Horse racing preview: Tiggy Wiggy back in Fred Darling Stakes
Friday 17 April 2015 14:56, UK
Last year's champion juvenile filly Tiggy Wiggy will face 12 rivals in the Dubai Duty Free Stakes at Newbury on Saturday.
Better know as the Fred Darling, the Classic trial has struggled to unearth a star in recent years but in Richard Hannon's Tiggy Wiggy it already has one.
She progressed from claiming a Kempton maiden in March to winning the Cheveley Park Stakes last September.
Hannon also runs Shagah.
Tiggy Wiggy is a long way clear on official ratings, with Jonathan Portman's Royal Razalma, winner of the Cornwallis Stakes, and James Given's Russian Punch the only other fillies rated over 100, along with the two Hannon runners.
Tiggy Wiggy's jockey Richard Hughes says he hopes to ride the filly from behind, as he bids to conserve her stamina for the seven-furlong trip.
He told Racing UK: "I'm going to try and drop her in. I only did that once before, when she won the National Stakes at Sandown. She seems to be settling well at home and I'm going to give it a go."
Marcus Tregoning runs Air Of Mystery, John Gosden is represented by the once-raced Jellicle Ball and Richard Fahey sends Lacing down from Malton.
Redstart, Pastoral Girl, Silver Rainbow, Bonnie Grey, Jelly Monger and Lyfka are also engaged.
Ralph Beckett, trainer of Redstart, is bidding for a third victory in six years and fourth in all with his filly who was last seen out when taking a seven-furlong maiden at Kempton Park in November.
Beckett, who took the spoils with Moonstone Magic (2012), Puff (2010) and Penkenna Princess (2005), said: "Redstart is training well and looks well.
"She is a very different type to our previous winners. Puff was a tough, precocious two-year-old and Moonstone Magic came in on the back of a debut win eight days earlier. Penkenna Princess was also a good two-year-old.
"Redstart had two runs last year and then we put her away. It is a big step up and will tell us where we are with her, but she has shown up well in her work and we think it is worth a shot."
