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Newmarket: Zooming springs surprise to get back to winning ways
By Racing TV
Last Updated: Thu 24 Sep 2026
Zooming proved well named when springing a 22-1 shock in the British Stallion Studs EBF Premier Fillies’ Handicap and booking a potential return to Newmarket for a Listed event next month.
William Haggas’ daughter of Mohaather was a winner on the Rowley Mile at the end of last season and having been highly tried earlier this term was making a welcome return to the winner’s enclosure in the hands of Tom Marquand and sporting the colours of Ian and Christine Beard.
Haggas said: “It has taken us six months to work out what distance she wants and she looks fast but she hasn’t been fast. She won today and it’s a bit of a surprise, but we’re delighted.
“She won her maiden and then finished fifth in the Fred Darling and got a rating of 96 and that was game over. We tried her in the Sandringham and then over seven furlongs at Doncaster the other day and she ran a bit better, but she did well today.
“She hasn’t fully learned how to sprint yet, but I think that will be her game.”
Haggas added: “I have a feeling she might have a go at the Boadicea Stakes in a couple of weeks’ time and she’ll be back next year hopefully. If we keep her we will want to be going up in grade, whether she turns out that good time will tell. It’s good to see her win today though.”
In the opening Plantation Stud British EBF Maiden Stakes, experience told as Jane Chapple-Hyam’s 3-1 chance Netherstream – third to 2000 Guineas favourite Desert Castle on debut – claimed the scalp of Charlie Appleby’s well-fancied 6-4 favourite Code Of Honour who could only finish third.
It was a case of third-time lucky for the winner who was trying a mile for the first time, with his trainer saying: “We had fitness and experience on our side and I’m happy he’s gone and won as he’s been a nice colt all year.
“It was a good run on debut behind Charlie’s good horse and then at Sandown he just got stuck behind a wall of horses. Today he’s been in the right position and I think David (Egan) was still pulling him up as he went through the line.
“He’s a lovely horse and the trip today has suited him better.”
Meanwhile, Richard Hughes saddled a one-three in the Federation Of Bloodstock Agents Nursery Handicap, but it was the streetwise Harry Knows (13-2) who finished with a flourish under Ryan Moore to deny better-fancied stablemate Lazurite.
Hughes said: “The winner is a rock-solid, hardy, street fighter, while the filly I think has more talent but this is racing and they have to know their job.
“William (Buick, on Lazurite) said he was always going to win but hit a ridge and lost her and couldn’t regain momentum. She’s a very good filly but the winner is tough as boots and has never run a bad race.
“He’s been going since Newbury since the start of the season and coming late suits him. He’s rated that high I can’t find many races for him and he was third in a Listed race before this.
“The owners have had a great run out of a €40,000 yearling and he’ll go to the sales now. We’ve got a good old tune out of him and he could be valuable now. Hopefully the owners will get some money to reinvest and they might not turn out as good, but at least it will be effectively free.”
On Lazurite, he added: “She’s too low to take her to the Breeders’ Cup and she wants fast ground. This was the only race for her and the ideal track.
“That might be her done now and I might save her for the handicap at Ascot (Palace of Holyroodhouse) next year. It was just the track that got her beat today.”
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