Orchestral manoeuvres in the Derby set up dream Zardozi clash for Vinery

It is a clash trainers James Cummings and Roger James have known was inevitable for a couple of months, so there is a sense of respect between the Zardozi and Orchestral camps heading into Saturday’s Vinery Stud Stakes at Rosehill.

There’s no surfeit of words about Orchestral from her trainer, but every one uttered has an underlying confidence about it.Zardozi was part of a project of the racing and breeding team at Godolphin, being out of a Dubawi mare and delivered on her target with her Oaks victory, but the compact filly was always going to get better.

The first round of the Vinery battle went to Orchestral when champion jockey James McDonald decided to ride the New Zealand filly after winning over a mile at the Karaka Millions meeting on her in January. He had been in the saddle of Zardozi in the spring, making for a tough decision. “The way he was talking about Orchestral it was obvious that he was going to stick with her if he could,” Cummings said. “We had to find someone else for Zardozi and I thought Tom Marquand would be perfect.

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