Highway mows down rivals

Princess Highway will attempt to emulate her dam Irresistible Jewel in Royal Ascot’s Ribblesdale Stakes following a convincing win in the Group 3 Irish Stallion Farms Blue Wind Stakes in Naas.

Trained by Dermot Weld for Moyglare Stud Farm, Princess Highway tracked front running Aloof, backed from 7/1 to 3/1 joint-favourite, before edging ahead two furlongs from home. The Street Cry filly stayed on stoutly up the hill to triumph by a length from Aaraas, with Was plugging on to be third.

Weld said: “That was a nice performance from a lovely progressive filly. She’s still mentally immature and should continue to progress through the season. We can always hope that she’ll be as good as the filly that this race commemorates, Blue Wind, which won the Oaks double for us (back in 1981).”