Oliver Sherwood's very talented chestnut filly Queens Gamble has the world at her feet and having been unbeaten on both her bumper starts to date she will next to head to Market Rasen before a crack at the Champion bumper in March.
Taking on 16 rivals including strong favourite Mullenbeg, the mare went on to power clear under hands and heels to win by 10 lengths on debut at Cheltenham last April.
Seen for the first time this season back over the same course and distance stepped up to Listed company, she again went on to demolish a good field of Mares by eight lengths.
After the race Oliver Sherwood nominated a tilt at the Champion Bumper back at Prestbury Park as her big target for the season and she will now head to Market Rasen in another Listed bumper as a prep run ahead of the Grade One contest.
(Credit ATR) “We gave her a bit of a break after we didn’t run at Huntingdon because her trachea wash wasn’t 100 per cent,” Sherwood said.
She is a monster!! 🏇
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“She’s just coming back into action now, she doesn’t take a lot of work, luckily.“The aim is to go, hopefully, to Market Rasen on January 20.
“That’s the plan, but if the ground was to come up very testing then we wouldn’t run and we’d go straight to Cheltenham.”
The Market Rasen event has become a target for Willie Mullinsover the years as the leading Irish trainer has made a habit of sending a filly over to Lincolnshire in recent years and could do again this season.
However Sherwood is focusing on his filly and added: “It is what it is, I’m more worried about my own horses, let alone other people’s!
“If they come, they come, but I’ve been friends with Willie for a long time so I’d be delighted to see him there – not that he’d show up!
“It’s just exciting to have a nice mare like her, fingers crossed the ground doesn’t get too testing.”