Third G1 in a row for amazing Danehill filly Fawn
6th August 2007
Saturday’s G1 Nassau Stakes at Glorious Goodwood boasted one of the best line ups ever seen for a fillies’ race. The 10-furlong event featured, among others, G1 Epsom Oaks winner Light Shift, France’s top female performer Mandesha, dual G1 winner Nannina, Danehill Dancer’s G1 1000 Guineas heroine Speciosa and Danehill’s daughter Peeping Fawn (Danehill-Maryinsky by Sadler’s Wells), winner already this year of the G1 Irish Oaks and G1 Pretty Polly Stakes.
But there was only ever going to be one winner of the famous contest and it was yet another G1 victory for Danehill as the remarkable Peeping Fawn, who took the lead three furlongs out, kept on gamely to score by a length and a half from Mandesha.
Trainer Aidan O’Brien has set his sights on G1 win number four later this month with the Yorkshire Oaks at York a next possible target.
"With each run she’s getting stronger and developing. While she’s progressing like she is, I’d quite like to keep the momentum going," said O’Brien. "She has gears which make her very special and is progressing week to week, so if it keeps coming the sky’s the limit."
Peeping Fawn’s victory attracted many accolades in the press and Julian Muscat wrote in The Times that: "It was time for her to do the talking and she did so - eloquently putting a glittering cast to the sword. So emphatic was her superiority that a race billed as an epic only ever really featured one horse."
