This
Fastnet Rock filly won by nine lengths at Sale on Wednesday and booked her
ticket to the Group I MRC Thousand Guineas, assuming owner Phil Sly decides to
pay the late entry fee as she was not among original entries.
The Robert Smerdon trained Lumosty was quite clearly a class above in the 1423
metre maiden, quickly putting her rivals to the sword and bolting away to win
in a breeze.
Stakes-placed at her only three previous runs, Lumosty was scratched from the
Group III MRC Guineas Prelude on Sunday in favour of the easier assignment, but
on the strength of this win may well have given the harder race a big nudge.
"The form around her is really encouraging going into the better
fillies' races," said Robert Smerdon.
"We've had a few issues holding her up with the bar plates going on but I think
that's only temporary and we're on top of that now."
A $185,000 Inglis Easter purchase for Flemington
Bloodstock from the Coolmore draft, Lumosty runs for Phil Sly and Katsumi
Yoshida, who enjoyed much success with the mighty Fastnet Rock filly Mosheen,
who won four Group I events including the VRC Oaks by nine lengths.
Foaled and raised at Coolmore, Lumosty is also entered for the Oaks and is the
first foal of Irish Group III winner Luminous Eyes (IRE), who comes from the
family of champion racehorse Pilsudski and Group I winners Youmzain and
Creachadoir.
Luminous Eyes has a yearling colt by Fastnet Rock and will foal again to the
champion sire this spring.