Venetian Lace (Ire)

Lining up for Thursday's G3 Gordon Stakes as the one potential improver, Enceladus (Sea The Stars) justified market support to continue the unstoppable momentum of Joseph O'Brien and Dylan Browne McMonagle and provide another Glorious Goodwood winner in the famed Niarchos silks. Mastering Royal Ascot's always-competitive King George V Handicap last month at the expense of the impressive subsequent scorer Al Azd, the 6-4 favourite travelled smoothly throughout and had first run on Geryon (Lope De Vega) approaching the final furlong. At the line, the homebred son of the Grade...

Shapoor Mistry's G1 Oaks heroine Thundering On (Frankel) will face nine rivals in Saturday's G1 Pretty Polly Stakes at the Curragh after declarations for the Paddy Power-sponsored 10-furlong contest were confirmed Thursday morning. The Joseph O'Brien trainee will depart from stall seven, which also housed last year's victrix Whirl (Wootton Bassett) and Mistry's O'Brien-trained 2021 winner Thundering Nights (Night Of Thunder). She will be partnered by Dylan Browne McMonagle and accompanied by Carriganog stablemates Wemightakedlongway (Australia), runner-up in last year's G1 Irish Oaks, and Nyra (Isfahan), who ran third in...

Achieving the formidable feat of winning the G2 Queen Mary Stakes, G1 Cheveley Park Stakes and G1 1,000 Guineas, Ballydoyle's True Love (No Nay Never) entered hallowed territory at Newmarket on Sunday. Sent off at 5-1, the second-string for Aidan O'Brien was always travelling like the winner stalking the strongest pace among the stand's-side group and when sent by Wayne Lordan swamped Evolutionist (Night Of Thunder) to beat that rival by 1 3/4 lengths. Venetian Lace (Masar) made it a one-two-three for the Group 1 fillies in the line-up, another...