Master Of The Seas, Mohaather win G2 contests; Fallon bags maiden Group One

Two-year-old colt Master Of The Seas continued his unbeaten record with a superb display in the seven-furlong G2 Superlative Stakes at Newmarket, UK, on Saturday.

The son of 2004 Superlative Stakes winner Dubawi, a debut winner over the same trip for Charlie Appleby on Newmarket’s Rowley Mile course in June, was short of room leaving the stalls and raced in mid-field on the far side of the 10 runners.

Master Of The Seas took closer order with three furlongs to race and showed an impressive turn of foot to take up the running a furlong and a half from home. He readily opened up daylight over his rivals, galloping out strongly under William Buick for a three-length success.

Appleby said: “Master Of The Seas is a very interesting horse. He was entered to run in France next Tuesday in a Listed race but did a nice piece of work on Thursday, so we thought that we should aim our sights a little higher and run here.

“He does everything very simply. He is not flash and Diego has done a great job riding him – he keeps the horse very relaxed. Master Of The Seas goes out with the string and, whatever we pair him up with, he finds it easy to gallop well with them.

“He handled soft ground on the Rowley Mile, when Brett Doyle said he was both very professional and willing. Those are two nice boxes to tick with a racehorse and I told William today not to be frightened to let him roll of he was travelling. He said that he probably hit the front too soon but everything else just fell away.

“He has done nothing wrong in two starts and is a lovely specimen by Dubawi. We will get back and see how he pops out of this but the likelihood is that we will hopefully go down the same route as Pinatubo and take a look at the G1 National Stakes (The Curragh, Ireland) in September. It is unlikely that he will go to Goodwood and we will probably give him a bit of a break. He is a big horse and a bit more time won’t do him any harm.”

Mohaather made amends for an unlucky run at the Royal meeting in some style with a clear-cut victory in the Betfred Summer Mile at Ascot, reported by Racing TV.

The four-year-old had gone into many notebooks having had no opportunity to show his ability in the Queen Anne Stakes, but he put that right to comfortably dismiss the opposition and take this Group Two heat.

It was only the seventh race of his career and his third since he won the Greenham Stakes at Newbury in May 2019.

Mohaather (2-1) had a trouble-free passage on this occasion with the race going to plan, as Marie’s Diamond, who was third in the Queen Anne, made the running with Lord Tennyson joining him.

Meanwhile, Cieren Fallon showed he has inherited the riding genes from his legendary father Kieren landing his first Group One race on Saturday, the July Cup on Oxted.

Fallon junior took the lead with a furlong to go and comfortably held off a challenge from Frankie Dettori on Irish raider Sceptical with favourite Golden Horde third.

Dettori — finishing second in the sprint for a third time — must wait another year to see if he can at last win the race and make it a full house of Group One triumphs in England.

Fallon riding in just his second Group One race said he had taken advice from his team including his dad.

The qualified fitness instructor has said he will be even better than his six-time champion jockey father, who numbered three Epsom Derbies among his many top level successes.

There was no such bravura from him in the immediate afterglow of his first top level win.

“I am speechless,” he said.

“I did not expect this most definitely not. I was a passenger on a very good horse. There was a lot of pressure I spoke to dad beforehand and he said ‘keep it simple’. That’s what I did. I kept it simple.”

His father said he had been a bag of nerves.

“He rode to perfection,” said Fallon senior of his son.

“I could barely watch I was so nervous.

“I am a very proud father,” added the 55-year-old Irishman.

Winning trainer Roger Teal charged down the rails in celebration his first win at this level.

“Always had a feeling this lad might be a bit useful,” said a grinning Teal.

“Oxted is such cool little dude as well.

“My first Group One I cannot get too carried away as I have already made enough of a fool of myself.”