Turbo Linn strikes again at HQ
Saturday 21st July, 2007
Turbo Linn wins at Newmarket again, picture by Steve Cargill.
YORKSHIRE trainer Alan Swinbank was celebrating once again this afternoon as his unbeaten filly Turbo Linn made it eight from eight by landing the Plantation Stud Stakes (registered as the Aphrodite Stakes).
The four-year-old filly’s star remains in the ascendant as she added a Listed victory to her already glittering CV. Returning to the scene of her Group 2 Lancashire Oaks success 10 days earlier, Swinbank’s charge scored by a length-and-three-quarters from the game Green Room.
It was her third win on the Flat after five straight triumphs in bumpers and she is now set to return to Group company with a shot at the Prix de Pomone at Deauville on August 5.
Swinbank said: “She has always been a good and tough filly, always shown ability at home. This is marvellous for all concerned. Every race is a worry - there has been all the hype about the horse - but she has come good again.”
Another progressive filly on show was the Sir Mark Prescott-trained Bee Eater. She claimed the Invesco Perpetual EBF Fillies’ handicap by a length-and-three-quarters from China Cherub.
Prescott said: “She is quick and from a very good family. I trained the dam (Littlefeather) who was third in the Moyglare and Bee Eater probably goes for a fillies’ Listed race in Germany next.”
Medicea Sidera followed a couple of second-place efforts and a decent run in the fillies’ handicap at the Ritz Club July Festival with a much-deserved first career win. She took the Lettergold Plastics Maiden by a neck from Plucky to give trainer Ed Vaughan his first July Course winner.
John Gosden introduced the potentially classy Legislation to win the Unicorn Asset Management July Course Series maiden. Also successful on the day were Al Khaleej (the Coolus Air Conditioning handicap), Nobelix (the Duke Grime Memorial handicap) and Ishi Adiva (the TurfTV handicap).
Newmarket stages its next card on Friday, July 27 when the Pet Shop Boys will play a post-racing concert.
By Tony Rushmer