‘It Was Very Smooth’: No Worries For Moore As Minnie Hauk Completes Oaks Treble

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Having won the Oaks and Irish Oaks, Minnie Hauk (Frankel) completed the heralded treble on Thursday in the G1 Yorkshire Oaks with the minimum of fuss. Held up behind as Wayne Lordan set the tempo on the Ribblesdale winner Garden Of Eden (Saxon Warrior), the 8-15 favourite moved up to take control two out and draw away from her main rival Estrange (Night Of Thunder) for a resounding 3 1/2-length success.

“She's very straightforward and professional and does everything very smooth,” Ryan Moore said of the winner, who also won the Listed Cheshire Oaks in May and was rounding off a rare set of races with that title. “She put the race to bed when I asked her and the last furlong was easy. She does what you ask her to do and with the higher tempo and nice track and ground today she was able to show more, but she's always been very good.”

Aidan O'Brien, who was registering a record-equalling ninth Yorkshire Oaks success, has the Arc in mind for the winner who he believes was compromised by the way the race panned out. “Wayne set lovely fractions [on Garden Of Eden], but Ryan couldn't follow as close as he would have liked as the other filly [Qilin Queen] got between them and we feel there is probably more to come still when the pace is strong and even,” he explained.

“She's made like a miler, not like a typical middle-distance filly but gets this trip well and is a very good mover so we always thought that fast ground would suit her,” the master of Ballydoyle added. “She could go to an Arc or a Breeders' Cup Turf–all those things are open and we know ease in the ground doesn't matter. When these fillies are improving at this time of year you never know what will happen.”

Estrange's rider Danny Tudhope said, “It went as we thought, she travelled lovely and settled well and I thought I had half a chance when I loomed to Ryan, but Minnie Hauk just went away from me quite easily and probably outstayed me. This ground was fine for her, maybe she could come back in trip again.”

 

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