Regal Realm will finally get the chance to follow up her impressive debut success in the Princess Margaret Juddmonte Stakes at Ascot on Saturday.
The Jeremy Noseda-trained filly won what must have been the hottest race of its kind to date this season at Newmarket in May as subsequent Cherry Hinton winner Gamilati was second, Albany winner Samitar was third and impressive maiden winners such as Elbe and My Propeller were well beaten.
A couple of minor niggles forced her to miss Royal Ascot and Newmarket’s July meeting, but she came through a gallop on Saturday with flying colours and is all set to return.
“It was a very solid performance at Newmarket and the form has been franked every which way,” Chris Richardson, managing director of the owners Cheveley Park Stud, said.
“It’s all a bit nerve-wracking really. Like all these things, they may have all progressed for the run, but we hope she has.
“Unfortunately she’s had a few problems. We were hoping to run at Royal Ascot but she coughed and then had a bit of a temperature which meant it would have been a rush for the Cherry Hinton.
“I watched her work on Saturday, she seemed to work nicely and like all these things, her name will either be up in lights after this or we’ll end up having a problem.
“Hopefully she’s over all her little niggles, she hasn’t had the easiest of preparations but we’ve got to get her going and this seems the logical step.
“There’s enough stamina in her pedigree but she’s a granddaughter of Regal Rose who won the Cheveley Park Stakes but didn’t train on.
“She deserves to take her chance over this trip and while we expect her to move up a little bit, it is quite a two-year-old pedigree.
“We’ve entered her in races like the Fillies’ Mile and the Lowther later on.”
Sir Michael Stoute’s Russelliana, runner-up to Gamilati in the Cherry Hinton, Godolphin’s impressive Newmarket winner Desert Gazelle, Barry Hills’ Angels Will Fall and Mark Johnston’s Vocational add strength in depth to the Group Three contest which has drawn 14 entries.
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