The Royal Duet - Double Update

Here’s an upate on both horses in The Royal Duet pairing, the Justify filly and the Cotai Glory colt.

Guinevere

Guinevere recorded another solid breeze this morning going a half-mile out of the gate at Keeneland in 49.60 seconds (29/57). Working on the inside of her stablemate, our 2-year-old filly traveled nicely and was definitely going the best of the pair in the later stages.

Trainer Wesley Ward, following her breeze, shared the sentiments that the work was impressive and moves her closer to a debut. Guinevere’s next breeze will come on the dirt at Keeneland and if all continues to progress Wesley is hopeful she maybe ready for a debut next month.

The filly did come back from the breeze with a touch of sensitivity in her right shin. Though it is nothing of major concern, she is a big filly and Wesley will let her tell him what to do. She will continue to jog for a few days and not rush her. Once he feels she is ready she will breeze again.

Obviously, that puts this year's Royal Ascot out of reach as the meeting begins in mid-June. However, that doesn’t mean the Ascot dream ends here; if she is as nice as we hope there are multiple potential options for 3-year-old fillies next year such as The Coronation Stakes or The Sandringham.

La Cuvee ‘21 

We caught up again with trainer Wesley Ward regarding La Cuvee ’21 who continues to make progress since he started galloping. As he furthers in his training, Wesley opted to ship La Cuvee ’21 to Saratoga which will allow him to breeze on the grass as there are very few tracks that allow turf workers this time of year. The trainer looks forward to his highly-anticipated first breeze with the barn which will likely take place in the next 10 days or so.

Saratoga here he comes!

It appears La Cuvee ’21 is beginning to catch up to his amazing, precocious partner and we are looking forward to a lot of excitement from these two later this summer.