America Queen makes no mistake in Sky Bet Sunday Series feature

The well-backed Richard Hughes-trained filly America Queen ran out a ready winner of the EBF Sky Bet Club Flying Fillies' Stakes at Pontefract. 

Outsider Brazilian Rose helped set some strong early fractions in the listed contest, but she had no answer as America Queen and Ruby's Angel moved past her with a furlong to run. 

Arabian Dusk attempted to launch her own challenge at that point, but she could offer no more on her belated return to action and had to settle for third. 

Tudhope said: "She's been highly tried, the drop back in grade suited, and she was just too good for them, in a different class. 

"I think the track helped her as well." 

The win was a second on the card for Danny Tudhope as the Sky Bet For The Fans Fillies' Handicap also saw a facile winner as his mount  Luna Celeste continued her good run of form with a third success in four starts. She travelled well behind leader Two B Tanned and wasn't hard-pressed to see off Darzah who was behind the winner for the second race in succession. 

The opening race on the card – the Enter ITV7 For Free EBF Novice Stakes – saw Varzi put his experience to good use. The Karl Burke-trained colt shaped with plenty of promise when second at York on his debut when last seen in May, and had little difficulty seeing off a bunch of newcomers with Diamondsforyou doing best of those.