Hot prospect Cayenne can triumph again
CAYENNE Pepper can provide Jessica Harrington with another toplevel juvenile success with victory in the bet365 Fillies’ Mile at Newmarket.
The 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 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 Three at the Curragh.
The form of the latter event looks perfectly sound – with the runnerup So Wonderful since finishing a close third in the Moyglare Stud Stakes – so Cayenne Pepper has more than earned her shot at Group One 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 Two 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 Three 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 can complete his hat-trick for Charlie Appleby in the first of three Group Threes on the card – the Newmarket Academy Godolphin Beacon Project Cornwallis Stakes.