Elegant Man has the Lockinge and Coronation Cup as choices after his Good Friday triumph was adopted by a lift from the Center East.
The Amo Racing-owned four-year-old ran 3 times via the winter, successful twice at Dundalk and coming residence second behind Insurgent’s Romance within the Listed Wild Flower Stakes at Kempton.
The impression he made in these runs left him carrying high weight at Newcastle, the place he ran within the BetUK All-Climate Easter Basic Center Distance from a large attract stall 14.
Neither issue was a hindrance to him within the 10-furlong contest, nonetheless, and below David Egan, he was a powerful winner when crossing the road a size and a half forward of Mick Appleby’s Penzance.
“It was a big run, but we were expecting a big run and he didn’t fail to deliver – he’s a right nice horse,” stated coach Adrian Murray.
A son of the late American celebrity Arrogate, Elegant Man’s kind was shortly boosted the next day when Insurgent’s Romance struck at Group One degree to take the Sheema Basic on the Dubai World Cup assembly, a two-length victory that displays very nicely on Elegant Man after their assembly at Kempton.
“It’s huge, a huge boost. The day when we met that horse we were very, very green, it was only the second time he’d ever seen a racecourse,” Murray added.
Elegant Man is entered within the Alleged Stakes on the Curragh on Saturday however is not going to run, and is as an alternative more likely to be geared toward both the Coronation Cup or the Lockinge.
“I entered him this morning for the Coronation Cup and he’s entered at Newbury over a mile, too,” stated his coach.
“He’s entered in the Curragh on Saturday but he won’t go there, the race will come up a bit quick for him so we’ll freshen him up again.”
Murray additionally trains Bucanero Fuerte for Amo Racing, a Wootton Bassett colt who received the Railway and the Phoenix Stakes on the Curragh final yr and was third in each the Coventry and the Nationwide Stakes.
He holds an entry for the English and the Irish Guineas, however might head to Ascot for the Commonwealth Cup Trial in preparation for the Commonwealth Cup itself on the Royal assembly in June.
“He’s getting on great, we’re very happy with him,” Murray stated.
“He’ll go for the Guineas or he’ll go for a race at Ascot, a prep race for Royal Ascot over six furlongs.”