If blogs had page 3's then Fleeting Spirit would have to be our Page 3 Girl.After finishing a closing second to Scenic Blast in the Kings Stand Stakes over 5 furlongs she ran away with the Group 1 July Cup, 6 flgs, last night to undoubtably propel herself to the position of world's number 1 sprinting mare.
As a three-year-old, Fleeting Spirit won the Betfred.com Temple Stakes (Eng-G2) at Haydock Park last May and then finished third in the King’s Stand. She finished 2¼ lengths behind upset winner Desert Code in the Breeders’ Cup Turf Sprint on October 25 at the Oak Tree meeting at Santa Anita Park.
“This is a Group 1 she deserves as I feel when my horses got sick just before Ascot last year that she was robbed of winning the King’s Stand,” said trainer Jeremy Noseda, who mentioned the Coolmore Nunthorpe Stakes (Eng-G1) on August 21 at York as the next objective for the filly.
Bred in Ireland by Bernadette Hayden, Fleeting Spirit is by Invincible Spirit out of Millennium Tale, a Sir Gaylord line mare as is KW's dam.
Fleeting Spirit completed the six furlongs in 1:09.58 on good to firm turf. Main Aim finished second, and South African Group 1 winner J J the Jet Plane followed another half-length back in third.
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