Next stop Royal Ascot for ace Aussie sprinter

Peintre Celebre’s cracking Australian sprinter Bentley Biscuits (5g, Peintre Celebre-Tycoon Joy, by Last Tycoon) is now set to embark on a long distance campaign to this year’s Royal Ascot meeting following two impressive Group One successes in the space of a week.

On consecutive Saturdays at Royal Randwick, Sydney’s equivalent to the Royal meeting, the baldy faced chestnut son of Peintre Celebre claimed both the Group One AJC T.J. Smith Stakes (1200m) and Group One AJC All-Aged Stakes (1400m) to establish himself as the finest sprinter of the Sydney Autumn Carnival. The gelding’s outstanding form identifies him as a perfect candidate for an overseas mission with trainer Gai Waterhouse confirming that next stop for the ace galloper would be the King’s Stand Stakes and/or Golden Jubilee in June.

In winning the All-Aged Stakes at his latest outing, Bentley Biscuit took his record to 11 wins from 17 starts and his career earnings through the $1 million barrier. A specialist sprinter-miler, the 5-year-old has won his races from 1100 to 1600 metres and is yet to be tested beyond the metric mile.

Bentley Biscuit is owned in partnership by trainer Gai Waterhouse and Englishman George Mooratoff. Australia’s ’First Lady of the Turf” confirmed that Mooratoff lives just five minutes away from Ascot and now has every intention of walking to the circuit when the dual Group One winning sprinter fulfils his engagements mid-year.