Shutter Speed impresses at Yarmouth

While Classic glory may have escaped John Gosden this season, Shutter Speed earned a quote for next year’s Investec Oaks after making a winning debut in the Breeders Backing Racing EBF Maiden Fillies’ Stakes at Yarmouth.

Despite having gone in her coat, the daughter of Dansili made her class tell in the mile prize when only needing to be pushed out by Frankie Dettori to get the better of the more experienced Song Maker by a neck.

The Khalid Abdullah-owned winner – who formed the first leg of a double for Dettori – was introduced at 33-1 by Paddy Power for the mile-and-a-half fillies’ Classic at Epsom in June.

Gosden said of his 5-1 scorer: “She has always been a very classy filly. I wanted to run her three weeks ago, but I was not happy with her scope results. She has come here and gone in her coat and is ready for the winter.

“She would prefer to bounce off the ground and has done it purely on class. Frankie won it with the minimum of effort. She is a very nice filly for the future.

“Her breeding suggests a mile, but everything she does she does easily and is the kind of filly I see at a mile and a quarter.

“This is perfect timing as she won’t run again and we can dream.”

There was further success for Dettori after he galvanised top weight Harwoods Volante (8-1) to victory by three-quarters of a length in the Optimist Design Ltd Handicap on a rare ride for trainer David O’Meara.

Dettori said: “The race fell right for me. They went a good pace, all the gaps came at the …

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