Go Go Go Horserace: SOPRANO CALLS SAVAL TUNE Ascot Gold Cup. Midnight Soprano won the Seamus & Rosemary McGrath Memorial Saval Beg Stakes at Leopardstown. There was a considerably reduced field for the celebrated fourteen furlong Listed contest with Bob Le Beau, Sense Of Purpose, Royal Diamond and Steps To Freedom all being withdrawn.
As a result, Unaccompanied was sent off as an odds-on favorite on the rear of her spectacular run behind last year's winner of this race, Fame And Glory, at Navan last month. the sphere a lot of or less raced in indian file for a lot of of the race with British raider Eternal Heart taking the sphere along.
Unaccompanied crept nearer however Chris Hayes shadowed the mare's each move aboard Midnight Soprano and edged up on her outside because the field moved towards the house flip. The race changed into one thing of a sprint within the straight with Midnight Soprano showing the higher flip of foot of the leading try however Saddler's Rock, who was conceding 10lbs to the 2 mares, gradually created ground from off the pace to claw his means into rivalry.
Last year's Doncaster Cup hero ran an enormous race on his come sooner than a tilt at the Ascot Gold Cup prep however he could not peg back Paul Deegan's runner who had 0.5 a length to spare at the road. The Celtic Swing mare had jinked a bit shut home with Hayes doing a grand job to straighten her out to land a fifth successive contest and a primary in Pattern company though the try had to survive a stewards' inquiry.
Deegan said: "She's got slightly of sophistication though and she's very improving.
"The arrange once the Curragh was to travel for the Noblesse however this appeared like it would divide thus we have a tendency to came here.
"We would possibly modification once more and maintain for the Martin Molony (Limerick, June 22)."
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