Giselle dominant in the Lingfield Classic Trial

 Giselle's superior form and class told as the daughter of Frankel overcame Lingfield's Epsom-style intricacies, in the track's Listed Oaks Trial on Saturday.

Taken from the Thoroughbred Daily News, 11th May 2025:

Last season's Gr.3 Staffordstown Stud Stakes third and 3-10 pick was a shade keen racing third in a first-time hood through the initial stages of this seasonal debut. Negotiating the downhill section and taking closer order in the home straight, she seized control approaching the quarter-mile marker and bounded clear thereafter to easily outclass Harpsichord by nine lengths. Aidan O'Brien's two previous winners of the contest include subsequent Gr.1 Irish Oaks and Gr.1 Yorkshire Oaks heroine Seventh Heaven.

"I was afraid she'd be too keen, because she had been keen, and it was a good experience for her,"said O'Brien. "I don't know what was in her head this year when she started back, she was just very on the bridle and, hopefully, that will settle her."

Coolmore's Kevin Buckley added: "Ryan [Moore] said she was a little unsettled for a time and was keen enough, but she got the job done nicely. We put the hood on her for the first time, which was okay considering they went steady. She has a fantastic pedigree and we have a lot to look forward to."

Giselle, who becomes the 155th stakes winner for her sire, is the first foal out of Gr.1 Breeders' Cup Juvenile Fillies Turf and Gr.1 Just A Game Stakes heroine Newspaperoftherecord, whose Group 3-winning dam Sunday Times ran second in the Gr.1 Cheveley Park Stakes. Sunday Times, who is also the dam of Listed Cecil Frail Stakes winner Classical Times, is kin to Listed Bosra Sham Fillies' Stakes runner-up Question Times, herself the dam of three blacktype winners headed by Camelot's Gr.1 Irish Derby hero Latrobe and multiple Group 1-placed Listed Salsabil Stakes victrix Pink Dogwood.