The Citizen (KZN)

Roly Poly can taste Falmouth success

- London

– Roly Poly can enjoy a welldeserv­ed day in the sun today with victory in the Tattersall­s Falmouth Stakes at Newmarket.

Aidan O'Brien's filly won the Duchess Of Cambridge Stakes on the correspond­ing card a year ago.

While she has failed to visit the winner's enclosure since, she has run several excellent races in defeat.

She was only very narrowly beaten by stablemate Brave Anna in the Cheveley Park Stakes last autumn and has also filled the runner-up spot twice at the highest level this season, finding only Winter too strong in both the Irish 1000 Guineas and the Coronation Stakes at Royal Ascot.

She gets her chance as the Ballydoyle first string on the July Course.

Unbeaten Wuheida merits huge respect, but it will be a huge performanc­e if she can make a successful return after a nine-month absence.

Roly Poly is talented and battlehard­ened and likes the track, so it will be a surprise if she is not involved in the finish.

It could be yet another profitable day for the formidable combinatio­n of UK trainers' log-leader O'Brien and jockey Ryan Moore, with Clemmie a leading candidate for the Duchess Of Cambridge Stakes.

The daughter of Galileo is bred for the job as a full-sister to this year's dual 2000 Guineas hero Churchill and like her sibling, shaped with abundant promise when third on her racecourse debut at The Curragh.

Unlike Churchill, Clemmie was unable to open her account on her second start at Royal Ascot, but she was not disgraced in finishing seventh. - Press Associatio­n

Newspapers in English

Newspapers from South Africa