Fleeting Spirit, the 3-1 favourite for the King's Stand Stakes, will head a 17-strong team for Jeremy Noseda at Royal Ascot next week, but the trainer stressed she still has to prove herself.
Traditionally, three-year-olds struggle against older, battle-hardened sprinters at Group One level, but the filly demonstrated when winning Haydock's Temple Stakes on her seasonal debut that she has the potential to reverse that trend.
Noseda admitted yesterday that he spent the whole winter worrying whether it was a mistake not to have sold her -until he started working her in May. "I soon got the impression she had not only trained on but moved forward a bit," he said. "It takes an exceptional three-year-old to beat the older horses but she won the Temple in the manner that I hoped and expected.
Traditionally, three-year-olds struggle against older, battle-hardened sprinters at Group One level, but the filly demonstrated when winning Haydock's Temple Stakes on her seasonal debut that she has the potential to reverse that trend.
Noseda admitted yesterday that he spent the whole winter worrying whether it was a mistake not to have sold her -until he started working her in May. "I soon got the impression she had not only trained on but moved forward a bit," he said. "It takes an exceptional three-year-old to beat the older horses but she won the Temple in the manner that I hoped and expected.
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