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1 Sandrine 11/2
2 Audience 100/30
3 Spycatcher 5/4F
5 ran NR: Pogo Distances: ¾l, 2¼l, 1¾l
Time: 1m 25.46s (slow by 2.36s)
Sandrine powers home under @oismurphy to take the Group Two @Betfred Park Stakes with a bit to spare for @AndrewBalding2 at @DoncasterRaces pic.twitter.com/Ym6fr2CJAY https://t.co/U6tgcMKEvF via @RacingBetter
— RacingBetter (@RacingBetter) September 16, 2023
A Royal Ascot scorer at two, Andrew Balding’s Sandrine had been without a victory since taking the Lennox Stakes at last year’s Qatar Goodwood Festival.
However, she got the perfect tow into this hotly-contested seven-furlong event and as the front-running Audience and 5-4 favourite Spycatcher got duelling a long way from home, Oisin Murphy switched out the winner who came cruising by the two market leaders just inside the final furlong and galloped on gamely to hold off the rallying Audience.
Sandrine has now secured Pattern-race triumphs in all three seasons she has been in training and Anna Lisa Balding, representing her husband, was thrilled to see Kirsten Rausing-owned four-year-old back to winning ways.
She said: “What a star. It is up to Kirsten (if this is her last season), but she owes us nothing. To come back and run as well as she did in the City of York Stakes and then two weeks later run like that in this ground, she has a massive heart.
“Oisin said he was keen not to go too soon and they seemed to go pretty steady early and no one wanted to go on. He got it spot-on.”
Both Paddy Power and QuinnBet went 12-1 for the Qipco British Champions Sprint Stakes at Ascot on October 21, but Balding was in no rush to name a next target, with the Prix de la Foret at ParisLongchamp on October 1 another possible option.
She added: “I think we will see how she is when she gets home as it can sometimes take quite a lot out of them on this ground. It is important with breeding prospects ahead of her to look after her.”
Betfred Park Stakes
£120,000 guaranteed, 3yo plus, 7f 6y, Class 1
5 ran
Going: Soft, Good to Soft in places
POS. (DRAW) DIST HORSE AGE WGT TRAINER JOCKEY SP
1 (6) Sandrine 4 9-3 Andrew Balding Oisin Murphy 11/2
2 (4) ¾ Audience 4 9-6 John & Thady Gosden Robert Havlin 100/30
3 (1) 2¼ Spycatcher 5 9-6 K R Burke Clifford Lee 5/4F
4 (3) 1¾ Biggles 6 9-6 Ralph Beckett Ryan Moore 9/2
5 (2) 9½ Jumby 5 9-6 Eve Johnson Houghton Tom Marquand 14/1
NR 4 (5) Pogo 7 9-6 Charles Hills NON RUNNER
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