City Walk (IRE)

£70,000 Y; third foal; half-brother to 5f-6f AW winner Ascot Day (inc Fibresand; RPR 96); dam 6f 2yo winner (85), half-sister to 1m 2yo Listed winner Go Angellica, is granddaughter of US 1m2f winning half-sister to 1m2f/1m4f Group 1 winner Germany; promising third on debut over 5f on good to firm at Newmarket in April 2019 but not seen again that year; slightly disappointing in first two starts to 2020 but bounced back to winning form on the third run at Bath over 5f 160y in a handicap off a mark of 80; well beaten at same track a month later but that was on soft ground, which didn't suit and a much better effort when second at Yarmouth off 90 (good to firm) over 6f in mid-September; fifth of six off same mark at Musselburgh (5f) almost exactly a year later (will have needed it) and shaped okay at Newcastle after that in a first-time hood; last of thirteen at Meydan (5f) on next start in January 2022 and then given a break until finishing third back in Britain at Leicester; built on that by winning a second race at Chelmsford (6f) in May; not at his best when back on turf at Ripon next time, finishing well beaten; bounced back to winning form at Newcastle in late June, winning valuable 5f handicap in good style; last of ten in the Listed City Walls Stakes at York (5f) in July but bounced back to winning from in 6f handicap at Chelmsford when next seen in November, making it three AW wins in a row; down the field in 5f Listed race (turf) at Meydan in January 2023.