CERTAIN LAD WINS GR.3 STRENSALL STAKES AT YORK

23 Aug 2020

One of Mick Channon’s hard-working brigade, Certain Lad (Clodovil) kept finding when others had cried enough to earn a well-deserved success in the Strensall Stakes at York. Coming in off a second in Haydock’s Gr.3 Rose Of Lancaster Stakes over 10 furlongs on the 8th of August, the 10-1 shot stayed on from mid-division to wear down Epic Hero (Siyouni) in the final yards and score by half a length, with the 2018 winner Lord Glitter (Whipper) 1 ¼ lengths in third. 

 

“We went a nice gallop today and the further I was going the better,” jockey Hollie Doyle said. “Once he got daylight he was tough. He’s a well-travelled horse, to say the least. Mr. Channon has done a great job with this horse.”

 

Successful in the Listed Criterium de Lyon and third in the Gr.2 Railway Stakes at two, Certain Lad had thrived since being tried beyond a mile and won the Listed Zabeel Turf on January the 16th. Prior to his Rose Of Lancaster effort, he had been second in the prestigious John Smith’s Cup Handicap over an extended 10-furlong trip here on July 18th and he confirmed his liking of a flat track again this time. Channon said, “he deserved that, as he’s been knocking on the door of late. He’s been on the go a while, having been to Dubai earlier this year, but he’s so tough. Any track and ground – it doesn’t make any difference to him.” Certain Lad’s dam Chelsey Jayne is a daughter of this stable’s Lady Lahar, who captured the Gr.2 Futurity Stakes, was runner-up in the Gr.3 Prix de la Nonette and third in the Gr.2 Falmouth Stakes and Gr.2 Cherry Hinton Stakes. She is in turn a half-sister to another hardy and consistent black-type performer in Jallota who took the Gr.3 Prix du Pin and was runner-up in the Gr.1 Premio Vittorio di Capua. Another of Lady Lahar’s smart progeny was the Listed Montrose Fillies Stakes scorer Classic Legend by Chelsey Jayne’s sire Galileo and the Gr.1 Nassau Stakes third and Gr.2 Duke Of Cambridge Stakes and Gr.2 Middleton Stakes runner up Rawdaa by Galileo’s son Teofilo. Lady Lahar is kin to the Listed Sweet Mimosa Stakes winner and Gr.3 Cornwallis Stakes runner-up Miss Lahar, who shares Clodovil as a sire with Certain Lad. Congratulations to owner Chris Hirst and to breeder Barry Walters.

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