Don’t Be, a five-year-old daughter of Cape Cross, made a successful trip to Dundalk on 20 October when justifying odds-on favouritism to take the Listed Cooley Fillies’ Stakes.
The Sir Mark Prescott-trained mare was settled in fourth position during the early stages of the one-mile contest and taking up the running at the top of the straight, kept to her task superbly to win by three lengths.
This was her eighth career victory and her second at Stakes level, having also landed the Listed Conquest Stakes at Goodwood earlier this year.
Don’t Be was bred by Mrs Olivia Hoare and is out of the Group-placed Fasliyev mare Fasien, who is from the family of 1,000 Guineas winner Sleepytime.
Cape Cross has enjoyed a truly outstanding year, thanks in no small part to Derby, Eclipse, Irish Champion and Arc winner Golden Horn, who is now in Kentucky ahead of his bid to round off his magnificent career with a win in the Breeders’ Cup Turf on Saturday.
