OSCULA (George Boughey/Will Buick) was turned out quickly having been caught on the post at Ascot last Saturday, and she landed a sustained gamble into 100/30 favouritism by winning the Group 3 Whispering Angel Oak Tree Stakes – this time pouncing late to deny the equally game Internationalangel (Jane Chapple-Hyam/Adam Kirby) by a head in the finish of the afternoon.

French challenger Samahram (Francis-Henri Graffard/Frankie Dettori) endured a troubled run, but kept on for third, a length and three-quarters behind the runner-up.

Outsider Internationalangel showed tremendous early zip to cross from a wide draw, and it looked for much of the race that Kirby’s positive riding would pay off, but Oscula, who was dropping back from a mile, kept finding when asked by Buick, and hit top gear late in the day to snatch the prize.

This was a first Glorious Goodwood success for Boughey, who said he had sent owner Nick Bradley and William Buick a video of her charging around her paddock after Saturday’s race to show she was ready to go again.

He went on to say that the main aim for the Irish-bred Galileo Gold filly this season is the Group 1 Prix de la Foret on at ParisLongchamp in October, and he feels she will be even better back on soft ground.

Internationalangel deserves credit for putting up a career-best effort in defeat, and she did particularly well from stall 10 as the fillies in stalls one to five filled the rest of the first six places. There seemed no fluke about her performance, and she is worth keeping on side.

Molecomb Stakes

Richard Hannon’s Trillium (Pat Dobbs), the only filly among eight runners for the Group 3 Molecomb Stakes, showed an impressive burst of finishing speed to beat favourite Rocket Rodney (George Scott/Dan Muscutt) by a length and a quarter in the five-furlong dash, with Walbank (Dave Loughnane/Rossa Ryan) third, another half a length adrift.

The race looked like boiling down to a match between the market leaders, both of whom had finished second over the trip at Royal Ascot, but when a gap appeared near the rail with a furlong to go, Trillium burst through and swept past with a degree of comfort which belied her 7/1 SP.

Trillium, a homebred daughter of No Nay Never out of the owners’ Fillies’ Mile fourth Marsh Hawk, was an impressive winner of a Newbury novice on her previous start, and she built on that to show herself a Group 1 filly, nothing in this effort to suggest she is flattered in any way.

Ed Sackville, representing owners Rockcliffe Stud, talked about an ambitious plan for the filly, saying in the aftermath of this success: “I’ll talk to Richard about future plans, but a race that interests me is the Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Turf Sprint – a Group 1 race, a million-dollar race – that would be exciting. We’ve got blacktype and can go anywhere now.”

There was another impressive two-year-old winner when The Platinum Queen (5/6) and Oisin Orrr whizzed in by four lengths in the British EBF Alice Keppel Fillies’ Conditions Stakes for Richard Fahey, winning in a new juvenile course record. The daughter of Cotai Glory was bred by Tally-Ho Stud.