Fahey praise for Pavlova

Richard Fahey does not believe there is a filly that can beat Anna Pavlova – as long as she gets her ground conditions.

The five-year-old looked better than ever when slamming her opposition in the Lancashire Oaks but disappointed only five days later in the Princess Of Wales’s Stakes at Newmarket.

She is due to go to France this weekend for the Prix de Pomone at Deauville, where she could meet last year’s Prix Vermeille winner Mrs Lindsay and John Gosden’s Dar Re Mi.

“She’s very ground dependent and on heavy ground I don’t think there is a filly in Europe that would beat her,” said Fahey.

“We just need her conditions so we do make a lot of entries for her and we just play it by ear.

“She’s in at Deauville this weekend but it would have to be soft. She’s been a wonderful mare to train, she hasn’t taken any training at all as long as we keep her to her ground.

“I got sucked into running her quick last time. She’d been to Ireland the week before the Lancashire Oaks and she was having three runs in the space of 12 days and it just caught up with her,” he told At The Races.