Rogue Millennium (10-1) came late and fast to land a superb victory in the Group Two Duke Of Cambridge Stakes on day two of Royal Ascot 2023.
The Tom Clover-trained four-year-old, under Danny Tudhope, came from well back in the pack to land a neck success from Random Harvest (22-1) with Ralph Beckett's recent Epsom scorer Prosperous Voyage, sent off the well-backed 10-3 co favourite to give Frankie Dettori a first winner of his final week at Royal Ascot, couldn't quite get there and was a further length adrift in third. Joseph O'Brien's Jumbly (10-3 co favourite) was back in fourth after he initially hit the front before fading in the final furlong. Rogue Millennium was bouncing back to some of the form she showed last year having took Lingfield Oaks Trial and finished placed three times in Group races, most recently being beaten by just half-a-length to Free Wind in the Middleton Stakes at York. But running over a mile for the first time, after her owners The Rogues Gallery syndicate had supplemented her for the Group Two last week, Rogue Millennium rewarded them handsomely.
Winning jockey Tudhope said: "I just want to say thank you to the team for letting me ride her. It's fantastic. I was a bit concerned through the race because they went quite steady and she's only ever run over a mile and a quarter [today's race was one mile]. This is the shortest trip she has run over, and they went quite slow, but she picked them up nicely. She ran a cracking race last time out at York in the Middleton Stakes and it was a big ask bringing her back in trip here today, but it was the right thing to do. There is plenty of class about her and to do what's she just done she has to be good."
