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<\/p>\nLegacy Link booked her ticket to the Betfred Oaks with a battling victory over Felicitas in a thrilling Tattersalls Musidora Stakes at York.<\/p>\n
Fourth in the Fillies\u2019 Mile at the end of last season, Legacy Link was a 6-4 favourite to enhance her Classic credentials under Colin Keane and the Juddmonte number one was happy to track the pace in the early stages as Moments Of Joy and Sea The Storm disputed matters.<\/p>\n
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Ed Walker\u2019s impressive Sandown scorer Felicitas was never far away from Legacy Link and although Keane made the first move entering the home straight, injecting some pace and moving strongly past the front-runners, Kieran Shoemark was quickly alongside aboard the 5-2 second favourite.<\/p>\n
A titanic battle would soon ensue up the Knavesmire, but it was the Clarehaven filly who advertised her tenacity at the finish, shading a three-quarters of a length verdict after a great duel worthy of the day\u2019s feature event.<\/p>\n
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It was a ninth Musidora for John Gosden and a third alongside son Thady, with the victory moving Gosden senior alongside Sir Henry Cecil as the race\u2019s most successful trainer.<\/p>\n
Of Legacy Link, he said: \u201cShe did well. She was a little green early on, fresh first time out and broke away from the others on the outside.<\/p>\n
\u201cShe got herself organised, then she got on the wrong lead around the bend, so just learning a bit.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat I liked was she came through the race, looked like she\u2019d done enough and then the second filly came to her, and that\u2019s a very nice filly too \u2013 I thought she was superb the other day at Sandown.<\/p>\n
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\u201cI think to that extent it was a very good trial, I liked the way she fought back and saw it out strongly.\u201d<\/p>\n
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Legacy Link and Felicitas fight out the finish (Mike Egerton\/PA)<\/p>\n
(Mike Egerton)<\/p>\n
Betfred cut Legacy Link to 5-1 from 8-1 for the Oaks and she looks set to get an early sighter of the Epsom undulations later this month.<\/p>\n
Gosden added: \u201cColin feels she should go to Epsom. We have the Prix de Diane, but all being well she\u2019ll go to Epsom.<\/p>\n
\u201cShe has a great mind on her but was short of match practice. I think she can do nothing but improve for the race and we could take her to the gallops morning at Epsom. If she\u2019s in good order she can go and have a spin around Tattenham Corner and learn about the track at three-quarter pace.\u201d<\/p>\n
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Jockey Kieran Shoemark was pleased with the performance of the runner-up Felicitas. He said: \u201cThat was a huge run and she is a very exciting filly, it is only her third start so we\u2019re really pleased with her.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m not convinced she will stay further, something like the Prix De Diane (could be an option) possibly.\u201d<\/p>\n
K Sarra was doing her best work at the finish, staying on into third for Ralph Beckett.<\/p>\n
\u201cShe stayed on nicely. Her pedigree says she\u2019ll get a mile and a half,\u201d said rider Rossa Ryan.<\/p>\n
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\u201cShe was very green throughout the race but I\u2019d say from a furlong and a half down the penny dropped.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s fair to say if there was a little bit further I might have got there, she\u2019s definitely going the right way and she\u2019s a bit more chilled out than her brother (Pride Of Arras).<\/p>\n
\u201cHopefully she\u2019s got a good future.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Legacy Link booked her ticket to the Betfred Oaks with a battling victory over Felicitas in a thrilling…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":439954,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[206243,85,46,206241,206242,206239,206240,105],"class_list":["post-439953","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-colin-keane","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-john-gosden","tag-kieran-shoemark","tag-legacy-link","tag-musidora-stakes","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/439953","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=439953"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/439953\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/439954"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=439953"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=439953"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=439953"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}