Jacqueline Quest (centre) seeks compensation after her Guineas demotion
THERE would be few more popular winners at Royal Ascot on Friday than Jacqueline Quest, who bids to win the Coronation Stakes.
First past the post in the StanJames.com 1,000 Guineas, she was demoted to second by the
Newmarket stewards for interference to Special Duty, who was awarded the race.
The filly is trained by Henry Cecil for owner Noel Martin, who named her after his late wife.Martin was paralysed from the neck down since becoming the victim of a racially motivated attack by neo-Nazis in
Germany 14 years ago.Cecil said: “Jacqueline Quest has been very well since
Newmarket. I think she is an improving filly and a better filly than the one who ran at
Newmarket, but whether she is good enough we’ll have to wait and see.”While Special Duty is absent many of the fillies who finished behind her at
Newmarket take her on again. Gile Na Greine was beaten just a nose and a head into third with Sent From Heaven only a half length further back in fourth.Music Show, who was badly drawn at Newmarket and finished sixth, then came out and finished third in the Irish 1,000 Guineas, one place behind another of Friday’s runners, Anna Salai, and two in front of Lillie Langtry, who is also in the line-up.Bruce Raymond, racing manager to Music Show’s owner Jaber Abdullah, said: “She has been in very good form since the Curragh and has improved a bit, certainly in her coat and condition. Mick [Channon] is very bullish about her.”The form of Workforce’s
Derby win gets its first test when three of the 11 colts who finished behind him at Epsom take their chance in the King Edward VII Stakes.Chief among that number will be the Aidan O’Brien-trained
Derby runner-up At First Sight, who will be out to prove his b0ld front-running performance at 100-1 that day was no fluke.Buzzword finished eighth at Epsom when he was stepped up to this 1m4f trip for the first time, while Bullet Train, winnerof the Derby Trial at Lingfield the time before was not given too hard a time after failing to act on the track.
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