Qilin Queen is as big as 25\/1 for the Betfred Oaks but trainer Ed Walker feels his filly has the tools to cope with the demands of Friday’s Epsom Classic.<\/p>\n
The daughter of Pinatubo has improved from two to three and stepped up on her reappearance third at Newmarket to beat the well-regarded Revoir by a short head in a 10-furlong Listed contest at Newbury last month.<\/p>\n
Walker feels an extra two furlongs will pose no problems to Qilin Queen<\/a>, although he’s keen not to see much rain appear in the forecast heading into the big race on Friday.<\/p>\n He told Racing TV’s Luck On Sunday show: “She’s so honest and straightforward and I do think staying is no important in an Oaks – and the Derby – and I’m very, very confident that she will stay. It’s exciting, I hope the ground doesn’t get too soft which would be a little bit of a concern. But we’re really looking forward to it.<\/p>\n “These fillies, once they’ve won a stakes race, it’s slightly pressure off. She’s slightly forgotten as far as the odds are concerned, she’s been given no chance at all which doesn’t bother us.<\/p>\n “I think she’ll stay very well whereas plenty will have stamina doubts. She’s got lots of experience and I see her running a very solid race.”<\/p>\n WATCH: Qilin Queen beats Revoir in<\/strong> Childwickbury Stud Fillies’ Trial Stakes<\/strong> <\/p>\n More from Sporting LifeSafer gambling<\/p>\n We are committed in our support of safer gambling. Recommended bets are advised to over-18s and we strongly encourage readers to wager only what they can afford to lose.<\/p>\n If you are concerned about your gambling, please call the National Gambling Helpline \/ GamCare<\/a><\/strong> on 0808 8020 133.<\/p>\n Further support and information can be found at begambleaware.org<\/a><\/strong> and gamblingtherapy.org<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Qilin Queen is as big as 25\/1 for the Betfred Oaks but trainer Ed Walker feels his filly…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":149360,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4107],"tags":[1071,79,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-149359","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-racing","8":"tag-racing","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114607950575406995","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149359","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=149359"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149359\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/149360"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=149359"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=149359"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=149359"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}