Mountain Breeze runner-up in G2 Duchess Of Cambridge Stakes

Two-year-old filly Mountain Breeze secured important G2 Black Type with a closing second in the Duchess Of Cambridge Stakes at Newmarket, UK, on Friday, 12 July.

The Lope de Vega homebred, who is closely related to outstanding Champion Two-Year-Old Pinatubo, had won her first two career starts on the Rowley Mile before finishing fourth in the G3 Albany Stakes at Royal Ascot.

Held up in mid-division by William Buick, Mountain Breeze made good headway between horses over a furlong out. She continued to close on the leaders, taking second from Bountiful and Heaven’s Gate entering the final half-furlong, and hit the line well to go down by three-quarters of a length to Arabian Dusk.

Her trainer Charlie Appleby said: “It was a good, solid run from Mountain Breeze, who appears to have come forward since Ascot. Stepping up to seven furlongs will probably suit, and we will look towards something like the G3 Prestige Stakes at Goodwood.”