Head’s Gold-en lady is a champ

FEW of the fillies attending Ladies’ Day on Thursday will match the superstar status of Goldikova as the globetrotting French mare clocked up her ninth Group One win in the Queen Anne Stakes at Royal Ascot yesterday.

The opening action of the 2010 meeting served up one of the tastiest dishes of the week, with the mile event living up to the billing as Paco Boy charged late to run the 11-8 favourite to a neck.

Freddie Head’s five-year-old smashed the track record last time out at Longchamp and was popular at the head of the market on the back of that run.