G3 glory for Raven's Pass

Godolphin trained runners filled the first two positions in the G3 Cumberland Lodge Stakes at Ascot, with both runners being sired by Darley stallions. Secret Number, a three-year-old son of Raven's Pass, has been campaigned at Group level after winning a Listed race at Meydan at the start of the year, and it was he who led home Royal Empire (Teofilo), with the winning margin of two-and-a-half lengths between the two.

A Darley homebred, Secret Number is the third Group winner produced by the Alleged mare Mysterial, after the pair of G1-winning milers Dubai Destination and Librettist.

Raven's Pass, who sired a €520,000 yearling filly earlier this week at Goffs, has sired nine Stakes horses including record-breaking juvenile Steeler, winner of the Royal Lodge Stakes and Lovely Pass, the heroine of the UAE 1,000 Guineas earlier this year.