September, 2020 | Horse Racing Free Tips

Flying Five Glory For Dream Ahead’s Glass Slippers

It was all about the fillies and mares in Sunday’s G1 Derrinstown Stud Flying Five at The Curragh, with last year’s G1 Prix de l’Abbaye de Longchamp heroine Glass Slippers (GB) (Dream Ahead) prevailing after a tussle with compatriot Keep Busy (Ire) (Night of Thunder {Ire}). Last seen finishing second to Battaash (Ire) (Dark Angel {Ire}) in Goodwood’s G2 King George S. July 31, the Bearstone Stud homebred was in touch against the far rail but under the pump at halfway. Rallying gamely to wear down Keep Busy in the last 100 yards, the 9-2 shot answered Tom Eaves’s every call to score by half a length, with the same margin separating her and the Irish filly Sonaiyla (Ire) (Dark Angel {Ire}). In perfect symmetry, there was also that distance to the mare Maid In India (Ire) (Bated Breath {GB}) in fourth as the distaffers dominated. “Kevin [Ryan] was very happy with her and this had always been the plan, as she takes time to warm into the season and comes good at this time of year,” the winning rider said. “It’s paid off and she’s an amazing filly who was spot-on for today. She found a few pounds and kept improving from the middle of the year last year and has thrived again. You can do anything with her, she is so relaxed and has a great mind and is very tough. They went a good pace and I had to squeeze at halfway, but I knew she’d come home as she stays well.”

Whatever is in the air in the North of England, it seems to aid the development of top-class sprinting fillies and mares and despite the disappointments of Que Amoro (Ire) (Es Que Love {Ire}) and Liberty Beach (GB) (Cable Bay {Ire}) here, it is notable that the first, second and fourth are trained by Kevin Ryan, John Quinn and Eric Alston respectively. Glass Slippers was winning the G3 Qatar Prix du Petit Couvert at ParisLongchamp on this day last year, coming alive after a lethargic first half of the race to back up her breakthrough win in Deauville’s Listed Prix Moonlight Cloud. When she went to the Abbaye, she was a different proposition as she took early control and galloped relentlessly clear for an authoritative three-length success.

No match for Battaash in his own backyard at Goodwood, she will meet him again on the first Sunday in October according to Ryan. “She has a lot of class and loves it when they go really quick, but the ground was tacky today so she’s done well to cope with that,” commented her trainer, who was forced to watch from home. “Darren Bunyan has done a marvellous job with her the last 48 hours, it’s not easy handing it over to someone else, but he’s produced her in tip-top shape so I’m very thankful to the Curragh and Darren. It was [Bearstone Stud’s] Terry Holdcroft’s decision to miss the Nunthorpe and give her a bit more time and he’s obviously been vindicated. She’s an amazing filly, so simple to train and makes my job very easy. She’ll go back for the Abbaye now.”

Glass Slippers is the last living foal and second black-type winner out of Night Gypsy (GB) (Mind Games {GB}) following the Listed Radley S. scorer and G3 Oh So Sharp S. runner-up Electric Feel (GB) (Firebreak {GB}). The dam is a full-sister to the Listed Hilary Needler Trophy winner and stakes producer On the Brink (GB) and a half to Eastern Romance (GB) (Oasis Dream {GB}) who also achieved black-type success in France in the Listed Criterium de Vitesse and was runner-up in the G3 Ballyogan S.

Sunday, Curragh, Ireland
DERRINSTOWN STUD FLYING FIVE S.-G1, €250,000, Curragh, 9-13, 3yo/up, 5fT, 1:00.58, gd.
1–GLASS SLIPPERS (GB), 129, f, 4, by Dream Ahead
1st Dam: Night Gypsy (GB), by Mind Games (GB)
2nd Dam: Ocean Grove (Ire), by Fairy King
3rd Dam: Leyete Gulf (Ire), by Slip Anchor (GB)
O/B-Bearstone Stud Ltd (GB); T-Kevin Ryan; J-Tom Eaves. €150,000. Lifetime Record: Hwt. Older Mare-Fr at 5-7f, G1SW-Fr & GSP-Eng, 15-6-2-1, $550,517. *1/2 to Electric Feel (GB) (Firebreak {GB}), SW & GSP-Eng; and Aunt Nicola (GB) (Reel Buddy), SP-Eng. Werk Nick Rating: A++. Click for the eNicks report & 5-cross pedigree.
2–Keep Busy (Ire), 128, f, 3, Night of Thunder (Ire)–Look Busy (Ire), by Danetime (Ire). (34,000gns Ylg ’18 TAOCT). O-Mrs Doreen Tabor; B-Hackcanter Ltd & P Gleeson (IRE); T-John Quinn. €50,000.
3–Sonaiyla (Ire), 129, f, 4, Dark Angel (Ire)–Sinaniya, by More Than Ready. (€110,000 3yo ’19 GOFNOV). O-H H The Aga Khan; B-H H The Aga Khan’s Studs SC (IRE); T-Paddy Twomey. €25,000.
Margins: HF, HF, HF. Odds: 4.50, 18.00, 11.00.
Also Ran: Maid In India (Ire), Make A Challenge (Ire), Equilateral (GB), Liberty Beach (GB), Kurious (GB), Silver Spear (Ire), Rapid Reaction (Ire), You’resobeautiful (Ire), Que Amoro (Ire), Alligator Alley (GB), A’Ali (Ire). Scratched: Na Blianta Beo (Ire). Click for the Racing Post result or the free Equineline.com catalogue-style pedigree.

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Galileo’s Mogul On Top in Paris

Third in York’s G2 Great Voltigeur S. last month, Coolmore’s G2 Golden Fleece S. and G3 Gordon S. winner Mogul (GB) (Galileo {Ire}) claimed the full set of pattern-race levels with a stunning victory at odds of 17-2 in Sunday’s G1 Juddmonte Grand Prix de Paris at ParisLongchamp. His two prior starts at the highest level yielded a fourth in last term’s G1 Futurity Trophy at Doncaster and a sixth in this year’s G1 Epsom Derby. He was hidden away in rear for most of the 12-furlong trip and inched closer along the false straight as his pacemaking stablemate Nobel Prize (Ire) (Galileo {Ire}) signalled signs of distress. Making rapid headway along the fence in the straight proper, the eventual winner was not for catching once quickening for control when angled out with 300 metres remaining and stayed on strongly under a late drive to easily hold the running-on G1 Deutsches Derby hero In Swoop (Ire) (Adlerflug {Ger}) and G2 Prix Greffulhe victor Gold Trip (Fr) (Outstrip {GB}) by 2 1/2 lengths and a short head.

“Aidan [O’Brien] seemed quite confident before the race and told me that he was a horse that needed to be held up a bit, but had a huge turn of foot and that the longer I could wait the better as he doesn’t do too much in front,” explained winning rider Pierre Charles-Boudot after securing a third straight, and fifth overall, win in the event for O’Brien. “The pace was nice and constant and, turning in, I had a feeling that I was going to get a run down the rail. The horse just picked them off one by one and gave me his all to the line. Coolmore is one of the biggest breeding operations in the world and it is always a pleasure and honour to ride and to win for them. We will see if I get the ride on him in the Arc, it will be interesting.”

Europe’s Autumn showpiece could also be on the agenda for runner-up In Swoop, who delighted trainer Francis-Henri Graffard with a late rattle to finish second, but it’s by no means certain. “That was a great run and, before the race, I would have been happy with second place,” Graffard admitted. “We were worried that he might have been found out for a bit of speed, but he just keeps grafting away. Ronan [Thomas] knows him, he knows to keep after him and, just as I was hoping, he has finished off really strongly. Two weeks ago I would have never thought that he would have come here in such good condition. He takes his work well, I kept him going in strong work throughout the summer and he is very straightforward and willing. I think softer ground would play to his strengths. He holds an entry in the [G1] Prix de l’Arc de Triomphe, the [G2] Prix Chaudenay and [G1] Grosser Preis von Bayern. I will have a discussion with the owners and we will come to a decision.”

Mogul is one of four pattern-race winners, all by Galileo (Ire), produced by Listed Pontefract Castle S. runner-up Shastye (Ire) (Danehill). He is a full-brother to Japan (GB), who won this event and York’s G1 International S. last year, MG1SP G2 Middleton S. victress Secret Gesture (GB) and G3 International S. winner Sir Isaac Newton (GB). His granddam is G2 Prix de Royallieu winner and G1 Gran Premio di Milano runner-up Saganeca (Sagace {Fr}), who produced G1 Prix de l’Arc de Triomphe-winning sire Sagamix (Fr) (Linamix {Fr}), G1 Criterium de Saint-Cloud-winning sire Sagacity (Fr) (Highest Honor {Fr}) and G2 Prix de Malleret victress Sage Et Jolie (GB) (Highest Honor {Fr}), herself the dam of the G1 Prix d’Ispahan-winning sire Sageburg (Ire) (Johannesburg). Shastye has a yearling filly by Galileo (Ire) to come.

Sunday, ParisLongchamp, France
JUDDMONTE GRAND PRIX DE PARIS-G1, €360,000, ParisLongchamp, 9-13, 3yo, c/f, 12fT, 2:24.76, gd.
1–MOGUL (GB), 129, c, 3, by Galileo (Ire)
1st Dam: Shastye (Ire) (SP-Eng), by Danehill
2nd Dam: Saganeca, by Sagace (Fr)
3rd Dam: Haglette, by Hagley
1ST GROUP 1 WIN. (3,400,000gns Ylg ’18 TATOCT). O-Michael Tabor, Derrick Smith & Susan Magnier; B-Newsells Park Stud (GB); T-Aidan O’Brien; J-Pierre-Charles Boudot. €205,704. Lifetime Record: GSW-Eng & Ire, 3-2-1-0, €394,321. *Full to Japan (GB), Hwt. 3yo-Eur at 9 1/2-11f, Hwt. 3yo-Ire at 11-14f, Hwt. 3yo-Ire at 9 1/2-11f, Hwt. 3yo-Eng at 11-14f, Hwt. 3yo-Eng at 9 1/2-11f, G1SW-Eng & Fr, GSW-Ire, $2,048,117; Secret Gesture (GB), GSW & MG1SP-Eng, G1SP-Fr & Ger, GISP-US, $746,427; and Sir Isaac Newton (GB), GSW-Ire, SW-Eng & GSP-Aus, $403,231; and 1/2 to Maurus (GB) (Medicean {GB}), SW & MGSP-Aus, $403,286. Werk Nick Rating: A+++ *Triple Plus*. Click for the eNicks report & 5-cross pedigree.
2–In Swoop (Ire), 129, c, 3, Adlerflug (Ger)–Iota (Ger), by Tiger Hill (Ire). O-Gestut Schlenderhan; B-Stall Ullmann (IRE); T-Francis-Henri Graffard. €82,296.
3–Gold Trip (Fr), 129, c, 3, Outstrip (GB)–Sarvana (Fr), by Dubai Destination. (€60,000 Ylg ’18 ARAUG). O-Ecurie Jean-Louis Bouchard; B-Michel Monfort (FR); T-Fabrice Chappet; J-Stephane Pasquier. €41,148.
Margins: 2HF, SHD, 1 3/4. Odds: 8.50, 8.00, 15.00.
Also Ran: Serpentine (Ire), Highland Chief (Ire), English King (Fr), Nobel Prize (Ire), Lord Achilles (Fr), Hayzum (Fr), Port Guillaume (Fr). Click for the Racing Post result or the free Equineline.com catalogue-style pedigree. Video, sponsored by Fasig-Tipton.

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PR Special Keeneland September: How Canadian Consignors Are Navigating Uncertain Times

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Australia’s Cayenne Pepper Earns Well-Deserved Blandford Win

Honouring her Late owner Jon S. Kelly, Cayenne Pepper (Ire) (Australia {GB}) gained deserved compensation for a series of creditable defeats in major prizes when landing Sunday’s G2 Moyglare “Jewels” Blandford S. at The Curragh. Runner-up in the June 28 G1 Pretty Polly S. and July 18 G1 Irish Oaks at this venue, the 3-1 second favourite sat second behind Amma Grace (Ire) (Galileo {Ire}) before being sent past two out by Shane Foley. Staying on strongly from there, she had a comfortable four-length margin back to that 50-1 outsider at the line, with Thundering Nights (Ire) (Night of Thunder {Ire}) a further 1 1/2 lengths away in third. “I’m glad for her–she deserves that as she’s been knocking on the door in good races all year,” jockey Shane Foley said. “I know it was a group 2, but really it was like a group 1 with the horses in it. I thought we were in trouble with her early doors, so it’s nice to get her back. I thought we had been riding her wrong, trying to get her to relax over a mile and a half when her biggest attribute is to jump and travel. She has a long stride and puts them to the sword over that trip when you let her stride on. I was able to get a lead in a true-run race and she enjoyed it.”

Unbeaten in her first three starts at two, with this track’s G3 Flame of Tara S. among her conquests, Cayenne Pepper was fourth in the G1 Fillies’ Mile at Newmarket in October and was next seen chasing home Magical (Ire) (Galileo {Ire}) in the Pretty Polly. Outstayed by Even So (Ire) (Camelot {GB}) in the Irish Oaks, the chestnut was unable to live with Tarnawa (Ire) (Shamardal) when second in Cork’s G3 Give Thanks S. again at a mile and a half but minutes after this race was run the watching world found out what that form was worth at ParisLongchamp. “That’s the true Cayenne Pepper,” Kate Harrington said. “She had her ideal ground conditions and a good tow into the race. This is her ideal trip, too. We had a lot of issues with her in the Spring and couldn’t keep her straight–she had looked a little bit light throughout the season, but today was the first day she looked really strong in the paddock. She’s really starting to come to herself and is thriving. She is in the [G1 Prix de l’] Opera, but we might bypass that as she is invited to the [GI] Queen Elizabeth II [Challenge Cup] at Keeneland. She could go for that and then stay on for the Breeders’ Cup. It would be nice to get her to America, as Sarah [Kelly] couldn’t get over due to COVID so we’ll try to do our best to get her over there for her to see. Today is emotional, as Jon would have loved to have been here enjoying it all. I’m sure he’s watching down willing us all on.”

Cayenne Pepper’s dam Muwakaba (Elusive Quality) is kin to the Listed Newmarket S.-placed Morghim (Ire) (Machiavellian) and his full-sister Modraj (GB), who is in turn the dam of the group 3 winner Just Cruised In (SAf) (Just As Well). The second dam is the G3 Lingfield Oaks Trial runner-up and blue hen Allegretta (GB) (Lombard {Ger}), whose G1 2000 Guineas-winning son King’s Best flew her flag. Also responsible for the legendary G1 Prix de l’Arc de Triomphe heroine Urban Sea (Miswaki), she is therefore connected to Australia’s sire Galileo (Ire) and Sea the Stars (Ire), which means that Allegretta features 4×3 in Cayenne Pepper’s pedigree. While this family’s G1 Irish Derby hero Santiago (Ire) (Authorized {Ire}) could not quite get the job done at Doncaster on Saturday, Cayenne Pepper has provided more high-profile success for one of the stud book’s finest. Muwakaba also has a yearling colt by Churchill (Ire) and a foal full-brother to Cayenne Pepper to come.

Sunday, Curragh, Ireland
MOYGLARE ‘JEWELS’ BLANDFORD S.-G2, €175,000, Curragh, 9-13, 3yo/up, f/m, 10fT, 2:09.18, gd.
1–CAYENNE PEPPER (IRE), 128, f, 3, by Australia (GB)
1st Dam: Muwakaba, by Elusive Quality
2nd Dam: Saleela, by Nureyev
3rd Dam: Allegretta (GB), by Lombard (Ger)
(195,000gns Wlg ’17 TATFOA). O-Mrs Sarah Kelly; B-GHS Bloodstock & JC Bloodstock (IRE); T-Jessica Harrington; J-Shane Foley. €105,000. Lifetime Record: MG1SP-Ire, 8-4-3-0, $348,655. Werk Nick Rating: D+. Click for the eNicks report & 5-cross pedigree.
2–Amma Grace (Ire), 128, f, 3, Galileo (Ire)–Polished Gem (Ire), by Danehill. O/B-Moyglare Stud Farm Ltd (IRE); T-Dermot Weld. €35,000.
3–Thundering Nights (Ire), 128, f, 3, Night of Thunder (Ire)–Cape Castle (Ire), by Cape Cross (Ire). (€17,000 RNA Wlg ’17 GOFNOV; €19,000 RNA Ylg ’18 TIRSEP). O-Shapoor Mistry; B-Manjri Farm (IRE); T-Joseph O’Brien. €17,500.
Margins: 4, 1HF, 1 3/4. Odds: 3.00, 50.00, 9.00.
Also Ran: Bolleville (Ire), Gold Wand (Ire), Zawara (Ire), Celestial Object (Ire), Magic Wand (Ire), One Voice (Ire), Lemista (Ire), Elfin Queen. Click for the Racing Post result or the free Equineline.com catalogue-style pedigree.

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