Falmouth Stakes winner Veracious back for more big-race targets in 2020

Veracious, winner of the Group 1 Falmouth Stakes at Newmarket in July, will stay in training next year.

Her trainer Sir Michael Stoute will also have another Cheveley Park Stud-owned star for 2020 in Regal Reality after the four-year-old was gelded at the end of the Flat turf season.

Chris Richardson, managing director of Cheveley Park Stud, said: "Sir Michael was keen to have Veracious next year and she stays in training.

"She is a filly who kept improving mentally and physically and probably ran her best race in her last, the Queen Elizabeth II Stakes at Ascot."

The daughter of Frankel reached the frame in three Group races last season before denying One Master, the subsequent Prix de la Foret winner, in the Falmouth.

Regal Reality: won the Group 3 Brigadier Gerard Stakes in MayCredit: Mark Cranham

Veracious was also second to 2018 1,000 Guineas winner Billesdon Brook in the Sun Chariot on her penultimate start in October with subsequent Breeders' Cup Filly & Mare Turf winner Iridessa in third.

The four-year-old finished her campaign with a fourth behind 2,000 Guineas runner-up King Of Change on British Champions Day after making the running and only yielding on the heavy ground in the final furlong.

Regal Reality was gelded last month, having played up before many of his races, including when winning the Group 3 Brigadier Gerard at Sandown in May, when he refused to go onto the track for more than five minutes.

The son of Intello went on to finish third to Enable in the Eclipse back at Sandown before struggling on softer ground at York and Ascot later in the season.

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