After a luckless run at the Curragh Reach The Bid is Place to make a reappearance from the Dubai International Airport World Trophy.
Trainer Darren Bunyan has set a line through the performance in the Group One Flying Five Stakes on Sunday, when he had been defeated less than four spans of his star – and reports the five-year-old prepared to go just six days after.
The County Kildare handler has verified the goal is to run and has given an entry in Saturday’s Group Three dashboard to Reach The Bid at Newbury.
“He came out of the race ideal,” said Bunyan.
“It was just one one of these days to draw a lineup. We’ve had worse days than that, although nothing worked out for him about the afternoon.
“He was not beaten too far for a horse who had nothing his way around the afternoon ”
Hit The Bid has shown that he can operate when kept occupied.
“There is no issue with all the horse running quickly,” additional Bunyan.
“He came back from the Abbaye this past year and won the Group Three Mercury Stakes (in Dundalk) not long after.
“We’re still making strategies, and it seems like he’ll go to Newbury that Saturday now.
“The ground is at his favour there. The weather forecast is very great for your week, and he is 100 per cent following the race.
“If all goes well on Saturday we’ll stick him at the Abbaye.”
The Blue Uluru of ger Lyons is currently still a potential – while others at an 11-strong entry include Beverley Bullet scorer Judicial, last week, Equilateral and recent York Listed victor Dakota Gold, who took the most Scarbrough Stakes at Doncaster.
