Kassaya all set to claim the crown at Queensferry

KASSAYA is regally bred and can bag a valuable Listed success in the Queensferry Stakes at Chester tomorrow.

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Andrew Balding’s filly is a halfsister to the 2000 Guineas winner Chaldean and also races in the same Juddmonte silks.

She cost them 1,000,000 guineas at the sales but should she be able to get some big black type on her page, she would be very valuable indeed.

On the track to date, while we have seen her only four times, she has already displayed she is above average.

She was sent off 7-2 favourite for last season’s Queen Mary but disappointed. However, she did not run again that summer after pickup an injury.

Clearly that has not had a lasting effect as first time out this term she ran out a comfortable winner of a decent Sandown handicap.

That came off a mark of 88 and she was clearly well treated, but upped to 95 she looks well worth a crack at this level, especially having fared well in the draw with stall four.