By Daithi Harvey
Top class sprinter Quiet Reflection (GB) (Showcasing GB}) will have a new partner this season following the news that Dougie Costello will not be riding as stable jockey for Karl Burke this season. Martin Harley will take over on the dual Group 1 winning filly whenever she makes her seasonal reappearance. “Dougie won't be riding for me for the foreseeable future. I don't want to go into it too much but it hasn't worked out how I would have liked and I've got to do what's best for all my owners,” Burke told The Racing Post. “Martin Harley will be riding Quiet Reflection – he's got plenty of experience in big races and I am sure he will do a good job for us.” Quiet Reflection won both the G1 Commonwealth Cup and the G1 Haydock Sprint Cup S. last year and despite her having an entry in the G2 Duke Of York S. at York next week Burke thinks it is unlikely she will be in action. “We worked Quiet Reflection at Newcastle today and I have to say her work hasn't been fabulous. She is not sparkling as I would like but it might not be a big problem and simply something to do with her getting older. Looking at the weather forecast, it looks as if it's going to be too dry for her at York, but even it rained she might not go there.”
With earnings of over £600,000 for her owners, that include Burke along with the Otoawinner syndicate and Hubert Strecker, Quiet Reflection has proved a dream investment given her £44,000 purchase price at the Goffs UK Breeze Up two years ago. Burke would like to get a run into the 4-year-old sooner rather than later and added, “It's probable now that she will go to the [G2] Temple Stakes [May 27] as a prep race for Royal Ascot.”
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