Aidan O’Brien is within sight of his own record of 28 Group One wins in a calendar year after Precise, the new 5-1 favourite for next year’s 1,000 Guineas, took his 2025 tally at the highest level to 22 with a convincing success in the Fillies’ Mile, the feature event on day one of the Future Champions weekend at Newmarket.
Christophe Soumillon was easing down on Precise, the 5-4 favourite, as she crossed the line three and a quarter lengths in front of Charlie Johnston’s Venetian Lace (40-1), having hit the front around a furlong out. She was O’Brien’s second winner of a juvenile fillies’ Group One in the space of six days, following Diamond Necklace’s success in the Prix Marcel Boussac last weekend, and third in the last fortnight since True Love’s victory in the Cheveley Park Stakes last month.
