Timeform ratings show that Ryan Moore has plumped for potential rather than form in the book in Friday’s Betfred Oaks at Epsom.<\/p>\n
Moore, the number one jockey for the Coolmore partners, had the choice of three trial winners trained by Aidan O’Brien but has elected to ride Minnie Hauk<\/a><\/strong> rather than Giselle<\/a> or Whirl<\/a>. <\/p>\n Minnie Hauk earned her place in the line-up by winning the Cheshire Oaks, a listed race that Enable and Forever Together both used as a stepping stone on the way to Epsom. As a daughter of Frankel out of a half-sister to the top-class Kingman, Minnie Hauk has a superb pedigree and is open to improvement after only three starts, though the bare form she showed at Chester is rated by Timeform as a stone lower than Whirl’s win in the Musidora Stakes (replay below).<\/p>\n Whirl had finished only sixth on her reappearance in a Group 3 over a mile at the Curragh but, upped in trip and with the benefit of a run under her belt, she proved a different proposition in the Musidora and won by five and a half lengths.<\/p>\n That performance is rated even higher than the form Desert Flower showed when winning the 1000 Guineas, though Desert Flower still heads Timeform’s ratings for the Oaks based on what she produced when a devastating five-and-a-half-length winner of the Fillies’ Mile last season.<\/p>\n Tony McFadden, deputy racing editor at Timeform and Sporting Life, said: “It can’t have been a straightforward choice for Ryan Moore in the Oaks as all three fillies trained by Aidan O’Brien are exceptionally well bred and open to improvement.<\/p>\n \u201cWhirl has the strongest form of the trio so it’s interesting that Moore, who has the benefit of knowing what the fillies show at home, has put his faith in Minnie Hauk taking a big step forward.”<\/p>\n Click here to see the Oaks racecard<\/a><\/p>\n Safer 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":"Timeform ratings show that Ryan Moore has plumped for potential rather than form in the book in Friday’s…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":161736,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4107],"tags":[1071,79,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-161735","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\/114633946198736190","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161735","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=161735"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161735\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/161736"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=161735"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=161735"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=161735"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}