Mark Johnston hopes Threading can upset Alpha’s apple cart in Falmouth examination


12th July 2018, 11:57 am

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MARK JOHNSTON isn’t running scared of sensational Royal Ascot winner Alpha Centauri in the Falmouth on Friday.


The Scottish handler will attempt to reverse the Coronation Stakes form with his talented three-year-old Threading.



Trainer Mark Johnston hopes Threading can do the business in the Falmouth
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Trainer Mark Johnston hopes Threading can do the business in the Falmouth

However, she’ll have to turn around a deficit of six lengths if she wants to come home in front in the Group 1 contest.


Favourite Alpha Centauri was one of the most impressive winners of the season so far at the Royal meeting, and if she turns up in the same form she’ll take some stopping.


Johnston’s always maintained that you shouldn’t be scared of just one horse, though, and hopes his challenger can make up the necessary ground on her rival.


He said: “The Coronation Stakes was a great run by Threading, bar the fact that one horse absolutely trounced her.

“Arguably things won’t be very different in the Falmouth Stakes – where if the two of them repeat their Ascot performances Threading will be second again – but I have a principle that I don’t run away from one horse.


“There is some hope that Threading can improve upon her Ascot effort but the main reason for declaring her is that one should never run away from one horse.


“It is obviously a concern that Threading’s two worst runs have been at Newmarket, albeit on the Rowley Mile rather than the July Course, and I have no idea why that might be.”



Both Nyaleti and Threading will need to get the better of runaway Royal Ascot winner Alpha Centauri
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Both Nyaleti and Threading will need to get the better of runaway Royal Ascot winner Alpha Centauri

Johnston also fields Nyaleti in the race. The daughter of Arch has won her last two starts including a victory in the German Guineas last time out, and her trainer is hoping she can build on that.


He said: “I don’t think that the form of Nyaleti’s win in the German Guineas was particularly strong and it may have been overrated.


“That said, I also think that many of Nyaleti’s other performances have been underrated, such as when she beat the Derby winner, Masar, at last year’s Royal Ascot, or when she finished half a length behind another Classic winner, Laurens.


“I will not be at all surprised if Nyaleti finishes in the first three on Friday and, in the longer term, this race fits nicely into her schedule en route to the Beverly D Stakes (in Chicago on August 11).”


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Jockey Colm O’Donoghue is very excited to be aboard the big-race favourite, Alpha Centauri.


The rider was in the plate for her Royal Ascot victory and is confident that she will be able to repeat her heroics.


He said: “Luckily I rode her the other morning, so I haven’t had to wait that long to get back on her.


“She came out of Ascot well, thank god, and seems in very good form so I’m very much looking forward to it.



Colm ODonoghue is looking for another big performance from his superstar filly
Colm ODonoghue is looking for another big performance from his superstar filly

“I was always very comfortable throughout the Coronation, it was just a matter of how the race unfolded. She’d always shown us an immense amount of ability so I wasn’t surprised she could travel through it like that.


“Obviously because of how strong the field that she beat looked, it was really very impressive.”


Alpha Centauri’s trainer Jessica Harrington also issued a positive report about her superstar Group 1 winner.


She said: “She’s drawn one and she is in great form. The usual suspects have all turned up again.”


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MARK JOHNSTON isn’t running scared of sensational Royal Ascot winner Alpha Centauri in the Falmouth on Friday.


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