Inspiral maintained her unbeaten run and strengthened her Classic credentials with an impressive performance in the bet365 Fillies' Mile at Newmarket.
Leading two furlongs out, the John and Thady Gosden-trained juvenile pulled clear of her rivals to complete a four-timer in the Group One feature.
Frankie Dettori – winning the race for a record-extending seventh time – settled the 8-11 favourite behind Cachet in the centre of the course in the early stages while the rest of the field were towards the far rail.
Three furlongs out, the two groups came together and Dettori did not wait long to make his challenge.
Inspiral quickened away in great style to score by two and a half lengths from Prosperous Voyage, with Cachet a neck away in third and Mise En Scene a never-nearer fourth.
🐎 Inspiral wins the Group 1 @bet365 Fillies' Mile under @FrankieDettori, maintaining her unbeaten record for the Gosdens and @CPStudOfficial 👏 pic.twitter.com/4oR5oiU1Gw
— Newmarket Racecourse (@NewmarketRace) October 8, 2021
Dettori said: "She doesn't stop surprising me, she travelled like the winner, she travelled real good. She’s a beauty and has still got plenty to fill up in the winter.
"She went into the dip and came out of it well. I was tracking James (Doyle, on Cachet) and he was matching the other side so I knew I wasn’t losing any ground.
"At the three (furlong pole) I tried to join the others, I sat wide and then coming out of the dip I asked her to quicken and she came out of it pretty well.
"Obviously she’s very good – I don’t have to say that, she’s won everything. I knew I had it won a long way out.
"She’s done nothing wrong, I’m very excited and we can think of the Guineas next year."
Gosden senior said: "She won well in the May Hill and was pretty professional there, I think she’s learning all the time.
"She travelled well into the dip and you’d have to be very happy, she took it well and she’s getting stronger all the time.
"We’ll start her off in a trial or go straight to the Guineas on the back of a gallop. It’s a long way off, all I know is she won’t be going to Del Mar!"
He added: "It’s great for an owner/breeder to have a filly of this quality.
"All the way through she did everything very easily and when we ran her on the July Course she’d only ever been on the bridle, but she showed her class straight away. She’s a filly that would be easy to over-train.
"She’s by Frankel, she’ll get 10 furlongs but beyond that I don’t know, there’s a question mark.
"She’s was fine on that good ground today on the course, I wouldn’t know about good to firm."
Al Suhail has always been highly regarded and stamped his class on the Godolphin Stud & Stable Staff Awards Challenge Stakes.
Second in the Autumn Stakes in his juvenile year, he was a Listed winner at three and expected to be a major player at the Dubai Carnival last spring.
Charlie Appleby tried to stretch him out to nine furlongs and the first attempt went well, when narrowly beaten by Lord Glitters, but he was stone last behind Lord North in the Dubai Turf.
Barring a win at Haydock this summer the four-year-old was becoming slightly disappointing, but was still sent off the 3-1 favourite for the Group Three over seven furlongs.
The result was never in doubt, with William Buick bouncing him into an early lead, pulling further clear over a furlong out and eventually running out a three-and-a-half-length winner over With Thanks, who had won at Ascot last weekend.
What a performance! 🙌
— Newmarket Racecourse (@NewmarketRace) October 8, 2021
🐎 Al Suhail dominated the opposition to win the Group 2 @godolphin Stud & Stable Staff Awards Challenge Stakes for William Buick and Charlie Appleby 👏 pic.twitter.com/E6S28ncujH
Fast Attack confirmed the promise she showed on debut with victory in the Godolphin Lifetime Care Oh So Sharp Stakes.
Trained by Simon and Ed Crisford, she was a six-length winner at Kempton on her initial run and looked sure to progress to be a Pattern-race filly.
The daughter of Kodiac was plunged straight into Group Two company in France for her next outing, where she had a valid excuse for disappointing, and then last time out at Newbury chased home two smart fillies.
To the fore throughout under James Doyle on the Rowley Mile, it briefly looked as if she could be swallowed up on entering the dip.
However, she rallied gamely to the cause and while Allayaali threw down the gauntlet, Fast Attack relished the climb to the line and the 9-1 shot ended up pulling a length clear.
Twilight Jet made it fifth time lucky on his excursions to Britain when running out a clear-cut winner of the Newmarket Academy Godolphin Beacon Project Cornwallis Stakes.
Trained by Michael O'Callaghan on the Curragh, the Twilight Son colt had run with credit in the Norfolk Stakes, the Gimcrack and the Champagne Stakes – and led the field for a long way in the Middle Park two weeks ago.
Down a furlong in trip, he burst clear inside the final furlong to justify 2-1 favouritism by two lengths. Illustrating made late gains into second, while Guilded was third.
