Month: October 2020

Sunday’s Racing Insights: Well-Bred Juveniles Debuting All Over

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2nd-BEL, $80K, Msw, 2yo, f, 6f, post time: 12:55 p.m. ET
Several well-bred firsters will look to run down the likes of morning line favorite Exact (Competitive Edge), who was second over track and trip Sept. 18. Allen Stable and Shug McGaughey unveil Cafe Society (Empire Maker), a $135,000 KEESEP yearling turned $475,000 OBSAPR 2-year-old off a :10 flat breeze. Dam Full Tap (Tapit) was carrying Cafe Society when she brought $375,000 at the 2017 Keeneland November sale. The three-time winner, who was third in her Saratoga unveiling at two, is out of SW Miss Challenge (More Than Ready) and from the family of MGSW sprinter Ventana (Toccet). Juddmonte homebred Obligatory (Curlin) is out of SW Uno Duo (Macho Uno), a stakes-winning half to G1SW Etoile Montante (Miswaki), who in turn produced MGSW Starformer (Dynaformer). This is also the female family of Juddmonte’s 2020 GII Fair Grounds Oaks winner and GI Alabama S. and GII Black-Eyed Susan S. runner-up Bonny South (Munnings). Salt Plage (Quality Road) is half of an Alpha Delta Stables/Linda Rice entry. She’s out of GSW French Satin (French Deputy), already the dam of GSW Long Haul Bay (Quality Road), SW/GSP Midnight Transfer (Hard Spun) and SW Scilly Cay (Fed Biz). French Satin is half to MGISW Lion Heart (Tale of the Cat). Entry mate Nisbet Beach (Fed Biz) is out of a half to MGSW Sara Louise (Malibu Moon). Hit the Woah (Vancouver {Aus}), a $150,000 KEESEP buy, is out of a half to Japanese Grade I winner Mozu Superflare (Speightstown) and GSW sprinter Sacristy (Pulpit). Another half to the dam produced G1 South Australian Derby winner Qafila (Aus) (Not a Single Doubt {Aus}). TJCIS PPs

6th-KEE, $70K, Msw, 2yo, 7f 184 ft., post time: 3:51 p.m. ET
Beatbox (Pioneerof the Nile), the sixth-priciest yearling at Keeneland September last year at $2.1 million, makes a much-anticipated debut amid a field of well-bred newcomers. Bred by Three Chimneys Farm, who still owns the colt with e Five Racing, the May foal is a half to ‘TDN Rising Star’, MGISW and fellow Chad Brown trainee Guarana (Ghostzapper); and precocious SW and ‘Rising Star’ Magic Dance (More Than Ready). His second dam is GI Breeders’ Cup Distaff heroine Pleasant Home (Seeking the Gold). Flaxman Holdings homebred Tiwanaku (Tapit). His dam took the 2012 GI Jenny Wiley S. over the local lawn before bringing $1.3 million there the following November. War Machine (War Front) is half to GISW juvenile Sweet Loretta (Tapit). The $575,000 KEESEP RNA’s SP dam Ithinkisawapudycat (Bluegrass Cat) was purchased for $2.2 million in foal to Constitution at the 2016 Keeneland November sale. Ithinkisawapudycat is half to Canadian champion 2-year-old filly and local GI Darley Alcibiades S. heroine Spring in the Air (SpringAt Last). TJCIS PPs

10th-SA, $55K, Msw, 2yo, f, 6 1/2f, post time: 8:45 p.m. ET
The week of racing concludes at Santa Anita with a heat for juvenile fillies led by a pair of Bob Baffert trainees. Private Mission (Into Mischief), a $750,000 FTSAUG yearling buy for Baoma Corp., is out of SW Private Gift (Unbridled)–a $2.3-million 2008 Fasig-Tipton November purchase in foal to A.P. Indy. Private Gift has produced SW/GSP Secret Someone (A.P. Indy) as well as the dam of GISW Dunbar Road (Quality Road). She is a half to GI Kentucky Oaks heroine Secret Status (A.P. Indy). Private Mission’s impressive morning activity includes a :59 3/5 (2/16) spin from the gate Sept. 23 (XBTV Video). Godolphin homebred Frosteria (Frosted), meanwhile, Grade I-winning sprinter and 2007 GI Breeders’ Cup Distaff runner-up Hystericalady (Distorted Humor). That near $2.4-million earner sold the same November as Private Gift, across town, for $3 million at Keeneland. Hystericalady’s best runner to date has been the long-winded GSW and GISP turfer Lady Montdore (Medaglia d’Oro). Frosteria prepped for this with a work inside of MGISP maiden stablemate Spielberg (Union Rags) that saw the pair accidentally hook up with another duo in the stretch. Frosteria was credited with four furlongs in :47 flat (2/61, XBTV Video). TJCIS PPs

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Le Havre’s Wonderful Tonight Unstoppable in the Fillies & Mares

It’s been the best part of three decades since Culture Vulture (Timeless Moment) strutted her stuff at the top table in Chris Wright’s blue-and-yellow silks and the music supremo has found a jewel to match that luminary’s achievements after David Menuisier incumbent Wonderful Tonight (Fr) (Le Havre {Ire}) backed up a career best in ParisLongchamp’s G1 Prix de Royallieu earlier this month with a game victory in Saturday’s G1 Qipco British Champions Fillies & Mares S. at Ascot. The bay sophomore was in receipt of a six-pound pull from her elders and made that weight-for-age allowance tell from the outset, occupying a forward berth after a slick departure in the 12-furlong contest. Easing to the front with three furlongs remaining, the 4-1 favourite was committed when stoked up by William Buick at the top of the straight and stayed on relentlessly under a drive inside the final quarter mile to deny the hattrick-seeking Hollie Doyle, aboard G1 Preis von Europa and G1 Prix Vermeille third Dame Malliot (GB) (Champs Elysees {GB}), by 2 1/2 lengths. Coolmore’s G1 Irish Oaks placegetter Passion (Ire) (Galileo {Ire}) stayed on well from mid division to finish a length back in third.

“I am so tired as I think I pushed harder than William [Buick] riding the filly and I am speechless, absolutely speechless,” admitted David Menuisier after registering a first premium-level tally on British soil. “She is a champion, I feel so lucky and blessed and I am absolutely thrilled. We bought her at the sales as a yearling for next to nothing and here she is winning her second Group 1 in two weeks. We know that she is very good and the only question mark was whether she had recuperated from the Arc weekend or not. I hadn’t, but I am glad she did. She is top-class all round, she is easy to train and as tough as anything that is tough. She is getting better and better, and there is still some improvement to come. She is still a tad keen early on so, once she really knows how to settle, I think she can go up a notch again. You never know, especially with fillies, whether they are going to train on or not, but we wanted to keep her as a 4-year-old to target the [G1 Prix de l’] Arc [de Triomphe] next year. We nearly ran her in the Arc this year, and I think she would have run a stormer, but she wasn’t a Group 1 winner yet. Now she is so the sky is the limit.”

“This filly is rock solid, she is just straightforward and David was very confident beforehand,” added Buick. “She is proven on the ground and she stays well so she ticks a lot of boxes and I have been looking forward to riding this filly all week. She was out on her own all the way up the straight and it’s a long, daunting straight no matter what you’re riding. Her form is there for everyone to see and she won the Royallieu, which is a mile-and-six, on ground very similar to today. The race panned out beautifully for her, she got a nice bit of cover for the first half of the race and I always felt she was in a good rhythm and she did nothing but keep going. She has a lot of class, she has the stamina and the will to win to go with it. She has beaten some really good fillies very well and, when conditions are there to suit her, I can’t see why she shouldn’t scale further heights. She is very effective on soft ground and maybe other horses aren’t as effective as her, but she is by Le Havre so she might be bred to go on that ground. I have been riding for David Menuisier quite regularly and his horses have been going well all year. I have been very fortunate to get a few winners from David and to get on this filly was very special.”

Try as she might, Hollie Doyle was unable to maintain her 100% start to the day and was obliged to settle for second place after giving her mount Dame Malliot every chance of repeating the partnership’s success in July’s G2 Princess of Wales’s S. at Newmarket. On the podium once again, she commented, “Dame Malliot has run really well. She was a little bit keen early on, as expected, but has done nothing wrong in defeat. I followed the winner the whole way round and thought I had the perfect pitch. Will [Buick] pushed the button and took a few lengths out of me off the home turn and she just stayed on at the one pace.”

Wonderful Tonight’s dam Salvation (GB) (Montjeu {Ire}), who also produced Stateside stakes winner Penjade (Fr) (Air Chief Marshal {Ire}), is a daughter of Listed Lingfield Oaks Trial victress Birdie (GB) (Alhaarth {Ire}). The latter, whose progeny include GIII Providencia S. scorer Hostess (GB) (Iffraaj {GB}), is kin to the stakes-winning Fickle (GB) (Danehill), whose G3 Dahlia S.-winning daughter Tarfah (Kingmambo) produced G1 2000 Guineas, G1 Epsom Derby and G1 Irish Derby-winning sire Camelot (GB) (Montjeu {Ire}). Hailing from a family which also features G1 Epsom Oaks heroine Polygamy (GB), Salvation has a 2-year-old full-sister to Wonderful Tonight–who was knocked down to Saubouas Bloodstock for €80,000 at last year’s Arqana August Yearling Sale–and a yearling colt and filly foal by Recorder (GB). The yearling colt is slated to sell as Lot 170 during tomorrow’s first session of Arqana’s October Yearling Sale.

Saturday, Ascot, Britain
QIPCO BRITISH CHAMPIONS FILLIES & MARES S.-G1, £350,000, Ascot, 10-17, 3yo/up, f, 11f 211yT, 2:37.84, sf.
1–WONDERFUL TONIGHT (FR), 125, f, 3, by Le Havre (Ire)
1st Dam: Salvation (GB), by Montjeu (Ire)
2nd Dam: Birdie (GB), by Alhaarth (Ire)
3rd Dam: Fade (GB), by Persepolis (Fr)
(€40,000 Ylg ’18 ARAUG). O-Christopher Wright; B-SARL Ecurie La Cauviniere (FR); T-David Menuisier; J-William Buick. £198,485. Lifetime Record: G1SW-Fr, 8-4-1-1, $448,683. *1/2 to Penjade (Fr) (Air Chief Marshal {Ire}), SW-US & MSP-Fr, $376,306. Werk Nick Rating: A+++ *Triple Plus*. Click for the eNicks report & 5-cross pedigree.
2–Dame Malliot (GB), 131, f, 4, Champs Elysees (GB)–Stars In Your Eyes (GB), by Galileo (Ire). O-A E Oppenheimer; B-Hascombe & Valiant Studs (GB); T-Ed Vaughan. £75,250.
3–Passion (Ire), 125, f, 3, Galileo (Ire)–Dialafara (Fr), by Anabaa. (800,000gns Ylg ’18 TATOCT). O-Susan Magnier, Michael Tabor & Derrick Smith; B-Lynch Bages Ltd & Camas Park Stud (IRE); T-Aidan O’Brien. £37,660.
Margins: 2HF, 1, 2. Odds: 4.00, 5.00, 14.00.
Also Ran: Mehdaayih (GB), Even So (Ire), Manuela de Vega (Ire), Thundering Nights (Ire), Gold Wand (Ire), Frankly Darling (GB), Cabaletta (GB), Laburnum (Ire), Antonia de Vega (Ire). Click for the Racing Post result or the free Equineline.com catalogue-style pedigree. Video, sponsored by Fasig-Tipton.

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Hollie Doyle At The Double in Ascot’s Champions Sprint

Not content to rest on her laurels, rider-of-the-moment Hollie Doyle claimed a career-best success when guiding last month’s G1 Haydock Sprint Cup runner-up Glen Shiel (GB) (Pivotal {GB}) to a dramatic success in Saturday’s Qipco British Champions Sprint S. at Ascot. Hambleton Racing Partnership’s veteran chestnut, who had previously claimed a first pattern-race triumph in The Curragh’s Aug. 8 G3 Phoenix Sprint S., broke like greased lightning from the gates and was in command under a tight hold until allowed a measure of rein at halfway. Looking certain to be swamped when a host of rivals threatened from all angles approaching the eighth pole, the 16-1 chance found Doyle at her maximum when fellow old stager and 2016 third Brando (GB) (Pivotal {GB}) gained an edge in the closing stages and rallied gamely in a ding-dong tussle to pluck a nose victory from the jaws of defeat in the final stride. Lael Stable’s One Master (GB) (Fastnet Rock {Aus}) finished with her usual gusto to edge Art Power (Ire) (Dark Angel {Ire}) for third.

“I didn’t think I’d won, so to have had the result we have was incredible and I’m in a state of shock right now,” said a delighted Doyle after securing a first triumph at the highest level. “We had a really good old battle with [G1 July Cup hero and eventual fifth] Oxted from the three-furlong pole and I thought I’d be doing well to hold on like I did, but he is such a game horse. He is incredible and has got quicker with age. When we first got him, he was running over 10 furlongs [for Andre Fabre] in France and didn’t show a whole lot of speed, but the further we dropped him back, the quicker he has got. This isn’t about me, it’s about [trainer] Archie Watson, who has campaigned this horse unbelievably and no one else would have won a Group 1 with this horse. It is a dream come true, a massive dream come true, especially on this horse and everyone in the yard adores him. My aim, at the start of the year, was to ride a Group winner and I always said a Group 1 one day, but I didn’t think it would come this year. I don’t get too carried away, but I’m a bit delusional as to what is going on at the moment as it has all been a bit of a whirlwind.”

Popular veteran Brando, contesting a fifth straight renewal and registering his best effort in this event, rolled back the years and provided a flashback of all his old sparkle in getting to within a pixel of springing an 80-1 shocker. Jockey Tom Eaves enjoyed mixed emotions, but was nonetheless delighted with the performance and said, “You are always gutted finishing second, but he has run a stormer of a race. It was a bob of the heads and I’m delighted, but gutted at the same time. He has been running okay, he ran well [when third in the rescheduled G3 Bengough S.] at York last Saturday and that probably put him right for this. York has never been his sort of track, but he likes it here on this big, stiff track. It is a great training performance.”

Glen Shiel, who is the lone pattern-race scorer for G3 Princess Elizabeth S. victress Gonfilia (Ger) (Big Shuffle), is a full-brother to the hitherto unraced 2-year-old filly Greta Hellstrom (GB) and a half to G3 Sirenia S. placegetter Signs In The Sand (GB) (Cape Cross {Ire}) . Gonfilia is herself a full-sister to G3 Grosser Preis der Dortmunder Wirtschaft victor and G2 German 2000 Guineas second Gonlargo (Ger) as well as being kin to G1 Deutschland-Preis and G1 Preis von Europa heroine Gonbarda (Ger) (Lando {Ger}). Gonbarda, in turn, produced G1 Champion S. and G1 Lockinge S.-winning sire Farhh (GB) (Pivotal {GB}) as well as G3 Winter Hill S.-winning G1 Grosser Preis von Bayern runner-up Racing History (GB) (Pivotal {GB}). Glen Shiel’s third dam is G3 German 1000 Guineas heroine Grimpola (Ger) (Windwurf {Ger}), whose descendants include MG1SW G1 Irish Derby hero Fame and Glory (Ire) (Montjeu {Ire}) and MG1SW G1 1000 Guineas heroine Legatissimo (Ire) (Danehill Dancer {Ire}).

Saturday, Ascot, Britain
QIPCO BRITISH CHAMPIONS SPRINT S.-G1, £391,260, Ascot, 10-17, 3yo/up, 6fT, 1:16.74, sf.
1–GLEN SHIEL (GB), 128, g, 6, by Pivotal (GB)
1st Dam: Gonfilia (Ger) (GSW-Eng & SW-Fr, $359,409), by Big Shuffle
2nd Dam: Gonfalon (GB), by Slip Anchor (GB)
3rd Dam: Grimpola (Ger), by Windwurf (Ger)
1ST GROUP 1 WIN. (£45,000 5yo ’19 GOFSPR). O-Hambleton Racing XXXVI & Partner; B-Darley (GB); T-Archie Watson; J-Hollie Doyle. £221,884. Lifetime Record: GSW-Ire, SW & GSP-Fr, 27-8-7-1, $580,169. *1/2 to Signs In The Sand (GB) (Cape Cross {Ire}), GSP-Eng. Werk Nick Rating: F. Click for the eNicks report & 5-cross pedigree.
2–Brando (GB), 128, g, 8, Pivotal (GB)–Argent du Bois, by Silver Hawk. (52,000gns Ylg ’13 TAOCT; 115,000gns 2yo ’14 TATBRE). O-Mrs Angie Bailey; B-Car Colston Hall Stud (GB); T-Kevin Ryan. £84,121.
3–One Master (GB), 125, m, 6, Fastnet Rock (Aus)–Enticing (Ire), by Pivotal (GB). O-Lael Stable; B-Lael Stables (GB); T-William Haggas. £42,100.
Margins: NO, HF, HF. Odds: 16.00, 80.00, 5.50.
Also Ran: Art Power (Ire), Oxted (GB), Onassis (Ire), Lope Y Fernandez (Ire), Dream of Dreams (Ire), Happy Power (Ire), Sonaiyla (Ire), Speak In Colours (GB), The Tin Man (GB), Chiefofchiefs (GB), Starman (GB), Jouska (GB), Cape Byron (GB). Scratched: Dubai Station (GB). Click for the Racing Post result or the free Equineline.com catalogue-style pedigree. Video, sponsored by Fasig-Tipton.

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