G3 Godolphin Lifetime Care Oh So Sharp Stakes

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...

Proving yet again that Aidan O'Brien's second string is never to be discounted in pattern races, the 25-1 shot Merrily (No Nay Never--Caponata, by Selkirk) swooped to conquer in Friday's G3 Godolphin Lifetime Care Oh So Sharp Stakes at Newmarket. Anchored in rear early by Wayne Lordan, the relative of Sunday's Arc heroine Bluestocking (GB) (Camelot {GB}) was a touch free early in response the switch in tactics from her latest fifth in the G3 Weld Park Stakes. Saving her energy for the finale this time, the $325,000 Keeneland September...