Hopes are high that the five-year-old trained by James Fanshawe can repeat the win and would become only the second horse to do so after Satwa Queen, ridden by Jean de Roualle, did so in 2007. The win by a neck over Thomas-Demeaulte’s Ambition last year was the horses first win at Group One level and acted as a springboard for the mare as she went on to win the Breeders’ Cup Filly & Mare Turf at Keeneland in November.
At Royal Ascot this year, Audarya was close to denying trainer Aidan O’Brien his 75th career Royal Ascot victory with Love; however, Ryan Moore managed to take the Prince of Wales’s Stakes by just three-quarters of a length. Before the race, Audarya was priced @ 10/1 for the Prince of Wales’s Stakes.
As a result of the win at Prix Jean Romanet and the narrow defeat at Royal Ascot, many punters fancied her for the Nassau Stakes at Goodwood in July, however, the horse was never in the reckoning, finishing fifth out of the six horses that raced.
After the run at Goodwood, Fanshawe was upbeat despite the defeat and said there was nothing amiss with the horse and asserted his confidence that she would bounce back to form in future races.
“She’s well, she’ll be going to the Prix Jean Romanet at Deauville at the weekend,” he said.
“She seems to have come out of Goodwood in good form and the plan is go for the race on Sunday now.” After the Nassau Stakes, jockey William Buick did question if the going might have been the issue. Goodwood was good to soft for the race. However, Fanshawe disputed this and highlighted the fact that the horse had won races in those conditions before.
“She’s won on soft ground, so I don’t think we can say it’s that,” he said.
“She was well afterwards and nothing came to light.
“It’s just something we will draw a line under hopefully, she seems very well and in great form, we’re really looking forward to running on Sunday.”
In other racing news, David Probert this week is looking to continue his great run of form with victory in the Sky Bet Lowther Stakes at York. The 33-year-old has a great chance riding the unbeaten Sandrine on Thursday.
Last Tuesday at Nottingham, Probert claimed his 100th winner of 2021 ridding Typewriter. Then, the next evening in his native Wales, he rode a remarkable five-timer at Ffos Las. The wins kept coming, three wins at Ffos Las on Thursday before another two winners at Newbury on Friday, making it an incredible ten winners in three days. “It’s been a great week,” said Probert.
“Ffos Las is a lovely course and it was great to do it back home at a Welsh track like that. “Everything kind of fell right. I knew I had some nice rides going to the meeting and everything fell into place.”
