Exact made no mistake in striding to a tremendously spectacular victory within the bet365 Fillies’ Mile at Newmarket.
Aidan O’Brien’s Moyglare Stud Stakes winner was the 5-4 favorite underneath Christophe Soumillon and hung again as the sector went ahead to hunt out her higher-drawn stablemates Composing and Sugar Island.
Having gained cowl from them she was left to work her approach into the race and her means advised as she did so with little fuss. Hitting the entrance within the remaining furlong, she pressed on to a simple three-and-a-quarter-length victory from Charlie Johnston-trained 40-1 shot Venetian Lace.
O’Brien stated: “She looks very special and everything she has done from day one has been so easy, so we were never sure how good she was.
“She appears to be like critical and it jogged my memory of Minding, she was spectacular, unbelievable actually. She was cantering going to submit and that’s uncommon.
“She’s doing all the things really easy. Christophe stated he was left in entrance rather a lot longer than he would have preferred however he was sensible on her, tremendous assured and really clean on her, so she’s very thrilling.
“She’s a complete pure athlete so that you by no means do an excessive amount of at house together with her however these races like this and the Boussac, you prefer to see them in these so you recognize what you’ve got for subsequent yr and you are not kidding your self going into subsequent yr.
“We at all times hoped she could be a Traditional filly however up right here in Newmarket there may be nowhere to cover, she was out very fast and what you like about her is she sailed right down to the two-furlong pole and at that time you thought she was going to win – by the point she received to the seven it was over.
“I’d say we will put her away, she looks like she could be anything and we’ll train her for the Classics. The sky is the limit for her.”
On how Exact compares to ParisLongchamp winner Diamond Necklace, O’Brien added: “I think they could both go beyond a mile and the filly in France looked very special, Christophe never touched her and went to France feeling like she was unbeatable.
“He handled it like a day trip to provide her extra expertise forward of subsequent yr. He stated he would try this after Leopardstown and rode her the exact same approach in a Group One.”
Johnston said of the runner-up Venetian Lace: “I briefly was getting excited. I assumed we had gone fairly onerous early so I knew it could be tough to keep up these fractions however one after the other they had been coming underneath strain and he or she nonetheless had extra to provide.
“Fair play to the winner, she’s clearly a very good filly but I’m delighted with ours.
“We went straight into the Chesham from her maiden and he or she’s been in Group firm since then. Generally you look when you find yourself the outsider and suppose ‘why am I even working?’ however I by no means had that feeling together with her, I at all times had confidence that she belongs in these races.
“She’s only disappointed once at Doncaster and I struggle with the ground at that track.
“I assumed we would be within the first 4 however I am not shocked to see her end second.
“That will be it for the year now I think. Looking at her pedigree, I was always thinking of the Oaks for her but she’s not slow and after that I think we’ll be back here in May.”
