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Gum Farm shuttler Canford Cliffs (IRE) had an impressive winner at the weekend
in Ireland Most Beautiful scoring a stylish victory at Navan.
The David Wachman-trained filly, who had finished a promising fourth on her
racecourse debut, is now set to step up to Group company after scoring
comfortably under Wayne Lordan.
"We always thought a lot of her and she'd shown us plenty," said Wachman. "She
is maybe still a little weak, but she's very big so she is entitled to be. Soft
ground caught her out on her first outing, she just got a little tired, but it
was a nice introduction.
"There's a Group 3 for her on Derby weekend (G3 Grangecon Stud Stakes) if she's
OK but really she's one for the second part of the season and next year. She
has plenty of natural ability. I've got a couple more by Canford Cliffs who
look nice horses."
Lordan was similarly impressed with his mount and added: "This is a nice filly
going onwards. She travelled very easily and she works really well at home. We
just do casual work with her and I felt she might be a little weak so another
month or so will do her a lot of good.
"I thought she was going to win first time but, when I asked her a question, we
hadn't gone five strides before I knew she wasn't handling the ground and got
tired, so that was a nice debut."
Most Beautiful is the fourth winner for Canford Cliffs, who is now listed by Bookmakers
RaceBets at 6/4 (from 2/1) to be leading UK/Ireland first-season sire of 2015.
His first Australian runners will hit tracks in
the new season.