Prize Exhibit looks good to secure third victory

Prize Exhibit can land the upgraded Country Gentleman’s Association Dick Poole Fillies’ Stakes at Salisbury today. She has two victories to her name already, both by nine lengths, but her most recent success was far more eyecatching than her win on the all-weather.

Her stiffest task to date came in a very valuable nursery at Newmarket, won by Eve Johnson Houghton’s Zifena with Hugo Palmer’s New Providence in third. Prize Exhibit was fourth, but conceding lumps of weight to that pair so she should be able to turn the tables. Last time out in a decent little conditions race at Nottingham, she beat a field of previous winners without coming off the bridle and certainly looks capable of holding her own at this Group Three level, if not higher.

Richard Hannon’s Marsh Hawk is the unknown quantity having won her maiden by seven lengths but she stole a lead on leaving the stalls that day and may have been flattered. Second behind Marsh Hawk at Newmarket was the Barry Hills-trained Fadhayyil and she should have no trouble opening her account in the second division of the Virginia Walwyn Memorial EBF Quidhampton Maiden Fillies’ Stakes.