Ward Big Guns Ready To Fire

Wesley Ward bids to take another major British racing festival by storm this week and has reported his two York challengers to have shipped over in great shape. Ward fields the G1 Nunthorpe S. favorite Acapulco (Scat Daddy) in Friday’s feature and he feels the Coolmore-owned juvenile, who bossed her opponents in the G2 Queen Mary S. at Royal Ascot is ready to serve it up to her elders.

“I think she is really going to bring her A-game to the table”, said Ward. “I couldn’t be happier with the way she has trained into it. She is a big imposing filly–physically, she is so sound it’s like she is a 4-year-old. I am extremely happy with her. I really didn’t think I’d ever have the right 2-year-old to bring over to take on older horses until now,” added the trainer.

Finnegan (Ire) (Unbridled’s Song) will represent Ward in the G2 Gimcrack S. on Saturday and this colt, also owned by the Coolmore partners was a late withdrawal from the G2 Coventry S. at Royal Ascot when suffering a bout of colic. A wide-margin winner of a Pimlico maiden when last seen in May, Ward is also confident of a bold display from the colt.

“It is a shame he didn’t get a chance to run in the Coventry,” Ward commented. “I think he was going to fire a cracker that day. I’m very excited with him as well.”