Acklam Express booked for Goodwood after huge Ascot run
Nigel Tinkler’s stable star defied odds of 200-1 to finish third to Nature Strip.
Nigel Tinkler reports that it is the Group Two King George Qatar Stakes during the Glorious Goodwood Festival next for Acklam Express following the four-year-old’s podium finish at Royal Ascot. The Mehmas gelding was sent off at 200-1 for the King’s Stand Stakes won by Australian raider Nature Strip on the opening day of the Royal meeting, but made a mockery of those odds to come home in third, only a head behind runner-up Twilight Calls, who was the best of the British challenge on the day. Tinkler is now targeting a return to the Sussex Downs and a track Acklam Express excelled at as a two-year-old for his next appearance, having decided against a run in this weekend’s City Walls Stakes at York.🚀🇦🇺 Wow! What a performance from NATURE STRIP!
The Australian raider takes the King’s Stand Stakes. pic.twitter.com/rZsJs0qdJQ — Ascot Racecourse (@Ascot) June 14, 2022
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