17 Sep 2020Almanzor's close relation Guildsman provided his sire Wootton Bassett with his eighth Group winner when he was victorious in the Gr.3 Franklin-Simpson Stakes at Kentucky Downs in America.
Guildsman earned black-type as a two-year-old in Europe before transferring to Brendan Walsh's stable in America and has now posted consecutive Stakes wins as a three-year-old.
Fergus Galvin, who was representing Sheikh Fahad's Qatar Racing, praised Walsh for his training of the gelding.
"Brendan has done a great job with the horse," Galvin said.
"He had it mapped out from a few months ago but Sheikh Fahad has gotten a massive thrill out of him. He’s always shown a lot of promise, this horse.
"He ran in some of the bigger two-year-old races over there [Britain]. The distance, six and a half furlongs, and the configuration of the track obviously played to his advantage.”
Guildsman is a close relation to Cambridge Stud sire Almanzor as both horses are by Wootton Bassett and out of half-sisters.