Amo Racing bought some expensive yearlings last year and one of them was Night of Thunder filly Silent Beauty, who was plucked from the Goffs Orby Book 1 Sale for €1million and she won her first stakes race overnight.
Trained by Kevin Phillipart de Foy, Silent Beauty won on debut at Yarmouth in May before disappointing when unplaced in the Group III Albany Stakes at Royal Ascot.
Stepping out for the first time since then in the Listed Ripon Champion 2YO Trophy (6f) with David Egan to ride, Silent Beauty was sent off favourite showed her true form to dash away and win by three lengths.
David Egan has ridden the filly in all three starts and holds her in high regard.
"She’s a filly I’ve always liked and she won impressively on debut. We went to Ascot with high hopes and I thought potentially after her race there that the ground was slightly on the quick side,” Egan said after the race.
"When the rain came as I arrived in Yorkshire today, I was definitely best pleased.
“She was an expensive horse at the sales, she’s by Night Of Thunder and they're not always as precocious as she is, but she showed how precocious she was on debut and it was nice to see her go and take that next step up today. She’s back on the right track.”
Silent Beauty was the equal second highest priced yearling sold at Goffs Orby in 2025 and is the first winner for Shalaa’s Group I winner No Speak Alexander.
She is the 95th stakes-winner for Night of Thunder and is his 24th this year. The Darley based son of Dubawi is having a benchmark year and five of those stakes-winners are G1 winners headed by the now retired undefeated 3YO colt Bow Echo and the mighty Ombudsman.
