Aidan O’Brien bags a ninth win in premier fillies’ ClassicWinner romps home by 16 lengths in brilliant display Frankie Dettori’s 21st
British Classic winner was the easiest yet, as the 11-2 chance Snowfall strode 16 lengths clear of her field in the Oaks here on Friday, the biggest winning margin in the race’s 242-year history. The result also means that both Snowfall and Mother Earth, who famously ran under each other’s names in the Group One Fillies’ Mile at Newmarket last October, have gone on to win Classics under Dettori this year.
Persistent rain which changed the going to good-to-soft by mid-afternoon may have exaggerated Snowfall’s superiority slightly. However, this was still an astonishing performance by Aidan O’Brien’s filly and as a result her price for the Prix de l’Arc de Triomphe in October was cut from 33-1 to just 5-1.