THE Oaks picture had a few more pieces added to it this week.

Hermosa was game in winning the Qipco 1000 Guineas on her seasonal debut on Sunday, and there is every chance that Aidan O’Brien’s filly will get a mile and a half.

And 70 minutes later, the William Haggas-trained filly Maqsad ran out a seriously impressive winner of the Pretty Polly Stakes, a race that her owner Sheikh Hamdan’s Taghrooda won in 2014 before going to Epsom and winning the Oaks.

Then at Chester on Wednesday, Medaayih looked really good in winning the Cheshire Oaks.

John Gosden’s filly wasn’t drawn well in stall six, and she was squeezed out of it a bit at the start, with the result that she was further back in the field than ideal early on.

Moved towards the outside by Rab Havlin as they started around the home turn, the turn of foot that she showed to come clear of her rivals in the home straight was taking.

There is precedent. Light Shift won the Cheshire Oaks in 2007 before beating Peeping Fawn in the Oaks three weeks later, and Enable won the Cheshire Oaks in 2017 before going on to win the Oaks and just about everything else.

The Frankel fill does not hold an Oaks entry at present, but, as with Sir Dragonet in the Derby, it will be surprising if the Emirates Park people who own her do not come up with the supplementary entry fee to put her into the race.

Thought

for the week

THERE was only one filly in the 1000 Guineas who was by Galileo, or whose dam was by Galileo: Hermosa. And there was only one colt in the 2000 Guineas who was by Galileo, or whose dam was by Galileo: Magna Grecia.