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TRAWLERMAN OUT TO NET RED SEA TURF HANDICAP

TRAWLERMAN OUT TO NET RED SEA TURF HANDICAP Feb 2, 2023

Joint trainer Thady Gosden believes the demands of the 3000m Red Sea Turf Handicap will ideally suit Ebor hero Trawlerman. The Godolphin homebred 5yo Golden Horn gelding is on course to tackle the $2.5 million contest at the Saudi Cup meeting on Saturday, 25 February.

The application of a hood to help him settle in the early stages of his races helped him improve throughout the second half of last season.

After winning a competitive Goodwood handicap, he overcame the widest draw to land the prestigious Ebor Handicap over 2800m at York in August under a superb ride by Frankie Dettori to battle back for a thrilling victory having made much of the running. The pair finished the season by finishing third in the Group 2 Long Distance Cup on British Champions Day at Ascot.

Dettori, who is set to retire at the end of the year, has confirmed he will ride at the Saudi Cup meeting. Gosden, who trains in partnership with his father John, said: “Trawlerman has always been a very talented horse. He progressed well throughout last year, winning the Ebor. He has a great mentality and is very tough, as we saw in the Ebor.

He looked beaten but came back and ground it out at the finish. He’s very well in himself. He had a little holiday after Champions Day but he’s been training well since the start of the year. The Red Sea Handicap is an ideal race for him. It’s a very competitive race, we’ve seen that in the last couple of years, and you have to have a quality horse to get into the field let alone win it, but he’s exactly the right type. You’d like to think he could develop into a Cup horse later in the year."


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