Callum Rodriguez

Providing connections with the big money when taking Doncaster's Weatherbys Scientific £300,000 2-Y-O Stakes last month, Calendar Girl (Advertise) added vital black-type in Friday's G3 Godolphin Lifetime Care Oh So Sharp Stakes at Newmarket. Delivered from mid-division to take over inside the last two furlongs, the 6-5 favourite battled for Callum Rodriguez to ward off Mubasimah (Frankel) by a neck. "I thought she was a bit too short to be truthful, but she hung on in there well," trainer Owen Burrows said of the Kennet Valley Syndicate flagbearer. "She was...

Sheikh Ahmed Al Maktoum's Waardah (Postponed), a G1 Yorkshire Oaks entry, notched a black-type breakthrough at Goodwood in June and revisited the Sussex Downs venue to claim a career high with a battling victory in Saturday's 14-furlong G2 Qatar Lillie Langtry Stakes. "Callum [Rodriguez] said Waardah switched off great and, in hindsight, he probably got there a little bit too soon," explained Owen Burrows. "She is inexperienced, but very honest, and we are still learning about her. When the runner-up came to her, I thought she was going to get...

Coming into Saturday's G3 Firth Of Clyde Stakes at Ayr as the 16-5 favourite having won a decent maiden at Newbury last month, Tony Bloom and Ian McAleavy's Sky Majesty (Ire) (Blue Point {Ire}--Majestic Alexander {Ire}, by Bushranger {Ire}) continued her steep upward trajectory with a battling success to double her tally. Travelling strongly early settled in mid-pack by Callum Rodriguez, the William Haggas-trained 150,000gns Tattersalls Book 2 graduate worked her way into contention approaching the final furlong and after gaining a narrow advantage hung tough throughout the closing stages...