Tattersalls Falmouth Stakes
Group 1, Newmarket
£275,000 added,
Fillies 3yo plus,
1m, Class 1   
Friday 11th July 2025

1 Cinderella's Dream 5/2
2 January 6/4F
3 Crimson Advocate 5/1
8 ran Distances: ½l, 1¾l, 1¾l
Time: 1m 37.89s (slow by 0.49s)

Cinderella’s Dream, pint‑sized yet granite‑tough, waved the wand at Newmarket and conjured a first‑time Falmouth Stakes triumph for Charlie Appleby, edging a three‑way scrap that would have graced any summer theatre.

Buick anchored the Godolphin filly in mid‑division, biding his time while old nemesis Crimson Advocate dictated up front and Aidan O’Brien’s up‑and‑coming January stalked the pair, three‑year‑old legs spinning for all they were worth.

Heading inside the final furlong Cinderella’s Dream quickened to eyeball Crimson Advocate, apparently with the decisive move. But January wasn’t finished, launching down the outside to turn a grudge match into a triangle. Three fillies, one Group One; it was Buick who found the extra heartbeat, his mount clinging on by half a length, with a length and three‑quarters back to the Ascot vanquisher in third.

Appleby, finally a Falmouth winner, could hardly suppress the grin:

“Once she hit the rising ground, I thought it would take a hard one to pass her. We might have over‑analysed Ascot—blamed the bend, the penalty—but she’s spun round Del Mar, and that’s tighter than a drum. She’s knee‑high to a grasshopper yet tough as teak, and a European Group One is exactly what she deserved. Now everything works back from the Breeders’ Cup Filly & Mare Turf; that one got away last year and it still annoys me.”

Buick, too, was full of praise for the pocket rocket in blue:

“She’s all class. It turned into a proper ding‑dong—two good fillies, and we had to give the runner‑up 9 lb. She’s been unlucky here and there but today she put the lot together. A domestic Group One on her CV? She’s earned it a hundred times over.”

Cinderella’s Dream may be small in stature, but on July 11, 2025, she loomed largest where it mattered most—on the Newmarket winning line—writing the next chapter of a story that could yet find its happily‑ever‑after under the California lights of the Breeders’ Cup.

Tattersalls Falmouth Stakes
(British Champions Series) (Fillies' Group 1)
£275,000 added, 3yo plus, 1m, Class 1
8 ran
Going: Good to Firm

POS. (DRAW) DIST HORSE AGE WGT TRAINER JOCKEY SP
1 (4)     Cinderella's Dream 4 9-9 Charlie Appleby William Buick 5/2
2 (1) ½ January 3 9-0 A P O'Brien Ryan Moore 6/4F
3 (6) 1¾ Crimson Advocate 4 9-9 John & Thady Gosden James Doyle 5/1
4 (2) 1¾ Elmalka 4 9-9 Roger Varian Silvestre De Sousa 11/1
5 (3) nk Lady Ilze 3 9-0 A Wohler Adrie de Vries 50/1
6 (7) nk Atsila 3 9-0 Donnacha O'Brien Gavin Ryan 16/1
7 (8) 7½ Elwateen 3 9-0 Saeed bin Suroor Jim Crowley 12/1
8 (5) 1½ Running Lion 5 9-9 John & Thady Gosden Oisin Murphy 18/1

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