DAY 2 THURSDAY 4.10pm
Galtres Stakes (Listed)
1m4f
What the jockeys said
James Doyle
A La Prochaine
Race report
Preview
If Legacy Link – second in the G1 Oaks at Epsom in June – runs well in the Yorkshire Oaks, it could be a tip for our filly in this, a Listed race over exactly the same distance and for exactly the same sort of staying filly or mare: A La Prochaine ran fourth in the Oaks, keeping on extremely well for so inexperienced a racehorse. She was running in a G1 in just her third career start that day. Held back for softer autumn conditions since that wet June afternoon, things could be perfectly in her favour today. The expanses of York are also likely to suit her long stride far better than the tight turns of Chester and Epsom where she has run the past twice. The Galtres – pronounced ‘gal-trees’ and named after a nearby forest – carries a prefix honouring Frankel’s trainer Sir Henry Cecil, who won this race four times.
A La Prochaine