Coolmore shuttler Wootton Bassett (GB) has had a great year and added another new stakes-winner to his tally overnight at Newbury where four year-old stallion Ilaraab took out the Group III St Simon Stakes (1m4f).
Trained by William Haggas, Ilaraab had been mixing his form a little of late but produced his A game for Tom Marquand to score a length win.
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He is the best of two winners from Belova, a half-sister by Soviet star to Group III winner Census.
Ilaraab is the 26th stakes-winner for Wootton Bassett, who stands in Australia this spring at a fee of $71,500.
The champion son of Iffraaj has had 12 stakes-winners in 2021, two of them new Group I winners in Zellie and Incarville and five of them being juvenile stakes-winners indicating a lot more to come in 2022.
Wootton Bassett runs at 8.5% stakes-winners to runners with the benefit of his bigger and better books of mares only just beginning to kick in.
