O'Brien star flashes ominous warning

Racing:  You'resothrilling underlined her claims for next year's1000 Guineas when finishing best of all on the favoured stands…

Racing: You'resothrilling underlined her claims for next year's1000 Guineas when finishing best of all on the favoured stands rail to land the Irish Thoroughbred Marketing Cherry Hinton Stakes at Newmarket.

The first two races had shown the near side was the place to be and Aidan O'Brien's runner was ideally placed under Mick Kinane in stall 13, and stretched away to collect by a length.

A full-sister to Giant's Causeway, the 6-4 favourite came under pressure at halfway as Frankie Dettori set a scorching pace on the far side of the track aboard Francesca d'Gorgio.

Kinane bustled his mount along to maintain an advantage and the Albany Stakes runner-up willingly responded before coming through to stamp her class on the Group Two contest in the final furlong.

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Harry Dunlop's Festoso was left to chase her home in second with Queen Mary winner Elletelle storming through from off the pace under her penalty to finish a neck down in third.

O'Brien was not at the track but his representative Paul Shanahan said: "We have high expectations of her and the fact she was here tells you that she is high in the pecking order.

"This wasn't part of the original program though and isn't something we had in mind as we saw her as a filly for the second half of the year.

"There is no question that she will get seven furlongs, and her brother got a mile and a quarter.

"The Moyglare is the obvious place to send her next, although we might also look at the Morny depending on how the colts are doing."

Kinane added: "She jumped badly in the Albany and then got shut down when I tried to deliver a challenge; I think she should have won at Ascot.

"We were a good four or five lengths down here at one point as Frankie was going a good lick on the far side, so I had to get after her early as she likes something to race with.

"She is like her brother and is very tough and she will love another furlong."