By Tom Frary
One of Charlie Appleby's quartet of 2,000 Guineas entries, King's Trail (Sea The Stars) put his hand up for consideration with a smooth win in Saturday's conditions event at Kempton.
Off the mark over the same course and mile trip on debut in December, the 4-7 favourite was positioned off the early speed by Billy Loughnane and when given the command brushed aside the similarly unexposed Conclave (Sioux Nation) to score by a length.
This race used to hold Listed status when it was the Easter Stakes, a recognised 2,000 Guineas trial, and was won two years ago by the stable's subsequent Newmarket Classic hero Notable Speech (Dubawi).
The winner is the second foal out of the G3 Prix Chloe winner and Prix Rothschild runner-up, a half-sister to the Prix Ganay winner Cutlass Bay (Halling) and the King Edward VII Stakes scorer Boscobel (Halling). A granddaughter of the G1 Coronation Stakes runner-up Elizabeth Bay (Mr. Prospector) descended from Seattle Slew's GI Mother Goose Stakes heroine Life At The Top, Crown Walk also has two-year-old and yearling fillies by Frankel.
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6th-Kempton, £30,000, Cond, 3-28, 3yo, c/g, 8f (AWT), 1:38.22, st/sl.
KING'S TRAIL (GB) (c, 3, Sea The Stars {Ire}–Crown Walk {GB} {GSW & G1SP-Fr}, by Dubawi {Ire}) Lifetime Record: 2-2-0-0, $26,221. O/B-Godolphin; T-Charlie Appleby.
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