Al Basti Equiworld Dubai Middleton Stakes

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Group 2, York 15:13
£150,000 guaranteed,
Fillies, 4yo plus,
1m 2f 56y, Class 1    
Thursday 15th May 2025

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QIPCO Champions Day heroine Kalpana could take the well-trodden path of Juddmonte’s former star Bluestocking this season, with this earmarked as a potential starting point for her four-year-old campaign.

Trained by Ralph Beckett, Bluestocking lit up the 2024 season for the famous Juddmonte silks, launching her year with a stylish victory in the Middleton before adding a Group One hat-trick in the Pretty Polly Stakes, the Prix Vermeille, and the ultimate prize—the Prix de l’Arc de Triomphe.

With Bluestocking now retired to the paddocks, it could be Andrew Balding’s Kalpana who steps up to fill the void, having signed off her three-year-old season in style with a Group One victory in the British Champions Fillies & Mares Stakes at Ascot in October.

Juddmonte’s European racing manager Barry Mahon confirmed: “Kalpana is back and in good shape. We might look to follow a similar route to Bluestocking, starting in the Middleton before heading on to the Pretty Polly, all being well.”

Charlie Appleby has added Beautiful Love following her third place in the Dahlia Stakes at Newmarket.

Al Basti Equiworld Dubai Middleton Stakes (Fillies' Group 2)
£150,000 guaranteed, 4yo plus, 1m 2f 56y, Class 1
12 runners
Going: Good to Firm

NO. FORM HORSE AGE WGT TRAINER JOCKEY
1 23111- Kalpana 4 9-5 Andrew Balding
2 476-21 Ambiente Amigo 4 9-2 James Owen
3 134-63 Beautiful Love 4 9-2 Charlie Appleby William Buick
4 25210- Doha 5 9-2 Ralph Beckett Hector Crouch
5 171- Estrange 4 9-2 David O'Meara
6 8131-6 Higher Leaves 4 9-2 Henry De Bromhead
7 2299-2 Karmology 5 9-2 K R Burke
8 13431- Nakheel 4 9-2 Owen Burrows
9 13813- Royal Dress 5 9-2 James Tate
10 8172-5 Running Lion 5 9-2 John & Thady Gosden
11 2135-5 See The Fire 4 9-2 Andrew Balding
12 /1011- Sioux Life 4 9-2 Marco Botti

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