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Jumby and Perotto can shine for underrated sire

Tom Segal

IN LIFE we are always looking for things that are undervalued. Racing is no different and everyone talks about horses who are overpriced and jockeys and trainers who are underrated.

Very few talk about sires, but as a firm believer that pedigrees are everything when it comes to top-class racing, I think this is an aspect that merits more attention.

One young sire who is f lying under the radar is the French Derby winner New Bay, who is from one of Juddmonte’s best families and should be mentioned in the same breath as another young son of Dubawi, Night Of Thunder.

In just a couple of crops, New Bay has already produced four horses with a Racing Post Rating of at least 109, including last year’s Royal Lodge winner New Mandate, 1,000 Guineas runner-up Saffron Beach, runaway London Gold Cup winner Bay Bridge, and he has a couple of horses I’m really interested in at Royal Ascot this week.

The first is Jumby, who could easily win the Commonwealth Cup given how well the form of his Newmarket handicap win is working out.

The third, fourth and fifth have already come out and franked that form with wins and the runner-up Jadwal ran a blinder at York on Saturday from a dire draw.

First Folio, who won that York race, was the latest horse to frank Jumby’s form and it doesn’t look like the bar is set too high among the three-yearold sprinters this season.

Eve Johnson Houghton won a Group 1 at the royal meeting with Accidental Agent and, while Jumby has yet to run in a Group race, he is no forlorn hope to provide his sire with his first Group 1 winner on Friday.

The other son of New Bay who catches my eye this week is Britannia contender Perotto, who was fourth to Jumby at Newmarket. That was a run for numerous reasons, mostly because he was drawn on the wrong side and couldd well have been running on much slower ground.

Perotto proved he was much better than he showed that day when storming home to winn a Goodwood handicap from a seemingly impossible position over 7f next time.

On that evidence Perotto appears well handicapped despite his 5lb penalty looks sure to improve again whenn upped to a mile.

If he and Jumby do this business this week, their dad, New Bay, will no longer be racing’s best-kept secret.

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