[b]This year's Yorkshire Oaks looks a high-class renewal. Timeform run the rule over the nine runners...[/b]
[b]Brushing[/b] improved last year, numbering a mile-and-a-half listed race at this track among her three wins. She ended 2010 on a low note and was beaten a fair way in the Middleton Stakes here when last seen in May. This looks too tough again.
[b]Crystal Capella[/b] has been lightly raced in recent seasons but finally delivered her abundant talent when a ready winner of the Princess of Wales's Stakes at Newmarket. Her latest run is easily ignored as a steady pace was against her.
[b]Snow Fairy[/b] - NR
[b]Vita Nova[/b] is a lightly-raced filly who won her first here starts and could well have arrived her unbeaten in different circumstances. She was most unlucky ...
[b]Timeform look back over an interesting weekend with team Ireland winning the Shergar Cup, a big shock in the Phoenix Stakes at the Curragh and a very promising filly emerging from the Sweet Solera Stakes at Newmarket...[/b]
The [b]Shergar Cup[/b] attracted 30,765 people this year and very few would have been disappointed with the exciting finish that concluded the afternoon. Going into the last race, Ireland were last in the team competition and were someway adrift of Britain and Rest of the World but a points tally of 28 in the final race helped them leapfrog the field and land the team prize for a third consecutive year.
The Silver Saddle was won on the afternoon by [b]Paul Hanagan[/b] of Great Britain, who began the afternoon with a victory, taking the opening race aboard ...