Somerville Tattersall kicks off Newmarket's Cambridgeshire Festival

Somerville Tattersall kicks off Newmarket's Cambridgeshire

Festival

Canary Row, trained in Ireland by Patrick Prendergast, is among eight runners

for the Group 3, £40,000 Somerville Tattersall over seven furlongs at Newmarket

on Thursday, the first day of the Cambridgeshire Festival.

The son of Holy Roman Emperor was 1 1/4 lengths behind Dawn Approach in

second when they clashed in the first two-year-old maiden of the European Flat

season at the Curragh in March, before winning in good style over five furlongs

at Tipperary on May 3. He found Dawn Approach 5 1/2 lengths too strong in a

six-furlong conditions race at Naas two weeks later and returned from a lengthy

absence to finish fourth behind Battle of Marengo in the Breeders' Cup Juvenile

Turf Trial over a mile at Leopardstown on September 8.

"Canary Row is in very good form. He has some good, solid form in Ireland and

he is a tough little horse," Prendergast said. "I gather there might be some

more rain at Newmarket and that won't bother him because he won his maiden on

heavy ground but he won't mind it better either -- he ran well in a nice race at

Leopardstown on good to firm.

"I would expect him to improve a little bit from his run at Leopardstown

because he was returning from a break. We gave have him a rest because he had a

busy spring. I am hopeful of a very good run from Canary Row and I would be

delighted if he was in the first three."

William Buick has been booked to ride Canary Row.

Champion trainer Richard Hannon would appear to have a strong hand with

recent stakes winner Havana Gold heading his two-pronged assault alongside

impressive maiden scorer Glean, who finished second in a conditions race at

Salisbury on September 6.

Clive Cox will saddle Group 3 Sirenia third Well Acquainted, while Charlie

Hills will be hoping Ebn Arab can return to form that saw him capture his maiden

by five lengths after a fourth-placed finish in the Group 3 Acomb at York.

The field is completed by Mick Channon's Italian Group 3 winner Chilworth

Icon, unbeaten Doncaster novice stakes winner Unsinkable, trained by Richard

Fahey, and John Ryan's Ocean Applause.

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