Unbeaten records on line in mouth-watering Middle Park

Mums Tipple (left) and Siskin are set to clash in the Middle Park

Racing365
September 26, 2019 12:04 pm

Earthlight, Mums Tipple and Siskin will all put their unbeaten records on the line in a mouth-watering renewal of the Juddmonte Middle Park Stakes at Newmarket.

The Andre Fabre-trained Earthlight has won each of his four starts to date – most recently striking at Group One level in the Prix Morny.

Mums Tipple is two from two for Richard Hannon, having followed up a debut victory in an Ascot maiden – which has worked out tremendously well – with an 11-length demolition job in a sales race at York last month.

Hannon has a second string to his bow on Saturday in the Gimcrack and Champagne Stakes winner Threat.

Siskin provided his trainer Ger Lyons with a first Group One success in Ireland when claiming his fourth straight victory in the Phoenix Stakes – and bids to double his top-level tally in the colours of race sponsor Khalid Abdullah on the Rowley Mile.

Aidan O’Brien secured a record sixth victory in the Middle Park 12 months ago with Ten Sovereigns and this year fires a three-pronged assault, with Monarch Of Egypt – runner-up to Siskin on his last two starts – joined by Lope Y Fernandez and King Neptune.

Clive Cox’s Richmond Stakes hero Golden Horde – third to Earthlight in France on his latest appearance – and Richard Fahey’s outsider Summer Sands complete the nine-strong field.