Hollie Doyle and Nashwa claimed a second Group One success with a brilliant performance in the Qatar Nassau Stakes at Goodwood.

In 2020 Imad Al Sagar made two decisions. He chose to put his homebred Frankel filly in training with John and Thady Gosden and he chose to retain the riding services of the emerging force that was Hollie Doyle.

Doyle’s stock has done little but rise since and the filly, named Nashwa and seen only once as a two-year-old, has followed a similar path to eminence this year.

A novice and Listed winner earlier in the season, the three-year-old was well-fancied for the Oaks but proved to ultimately lack the stamina needed for the one-mile-four-furlong Epsom Classic when finishing third.

Classic success was not far away, however, and a trip Chantilly for the Prix de Diane, the French version of the race, saw Doyle hit another significant milestone when the pair were triumphant by a short neck.

In the Nassau Stakes at Goodwood Nashwa was set off in a gentle gallop by her rider, a patient stalk at the rear of the field while her rivals changed lanes ahead and perhaps thought the 6-5 favourites had let the race get away from them.

Three furlongs from home the duo were still last of all, but when Doyle swung out wide and picked up her whip we were afforded a glimpse of that Frankel-esque lengthening of stride as Nashwa picked off each opponent.

Two strides from the line and in an unassailable lead, the seemingly ego-less Doyle gave us a rare and endearing act of showmanship when standing in the stirrups and brandishing her whip at the grandstand.

Nashwa was led into the paddock by her delighted owner and breeder, to whom the success of the filly holds a significance that will live on into countless phases of his Blue Diamond bloodstock operation.

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