A last start winner of the Prix de Diane (French Oaks), Coolmore’s blue-blooded Deep Impact filly Fancy Blue kept up the good work with a determined victory overnight in the Group I Nassau Stakes (1m2f) at Goodwood.
Trained by Donnacha O’Brien and ridden by Ryan Moore, Fancy Blue proved too strong at the finish to outpoint One Voice to win by a neck with race favourite Magic Wand a fading fifth.
“We'll give Fancy Blue a little break now, she's had a busy start to the year and there's not much for her for a few weeks. We might look at Irish Champions weekend to start her back, either in the Matron or the Irish Champion,” said Donnacha O’Brien.
“Then we'll probably go to Arc weekend, where she has the option of the Opera or the Arc itself. After that it will probably be either the Breeders' Cup or a race in Japan in the middle of November.”
A homebred for Coolmore, Fancy Blue has the impressive record of four wins and a second from five starts and is a half-sister to stakes-winner Casterton and Smuggler’s Cove from Chenchikova, a winning full sister to champion racehorse and sire High Chaparral.
Fancy Blue is the second Group I classic winner for Coolmore bred by Japanese super sire Deep Impact joining Saxon Warrior, who is shuttling to Australia again this spring at a fee of $17,600.
