WEATHERBYS ePASSPORT CHESHIRE OAKS THE LISTED WEATHERBYS ePASSPORT CHESHIRE OAKS (FOR THE ROBERT SANGSTER MEMORIAL CUP) HAS BEEN USED AS A STEPPING STONE TO FURTHER BIG-RACE SUCCESS FOR A REMARKABLY HIGH NUMBER OF FILLIES IN RECENT SEASONS. The 2015 winner was Diamondsandrubies, a daughter of Fastnet Rock and Moyglare Stud Stakes heroine Quarter Moon who went on to land the Pretty Polly Stakes at the Curragh, while in the following year another Fastnet Rock filly, Somehow, was on the scoreboard. The ill-fated filly, out of Anglo-Irish Oaks victress Alexandrova, would take the Dahlia Stakes and run second in the Tattersalls Gold Cup at four. The Cheshire Oaks of 2017 went to one of the greatest racemares of recent times, Enable. The daughter of Nathaniel used the race as a springboard to winning 11 Group 1s including the Oaks at Epsom and the Curragh, three renewals of the King George VI and Queen Elizabeth Stakes and back-to-back runnings of the Prix de l’Arc de Triomphe. The 2018 winner Magic Wand, a Galileo half-sister to Irish Oaks heroine Chicquita, went on to win the Ribblesdale Stakes and Mackinnon Stakes and finished second in another eight top-level contests, while the 2019 scorer Mehdaayih, by Frankel out of a daughter of 1,000 Guineas winner Sayyedati, won the Prix de Malleret and ran second in the Nassau Stakes.
MAGIC WAND, 2018 CHESHIRE OAKS
And let’s not forget Forever Together, the daughter of Galileo who finished second to Magic Wand three years ago and went on to win the Oaks at Epsom.
MEHDAAYIH, 2019 CHESHIRE OAKS
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