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Hungarian star sprinter set for stiffest test

Neil Clark

HUNGARIAN sprinter Overdose, whose unbeaten exploits have led to comparisons with the legendary Kincsem, will bid to extend his winning sequence to ten in Sunday's Group 2 Goldene Peitsche at Baden-Baden.

Sandor Ribarszki's Starborough colt, who has won all of his nine starts by an aggregate of 85 and a half lengths, recorded his latest victory in the Group 3 Lotto-Trophy at Hamburg at last month – despite not being at his best following a hoof problem.

Connections have said that after Sunday's 6f event, the three-year-old will head to Longchamp for the Prixde L'Abbaye on October 5, where he will bid to become the first-ever Hungarian trained winner of the race.
However he fares on Sunday, Overdose has quite a way to go before he emulates Kincsem, Hungary's star of the Victorian era who wentunbeaten in 54 races.

Overdose faces his most testing assignment to date on Sunday, when he will face a maximum of eight rivals in the €70,000 race, including three British-trained entries, all of them Group 3 winners, namely the Michael Jarvis-trained Ancien Regime, Intrepid Jack (Hughie Morrison) and Starlit Sands (Sir Mark Prescott).

Also in the field is the German-trained dual Group 3 winner Abbadjinn who finished second to Overdose at Hamburg last month, and the French-trained Group 3 winner Mariol, who finished third in the Hamburg race.