BEATTY CLAIMS A CLEARCUT VICTORY

By Graham Potter | Sunday, November 8, 2026

The Sean and Jake Casey trained Beatty, the $1.45 race favourite, made short work of the opposition in the Listed Fairetha Stakes at Ascot, asserting his authority over the final 150m to race away to another clearcut victory, in the process extending his race record to six wins from seven starts.

The race was robbed of much of its intrigue when Roger the unbeaten second favourite, and the only serious market rival to Beatty, was withdrawn at the start. Roger does live to fight another day though, and his perfect record … three wins from three starts … remains intact, so a future clash between Beatty and Roger is still an exciting prospect.

While just how much of a threat Roger would have provided for the main fancy on the day will forever remain unknown, once that withdrawal became official, it appeared that, all things being equal, Beatty was likely to have the race at his mercy.

Lucy Fiore certainly rode Beatty like he was the best horse in the race, tracking the first two horses in the running … Godspeed ($4) and Beatty’s stable companion He’s a Machino ($17) … in a comfortable third place, racing some three lengths off the frontrunner in the first half of the race.

With the whole field taking closer order on the approach to the home turn, Fiore shifted Beatty out three wide, quickly closed up on the leaders … and the favourite was perfectly poised to strike as the field turned into the home straight.

It was a gradual buildup of momentum at first … juts under hands and heels … as Beatty slowly moved into another gear to get up alongside the two early leaders, and then, with just a couple of quick reminders from Fiore, Beatty stretched out like the good horse he is to gain enough of a race winning margin early enough to allow Fiore the luxury of being able to let Beatty ease down over the final strides.

The $14 outsider Consignment, who came from the rear of the field, was the only runner closing from behind with any real intent and, while he was never going to trouble Beatty, that effort was good enough to claim second spot ahead of He’s A Machino (who finished third) and Godspeed (fourth).

Beatty’s prize-money earnings are already up to $710 640 from only seven starts. He has a Group 3 win behind his name (in the WA Sires’ Produce Stakes) and he has saluted in three Listed races (in the Perth Stakes, the Belgravia and the Fairetha).