Mary Slack on track for big-race double

Claymore won Hampton Court Stakes at Royal Ascot and Sparkling Water has chance in Durban July

While Drakenstein has enjoyed considerable success in the first part of this year, there is a chance of Mary Slack trumping the Cape stud with a unique Royal Ascot-Durban July double.

After finishing last in the 2000 Guineas, Slack’s runner Claymore was only given a place chance but the son of New Bay responded to Adam Kirby’s urgings to beat Frankie Dettori on the favourite. Claymore is trained by Jane Chappell-Hyam who was saddling her second winner of the week after Saffron Beach’s success in the Duke Of Cambridge Stakes on Wednesday.

To say the daughter of Kingman has been a frustration is an understatement as the Mike de Kock inmate has let punters down on a number of occasions. But De Kock’s decision to bring Good Queen Bess back to a sprint distance proved the right move and one had to fancy the filly’s chance judged on her second to Freed From Desire last October.

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