Blue Bolt storms to Falmouth glory

Blue Bolt remained unbeaten this season when following up her Royal Ascot triumph with a brilliant display to down Precise in the Tattersalls Sceptre Sessions Falmouth Stakes at Newmarket.

Andrew Balding’s daughter of Blue Point was second to Fallen Angel in the Sun Chariot last October – her only other previous appearance in Group One company – but has proven unstoppable since and was notching her third win of the calendar year having landed the Duke of Cambridge Stakes at the Royal meeting.

Sent off the 85-40 second-favourite, Colin Keane had the four-year-old tracking Ballydoyle pacemaker Venosa among a group of four in the centre of the track that also included Aidan O’Brien’s Irish 1,000 Guineas and Coronation Stakes winner Precise, who was the 4-5 favourite.

With Venosa unable to take the field any further than six furlongs, the race began to quickly unfold with a quarter of a mile to run and although at one stage there were four in a line with jockeys urging on their mounts, inside the final furlong there was only one winner, with Blue Bolt surging two-lengths clear of Precise to edge the battle of the generations.