Betsafe Oaks Trial Fillies' Stakes |
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| Fillies' Listed, Lingfield 14:40 Winner: £14,461, 3yo only, 1m 3f 106y, Class 1  |
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| Friday 8th June 2020 | |
1 Miss Yoda 1/1F
2
Golden Lips 66/1
3
West End Girl 10/1
8 ran NR: Lake Lucerne
Distances: 1¼l, nse, ¾l Time: 2m 27.19s (slow by 1.39s)
📉 Plenty went wrong at the start, but Miss Yoda was still too good! 14/1 with Unibet for the Investec Oaks at @EpsomRacecourse
— Unibet Racing (@UnibetRacing) June 5, 2020
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John Gosden saddled subsequent Epsom heroine winner Anapurna to victory 12 months ago and made it two on the spin with Rab Havlin doing the steering on the even-money favourite Miss Yoda.
Things were not plain sailing for the daughter of Sea The Stars, who had won her first two starts and signed off a smart juvenile campaign with a promising second against the boys in the Zetland Stakes at Newmarket.
She was really slowly away after getting a little on her toes beforehand but Havlin played the patient game as she gradually picked up from a mid-pack position in the straight, before staying on strongly to cosily get the better of front-running 66/1 outsider Golden Lips by a length and a quarter.
West End Girl (10/1) took third spot for the in-form Mark Johnston team.
Betsafe Oaks Trial Fillies' Stakes
Winner: £14,461, 3yo only, 1m 3f 106y, Class 1
8 ran
Going: Good to Firm
POS. (DRAW) DIST HORSE AGE WGT TRAINER JOCKEY SP
1 (1) Miss Yoda 3 9-0 John Gosden Robert Havlin EvsF
2 (7) 1¼ Golden Lips 3 9-0 Harry Dunlop Josephine Gordon 66/1
3 (6) nse West End Girl 3 9-0 Mark Johnston Franny Norton 10/1
4 (3) ¾ La Dragontea 3 9-0 Michael Bell Hayley Turner 80/1
5 (5) 1½ So I Told You 3 9-0 Richard Hughes Shane Kelly 12/1
6 (4) 1½ Anastarsia 3 9-0 John Gosden P J McDonald 7/1
7 (8) 4¼ Sly Minx 3 9-0 Mick Channon Tom Marquand 33/1
8 (9) 1 Heart Reef 3 9-0 Ralph Beckett Oisin Murphy 7/2
WD (2) Lake Lucerne 3 9-0 John Gosden WITHDRAWN
