Winning Express, trained by Ed McMahon, is one of the 15 fillies engaged for the £163,500 Group One Jaguar Cars Cheveley Park Stakes run at Newmarket on Saturday, September 29, Betfred Cambridgeshire Day, after she was supplemented today at a cost of £15,000.
The daughter of Camacho is unbeaten in two starts and scored by a comfortable length and a quarter from Jadanna in the Listed Dick Poole Fillies' Stakes at Salisbury over six furlongs on September 6. She had previously come from an unfavourable position at Sandown to win by half a length when making her debut over five furlongs on August 9.
McMahon, who trains in Staffordshire, said: "Winning Express has been fine since she won at Salisbury.
"She didn't necessarily surprise me with her performance there because she won very nicely at Sandown before that - not many fillies come from where she did to win at Sandown on debut.
"When she won the Dick Poole Stakes, everything went right for her and she won accordingly. I was very pleased with her performance.
"She has always been a very professional filly which is why she has won first and second time out. Her work at home has always been very good and we backed her into favouritism at Sandown which you don't do unless you think they know what they are doing.
"If you look back in history, Rae Guest won the Cheveley Park with Serious Attitude after she won the Dick Poole and you could go for a Group Three but it's late on in the season and Winning Express has only run twice.
"The form of the race at Salisbury is very strong and it was a truly run race so I think she deserves to take her chance in the Cheveley Park given she hasn't done anything wrong this year.
"I don't think she would want extremes of ground and she would probably go on going a fraction slower than good but ideally she would want it quicker than good to be at her best."
Those going forward for the six-furlong contest include the Irish-trainedSendmylovetorose, who denied Maureen, from Richard Hannon's powerful team, by a neck in the Group Two Irish Thoroughbred Marketing Cherry Hinton Stakes at Newmarket's Piper-Heidsieck July Festival.
Group Two Queen Mary Stakes scorer Ceiling Kitty is one of two confirmations for trainer Tom Dascombe, while the unbeaten Group Two Lowther Stakes heroine Rosdhu Queenremains engaged for Newmarket handler William Haggas.
Other notable entries include valuable sales race winner The Gold Cheongsam, Italian Listed winner Sandreamer and Michael Bell's Hoyam, while Aidan O'Brien could saddleSnow Queen and Infanta Branca.
The three-day Cambridgeshire Festival starts on Thursday, September 27.
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