4.20 Goodwood - Markel Height Of Fashion Stakes result
1st Mori (15/8 fav)
2nd Coconut Creme (7/1)
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Race report
Mori upheld family tradition as she ran out a cosy winner of the Markel Insurance Height Of Fashion Stakes at Goodwood.
The Sir Michael Stoute-trained filly boasts the very best of pedigrees, with her sire Frankel twice counting the Sussex Stakes on the Downs track among his successes, while her dam, Midday, farmed the Nassau Stakes between 2009 and 2011.
Mori (15/8 favourite) had just an Ascot maiden win to her name from two starts prior to this Listed affair, but she stepped up on that in style in the hands of Ryan Moore, who allowed her to race prominently throughout.
Coconut Creme travelled alongside her and it was clear from some way out that the pair would fight out the finish, with Mori eventually poking her head in front with half a furlong to run before going on to win by a length and three-quarters.
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Teddy Grimthorpe, racing manager to owner Khalid Abdullah, said: "She is bred to win at Goodwood, as her father won two Sussex Stakes and her mother won three Nassaus. If we were ever to breed a winner for Goodwood, this is the one.
"When she won at Ascot, she was doing her best work in the last furlong and really today it was pretty much the same thing.
"I think all being well we will head to Royal Ascot for the Ribblesdale and take it from there. On that, you'd be pretty confident she'd have no problems getting a mile and a half.
"She was green first time out at Newbury, and it was a learning curve at Ascot, but she was quite professional today. She was really well balanced and relaxed."
