enhanced her Classic credentials by providing trainer Aidan O’Brien with a ninth victory in the Weatherbys ePassport Cheshire Oaks.
Although none of Ballydoyle’s eight previous winners of the
trial have gone on to claim the Betfred Oaks the following month, his 2018 runner-up Forever Together did go one better at Epsom, while the brilliant Enable completed the double for John Gosden in 2017.
Frankel filly Minnie Hauk, who finished second on her Cork debut before scoring at Leopardstown in October, was a 13-8 favourite to add her name to the roll of honour on the Roodee.
And after racing on the tail of the pacesetting Queen Of Thieves for much of the way, she finished off strongly from the home turn under
to score by a length from the staying-on Secret Of Love.