The final 4 winners of the Group 1 Dewhurst Stakes have bagged Basic honours the next season – and main fancies for subsequent season’s large races try to boost their credentials at Newmarket on Saturday.
The Lion In Winter emerged because the antepost favorite with Paddy Energy for the 2000 Guineas and Epsom Derby after a taking success within the Group 3 Acomb Stakes in August – and that type has been boosted by the second, Wimbledon Hawkeye, subsequently touchdown the Royal Lodge Stakes.
The Ballydoyle juvenile faces Godolphin’s early prospects for subsequent 12 months’s Classics, nonetheless, within the type of Superlative Stakes scorer Historic Reality and Shadow Of Mild.
Dewhurst Stakes odds could be discovered on the Paddy Energy web site and Paddy Energy app, in any other case key historic traits from the final 10 renewals and a tip based mostly off the big-race stats are beneath.
Dewhurst Stakes 2024 traits
FLAT FORM
- 10/10 had not less than two profession runs
Expanded could be scrubbed from calculations having solely made a profitable racecourse debut on the Curragh final weekend.
COURSE FORM
- 10/10 had not more than two runs at Newmarket
A priority to be flagged about Godolphin runner Historic Reality, who has solely raced at Newmarket and is three from three at HQ.
SEASON FORM
- 9/10 had not less than two wins that season
Seagulls Eleven, who was third within the Group 1 Vincent O’Brien Nationwide Stakes and second behind Historic Reality within the Group 2 Superlative Stakes over C&D, and Ballydoyle outsider Rock Of Cashel are the newest to fall by the wayside.
DISTANCE FORM
- 9/10 had not less than 1 run over 7f
Shadow Of Mild is the highest-rated runner within the six-strong area following his emphatic success within the Group 1 Center Park Stakes two weeks in the past however the Godolphin fancy has completely raced over six furlongs.
Dewhurst Stakes 2024 traits verdict
The Lion In Winter – the antepost favorite for subsequent 12 months’s 2000 Guineas and Epsom Derby – emerges because the traits decide to land the Group 1 honours. It’s value noting that connections landed final 12 months’s renewal with Metropolis Of Troy.
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