If you follow flat racing in Europe you will be a fan of Minnie Hauk, the flashy Frankel with the big price-tag that blazed through 2025 winning four Oaks races and she made a winning return overnight at The Curragh.
Last year, Minnie Hauk started her season winning the Listed Cheshire Oaks and followed with Group I wins in the Epsom Oaks, Irish Oaks and Yorkshire Oaks before a gallant second in the Arc to Daryz and then a sixth in the Group I Breeders Cup Turf at Del Mar.
Trained Aidan O’Brien, Minnie Hauk returned a bigger and stronger version as a four year-old mare in the Group III Mooresbridge Stakes (1m2f) and ran out an easy winner for Ryan Moore.
The performance was exactly what Aidan O’Brien was hoping to see.
“You'd be delighted with that. We wanted a nice, even pace so Minnie Hauk could get back into gear a little bit. We didn't want a dawdle, so it was lovely for her,” he said.
“She travelled with all the zest she did last year and won very snugly. You couldn't be happier with her and Ryan was very happy. He said he just let her point her toe a bit the last furlong.
“The Tattersalls Gold Cup is the plan, and that was the perfect prep for it. If the Tattersalls Gold Cup went well, she could go to Ascot for the Prince of Wales's. We were thinking of keeping her at a mile and a quarter for her first three runs.”
Minnie Hauk was purchased by MV Magnier for €1.85million at the Goffs Orby Sale from the Camas Park Stud draft and topped the sale.
She now has the overall record of six wins from nine starts.
Bred by Ben Sangster, she is a half-sister to Group II winner Tilsit from blue-blood Dansili mare Multilingual, a sibling to 2014 European Horse of the Year and champion sire Kingman and Group IIII winner Remote from Group I winner Zenda.
Minnie Hauk is the second G1 winner among eight stakes-winners by Frankel from daughters of Dansili and the other G1 winner is Epsom Oaks winner Soul Sister.
The nick runs at 77% winner to runner and 29% SW to runner.
