{"id":285,"date":"2023-09-18T03:53:50","date_gmt":"2023-09-18T07:53:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/sport\/weekend-winners-bay-bridge-no-longshot-in-next-months-arc-says-declan-rix-racing-news\/18\/09\/2023\/"},"modified":"2023-09-18T03:53:50","modified_gmt":"2023-09-18T07:53:50","slug":"weekend-winners-bay-bridge-no-longshot-in-next-months-arc-says-declan-rix-racing-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/sport\/weekend-winners-bay-bridge-no-longshot-in-next-months-arc-says-declan-rix-racing-news\/18\/09\/2023\/","title":{"rendered":"Weekend Winners: Bay Bridge no longshot in next month\u2019s Arc says Declan Rix! | Racing News"},"content":{"rendered":"
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At The Races pundit Declan Rix is taking a swing at a Sir Michael Stoute-trained five-year-old who could line up in next month\u2019s Prix de l\u2019Arc de Triomphe. <\/p>\n
The three-year-old star Ace Impact currently heads the market at 7\/2 after French Derby success, with the likes of Hukum and Westover also towards the head of the betting.<\/p>\n
But with the race having a wide-open feel at this stage, Rix has taken aim at Bay Bridge, who stepped up in trip with victory in the September Stakes at Kempton last time out.<\/p>\n
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<\/div>\n Image:<\/span> \n Luxembourg holds off Bay Bridge to win the Tattersalls Gold Cup \n <\/span> \n <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n
And with that stamina now guaranteed as well as the Group One speed over ten furlongs, he could go well at a big price.<\/p>\n
“He’s already won a Champion Stakes and they will try to win an Arc now,” Rix told the Weekend Winners digital show.<\/p>\n
“As a five-year-old, he’s a bigger, stronger horse and he rarely gets his conditions. I think he needs genuine give in the ground to show his absolute best.<\/p>\n
“Last time out on a kinder surface at Kempton on the all-weather over 12 furlongs, I thought he was brilliant.<\/p>\n
“Candleford is a good, solid yardstick and has been in good order recently and he beat him stiff showing that he stayed the trip well in a decent time.<\/p>\n
“He’s by New Bay who was placed in an Arc once upon a time and although his dam was a sprinter over six furlongs, if you go further back through the pedigree it’s from a strong Aga Khan middle distance line.<\/p>\n
“He’s unexposed over the trip. Finally he gets some cut in the ground and could show his best.<\/p>\n
“There’s not a lot of pace this year and if we got a tactical running of the Arc and he’d sit in the first three or four, you are hoping that pace over ten furlongs should see him challenge.”<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n