Wild Coco takes the Park Hill

The G2 Park Hill Stakes was the feature race at Doncaster on 13 September and Shirocco’s four-year-old daughter Wild Coco justified favouritism in the 14-furlong contest, putting up a gutsy performance to record her second consecutive victory at Group level.

Settled off the pace under Tom Queally, Henry Cecil’s charge did not enjoy the smoothest of runs but stayed on superbly close to home to win by a length and a quarter from Hazel Livery, with the Queen’s Royal Ascot winner Estimate a short head further back in third.

Wild Coco has now won on four occasions, including the G3 Lillie Langtry Stakes at Goodwood on her previous start. She was also a Stakes winner at three, landing the Listed Aphrodite Stakes at Newmarket having broken her maiden by eight lengths last June.

Owned and bred by Gestut Rottgen, Wild Coco is the first Stakes winner out of the G2 winner Wild Side, a half-sister to German St Leger winner and G1 producer Win For Us.

Shirocco, sire of ten Black type performers so far this year, has two of his sons entered in this weekend’s G1 Irish St Leger – last year’s English St Leger second Brown Panther, and HH The Aga Khan's consistent three-year-old colt Hartani.