You Got To Me (Nathaniel) wins the Lingfield Oaks Trial (Listed Race) for owners Valmont and trainer Ralph Beckett.
Last seen finishing when fifth in Newmarket’s Listed Montrose Fillies’ S. in November, You Got To Me set off at a demanding clip under Hector Crouch. Helped by her athleticism as she descended to the home turn, she kept finding as the remainder closed in and found the line half a length to the good.
After the race rider Crouch said ”It wasn’t deliberate to go quite that quick, she’s a horse that likes to get on with things. You have to let her be her and it worked out nicely. I was out of control until the first bend, then she had a look at the hill and backed off for me. She did everything very nicely from the six to the three, then she was very game in the finish. She came down the hill beautifully. She’s a very big horse, but she’s beautifully balanced. She’s always done good work at home, we expected her to win first time and she just a bit weak at the back-end last year.”
Trainer Beckett said ”It was a terrific effort from the horse and jockey,” he said. “It was important not to get in her way, she’s a filly that needs to get into a rhythm and she’s not a filly who likes being ordered around. Hector obviously knows her well and rides the track particularly well and it all came together. I was pretty sure we’d handle the track, it was just whether she was good enough.”
You Got To Me was purchased for 200,000 guineas at the 2022 Tattersalls October Yearling Sale (Book I).
