The track, trip and quickening ground will suit last year’s winner of the Group One race ideally
Fancy Blue was Donnacha O’Brien’s first runner in France when she took the Prix de Diane (French Oaks) at Chantilly this month, and the 21-year-old trainer will aim to repeat the trick when the same filly is his first runner in Britain in Thursday’s Group One Nassau Stakes.
The daughter of Deep Impact is lightly-raced and still improving but faces a very different calibre of opponent as she steps outside her own age group for the first time, against three previous Group One winners.
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Goodwood 1.10 Glamorous Anna 1.45 Zabeel Champion (nb) 2.15 Supremacy 2.45 Al Aasy 3.15 Deirdre (nap) 3.45 William Bligh 4.20 Teodolina 4.55 Acklam Express
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