Homecoming crowned Guineas queen.
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Aidan O'Brien became the first trainer since 1942 to claim the 1000 and 2000 Guineas in the same season on two occasions as Homecoming Queen ran out a surprise winner of the fillies' Classic 24 hours after Camelot's triumph.
The legendary Fred Darling was the last man to achieve the feat that O'Brien first managed in 2005 with Virginia Waters and Footstepsinthesand.
That O'Brien won the Qipco 1000 Guineas was no shock, but he was expected to do it with the 13-8 favourite Maybe, ridden, like Camelot, by his son Joseph, and not 25-1 shot Homecoming Queen, the mount of Ryan Moore.
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Gosden happy with Classic duo.
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John Gosden was delighted with his Qipco 1000 Guineas fillies Starscope and The Fugue after they finished second and fourth in the Rowley Mile Classic.
Stable jockey William Buick was on board 22-1 shot The Fugue, but it was her 33-1 stable companion Starscope who performed best under Jimmy Fortune, finishing a length in front of favourite Maybe without ever threatening to get near the runaway winner Homecoming Queen.
"I was thrilled with both my fillies, who will go further in time and will want a longer trip," said the Newmarket handler.
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Kailani books Oaks ticket.
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Kailani showed she has inherited plenty of her mother's ability when waltzing away with the Tweenhills Pretty Polly Stakes at Newmarket.
A daughter of 1000 Guineas and Oaks heroine Kazzia, she had won on her only previous start at Yarmouth last year.
Settled in the rear by Mickael Barzalona, Kailani put the race to bed some way out. The 6-1 shot powered seven lengths clear of Hazel Lavery to give Godolphin something to cheer on Guineas weekend.
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Izzi on top in Dahlia.
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Last year's Oaks third Izzi Top began her four-year-old career in the best possible way with a relatively straightforward victory in the Qatar Bloodstock Dahlia Stakes at Newmarket.
Sent off the 3-1 second favourite behind Sir Henry Cecil's Group One winner Timepiece, she was always travelling nicely for William Buick.
Tom Queally was soon sending out distress signals on Timepiece and Izzi Top was not too hard pressed to beat Captivator by a length and a quarter.
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Florida Pearl dies, aged 20.
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Outstanding chaser Florida Pearl died on Saturday evening, aged 20, the Irish National Stud said in a statement on Sunday.
Formerly trained by Willie Mullins, the Violet O'Leary-owned gelding won the 2001 King George VI Chase at Kempton and a record-breaking four Irish Hennessy Gold Cups
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