Falmouth stakes

Blue Bolt's victory in the Tattersalls Sceptre Sessions Falmouth Stakes continued a dream run for Brendan and Anne Marie Hayes's breeding operation on a good day for Irish breeders on the July Course. Along with G1 Queen Anne Stakes winner Ten Bob Tony (Night Of Thunder) the Juddmonte-owned filly had delivered a Royal Ascot to remember when winning the G2 Duke of Cambridge Stakes and has now become the couple's second Group 1 winner in less than a month, and is the fourth top-level winner for her sire Blue Point...

George Boughey has pencilled the G1 Falmouth S. at Newmarket in for his Group 1 heroine Via Sistina (Ire) (Fastnet Rock {Aus}) following her Pretty Polly S. romp at the Curragh on Saturday.  Stepping up to the highest level for the first time following a brilliant display in the Dahlia S. in May, Via Sistina ran out an authoritative winner of the Pretty Polly to provide her trainer with a first ever success on Irish soil in the hands of Jamie Spencer. Boughey says that his stable star deserves even...

Having come off second best in one of Royal Ascot's major tussles, Godolphin's Terebellum (Ire) (Sea the Stars {Ire}) seeks compensation in the G1 Falmouth S. at Newmarket on Friday. Progressive last term, the 4-year-old captured the 10-furlong G2 Prix de la Nonette at Deauville and returned to add the G2 Dahlia S. to her tally also over that trip on June 6. Dropped to a mile for the June 16 G1 Queen Anne S., she came out of a tight finale on the wrong side of Circus Maximus (Ire)...