MOONLIGHT CLOUD READY FOR SPRINT

Moonlight Cloud has been pleasing connections ahead of QIPCO British Champions Sprint Stakes.

The daughter of Invincible Spirit came home seventh after being sent off favourite in the QIPCO 1000 Guineas at Newmarket in May but the filly has since excelled over shorter distances and looks set to play a leading role in the six-furlong £250,000 Group Two contest .

Freddie Head's charge followed up a cosy head success in a seven-furlong Group 3 at Longchamp at the start of July with a stunning four-length victory over Golden Jubilee Stakes winner Society Rock in the Group 1 Prix Maurice de Gheest over six and a half furlongs at Deauville on August 7.

Head reported: "Moonlight Cloud is heading over for the QIPCO British Champions Sprint Stakes.

"She has improved all season and was very impressive in the Prix Maurice de Gheest. She seems well in herself and I think that she is still in the same form as when she went to Deauville.

"It will be her first start over six furlongs but she has always possessed a lot speed, even as a juvenile. I don't mind what the ground will be like - she won on soft ground at Deauville but the going wasn't the reason for her victory and she was just far better than her rivals.

"We will have to wait and see what the opposition will be at Ascot but I think that she would have a first-class chance of winning."

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