Sensational Move back among equals

AFTER EASY pickings in back-to–back races, beating $1.5-million claimers for a combined winning margin of nine lengths, SENSATIONAL MOVE is finally back among his equals, taking a shot at Sunday’s overnight-allowance out the straight course.

Though his last three victories were against $1.5 million claimers, having similarly dispatched MILOS on New Year’s Day, SENSATIONAL MOVE is no stranger to overnight-allowance company or, for that matter, the higher open-allowance group.

A 10-length winner in his first race among overnight-allowance runners in January of 2024, clocking a smashing 1:05.4 at five and a half furlongs, SENSATIONAL MOVE stepped up in class to slam open-allowance company three weeks later, posting 59.2 for an 8-1 upset at five furlongs straight.

Unable to survive among the foreign legions at the open-allowance level, SENSATIONAL MOVE did his three-month stint in ‘conditions jail’, hopelessly racing against I AM FRED, IS THAT A FACT, and company before returning to overnight allowance in August.

After losing to Canadian ATLANTIC CONVOY on his return to the level, SENSATIONAL MOVE proved in his very next race that he was better than overnight allowance by easily dismissing FREEDOM STREET and TAURUS BOY at five furlongs straight on September 27.

A swift return to open-allowance resulted in a one-length loss to FEARLESS SOUL out the straight in October followed by cameo appearances in the Port Royal Sprint on Jamaica Cup Day in November and Bruceontheloose on Mouttet Mie Day, both Grade Two events.

Beating up on MILOS in a $1.5 million claiming event was SENSATIONAL MOVE’s Christmas Gift unwrapped on New Year’s Day. However, the overnight-allowance ranks became swollen with foreigners, forcing Gary Subratie to seek refuge among claimers after four races, resuting in another whoppig of MILOS in April and a waltz home ahead of RANI BANGALA out the straight in June.

A smart tactician in placing his runners, Subratie returns SENSATIONAL MOVE to overnight allowance when most of the foreigners have played their hands, chasing win-and-you’re-in Mouttet Mile spots, effectively exiting the level.

SENSATIONAL MOVE carries a ridiculous 115lb, saving Subratie the headache of finding a claiming rider to slip weight whereas the likes of stablemate MONEY MARKET comes in at 120lb, six pounds under the topweight pair of NORBLAR and PRESS CONFERENCE.