July."He's working away and I'm very hopeful he will run again this year," said Hugo Lascelles, racing manager to owner Lady Bamford."We might run him at Longchamp in the Group 2 over one-mile-six on the Saturday of Arc weekend."

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