Lady Bowthorpe out to end “barren spell” for Jarvis
Grand Lodge was trainer’s last Group One winner.
Lady Bowthorpe will bid to end trainer William Jarvis’ 27-year wait for a second Group One victory at Goodwood next week. It has been almost three decades since the Mick Kinane-ridden Grand Lodge landed the 1994 St James’s Palace Stakes at Royal Ascot, but Jarvis believes he has has finally unearthed a horse capable of ending what he labels a “barren spell”. He said: “I’ve been training a long time and we’ve been very lucky to have had some very decent horses through our hands, but it’s been a bit of a barren spell, probably since Gravitation won the Lillie Langtry Stakes at Goodwood in 2008.👏 Lady Bowthorpe provided trainer @williamjarvis with his biggest success for over 25 years with victory in the Dahlia Stakes at @NewmarketRace
Owned by Music Producer @asecretagent, she could head to the Lockinge at @NewburyRacing next pic.twitter.com/otEZC084Ug — Racing TV (@RacingTV) May 4, 2021
“To have a filly as high-class as Lady Bowthorpe is great for all of us.” Since making a successful start to the current campaign in the Group Two Dahlia Stakes at Newmarket in early May, Lady Bowthorpe has finished second to Palace Pier in the Lockinge, second to Indie Angel in the Duke of Cambridge and a luckless fourth in the Falmouth. “In the Falmouth Stakes, I didn’t think she got the rub of the green, but Snow Lantern is a very good filly. I felt at the time that we were the best horse in the race,” Jarvis added.
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