The Queen, no less, wanted to be in the post-race photographs with Minnie Hauk after her win in the Group One Yorkshire Oaks, and while the race itself was in effect over as soon as the odds-on favourite hit the front two furlongs out, there was abundant evidence of the qualities that will make her a major player in the autumn’s global championship events.
Aidan O’Brien’s filly was an unknown quantity, unraced in anything but maiden company at two, when she lined up for the Cheshire Oaks in May, but her win on the Roodeye has now been followed by three straight Group One victories, including a neck defeat of a stable companion, Whirl, in the Oaks at Epsom in June.
