Nideeb booked for Lodge

Clive Brittain is looking forward to stepping Nideeb up to Pattern company following his Listed success at Ascot on Saturday.Having shed his maiden tag in impressive style at Yarmouth on his penultimate start, the chestnut colt knuckled down well to beat off the challenge of Party Doctor by a nose in the Winkfield Stakes, and a return to Ascot for the Royal Lodge Stakes on September 26 is now firmly on the juvenile's agenda,."I'm very pleased with him as he's a tough horse and a progressive horse and we think we're only half way there with him at the moment," said Brittain."I've always thought he was smart. He's got a lovely ground-eating action which he has shown all along. Funnily enough he didn't make his reserve at the sales because he wasn't a good walker but walking is not his game now!"I would say we'll now get him ready for the Royal Lodge and that will probably be his next race."The way he battled on after looking beaten suggests he will get the mile and I think in another stride or two he'd have gone further ahead."