The unbeaten Lake Victoria (Ire) is now Timeform's highest-rated two-year-old filly in Europe, it was announced on Monday.
The daughter of Frankel (GB) earned a Timeform rating of 119p for her impressive success in Saturday's G1 Cheveley Park Stakes at Newmarket when beating Daylight (Fr) (Earthlight {Ire}) by three lengths. G1 Phoenix Stakes winner Babouche (GB) (Kodiac {GB}), who finished only fourth at Newmarket, remains the best of the rest in this division with a rating of 113.
Incidentally, Hooray (GB) (Invincible Spirit {Ire}) was the last filly to be awarded a higher rating after winning the Cheveley Park. She was rated 121 after her four-and-a-half-length victory in 2010.
The highest-rated two-year-old in training after Saturday's action at Newmarket is Godolphin's Shadow Of Light (GB) (Lope De Vega {Ire}), who is now on a figure of 120 after winning the G1 Middle Park Stakes by four lengths.
However, Shadow Of Light is likely to face competition from The Lion In Winter (Ire) (Sea The Stars {Ire}), who is due to make his next appearance in the G1 Dewhurst Stakes at Newmarket on Saturday, October 12.
The Lion In Winter has had his rating adjusted to 119p (from 115p) after the form of his G3 Acomb Stakes win received a couple of boosts last week, first from Thursday's G3 Tattersalls Stakes winner The Waco Kid (Ire) (Mehmas {Ire}) and then from Saturday's G2 Royal Lodge Stakes scorer Wimbledon Hawkeye (GB) (Kameko).
Timeform handicapper Simon Baker said, “Lake Victoria is improving by the run and put up one of the best Cheveley Park performances in recent memory as she extended her unbeaten record to four. Her new rating of 119p puts her 6lb ahead of Babouche among the juvenile fillies and her physique, pedigree and demeanour suggest she's got all the tools to go on and make an even better three-year-old.
“It was perhaps a little bit more of a surprise to see Shadow Of Light win by even further 35 minutes later, but he'd been progressing very well himself and a rating of 120 marks him down as a better-than-average Middle Park winner.
“He has likewise moved to the top of his division, though he's only 1lb ahead of The Lion In Winter, whose win in an exceptionally strong renewal of the Acomb at York in August received yet another boost courtesy of Wimbledon Hawkeye's authoritative success in the Royal Lodge.”
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