Cosmic Year unbeaten in three with Listed success

Homebred Kingman colt Cosmic Year made it three wins from three starts on Friday (2nd May) when he too the Listed King Charles II Stakes in the manner of a colt with a bright future.

Taken from the European Bloodstock News, 3rd May 2025:

Travelling strongly under Ryan Moore with the main group down the centre of the track, he was produced as they entered the dip and quickened up smartly to win by a length and a half. Charlton had expressed concerns pre-race about quick ground for his unbeaten colt and he did appear a touch uncomfortable as the pace heated up. His class was enough to secure victory, with Marvelman taking second under Oisin Murphy, who was aboard Cosmic Year in his two previous victories, and Wathnan Racing’s Diego Ventura a further three lengths back in third.

The winning jockey told Racing TV: “He’s a lightly-raced horse. He’s still learning, he was a little bit green running through the dip but once I got him organised he kept on well. He is very talented.”

Cosmic Year had won his two previous starts in novice company by a combined 11 and a half lengths. He made a scintillating winning debut at Sandown last September and returned with a five-length win at Kempton last month. A full brother to the dual Gr.3 winner Tempus and a half-brother to the dual Gr.2 winner and sire Time Test, they are out of the Gr.1 Criterium de Saint-Cloud winner Passage Of Time (Dansili). It is the decorated Juddmonte family of the Gr.1 Falmouth Stakes winner Timepiece (Zamindar) and the Gr.2 King Edward VII Stakes winner Father Time (Dansili).

Charlton gave an in-depth view on his star colt’s way of going in a post-race interview with Racing TV, also eluding to where he may next appear: “He’s a unique horse in his work and all the data we collect. In his slower paces he has an easy short action but when he extends, he has a very high turnover and a very long stride. I think he has to move his head higher to get his legs out in front of him. He’s winning his races and he’s winning them well. He’s showing a good attitude. Given not everything went perfectly, I’m pretty taken by him. I suspect we’ll end up going for the Gr.1 Irish 2,000 Guineas. It would be nice to think we can go there and then on to the Gr.1 St James’s Palace Stakes.”

Charlton also mentioned the Gr.3 Jersey Stakes as being within Cosmic Year’s remit, pending decisions on Juddmonte’s three-year-old colts and their future targets.