Treat Gently, a five-year-old mare by Cape Cross, ran out the easy winner of the G2 Sheepshead Bay Stakes over 11 furlongs at Belmont Park in New York, scoring by four-and-a-half lengths.
A former inmate of Andre Fabre’s Chantilly stable, Treat Gently won the G2 Prix de Malleret as a three-year-old before transferring to the US, initially being trained by the late Bobby Frankel before the move to her current trainer William Mott.
It is a geographical switch that has worked so well for many members of her outstanding Juddmonte family: her dam Kid Gloves, by the late Darley stallion In The Wings, is a half-sister to the great Hasili, whose offspring Intercontinental, Heat Haze, Banks Hills, Champs Elysees and Cacique have all been campaigned with great success on both sides of the Atlantic.
Cape Cross, who is represented today by Recharge in the G1 Tattersalls Gold Cup at the Curragh, is also the sire of recent Group Three winner Behkabad, who heads to the Prix du Jockey-Club on 6 June, and yesterday's Listed winner Colonial.
