CANTERBURY STAKES

(GROUP 1)

THE bookies rate Happy Clapper the biggest danger to Kementari in the Doncaster Mile, and at his first appearance since winning the Doncaster he didn’t let his supporters down.

Racing 40 minutes before the Guineas, the Pat Webster-trained Teofilo gelding stamped his authority over the Group 1 Canterbury Stakes to post a solid win over Randwick’s 1,300 metres ahead of the Star Witness mare Global Glamour and the I Am Invincible mare Invincible Gem.

Heading now to the George Ryder and most likely a contest with Winx, Happy Clapper will then progress to the Doncaster Mile. “It looks like he has come back better than ever,” said Webster. “I just hope I haven’t taken too much out of him first up because he probably has to take on the best horse in the world (Winx) in a couple of weeks. But who cares, it is a Group 1 and he can probably run second now to the great mare and then be a chance in the Doncaster. I’m not dodging anybody, and you get $290,000 for running second to her.”