HEAVEN SENT can present owners Cheveley Park Stud and trainer Michael Stoute with a second UAE Hydra Properties Falmouth Stakes in the last 10 years.
The team were successful in the Newmarket contests with Lovers Knot back in 1998 and look to have an excellent chance with this five-year-old, despite her being the owners perceived second-string behind Infallible.
Heaven Sent will be having a first attempt at Group One company after a fine performance when runner-up in the Windsor Forest at Royal Ascot last month.
The Pivotal mare looked booked for victory that day before just succumbing in the last 50 yards.
Given she has previously won over nine furlongs, it may be the Berkshire mile did not offer as much of a test as she needed and the stiff uphill finish here should play to her strengths. She has also shown form on easy ground which must be a consideration given the unsettled spell of weather.
Jim Bolger has had a season most trainers only dream of and it would be no surprise if Finsceal Beo puts up her usual game show. Her Rockfel win as a two-year-old proves her effectiveness on softish ground. However, she may have to play second fiddle to Heaven Sent.
Cheveley Park's director of racing Chris Richardson said yesterday: "Heaven Sent seems in good form after Ascot. She will be suited by a bit of ease on top and she should be even stronger for her last run.
"In some runnings of the Falmouth in the past the pace of the race has not been ideal, and Hip is there to help on that front.
"We haven't won the race for a while, not since it has become a Group One. We've been second, but the last time we won was with Lovers Knot in 1998.
"John Gosden has always felt Infallible would appreciate suitable easing in the ground, although she would not want there to be a deluge. John says she is in great form."
Lucky Leigh went into plenty of notebooks when hosing up at Redcar on her debut and confirmed the decent impression made on that occasion when taking a close fourth at Royal Ascot.
Mick Channon's filly was beaten less than a length in the Queen Mary and that form reads well in the context of what looks a below-par Irish Thoroughbred Marketing Cherry Hinton Stakes.
Lucky Leigh did best of those drawn high and considering horses berthed in double-figure stalls struggled all week, that suggests she is the one to beat.
William Haggas has been firing in the winners of late and has every chance of hitting the target again with Wise Melody in the richly-endowed toteswinger Stakes.
This improving youngster stayed on really strongly to slam another progressive sort last time and she could well prove a lot better than her current mark of 87.
Another lightly-raced member of the fairer sex who looks to have got off lightly when assessed by the handicapper is John Dunlop's Badweia.
She looked well above-average when winning at Newbury at the end of May and has presumably been kept fresh with the EBF Fillies' Stakes in mind.
n Bookmakers are running scared of Frankie Dettori following reports the Classic-winning rider has been lined up for the next series of I'm A Celebrity . . . Get Me Out Of Here!
William Hill make the popular Italian-born jockey the 7 to 2 favourite to win.
