Mehmas filly Believing added another big-race win to her record for Highclere Thoroughbred Racing on Saturday when the easy winner of the Group 2 Barberstown Castle Sapphire Stakes at the Curragh.
Fresh off a pair of quickfire placings in the Group 1 King Charles III and Queen Elizabeth II Stakes at Royal Ascot, Believing was always travelling well for Ryan Moore and sealed matters with a decisive turn foot to win going away by almost two lengths from Beautiful Diamond.
"She's such a hardy, tough filly and she did it well," commented George Boughey's assistant Henry Morshead. "She ran with great credit in two Group 1s over the week, which is amazing, and came out of [Royal] Ascot great. She hasn't done a lot since and we've just freshened her up. She can be quite busy at a high level through the second half of the year."
Ryan Moore added: "She has been in very good form this year, she won well at Haydock [when winning the June 8 Listed Achilles Stakes] and had two very solid runs in Group 1s at Ascot. She was probably entitled to win this, she is very straightforward and seems to be most suited to five furlongs."
It was the second stakes win of the year for the George Boughey-trained filly following the Listed Achilles Stakes at Haydock, and her fifth stakes win overall.
Believing was bred by M. Mullen and Cloneymore Farm out of Misfortunate, a daughter of Kodiac. Kodiac is also the damsire of Group 1 winner The Platinum Queen and this year's high-class miler Charyn.
Believing (pictured below as a two-year-old) was sold through public auction twice - initially for 70,000gns to J C Bloodstock as a yearling and then for 115,000gns to Highclere as a Tattersalls Craven breezer - and as is typical of her sire, was quick to come to hand with a win second time out at Wolverhampton before placings in the Group 3 Sirenia Stakes and Group 3 Firth Of Clyde Stakes, in which she was beaten only a neck.
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