September, 2020 | Horse Racing Free Tips

Stroll For Enable In the September

John Gosden could hardly have scripted a better 2020 for Clarehaven’s standard-bearer Enable (GB) (Nathaniel {Ire}) and Saturday’s G3 Unibet September S. at Kempton turned out the predicted stroll all expected as she works towards her historic Arc attempt. Providing the only anxious moment for 1-14 backers when awkward from the stalls, the Juddmonte juggernaut was soon in command as Frankie showed his intent to keep it simple. Tracked throughout by Kirstenbosch (GB) (Mount Nelson {GB}), she went through the contest like a piece of strong exercise and there were seven lengths to spare over that unexposed 4-year-old at the line. “She did it very nicely, very smoothly,” her trainer said. “The track is riding deeper than usual and Frankie felt she didn’t find it as easy to be as fluent on as she normally is. She normally springs off that, but it’s just riding a bit sticky. Apart from that he was absolutely delighted with her. She has had a nice blow and a good day out. She was idling a bit in front and the race would have just brought her on nicely. She will have a nice easy 10 days and then we will build up to the Arc.”

Bar encountering the mighty presence of Ghaiyyath (Ire) (Dubawi {Ire}) when making her seasonal bow in the July 5 G1 Eclipse S. at Sandown, Enable’s current campaign has gone like clockwork with her bringing up a unique treble in Ascot’s G1 King George VI and Queen Elizabeth S. July 25 that might stand unmatched for some time. Gosden now has to deliver her for her date with destiny on the first Sunday next month. “She came close last year and we will do our best to put that right, but what she has done already with all the races she has won is pretty extraordinary,” he added. “She was fresh to saddle and was quick with her hind feet. She was just full of herself. I think down at the start didn’t help as she was waiting for the other horse to be reshod. Frankie floated up there and she had a nice race–perfectly what you want, with hands and heels.”

“I think it was probably three-quarters mental and one-quarter physical preparation today,” he continued. “This was as much to mentally let her let a little steam off and chill her and give her 10 days and build her up to the Arc. The race will just sharpen her mental attitude. She found it difficult to get to her racing weight and I didn’t want to push her in any way. She got tired in the last furlong in the Eclipse, but ran a lovely race and then came back in the King George. That was the most important part, as her metabolism changed. She is wiser now and a 6-year-old mare is different to a 3-year-old filly. She is robust and she does have that mental strength. The great tennis players get to that fifth set and when they are two sets all it is mental strength that wins it above anything else.”

Looking ahead to the opposition at ParisLongchamp, Gosden has his eye in particular on Love (Ire) (Galileo {Ire}). “We have got tons of respect for the Oaks winner, who is a brilliant filly and is getting the weight allowance Enable did when she was that age,” he said. “You would love to see the ground good-to-soft, you don’t want to see it bottomless but it is next to the River Seine and we are in the autumn.”

Enable’s finale in her native country came just 24 hours after her 2-year-old half-brother Derab (GB) (Sea the Stars {Ire}) put in such a promising debut when second at Ascot. The listed-winning and group-placed dam Concentric (GB) (Sadler’s Wells) also has a yearling full-brother to Enable and by the time he is enjoying his first outing it could be that she has a second Classic winner. Also the dam of the G2 Prix de Pomone runner-up Contribution (GB) (Champs Elysees {GB}) and the G3 Musidora S. runner-up Entitle (GB) (Dansili {GB}), she is a daughter of the G3 Prix de Royaumont winner Apogee (GB) (Shirley Heights {GB}) and a full-sister to the G2 Prix de Royallieu scorer and G1 Prix de Diane runner-up Dance Routine (GB). She is in turn the dam of the multiple top-level winner Flintshire (GB) (Dansili {GB}) and the second dam of the GII Baltimore/Washington International Turf Cup winner Projected (GB) (Showcasing {GB}) and last year’s G2 Prix Eugene Adam and G2 Prix Guillaume d’Ornano winner Headman (GB) (Kingman {GB}).

Saturday, Kempton, Britain
UNIBET SEPTEMBER S.-G3, £56,000, Kempton, 9-5, 3yo/up, 11f 219y (AWT), 2:30.33, st/sl.
1–ENABLE (GB), 135, m, 6, by Nathaniel (Ire)
1st Dam: Concentric (GB) (SW & GSP-Fr, $117,776), by Sadler’s Wells
2nd Dam: Apogee (GB), by Shirley Heights (GB)
3rd Dam: Bourbon Girl, by Ile de Bourbon
O-Khalid Abdullah; B-Juddmonte Farms Ltd (GB); T-John Gosden; J-Lanfranco Dettori. £31,758. Lifetime Record: Hwt. 3yo-Eur at 11-14f, Hwt. Older Mare-Eur at 9.5-11f, 2x Hwt. Older Mare-Eur at 11-14f, Hwt. Older Horse-Eng & Fr at 11-14f, MG1SW-Eng & Fr, G1SW-Ire & GISW-US, 18-15-2-1, $14,062,824. *1/2 to Contribution (GB) (Champs Elysees {GB}), MGSP-Fr; and Entitle (GB) (Dansili {GB}), GSP-Eng. Werk Nick Rating: F. Click for the eNicks report & 5-cross pedigree.
2–Kirstenbosch (GB), 128, f, 4, Mount Nelson (GB)–Kassiyra (Ire), by Kendor (Fr). (22,000gns RNA Ylg ’17 TAOCT). O/B-Fittocks Stud (GB); T-James Fanshawe. £12,040.
3–Prince of Arran (GB), 131, g, 7, Shirocco (Ger)–Storming Sioux (GB), by Storming Home (GB). O-Saeed Bel Obaida; B-Rabbah Bloodstock Ltd (GB); T-Charlie Fellowes. £6,026.
Margins: 7, HD, 8. Odds: 0.07, 33.00, 16.00.
Also Ran: Almania (Ire), Punting (Ire), Fox Tal (GB). Scratched: Tinandali (Ire). Click for the Racing Post result or the free Equineline.com catalogue-style pedigree.

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TDN Q&A With Billy Jackson-Stops

With the yearling sales now in full swing, TDN quizzes industry figures on past purchases, life during lockdown and gets their perspective on the sales for the next few weeks. Billy Jackson-Stops answers our questions today.

TDN: What was your best yearling purchase over the last few years? And your favourite?

BJS: I set up JS Bloodstock Consultancy in the summer of 2018 and bought my first yearlings that year. Those 2018 yearling purchases resulted in my best purchase to date which was Shadn (Ire) (No Nay Never {USA}), who won the Listed Rosebowl S. and G2 Criterium De Maisons Laffitte last year before heading to the States to take her place in the GI Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Fillies Turf. She and a little horse called Soldierpoy (GB) (Sepoy {Aus}) would be my favourites. Shadn was very sweet natured and was a very determined horse, whereas Soldierpoy, who Tom Clover and I bought for £7,000 last year, was completely the opposite. He was shockingly behaved each time I saw him at the sales, but he was structurally very neat and came from a good breeder. The temperament never left him, he was always a handful in training but he was very quick and ended up finishing third in the Super Sprint, having won a race, and was subsequently sold at the August sale for £67,000, a great touch for the owners.

TDN: Is there any positive you have taken from how the sales have been conducted this year?

BJS: The overall positive is that the sales are on and all credit goes to the sales houses who have worked tirelessly to make that happen. It’s great to have seen the separate sales houses coming together and successfully getting horses sold. They deserve a huge amount of praise for being able to hold the sales in what has been an unpredictable and difficult year.

TDN: How has your business adapted?

BJS: We’ve focused on a bigger online presence. Without being able to travel and meet prospective clients personally, it’s been important for those people to have been able to see our work and what we do through our website and social media pages. We also upped our communications by making use of The Racing Manager app which has been a huge help in keeping clients up to date, whether it’s videos of horses training, entries and declarations or voice notes directly from the jockeys after the horses have raced, we’ve tried to keep everyone as informed as possible.

TDN: In general what are your thoughts on the 2020 yearling catalogues? And what progeny of new stallions are you most looking forward to?

BJS: The catalogues are very much in line with previous years in terms of quality and quantity, other than the Tattersalls Ascot Sale which has almost doubled in size with consignors looking to get a five week jump on what would have been their other option in Tattersalls Book 3. Some consignors have taken the view they might do better selling earlier in a stand-alone sale rather than at the end of a long two weeks of Book 1, 2 and 3.

Having done the first yearling sale at Goffs UK already I was impressed with the progeny of the two Scat Daddy horses in El Kabeir and Caravaggio. But having seen a lot of the progeny of Profitable (Ire) at Goffs UK I’m most looking forward to seeing his stock hit the track, they looked a good group and I’m sure we’ll see a lot of those at Royal Ascot next year.

TDN: Did you develop any new interests or hobbies during lockdown?

BJS: I felt fit for probably the first time since leaving school. There was quite a lot of running and eating healthy throughout lockdown, all of which has gone out of the window since sales have started again. I did a lot of reading as well; I really enjoy biographies and autobiographies, the best of which were Andre Agassi’s, Peter Moody’s and that of a tough ex-army man called Mick Dawson who rowed the Pacific from Japan to San Francisco on his second attempt at it having sunk his boat in the middle of the pacific on his first attempt.

TDN: Who’s the most interesting person you know?

BJS: My Dad is without question the most interesting person I know. He’s full of stories from throughout his life from successfully firing fireworks directly through the window of his headmaster’s office while he was at school, to getting his pilot’s licence and racing cars all around Europe; he seems to have packed a lot into his life. He worked full time in property and still somehow, despite the work, family and machines, found the time to read a lot and therefore seems to know a huge amount about random aspects of life.

TDN: What’s one mistake (if any) you made in your career, and what did you learn from it?

BJS: I never spent much time with an agent before setting up myself and therefore didn’t know the intricacies of running a bloodstock consultancy, so my entire career to date has been based on trial and error, a lot of error! So in hindsight I wish I’d spent a few years working with an established agent before going on my own.

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Another Ascot Rising Star As Kingman’s Love Is You Excites

TDN Rising Stars kept coming at Ascot on Saturday, with Normandie Stud’s newcomer Love Is You (Ire) (Kingman {GB}) swooping to take the well-contested Moet & Chandon British EBF Fillies’ Novice S. over a mile at the Berkshire venue. A daughter of Fallen For You (GB) (Dansili {GB}), who had her finest hour over this course and distance when winning the 2012 G1 Coronation S., the homebred half-sister to last year’s G2 Hungerford S. winner Glorious Journey (GB) (Dubawi {Ire}) was held up early at the back by Jason Watson. Looking set for minor honours only as the 6-5 market-leader Monsoon Moon (GB) (Kingman {GB}) loomed with menace on the home turn, the 3-1 second favourite instead delivered a flourish as that half-sister to last year’s G1 St Leger hero Logician (GB) (Frankel {GB}) began to fade in the closing stages. It was Godolphin’s prior winner Last Sunset (Ire) (Teofilo {Ire}) who looked to have edged it, but Love Is You was flying out wide and grabbed her in the final strides for a neck success, with Monsoon Moon eventually 1 1/4 lengths behind in third.

“She will have learnt plenty from that,” trainer Roger Charlton said of the G1 Fillies’ Mile entry. “She was very relaxed early on and I was concerned the game was up when the favourite cruised up, but she picked up well and her last furlong was her best. I think it was quite a decent field and the favourite will also improve a lot, as she looked to get tired. They are nice fillies and she won going away. I entered her in her group 1 three days ago, as she’s been pleasing us.”

Aside from winning the Coronation, Fallen For You was also second in the G2 May Hill S. as a juvenile and her second foal Glorious Journey was purchased for 2.6million gns at the 2016 Tattersalls October Sale Book 1. He went on to win the G2 Al Fahidi Fort, G3 Prix Daphnis and G3 Prix la Rochette as well as the aforementioned Hungerford, GSW-UAE, GSW-Eng, MGSW-Fr, $473,188. The second dam Fallen Star (GB) (Brief Truce) captured the Listed Silver Trophy and was runner-up in the G3 Premio Sergio Cumani before also producing the Listed Heron S. winner Fallen Idol (GB) (Pivotal {GB}). Also the ancestress of the G3 Prix de Flore winner Loving Things (GB) by Pivotal, she is kin to the G1 Lockinge S. hero Fly To the Stars (GB) (Bluebird) and National Day (Ire) (Barathea {Ire}) who produced the G2 German 2000 Guineas scorer Peace At Last (Ire) (Oasis Dream {Ire}). Also connected to the G1 Levin Classic hero Age of Fire (Aus) (Fastnet Rock {Aus}), Fallen For You’s unraced 3-year-old colt Turquoise Kingdom (GB) (Dubawi {Ire}) was sold for 500,000gns at the Book 1 Sale, while she also has a foal full-sister to Love Is You to come.

2nd-Ascot, £10,000, Novice, 9-5, 2yo, f, 7f 213yT, 1:44.71, gd.
LOVE IS YOU (IRE), f, 2, by Kingman (GB)
1st Dam: Fallen For You (GB) (Hwt. 3yo Filly-Eng at 7-9 1/2f, G1SW-Eng, $286,833), by Dansili (GB)
2nd Dam: Fallen Star (GB), by Brief Truce
3rd Dam: Rise and Fall (GB), by Mill Reef
Lifetime Record: 1-1-0-0, $8,592. O/B-Normandie Stud Ltd (IRE); T-Roger Charlton. Click for the Racing Post result or the free Equineline.com catalogue-style pedigree. Video, sponsored by Fasig-Tipton.

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Kendra Scott Offers Horseshoe Charm To Benefit Thoroughbred Aftercare

Fashion and lifestyle brand Kendra Scott will offer 50 percent of proceeds from sales of its Horseshoe Charm to benefit the Thoroughbred Aftercare Alliance (TAA) through November 7, 2020.

The Horseshoe Charm, which retails for $35, is available in four colors: gold, rose gold, vintage silver, and vintage gold. A versatile piece, the charm has a custom removable bail with a steel spring to ensure durability, and it fits on necklaces, bracelets, and hoop earrings.

Customers can shop for the charm online at KendraScott.com, where 50 percent of the proceeds of each charm will be designated to the TAA automatically at checkout.

View or purchase the charm here.

Kendra Scott is offering a few purchasing options, which include online, buy online and pick up curbside, or in-store. On each product page, shoppers can select their local store to see if the local store has that style and item in stock. If the item is in stock, shoppers can add it to their shopping bag, select “Store Pickup” with the preferred pickup store in the shopping bag, and check out.

Kendra Scott recently partnered with the TAA for a successful two-day 20 percent giveback event Aug. 28-29 that took place online and at the Kendra Scott store located at The Summit at Fritz Farm near Lexington, KY.