BLUE GOBLIN may attempt to cross the divide into the Group Three Cork And Orrery Stakes at Royal Ascot on June 19th after landing a colossal gamble with ease in the Coral Sprint (Handicap) at Newmarket on Saturday.

And Godolphin's Nightbird added her name to the list of possibles for the six-furlong sprint with an equally effortless victory in the listed Bairstow Eves Charlotte Fillies' Stakes.

Luca Cumani's Blue Goblin was the subject of a nationwide punt for the £30,000 added Coral Sprint, and hardly gave his backers an anxious moment. Having been backed from 5 to 2 to 11 to 10 favourite, the grey lobbed easily in the rear for Frankie Dettori early on.

Still only in second gear as he made progress towards the lead, with two of the contest's six furlongs remaining, he then powered clear to beat Connemara by two-and-a-half lengths.

Initial bookmakers' quotes concerned Ascot's Wokingham Handicap but Cumani revealed the Cork and Orrery is very much in his sights: "Frankie thinks he is good enough to go for the Cork and Orrery," he said. "It is a big field for the Wokingham and he could be unlucky in running. It is one thing to do it against three-year-olds today and another to do it against older horses but Sheikh Mohammed will decide."

Nightbird scarcely broke sweat to make all for Dettori in the Charlotte Fillies' Stakes, accelerating from the two-furlong pole to beat fellow 2 to 1 joint-favourite Elegant Warning by three and a half lengths.