Ridgemont’s Highlands five time Gr1 winning resident sire Canford Cliffs top- class son Salouen, who was coming off a 150 day rest following his Gr1 Longines Hong Kong Vase run last December, made all the running as a hot-order favourite to win the Listed Carey Group Buckhounds Stakes run over 2200m at Ascot on Saturday.
The 5yo has shown top-class ability and displayed no ring-rustiness as he set a steady pace and quickened 400m out to win unchallenged under Oisin Murphy.
The high-class Salouen (red cap) scores an earlier win
A tough international campaign last year included a very impressive sixth, despite being baulked for a run, behind superstar Enable in the 2018 Gr1 Qatar Prix de l’Arc de Triomphe.
Silvester Kirk’s smart entire holds entries in the Gr1 Investec Coronation Cup – a race win which he was narrowly pipped in 2018 – at Epsom at end May, as well as for the Gr1 Princes Of Wales’s Stakes and the Gr2 Hardwicke Stakes at Ascot in June.
Winner of all of the Gr1 Irish 2000 Guineas, Gr1 St James’s Palace Stakes, Gr1 Sussex Stakes, Gr1 Lockinge Stakes and Gr1 Queen Anne Stakes, Canford Cliffs has enjoyed success in both hemispheres and has 26 black type performers to his credit.
He will stand his second season at Ridgemont Highlands, the famous home of champions in the Robertson Valley, for a live foal fee of R30 000.
Please contact Amanda Carey – [email protected] – for any bookings or package deals for travelling mares.
