The Citizen (Gauteng)

Cayenne Pepper can spice up the Fillies’ Mile at Newmarket

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London – Cayenne Pepper can provide Jessica Harrington with another top-level juvenile success with victory in the bet365 Fillies' Mile at Newmarket today.

This Moone-based trainer has assembled a formidable team of two-year-old fillies this season, with Cayenne Pepper joined by last Sunday's Prix Marcel Boussac heroine Albigna, Cheveley Park Stakes winner Millisle and the Debutante Stakes scorer Alpine Star.

Cayenne Pepper looked well above-average when making a winning start to her career at Leopardsto­wn in early June, since when she has comfortabl­y landed a conditions event at Tipperary before running out an impressive winner of a Group 3 at The Curragh. The form of the latter event looks perfectly sound - with the runner-up So Wonderful since finishing a close third in the Moyglare Stud Stakes - so Cayenne Pepper has more than earned her shot at Group 1 glory.

Roger Charlton's Quadrilate­ral has certainly looked the real deal in winning her two starts to date prompting connection­s to supplement for this race. However, from a form perspectiv­e Cayenne Pepper has achieved far more - and she gets the vote as a result.

Shine So Bright is fancied to bounce back to winning ways in the Group 2 Godolphin Stud And Stable Staff Awards Challenge Stakes.

Winner of the Free Handicap over this course and distance in the spring, Andrew Balding's charge went on to finish sixth in the 2000 Guineas before returning from a near four-month absence to win a Group 3 at York - defeating the top-class mare Laurens by a nose.

He failed to replicate that effort when only fourth as a hot favourite for last month's Park Stakes at Doncaster, but he is certainly better than display, having raced on his own for much of the way and run too keenly for his own good.

Back on a track that clearly suits, he can show his true colours once again.

Lazuli bids to complete his hattrick for Charlie Appleby in the first of three Group 3s on the card - the Newmarket Academy Godolphin Beacon Project Cornwallis Stakes.

This son of Dubawi was seriously impressive when providing William Buick with his first winner back after a spell on the sidelines on the July Course in early August.

He was long odds-on to make it two from two at Doncaster the following month, but his supporters were made to sweat, as having looked to have put the race to bet with a sharp turn of foot, he wandered late on and was just a nose ahead of Misty Grey at the line.

Lazuli is clearly a horse with considerab­le latent ability and can prove himself a Pattern-race performer on the Rowley Mile.

The William Haggas-trained Hamish rates the best bet on the penultimat­e day of the season at York.

This son of Derby hero Motivator claimed the second and most lucrative victory of his four-race career in the Melrose Handicap over this course and distance in August. –

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