Audacity Of Hope (7): has a new majority owner in American Earle Mack
PICTURE: Mark CranhamMcBride attracts new owner for Classic hope
CHARLIE MCBRIDE has capped his best training season by attracting a significant new owner to his yard in American Earle Mack, who has bought a controlling interest in the stable's best horse, Guineas possible Audacity Of Hope.
McBride has produced 15 winners from a string of around 20 and has ambitions to pitch for his first Classic by running three time winner and Totesport Horris Hill Stakes third Audacity Of Hope in next year's Stan James 2,000 Guineas.
Mack, a former US ambassador to Finland, owns Mad Rush and scored his biggest win in Britain when Electrocutionist captured the 2005 Juddmonte International Stakes.
"It's fantastic to have somebody like Earle Mack as an owner and I hope we can do well for him," said McBride. "The dreaming has started and hopefully Audacity Of Hope will start off in the Craven and then go for the Guineas.
"He is on a break now as he has some growing and filling out to do and will be getting stronger."
McBride, 58, is in his second stint as a trainer, returning to the ranks in 2003 after a short spell with a licence in the 1990s.
"This has been my best season and with ten two-year-old winners and a strike of around 20 per cent with them I couldn't be more happy.
"The nucleus of those horses will be back and we will also have Blue Maiden [runner-up in the Skybet-backed Sweet Solera Stakes] to compete at the highest level.
"She wasn't right in her last race at Newmarket and will be aimed at the 1,000 Guineas. It will be nice to have a go at two Classics."
