sport news Modern News aiming to pick up confidence-boosting win at Doncaster on Saturday
Modern News to be the headline act as the Charlie Appleby-trained horse goes in search of Doncaster glory Modern News is competing at Doncaster in the SBK Lincoln Handicap The horse is trained by the well-renowned trainer Charlie Appleby Appleby will be hoping for a win for his horse to get his season up and running
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In five weeks, Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Turf winner Modern Games is expected to form part of Charlie Appleby’s challenge for the 2,000 Guineas. This afternoon, his older brother Modern News can kick-start the trainer’s season with a win in the SBK Lincoln Handicap.
The traditional curtain-raiser to the Turf Flat season may not retain the cachet of old but it is still a coveted prize with £100,000 up for grabs and Appleby has won it twice in the past five runnings courtesy of Secret Brief (2016) and Auxerre (2019).
Both Appleby’s winners were four-year-olds, like Modern News, and Secret Brief had been given a
