Wetherby winner Noon Star taking the less trodden Classic route in easy strike

Wetherby is perhaps not the first course one has in mind for running Classic hopefuls, but the bred in the purple Juddmonte homebred Noon Star lived up to her pedigree when defying a penalty in the opening mile and a quarter fillies' novice event.

She won by two and a half lengths from Loving Dream, to record her second win from three starts and earn price cuts for the Cazoo Oaks, generally to 12-1 (from 20).

The Sir Michael Stoute-trained three-year-old is not only by perennial champion sire Galileo but is the sixth foal out of Juddmonte's brilliant Midday, a daughter of Oasis Dream who won six Group/Grade 1s for the late Sir Henry Cecil.

Midday, whose victories included three Nassau Stakes, a Breeders' Cup Filly & Mare Turf and Prix Vermeille, has so far produced two black-type winners in Midterm - a full-brother to Noon Star - and Mori, a daughter of Frankel.

Midterm was initially trained by Stoute and won Sandown's Classic Trial in 2016, before landing an Australia Group 3 for Michael and Luke Cerchi.

Noon Star is a close relation to Mori, a Listed-winning and Group 2-placed daughter of Frankel and MiddayCredit: Edward Whitaker

Mori was the winner of the Listed Height Of Fashion Stakes for Stoute, before finishing a narrow second to Coronet in the Ribblesdale Stakes at Royal Ascot in 2017.

Midday is herself out of a top-class producer in the stakes-placed Kingmambo mare Midsummer - a half-sister to Oaks and Fillies' Mile heroine Reams Of Verse plus Eclipse hero Elmaamul and Yorkshire Cup scorer Manifest - who is also responsible for Group 3 winners Hot Snap and Sun Maiden, the latter third in the British Champions Fillies & Mares Stakes.

The 15-year-old has a three-year-old filly by Galileo and produced a filly by the late Shamardal this term. Midsummer has a two-year-old Pivotal filly in training called Sunstone.

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