Tudhope doubles up as Irish draw a blank at Ascot Saeed bin Suroor and Danny Tudhope combined to win the Wolferton Stakes with Dubai Future. Fourth behind leading Prince of Wales’s Stakes contender Bay Bridge in the Brigadier Gerard Stakes at Sandown last month, the six-year-old looked far more comfortable stepping down to Listed class. He loomed up travelling strongly early in the home straight before kicking clear, with 11-2 favourite Cadillac — who changed hands for £500,000 at the Goffs London sale on Monday evening — beaten three lengths into second place. Bin Suroor said of his 20-1 victor: “The jockey gave him a very good ride. I just told him to keep him calm nice and relaxed in the race, he was travelling good and he finished his race well. “The cheekpieces keep Dubai Future more focused and now we’ll go for the Group Two at Newmarket — the Princess of Wales’s Stakes.” Tudhope completed a quickfire double in the concluding Copper Horse Stakes aboard the David O’Meara-trained Get Shirty at 16-1. Already successful at Thirsk and Hamilton this season, the six-year-old burst through against the far rail to beat Chester Cup winner Cleveland, the 2-1 favourite, by a length and a quarter. O’Meara said: “This is brilliant. He is a horse who has done nothing wrong this year. He is three wins from four starts. He got beat at Ripon by a horse in Rajinsky who was then third in the Chester Cup, so his form was there. Danny has given him a brilliant ride. “We’ve had some Royal Ascot winners over the years with the likes of Lord Glitters, but they are hard to come by and they are all very much appreciated.” He added: “You would like to think he would be a stakes horse. The last good horse I had like that was Blue Bajan. I’m not sure he is up to that level yet, though. “We bought him from France quite cheaply. A couple of runs at the end of last year were not so good, but he has come out this year and had done absolutely nothing wrong and is three from four — it is absolutely brilliant.”
