totesport.com Pontefract Castle Fillies’ Stakes (Listed Race)
Pontefract
- Current Favourite Alwaysandforever
- Current Odds 2/1
Race Overview
Inaugurated in 2005, this mile-and-a-half listed event has been won by some decent horses, the best being the Royal Ascot and Irish St Leger winner Brown Panther who landed the race in both 2012 & 2013. Last year the conditions were changing making it a fillies only contest.
Pontefract is one of the most testing tacks in Britain as it is uphill all the way from the six furlong marker, markedly so between the four and two furlong poles. A proper staying type is ideally suited by this track and this race has been won twice in the last three years by Luca Cumani-trained representatives.
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Favourite Alwaysandforever
Ryan Moore partners this unexposed filly who represents the Cumani stable that have sent out the winner of this race twice in the last three years. This daughter of Teofilo has the potential to be a significant improver.

Other Contenders
Isabel De Urbina and the in-form Mark Johnston’s Titi Makfi are old rivals who head the ratings, while Cribbs Causeway, Jet Streaming and Wingingit have all shown they can prove competitive at this level.
Race Analysis
Ryan Moore journeys north on a Sunday to Pontefract and has a decent book of rides, none better than the four-year-old ALWAYSANDFOREVER who has been brought along in typically patient fashion by master trainer Luce Cumani who saddled Connecticut (2015) and Loving Things (2016) to land this prize.
This filly was beaten just half a length by subsequent Group 2 Ribblesdale winner Coronet on her only start as a juvenile, then wasn’t seen for a year until winning a match at Brighton. She was again absent for eight months before running well to be third at Wetherby in May, then bolted up in a three-runner event on her handicap bow at Windsor last time. The 7lb rise in her mark may still underestimate her ability and she is fancied to land the spoilswith a suspicion she may well be a genuine pattern race performer in the making.

Ryan Moore dons the famous colours of Michael Tabor on Alwaysandforever
Isabel De Urbina was in receipt of 3lb from Titi Makfi when the pair were separated by just half a length in a listed event at Goodwood in May, so off level weights there should be little between them once again. The former was a respectable fourth in a Group 3 last time, while the latter has placed in two more listed events and both should be there or thereabouts once again.
Cribbs Causeway could be a danger on her good third in the Group 3 at York in May last month where she finished two lengths ahead of Isabel De Urbina, but she ran a shocker last time finishing last in the Group 3 Pinnacle Stakes at Haydock and was never going a yard. Maybe there was a genuine excuse for that effort, and she is given a chance to redeem herself. Wingingit and Jet Streaming are both held on lines through Isabel De Urbina, but the fact their respective handlers pitch them in again suggests they may have prospects of getting closer. It would be a surprise though if either was good enough to score.
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Written by Paul Alster
Paul Alster has been part of the British and international racing media for more than three decades working as a race commentator, TV/radio presenter, journalist, betting correspondent, SP returner, and form analyst. He’s always sought out overpriced runners in handicap races, a quest that excites him as much now as it did at the start of his career.