Queen of The Delight bids to turn out to be the primary Lancashire Oaks (G2) winner to comply with up within the white rose equal within the Aug. 22 Yorkshire Oaks (G1) since Catchascatchcan did the double for Sir Henry Cecil in 1998.
Cecil is remembered by the well-known gates on the house owners’ and trainers’ entrance on the Knavesmire, and representatives of Qatar Racing might go by means of these gates with optimism that Queen of The Delight can take her subsequent step up the ladder.
The closest the well-known maroon and gold silks have come to touchdown the fillies’ and mares’ characteristic was when Secret Gesture completed third in 2013, however Queen of The Delight will turn out to be a priceless asset to the Tweenhills Stud broodmare band if she will land a bunch 1, as she is from the one crop of their much-missed star Roaring Lion and out of their basic winner Easy Verse .
The 4-year-old has been climbing the ranks for John and Thady Gosden this season, profitable the Lester Piggott Fillies’ Stakes (G3) and Lancashire Oaks at Haydock on her final two begins.
Qatar Racing’s David Redvers stated of Queen of The Delight: “She’s having a incredible season and we’re very enthusiastic about her. This has been the plan for a while.
“We have at all times thought she was a really good filly and he or she’s out of a St Leger winner. Easy Verse was the most effective mares, if not one of the best, to go to Roaring Lion, so it is what we at all times hoped for.”
No Hood for Emily
Whereas Queen of The Delight has gone from power to power this season, her stablemate Emily Upjohn has some inquiries to reply.
She’s going to run and not using a hood for the primary time in additional than a 12 months as she bids to atone for a disappointing effort within the Nassau Stakes (G1) at Goodwood final time. She by no means managed to get any cowl from a large draw on that event, ending a well-beaten sixth because the 7-4 favourite.
The 5-year-old had beforehand put in a way more promising efficiency on the Curragh the place she was simply run down by Bluestocking within the Fairly Polly Stakes (G1).
She boasts profitable type at York, touchdown the 2022 Musidora Stakes (G3) on her solely begin on the Knavesmire.
Emily Upjohn’s final win came to visit the Yorkshire Oaks journey of a mile and a half in final 12 months’s Coronation Cup (G1) at Epsom, and she is going to bid to emulate Dar Re Mi (2009) and The Fugue (2013) who did the double within the Lloyd Webber silks for the Gosden secure.
John Gosden stated: “The Yorkshire Oaks has at all times been her essential summer time goal and we predict the mile and a half and quick floor will play to her strengths. We all know she likes the observe as she received the Musidora Stakes on the Knavesmire as a 3-year-old.”
As a Breeders’ Cup Problem Sequence occasion, the Yorkshire Oaks will grant the winner an automated, fees-paid berth to the Breeders’ Cup Filly and Mare Turf (G1T) at Del Mar Nov. 2. Final 12 months Heat Coronary heart took the Oaks forward of a slim defeat to Inspiral , overwhelmed only a neck, within the Filly and Mare Turf at Santa Anita Park.
