True Love blossoms in Cheveley Park

True Love battled hard to give Aidan O’Brien a sixth winner of the Tattersalls Sceptre Sessions Cheveley Park Stakes at Newmarket.

Beaten at long odds-on in the Phoenix Stakes last time out, the Royal Ascot heroine bounced back with some authority to take Group One honours, although O’Brien’s son Donnacha O’Brien gave his father’s filly a race through the final furlong with Havana Anna.

Both had travelled strongly behind the pace set by Fitzella and while they settled down to fight it out, True Love (2-1 favourite) was on top where it mattered under Wayne Lordan, scoring by three-quarters of a length. Lowther winner Royal Fixation was third, with York runner-up America Queen just behind in fourth.

True Love was giving O'Brien a 19th Group One triumph of the year.

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