Saqqara Sands (GB)

Jonquil after winning the Celebration Mile
Jonquil Back To Winning Ways In The Celebration Mile

So impressive in the Greenham this spring, Juddmonte's Jonquil (Lope De Vega) has had to wait to add to his tally but proved as game as he is talented on Sunday to land Goodwood's G2 Celebration Mile. Sent off the 3-1 second favourite, the Andrew Balding-trained homebred relative of Frankel who had been runner-up in the Poule d'Essai des Poulains before two unplaced efforts over shorter stayed on under Colin Keane to reel in the Group 3-winning three-year-old filly Saqqara Sands (Oasis Dream) late on and record a neck success....

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Ralph Beckett Duo Saqqara Sands and Tabiti Share Spoils in Oak Tree Dead-Heat

Ralph Beckett enjoyed the perfect outcome in Wednesday's G3 HKJC World Pool Oak Tree Stakes when his two representatives, Saqqara Sands (Oasis Dream) and Tabiti (Kingman), could not be separated by technology in a photo finish to the seven-furlong contest at Goodwood. "My daughter was laughing at me because I was going 'go on Rossa, go on Ryan, go on Rossa'," revealed Becket. "I have definitely not been involved in a finish when two of my horses dead-heated before. William Easterby just told me his father [Tim] did it at...

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