Bunting sparks Godolphin celebration

IT was hard to avoid the feeling of anticlimax at Newmarket yesterday, but it will not have affected those connected with Godolphin as Blue Bunting slipped virtually unnoticed up the stands rail to collect the Qipco 1000 Guineas.

Twenty four hours on from Frankel’s astonishing display in the 2000 Guineas, here was a filly who was not even considered the first choice of Sheikh Mohammed’s Godolphin team until the leading fancy White Moonstone was withdrawn a week ago.

Blue Bunting is essentially regarded as a middle-distance, Oaks type, having rounded off her two-year-old career with a victory over the course and distance last October and was sent off at 16-1.