Notable Speech Warms Up for Moulin Tilt on July Course

NEWMARKET, UK — Amid strong winds and squally showers which served as a reminder that after this weekend the baton will be passed back across Newmarket’s Devil’s Dyke to the Rowley Mile, the 2,000 Guineas and Sussex Stakes winner Notable Speech (GB) (Dubawi {Ire}) took advantage of the July Course for one last time this season with an early-morning gallop on Friday.

Ridden by Paul Eddery, Godolphin’s chestnut colt worked over a mile alongside stable-mate Highland Avenue (Ire) (Dubawi {Ire}).

“I was pleased with how he came out of the Sussex Stakes and the plan is to head to the Prix du Moulin,” confirmed Notable Speech’s trainer Charlie Appleby. “This fitted in well to come up here. He has enjoyed himself on an away day without being put to the sword.

“Paul knows him inside out and was delighted with him and I was pleased with the way he picked up, so it was job done.”

The unbeaten juvenile Ancient Truth (Ire), another son of Dubawi, was also in action on Friday morning with William Buick over the strip of ground where he was last seen in public winning the G2 Superlative Stakes. He will head next to the G1 Vincent O’Brien National Stakes at the Curragh on September 15.

“We decided to bring him up here three weeks out from a potential look at the National Stakes,” Appleby said. “There’s a long gap from the Superlative Stakes to the National Stakes so it was a matter of getting a bit of gas out of him.

“He is a horse that I feel will appreciate a bit of juice in the ground, which he should get over there [in Ireland]. What he has done to date you can’t fault. Native Trail, Pinatubo and Quorto were all unbeaten going into the National Stakes and he is ticking the same boxes, as they say.”