Stardinia is looking to burn bright on back of good form

STARDINIA can get off the mark at the third time of asking in the Compton Beauchamp Fillies’ Restricted Novice Stakes at Newbury.

- By MOLLY HUNTER

She is by first-season sire Starman who is making a great name for himself in his second career and has already shown form worthy of winning a race such as this.

On her debut in what looked an ordinary run-of-the-mill affair at Leicester she had the misfortune of bumping into Clive Cox’s Coppull.

That form has subsequently been well franked, as despite being an unconsidered 66-1 chance in the Coventry Stakes last week Coppull finished a fine third.

Stardinia has run at Ascot since in quite a valuable affair and while she was only fifth, the form is pretty solid.

In the British Stallion Studs EBF Fillies’ Novice Stakes it is Eve Johnson Houghton’s Mystic Moment who catches the eye.