Felicitas (GB)

Eleven fillies will head postward for Sunday's G1 Prix de Diane Longines at Chantilly after declarations were confirmed Thursday morning. Ryan Moore is set to partner G1 Prix Marcel Boussac and G1 Poule d'Essai des Pouliches heroine, and likely favourite, Diamond Necklace (St Mark's Basilica), who has drawn stall three. Her Aidan O'Brien stablemate Moments Of Joy (Justify) will exit stall eight under Wayne Lordan. "Everything has gone well with Diamond Necklace since she won the French Guineas and I've been very happy with her," O'Brien commented, "The plan was...

From the immediate family of Frankel, Juddmonte's Legacy Link (Dubawi) put herself in the Oaks picture in Wednesday's G3 Tattersalls Musidora Stakes at York. Not seen since finishing fourth in the Fillies' Mile at Newmarket in October, the John and Thady Gosden-trained granddaughter of Kind travelled smoothly tracking the front pair early. Committed three out by Colin Keane, the 6-4 favourite was joined soon after and headed by Felicitas (Teofilo) but battled to regain the advantage and forge ahead for a 3/4-of-a-length success. The Aykroyds' K Sarra (New Bay) was a further...

Sandown's "Wild Card" Fillies' Novice Stakes has such a glowing history when it comes to the Oaks that it even guarantees automatic entry to the Epsom Classic and that is where Felicitas (Teofilo) is heading after becoming a TDN Rising Star, Presented by Hagyard. Despite having beaten an interesting yardstick in Allaire (Study Of Man) on debut at Lingfield in December, TBT Racing's 150,000gns Tattersalls October Book 1 purchase drifted to 11-1 for the 10-furlong contest but showed those odds all wrong once Kieran Shoemark committed passing the two pole....