Talent on song for Oaks
Despite victory in Newmarket’s Pretty Polly Stakes on her seasonal reappearance, the daughter of New Approach was a 20-1 outsider for the Investec Oaks at the end of May, with stable companion Secret Gesture Beckett’s major hope of winning the Epsom Classic for the second time following Look Here triumph in 2008.
Secret Gesture ran an excellent race but was unable to repel the charge of Talent, who flew down the outside of the field in the straight to strike by almost four lengths under Richard Hughes.
