Tentyris has had his sharpness honed via a gallop display at Caulfield sandwiched between races, priming him for the Group 1 Lightning Stakes return at Flemington.
Anthony and Sam Freedman’s three-year-old colt is plotting a two-start autumn before eyeing overseas options like Royal Ascot later in the year.
Expect the Lightning Stakes (1000m) on Saturday to flow into the Group 1 Newmarket Handicap (1200m) at Flemington March 7.
The colt wrapped up his prior campaign with a win in the Group 1 Coolmore Stud Stakes (1200m) Flemington on November 1, only to be barrier-eliminated from the Group 1 Champions Sprint (1200m) shortly after.
Not aiming to smash the stopwatch on Saturday, Tentyris nonetheless gained from the race-day vibe, per Sam Freedman.
“He’s been on track for an hour-and-twenty, he had a play around, a sweat, he’s been stimulated,” Freedman said.
“It’s been a big day for him and that will bring on his fitness as much as anything else, and he will go back to Flemington that little bit more relaxed I would imagine.
“We took him for a couple of race day gallops last preparation, and it seemed to work well enough and hopefully it will take the edge off him for next week.”
Per Freedman, Godolphin chats have secured Tentyris for the Lightning Stakes and Newmarket Handicap exclusively thus far.
“The first two runs are pencilled in and then it’s up in the air,” Freedman said.
“He’s got to come back in the Lightning and run very well, and if he was to win the Lightning, we would have to see what weight he gets in the Newmarket.
“There have been conversations around overseas, but it’s all form dependant, how the horse is going, what’s best for him.
“There’s been no chat about a premature retirement or anything like that.
“If the horse is in form there is every chance he will race on into his four-year-old year, so there’s is the chance of travel then if he is going well.”
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