ACCLAMATION X WINTER SNOW

 With twenty one winners already in 2025, James Owen finds himself sat third in the trainers championship for the year, building on his sixty three winners in 2024, with an overall strike rate of a remarkable 19% since he took out his license!

We have been keen to support James when the right opportunity presented itself and we feel that this Acclamation filly is exactly that.

He commented “She is a nice, athletic filly who has a great attitude”

He’s also retained a large share in the filly based on his high opinion of her.

She was on our original shortlist at Tattersalls Book Three sale, we even bid on her such was her fine physical attributes as a yearling.

James has been impressed with her since she arrived, she was broken in at his yard  and she has improved with every bit of work she has completed, especially once she’s stepped onto Warren Hill, which prompted him to put her in the Tattersalls £150k sales race in October which is ran at Newmarket over seven furlongs.

The dam is a half sister to the Group one winning sprinter, Glen Shiel and she has already produced winners over both six and eight furlongs.

Sadly, Acclamation is no longer with us but he was responsible for a plethora of stakes winners, with the Raven's Pass cross also providing plenty of winners.

NEARSIDE 

Sam James sat on thirty six two year olds over the past week and this filly was in the top six for both Sam and Nick who was very impressed with her physical make up once again. A good percentage of the horses we saw this week will sell for six figures both privately and at breeze up sales in the coming weeks and months so this filly really stands out as good value amongst them.

Sam commented on her tremendous attitude and he really liked how she picked up once he gave her half a squeeze.

She galloped very professionally, Sam felt she was learning all the way and she was comfortably on top of her work partner, a £160k Wootton Bassett filly.

Out of every two year old we enquired about, she made the most sense at the prices based on what we had seen on the gallops and the feel she gave Sam and it was a done deal virtually straight away.

She qualifies for band D races which is a major positive and we’ll be hoping she can line up in the valuable EBF £30,000 maidens that we targeted successfully in 2024.

Both Sam and James feel she is a filly for June onwards, starting over 6f before eventually 7f will be well within his compass.

In our opinion the 7f races are the weakest restricted maidens that make up the EBF supported scheme, which you can read more about here:

https://ebfstallions.com/news/british-ebf-lead-renewal-of-high-value-developmental-races-for-2025/

In 2024, Love Talk was purchased around this time and we see no reason why this filly cannot emulate her success in 2025 and beyond.

Her low purchase price give her a signiricant advantage in races such as the Tattersalls sales race and the EBF Fillies final, which will both be targeted before we take aim at some end of season  stakes races in France, all been well.