Tiggy targeting Cheveley Park
Last Updated: 13/09/14 5:13pm
Richard Hannon's speedy filly Tiggy Wiggy is on course to bid for her first Group One in the Connolly's Red Mills Cheveley Park Stakes at Newmarket on September 27.
The filly has won five of her seven starts and claimed her first race over six furlongs in the Lowther Stakes at York last month.
As a two-year-old she would receive all the allowances were she to take her chance in the Prix de l'Abbaye at Longchamp just a week later, but Hannon wants to get Newmarket out of the way first.
"Tiggy Wiggy definitely goes to Newmarket. We will consider the Prix de l'Abbaye after the Cheveley Park but we want to take on her own generation and sex in a Group One first rather than take on the colts and the older horses.
"She is in very good form, is fresh and well and has put on a bit of weight since York. What sets her apart is that she is such a good-moving filly - when other horses strides are shortening she is lengthening.
"I think it was the best Lowther for a number of years and I said at the time I thought the Cheveley Park might turn out to be the same sort of race. If that does prove to be the case, I just hope that they finish in the same order.
"Osaila could run too. She goes to Ireland for Sunday's Moyglare Stud Stakes and we will make a decision afterwards."
Cursory Glance and Anthem Alexander, second and third in the Lowther, both remain in the Cheveley Park, as does Andre Fabre's High Celebrity, an impressive winner in France this week.
Hannon has six entries in the Juddmonte Royal Lodge on the same day.
He added: "We think a lot of Basateen and feel that he can bounce back from his Acomb Stakes defeat while Misterioso is very unexposed."