September, 2020 | Horse Racing Free Tips

Global Sensation Con Te Partiro To Return To Keeneland For Breeders’ Cup, November Sale

Keeneland is excited to welcome Con Te Partiro – who began her career at Keeneland before winning stakes in the U.S. and at Royal Ascot in England and capturing two Group 1 races in Australia – back home for a start in the Breeders' Cup World Championships on Nov. 6-7 and then offer her during the premier Book 1 of the Keeneland November Breeding Stock Sale on Nov. 9.

The 6-year-old daughter of Scat Daddy, who will be cataloged as a racing or broodmare prospect, will be consigned by Bedouin Bloodstock, agent.

With starts at 14 tracks on three continents over five seasons of racing, Con Te Partiro has a story unlike any other Thoroughbred.

“Con Te Partiro has excelled at the highest level of international racing while she has exemplified just how small the global Thoroughbred industry is,” Keeneland President-Elect and Interim Head of Sales Shannon Arvin said. “We are thrilled to hold a Keeneland homecoming for Con Te Partiro. She sold as a yearling at the September Sale and she began her racing career here during the 2016 Spring Meet. We look forward to presenting her at the November Sale with all the fanfare she deserves.”

Owned by SF Bloodstock and trained by Gai Waterhouse and Adrian Bott, Con Te Partiro this year has won two Group 1 events: the 7 1/2-furlong Coolmore Classic and one-mile Coolmore Legacy. Last year at five, Con Te Partiro won a Group 3 race in her Australian debut.

“It is remarkable to reflect on what Con Te Partiro has achieved in her racing career,” Waterhouse said. “It is a rare feat in itself to win stakes races on three continents, but it is her performances at the elite level in Australia for which she will be remembered. Con Te Partiro won both of the time-honored Group 1 races, the Coolmore Classic and the Coolmore Legacy, making her, arguably, the best-performed mare in Australia.”

“Con Te Partiro truly is a one-of-a-kind mare,” said Tom Ryan of SF Bloodstock. “Her accomplishments on the track – including two Grade 1 wins in Australia, stakes victories at both the Royal Ascot and Saratoga race meets and successes on both dirt and turf – put her in an elite category of racehorses with the ability to perform at the highest level around the world.

“We purchased her in 2018 as a beautiful stakes-winning filly by Scat Daddy from the family of Into Mischief, and we are proud to say she has exceeded all expectations since.”

Con Te Partiro's return to Keeneland will come 4 1/2 years after she opened her career here with a dominating 5 1/2-length victory on dirt as a 2-year-old for trainer Wesley Ward and owner Hat Creek Racing. Transferred to turf, she won the Bolton Landing at Saratoga by 5 3/4 lengths and was second against males in the Juvenile Turf Sprint on the 2016 Breeders' Cup undercard at Santa Anita.

Her 3-year-old campaign included a trip to England, where she won the Sandringham at the prestigious Royal Ascot meet, and she raced in Grade 1 stakes at Del Mar and Keeneland. The next season, she was third in the G3 Arlington Matron in Chicago.

While boasting a unique race record, Con Te Partiro hails from an active, well-known family. Her sire, Scat Daddy, is the sire of such prominent horses as undefeated 2018 Triple Crown winner Justify and European champion and Royal Ascot winner Lady Aurelia.

Con Te Partiro is out of the Grade 1-placed Street Cry mare Temple Street and hails from a Grade 1-producing female family. She is a half-sister to stakes winner and multiple graded stakes-placed Donworth and is from the extended family of four-time champion Beholder, Grade 1 winner Mendelssohn and Grade 1 winner and leading sire Into Mischief.

In addition, Con Te Partiro is from a commercially successful family with half-siblings selling for as much as $550,000. She herself is a graduate of Keeneland's September Yearling Sale.

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Elzaam’s Champers Elysees Swoops In the Matron

Rapidly-progressive in 2020, Fitzwilliam Racing’s Champers Elysees (Ire) (Elzaam {Aus}) sealed her upwardly mobile status with an authoritative success in Leopardstown’s G1 Coolmore America ‘Justify’ Matron S. on Saturday. Providing Johnny Murtagh with a breakthrough first top-level success, the July 28 Listed Corrib Fillies S. and Sept. 2 G3 Fairy Bridge S. winner had plenty to do turning for home but produced an impressive flourish to cut down Peaceful (Ire) (Galileo {Ire}) 100 yards from the line. Soon clear under Colin Keane, the 9-2 shot had 1 1/4 lengths to spare over that G1 Irish 1000 Guineas winner at the line, with Peaceful 1 1/2 lengths ahead of the 9-4 favourite Fancy Blue (Ire) (Deep Impact {Jpn}) in third. “The plan was to be third or thereabouts early on, but there was plenty of pace on early doors and I was happy with where I was,” jockey Colin Keane said. “I had to sit and suffer, but they came back to me turning into the straight and she has a very good turn of foot. I thought she was a good winner at the line. I remember being disappointed walking away from the Curragh one day when she beat me in a handicap, but it’s amazing when these fillies start to progress where they can end up. Johnny Murtagh is a fellow Meath man and was one of my idols growing up, so it’s great to do this for him.”

That Curragh handicap that Keane referred to is the seven-furlong one June 12 that marked the seasonal debut of Champers Elysees off a mark of 86, having gone into winter quarters on the back of a runner-up finish in Naas’s “Birdcatcher” nursery over that trip in October. Taking the Corrib by seven lengths at the Galway festival, the bay followed up in the Fairy Bridge over another half a furlong at Gowran Park to earn this tilt but as impressive as those performances were there was little suggestion she could deal out such a beating to two Classic winners in Peaceful and Fancy Blue and several other talented distaffers. Qatar Racing’s July 1 G3 Derrinstown Stud Fillies S. winner and Aug. 2 G1 Prix Rothschild third Know It All (GB) (Lord Kanaloa {Jpn}) was fourth, framing an almost-perfect picture for Murtagh.

“Group 1s are hard to come by, so it’s a marvellous day and just shows you need a bit of luck and to be in the right place at the right time,” her trainer said. “Earlier in the year, she was almost sold and had passed all the tests but it fell through as she was judged a bad trotter. She is well able to gallop and they went a good pace all the way. It was a good even pace and she has that very good turn of foot. She can go on most going, but when they have that turn of foot I always find they prefer better ground than soft. She has a great heart and wants to win. Know It All maybe just got outstayed in the last half a furlong, but to be first and fourth is amazing. I was sick of everyone saying you’d had a great career as a jockey, that was in the past, it’s the here and now I’m worried about. It’s been a brilliant year, but to win a group one on Champions Weekend means everything. This is not for Johnny Murtagh, this is for the whole team and this end result makes all the work worthwhile.”

Champers Elysees could have at least one other outing this year according to her trainer. “This was always a good filly and the amount she has improved is unbelievable,” he added. “She’s improved a lot physically and has started to realise she’s good. She’s won a handicap, listed race, group Three and now a group one. When these fillies start improving there’s no stopping them and this race was always the plan. The Breeders’ Cup Mile is an option, the mile around there would suit her down to the ground as she’s quick and has a great turn of foot. There is also the [G1] Sun Chariot at Newmarket.”

Champers Elysees’ dam La Cuvee (GB) (Mark of Esteem {Ire}) is a daughter of the G3 Goldene Peitsche-winning German champion Premiere Cuvee (GB) (Formidable), who was also second in the G3 Prix du Gros-Chene. She produced the Listed Fern Hill S. winner Cask (GB) (Be My Chief) and She Bat (GB) (Batshoof {GB}), who took the G3 Premio Sergio Cumani before throwing four black-type performers of her own including the G2 Premio Regina Elena (Italian 1000 Guineas) third She Basic (Ire) (Desert Prince {Ire}). Premiere Cuvee is a half-sister to another Fern Hill winner in Fizzed (GB) (Efisio {GB}) who was also runner-up in the G2 Prix d’Astarte and her full-sister Swizzle (GB), who produced the G3 Premio Parioli scorer Al Rep (Ire) (Trade Fair {GB}). Also connected to the G1 Prix Jean Prat-winning sire Dick Turpin (Ire) (Arakan), the dam has the unraced 2-year-old colt Performance Plus (Ire) (Alhebayeb {Ire}) and a yearling colt by Mehmas (Ire) who is catalogued to sell in next Monday’s session of the Tattersalls Ireland September Yearling Sale.

Saturday, Leopardstown, Ireland
COOLMORE AMERICA ‘JUSTIFY’ MATRON S.-G1, €250,000, Leopardstown, 9-12, 3yo/up, f, 8fT, 1:39.77, gd.
1–CHAMPERS ELYSEES (IRE), 128, f, 3, by Elzaam (Aus)
1st Dam: La Cuvee (GB), by Mark of Esteem (Ire)
2nd Dam: Premiere Cuvee (GB), by Formidable
3rd Dam: Clicquot (Ire), by Bold Lad (Ire)
1ST GROUP 1 WIN. (€12,500 Wlg ’17 TATFBR; €28,000 Ylg ’18 TIRSEP; €95,000 RNA 2yo ’19 GOFHIT). O-Fitzwilliam Racing; B-Karl Bowen (IRE); T-Johnny Murtagh; J-Colin Keane. €150,000. Lifetime Record: 9-5-2-1, $305,753. Werk Nick Rating: C. Click for the eNicks report & 5-cross pedigree.
2–Peaceful (Ire), 128, f, 3, Galileo (Ire)–Missvinski, by Stravinsky. O-Michael Tabor, Derrick Smith & Susan Magnier; B-Coolmore (IRE); T-Aidan O’Brien. €50,000.
3–Fancy Blue (Ire), 128, f, 3, Deep Impact (Jpn)–Chenchikova (Ire), by Sadler’s Wells. O-Michael Tabor, Derrick Smith & Susan Magnier; B-Coolmore (IRE); T-Donnacha O’Brien. €25,000.
Margins: 1 1/4, 1HF, HD. Odds: 4.50, 2.74, 2.25.
Also Ran: Know It All (GB), Albigna (Ire), Valeria Messalina (Ire), So Wonderful, Lady Wannabe (Ire), New York Girl (Ire), Wilds Dreams (Arg), Love Locket (Ire). Click for the Racing Post result or the free Equineline.com catalogue-style pedigree.

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Park Glory For No Nay Never’s Wichita

Rebounding from a rare below-par effort when eighth in the 6 1/2-furlong G1 Prix Maurice de Gheest at Deauville Aug. 9, Ballydoyle’s Wichita (Ire) (No Nay Never) was in battling mood on Saturday as he edged out One Master (GB) (Fastnet Rock {Aus}) in Doncaster’s G2 bet365 Park S. Well-supported into 11-4 favouritism, the bay who was so close to winning the G1 2000 Guineas was in front of two others racing far side under Frankie Dettori throughout the early stages. Gaining the advantage passing the furlong pole, he had to dig deep as One Master thrusted late and was behind a stride before the line but had his nose down where it mattered to score by a short head. Molatham (GB) (Night of Thunder {Ire}) was two lengths away in third in a strong renewal which puts the winner back in the winner’s spot for the first time since the G3 Somerville Tattersall S. a year ago. “He was a bit lazy after getting rid of the two on either side, but Tom [Marquand] came very quick at me. It was hard to tell if we’d won, but he’s a lovely horse who deserved it.”

Coming back to the track at which he was second to Molatham in the Listed Flying Scotsman S. 12 months earlier, Wichita was gaining compensation for a neck defeat by Kameko (Kitten’s Joy) in the June 6 Newmarket Classic. Also third in Royal Ascot’s G1 St James’s Palace S. June 20 and fifth in the G1 Sussex S. at Goodwood July 29 before his below-par Maurice de Gheest effort, he has become a regular mount for Dettori who added, “He was a bit flat at Deauville last time, but he was fresh today. He’s been a model of consistency and I’m pleased that he put his head in front today. I think seven furlongs is spot-on for him.”

Wichita is the last known foal out of the listed scorer Lumiere Noire (Fr) (Dashing Blade {GB}), who is a half-sister to the GI Manhattan H. hero Desert Blanc (GB) (Desert Style {Ire}). Their dam Lumiere Rouge (Fr) (Indian Ridge {Ire}) is a half-sister to the G2 Criterium de Maisons-Laffitte winner and G1 Grand Criterium and G1 Premio Vittorio di Capua runner-up Signe Divin (Bering {GB}), while the family also features the G1 Prix de l’Opera heroine Satwa Queen (Fr) (Muhtathir {GB}). She is the second dam of this year’s G1 Phoenix S. hero Lucky Vega (Ire) (Lope de Vega {Ire}) who could bring up a notable double for the family in Sunday’s G1 Goffs Vincent O’Brien National S. This is also the family of the G1 Criterium de Saint-Cloud-winning sire Spadoun (Fr) (Kaldoun {Fr}) and this year’s Listed Dragon S. winner Gussy Mac (Ire) (Dark Angel {Ire}).

Saturday, Doncaster, Britain
BET365 PARK S.-G2, £80,000, Doncaster, 9-12, 3yo/up, 7f 6yT, 1:25.12, gd.
1–WICHITA (IRE), 126, c, 3, by No Nay Never
1st Dam: Lumiere Noire (Fr) (SW-Ger, $107,446), by Dashing Blade (GB)
2nd Dam: Lumiere Rouge (Fr), by Indian Ridge (Ire)
3rd Dam: Lumen Dei, by Raise a Native
(140,000gns Ylg ’18 TAOCT). O-Derrick Smith, Susan Magnier & Michael Tabor; B-W Maxwell Ervine (IRE); T-Aidan O’Brien; J-Lanfranco Dettori. £45,368. Lifetime Record: MG1SP-Eng, 9-3-2-2, $297,342. Werk Nick Rating: A++. Click for the eNicks report & 5-cross pedigree.
2–One Master (GB), 127, m, 6, Fastnet Rock (Aus)–Enticing (Ire), by Pivotal (GB). O-Lael Stable; B-Lael Stables (GB); T-William Haggas. £17,200.
3–Molatham (GB), 126, c, 3, Night of Thunder (Ire)–Cantal (GB), by Pivotal (GB). (160,000gns Ylg ’18 TAOCT). O-Sheikh Hamdan bin Rashid Al Maktoum; B-Cheveley Park Stud Ltd (GB); T-Roger Varian. £8,608.
Margins: NO, 2, NK. Odds: 2.75, 3.50, 3.00.
Also Ran: Urban Icon (GB), Limato (Ire), Shine So Bright (GB), Breathtaking Look (GB), Marie’s Diamond (Ire). 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: What Equine Lending Can Tell Us About The State Of The Marketplace

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In a whirlwind month for the auction season, the industry's attention now turns to Keeneland for the marathon September Yearling Sale, and the Paulick Report has what you need to read in the preview edition of the PR Special.

In this edition, bloodstock editor Joe Nevills examines equine financial lending, how it has changed since the last boom of the mid-2000s and the subsequent market crash, and what the activity that lenders have seen in the midst of COVID-19 uncertainties can tell us about the current direction of the Thoroughbred economy.

Walker Hancock of Claiborne Farm answers questions about veteran sire First Samurai in the latest Stallion Spotlight, then Bryce Burton of Muirfield Insurance discusses what to do and what to know if your Thoroughbred is being transported to the veterinary clinic for an emergency.

We then turn our attention to a pair of horses succeeding in unique ways. First, in Honor Roll Presented by the Runhappy Meet at Kentucky Downs, Ray Paulick looks at the family ties that led Ms Bad Behavior from being a $75,000 yearling purchase to an earner of over $500,000, including a victory in the G3 Three Chimneys Ladies Turf Stakes at Kentucky Downs. In the Florida-Bred Leaderboard, we take a look at the top Florida-bred juvenile earners on dirt during the Gulfstream Park summer meet; a category dominated by homebreds for Gil and Marilyn Campbell's Stonehedge LLC. Finally, we list the newcomers in the stallion ranks over the two-week Keeneland September sale in First-Crop Sire Watch.

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