Jennifer Jane

For the sixth time since 2012, Stefano Botti celebrated victory in Sunday's G2 Premio Oaks d'Italia Tattersalls as Piccola Piuma (Saxon Warrior) powered clear in the Milan sunshine to run out an impressive winner in the hands of Fabio Branca. Beaten just twice in six previous starts for the Botti stable, Piccola Piuma faced 14 rivals in this first black-type assignment, including the Charlie Johnston-trained favourite Jennifer Jane (New Bay), who led the field through the early stages in a repeat of the tactics which carried her to a wide-margin...

Sunday's G2 Premio Oaks D'Italia at San Siro in Milan has drawn a quality field of 16 fillies, and sire Saxon Warrior will have four chances to take home the top prize led by G3 Premio Regina Elena (Italian 1000 Guineas) runner-up Lizzana. Second fiddle to Just Call Me Angel (Dark Angel) last out in that early May contest, Lizzana will look to improve on that effort yet again in this Italian Classic for trainer Marco Botti. Never out of the money, she's as consistent as they come and will...

Listed heroine Jennifer Jane (New Bay) will not contest the G1 Betfred Oaks on June 5, and instead be pointed toward the Italian version later that month, according to Charlie Johnston. The Russell Trew and Towbraccan runner won at Wetherby last June before running second in the Listed Star Stakes in July. After a fruitless run in the G3 Prestige Fillies' Stakes in August, she was given a break. Making her three-year-old bow in the Listed Pretty Polly Stakes at Newmarket earlier this month, she made all the running to...

If Saturday had been all about the local heroes, by Sunday the major prizes were scattered more widely as first Jancis then True Love smuggled the silverware across the Irish Sea.  For the combined team of Ballydoyle and Coolmore, winning European Classics has become almost commonplace - a key part of the mechanism that keeps the wheels turning on the largest and most successful breeding operation in the world. The 2,000 Guineas was just missed but the 1,000 Guineas was in the bag.  The magnificent specimen that is True Love...