Starspangledbanner Filly Claims Group 3 Success At Goodwood

Precise (2f Starspangledbanner - Way To My Heart, by Galileo) continued her progress with a first stakes win in the Group 3 Prestige Fillies' Stakes at Goodwood on Sunday.

The Ballydoyle-trained filly was stepping up from an eyecatching maiden win at Cork earlier this month and duly took another step forward under Wayne Lordan on her third start.

In touch with the leaders in the seven-furlong contest, the daughter of Starspangledbanner took up the lead over a furlong out to post victory by three-quarters of a length. In third was St Mark’s Basilica’s promising Aylin.

Lordan said of the winner: “She’s a very professional filly, she ran over six furlongs at Fairyhouse the first day and learned plenty and then stepped up to seven furlongs and won her maiden quite well.

“We always thought she could win her maiden at six and then go up in trip, but as it happened she won her maiden at seven. She has pace and what you like about her is when I get down into her she gets seven quite well.

“She looked comfortable and when I hit the front about a furlong out she pricked one ear so she was hanging on to a little bit which is always a nice sign as it shows she wasn’t doing the full limit, so that was good.”

Precise was bred by Whisperview Trading Ltd.