MEDIA RELEASE: FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE - 21/05/2022 @10.45AM
COLLINGTON SEEKS TO MAINTAIN MOMENTUM AT WOLVERHAMPTON
Trainer Phil Collington has three runners declared for the Emirates Breeders Maiden Stakes at Wolverhampton, the second race of the new Arabian Racing Organisation (ARO) season. The Newmarket based handler got off to a winning start at Royal Windsor last week and seeks to maintain momentum in the mile contest at the Dunstall Park track on Monday 23rd May.
He has a strong chance with the four-year-old filly Ekleel Athbah, who came close to shedding the maiden tag in Belgium earlier this year over further and is expected to appreciate the drop in trip. Also in the Athbah Racing colours is the year younger Kafou Athbah, who will be seeing the racecourse for the first time, along with Alghazaal, a four-year-old who runs in the colours of Collington’s wife, Sheila.
Collington commented: “We’ve got some nice maidens at home, Ekleel Athbah will have learnt a lot from her run at Mons, she had a little bit of a break after that and seems in great form now. Kafou Athbah, he’s not over big, but his work’s been very good and he’s all heart. Alghazaal is a half-brother to two fillies I trained in Loolwa and Awtaar, he’s not very big either, but he’s a trier.”
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