WHAT a week it has been for Camelot (Montjeu), and also for the female family of his second top-level winner Athena. Last weekend the Aidan O’Brien-trained three-year-old filly showed her class and toughness when she produced a career-best performance to win the Grade 1 Belmont Oaks Invitational Stakes, days after finishing third in the Group 1 Pretty Polly Stakes at the Curragh.
This was only Athena’s second win in 10 starts, two of which saw her fail to make the first three as a juvenile. This year her eight runs have come in a three-month period and she gained a minor stakes place in England from two runs there.
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