Midday to be hat-trick heroine

IN 2009, Midday bounced back from a pretty disappointing effort in the Irish Oaks to win the Nassau Stakes, and just a year ago she also rediscovered a winning thread to take the Group 1 Goodwood contest.

This afternoon, for the third successive season, Henry Cecil's mare will be hoping to erase the memory of a surprise defeat when she takes on a small-but-select field bidding to deny her a hat-trick.

On her seasonal debut back in May she showed a terrific turn of pace to pick up the enterprisingly ridden Sajjhaa in the Group 2 Middleton Stakes at York. Conceding weight to her rivals, she gave notice that all her ability was still intact.