RAKTI SMASHES COURSE RECORD
Rakti was at his very best yesterday when
smashing the course record on his way to a five length victory in
the Gr.1 Juddmonte Lockinge Stakes at Newbury. The six-year-old son
of Polish Precedent, who was winning his sixth Gr.1 race, is one of
the most versatile horses in the world having won at Gr.1 level at
a mile, a mile and a quarter and a mile and a half. Rakti, who was
brilliantly ridden by Philip Robinson and trained in similar vein
by Michael Jarvis, was bred by Azienda Agricola Rosati Colarieti,
He won the Gr.1 Derby Italiano in the colours of Scuderia Il Poggio
before being bought by Gary Tanaka.
Rakti is now likely to run in the Gr.1 Queen Anne Stakes at Royal
Ascot at York. A son of Darley’s Dalham Hall-based Champion French
Miler Polish Precedent, he is one of a number of Gr.1 winners by
the son of Danzig. They include the Champion, multiple Gr.1 winner
and sire Pilsudski (Anngrove Stud), Gr.1 Sheema Classic winner
Polish Summer (Haras de Mortree) and the dual Oaks winning filly
Pure Grain.
Rakti and Polish Summer share another factor in common as they are
both out of RAINBOW
QUEST mares, as is the Gr.2 winner Riyadian and the
Listed winner Shuwaib. A similar successful combination was borne
out in the Listed Kilvington Stakes won by Khalid Abdulla’s
homebred filly Kind. She too is out of a Rainbow Quest mare and is
by another son of Danzig in Danehill.
Date:
17 May 2005