First Group win for Frankel filly Bedtime Story

Frankel two-year-old Bedtime Story now has three wins from three starts after comfortably accounting for her rivals in the Gr.3 Silver Flash Stakes at Leopardstown yesterday (25th July).

Taken from the Thoroughbred Daily News, 26th July 2024, by Tom Frary:

She was highly unlikely to be as impressive as at Royal Ascot and while Ballydoyle's Listed Chesham Stakes-winning TDN Rising Star Bedtime Story wasn't as ruthless in Thursday evening's Gr.3  Silver Flash Stakes, her class duly told in Leopardstown's joint-feature. Settled behind her course-and-distance-winning stablemate Exactly (Frankel) by Ryan Moore, the 1-16 favourite was pulled out of her slipstream approaching the furlong pole and sent onwards to a three and a half-length success. There was another length and three-quarters back to the Group 3 yardstick Barnavara in third.

Aidan O'Brien, who was recording a 14th success in the seven-furlong contest, said: "I'm delighted with her, Ryan was delighted with her and said he didn't open her up. He said she was very green and in an ideal world he would have preferred the tempo to be quicker. He said he just came there and taught her. That's exactly what we came here for, for education. It's a great place to do it."

"Ryan said she's very pacey and classy and sure we saw that - I'd say you couldn't go fast enough for her. Last year we ran Ylang Ylang here, made the running and mentally it did her a little bit of harm for the rest of the year. We had to go back and start again. That's why we let the other filly go along in front of her today, to educate her. I thought if she was well she'd go for the [Gr.2] Debutante at The Curragh on the way to the [Gr.1] Moyglare. The second filly is a lovely filly and she'll step up to a mile whenever we want her."