Blue Bolt beats odds-on favourite Precise by two lengths in Falmouth Stakes

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The Group One Falmouth Stakes has proved a tough assignment for favourites in recent years and Precise, at 4-5, was the fifth of the last seven odds-on shots to let the punters down, as she could finish only a two-length second behind Andrew Balding’s year-older Blue Bolt here on Friday.

Precise arrived at Newmarket with two Group One wins to her name already this season, while Blue Bolt had finished second in last October’s Sun Chariot Stakes on her only previous start at the highest level. The pair were among four runners in a line across the track inside the final two furlongs, but Blue Bolt found the sharpest burst of acceleration to pull clear of her field.

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