6/4 favourite Legacy Link booked for the Epsom Oaks after a gritty win on day one of the Dante festival at York.

Legacy Link was well backed for her return in the Group three Musidora Stakes and delivered for joint-trainers John and Thady Gosden. This filly was last seen last year running on for fourth in the Bet365 fillies mile at Newmarket at the back-end of her two year old career. She had ‘impressed in her work the weekend prior’ as Juddmonte racing manager Barry Mahon said on the Nick Luck Daily podcast.

In second was Ed Walkers’ filly Felicitas, who was unbeaten having won a Sandown novice this season impressively by three lengths. This game performance by Legacy Link has clearly impressed bookmakers and punters, as she is a general 9/2 shot for the classic at Epsom in June.

Away from the feature race, Elmonjed, who was unexposed at group level, won the Group two Minster Stakes in good style defeating multiple previous Group one winners having the likes of Kind Of Blue and Regional in behind.

The William Haggas trained gelding seems to have taken his form to a new level this year after winning the listed Garrowby Stakes over course and distance last season.

After this win, connections would usually be working towards the Queen Elizabeth II Jubilee Stakes at Royal Ascot, however, Elmonjed isn’t entered so connection may look towards the Prix Maurice de Gheest in France.

Following on from William Haggas’s success, he also had another impressive winner on the card in the form of Klassleader. This colt had only raced four times and had earned himself a rating of 90. Today, he blew this mark away and his opposition being a ready winner of the Jorvik handicap.

He reversed the form with previous rival, Sing Us A Song who defeated him as a three year old at Haydock Park. It wouldn’t be a shock to see both the first and second show up in the Ebor handicap at York in August.