Sheikh in Gale force

Sheikh Mohammed's

Godolphin team have

extended their summer

shopping spree by

snapping up the top-class

two-year-old filly

Laureldean Gale.

Joint favourite at 7-1 for

next year's 1,000 Guineas,

she left the stables of

trainer Peter Chapple-

Hyam on Friday for the

short journey across

Newmarket to

Godolphin's base.

The $325,000 (£170,000)

spent on Laureldean Gale

as a yearling in America

looks ridiculously cheap

now following her sale.

She won stylishly on her

debut at Newmarket in

July before being pipped

by the highly rated French

filly Proviso at Deauville.

Godolphin's Simon Crisford

said: "She looks a

good filly, is lightly raced

and may well run in our

blue colours this season."