Month: July 2021

Powerscourt Dies In Turkey

G1 Tattersalls Gold Cup and GI Arlington Million winner Powerscourt (GB) (Sadler's Wells-Rainbow Lake {GB}, by Rainbow Quest) has died age 21 at the Jockey Club of Turkey after suffering a heart attack.

Bred by Juddmonte Farms out of its G3 Lancashire Oaks winner Rainbow Lake, Powerscourt's pedigree gained further pomp after his racing career was over when his half-sister Kind (Ire) (Danehill) produced the great Frankel (GB) (Galileo {Ire}) and three-time Group 1 winner Noble Mission (GB) (Galileo {Ire}). Another half-sister, Riposte (GB) (Dansili {GB}), won a trio of Grade/Group 3s.

Powerscourt raced for Sue Magnier and finished second in the G1 Racing Post Trophy at two before taking the G2 Great Voltigeur S. at three and finishing third in the G1 Irish St Leger. He won the Tattersalls Gold Cup on his 4-year-old debut and was placed that season in the G1 Prince of Wales's S., G1 Dallmayr-Preis Bayerisches Zuchtrennen, G1 Irish Champion S. and GI Breeders' Cup Turf. He wrapped up his career with a victory in the Arlington Million over American turf champion Kitten's Joy the following season at five.

Powerscourt entered stud at Coolmore's Ashford Stud in Kentucky, where he sired GI Turf Classic scorer Finnegans Wake and G1 Moyglare Stud S. victress Termagant. He also sired two Group 1 winners in South America from a stint shuttling to Chile. Powerscourt was sold to the Jockey Club of Turkey in 2010, and has sired 108 winners and three internationally-recognized stakes winners there. He has sired a total of 21 stakes winners.

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Spa Notebook: Essential Quality Tunes Up for Jim Dandy

Champion Essential Quality (Tapit) drilled five furlongs over the Saratoga main track in 1:01.81 (7/13) Saturday morning, two weeks out from his expected start in the GII Jim Dandy S. at the Spa.

Last seen outgaming Hot Rod Charlie (Oxbow) in the GI Belmont S. June 5, the Godolphin-owned 'TDN Rising Star' worked in the company of New York-bred maiden winner Bingo John (Oxbow) and was caught in sectional times of :25 flate and :48.3 before galloping out six furlongs in 1:14.2 and seven-eighths in 1:28.3.

“It was a solid move,” said Cox, the reigning Eclipse Award-winning trainer. “It looked like he stayed on well. We wanted to let him get a little blow out of this. He had a nice gallop out.”

The move was the second for Essential Quality since his arrival in Saratoga. He went an easy half-mile in :50.44 July 10.

“We have another work to come, but so far I'm happy with how everything is going,” said Cox. “From what we saw this morning, he's doing very well.”

Malathaat Ready For Reapperance…

Shadwell Stable's undefeated 'TDN Rising Star' Malathaat (Curlin) got her final tightener ahead of the GI Coaching Club American Oaks over the main track during a flurry of activity Saturday morning, breezing a half-mile in :48.05 alongside GII Mother Goose S. upsetter Zaajel (Street Sense). The duo was forced to shift out and around a couple of other workers at the top of the lane, then finished with good energy.

Set to make her first start besting next-out GI Acorn S. winner Search Results (Flatter) in the GI Kentucky Oaks Apr. 30, the $1.05-million Keeneland September yearling was caught by NYRA clockers galloping out five furlongs in 1:02.3. Her big-race rider John Velazquez put her through her paces.

“She finished up excellent,” said Hall of Fame trainer Todd Pletcher. “The work was very good, it was just unfortunate they got caught up with a couple horses, but it worked out fine in the end.”

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Sunday Insights: Daughter of Oaks Winner Debuts at Spa

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Bobby Flay's MEZCAL (Pioneerof the Nile), the first foal out of 2016 GI Kentucky Oaks winner Cathryn Sophia (Street Boss), makes her debut in the seventh race at Saratoga Sunday. The 3-year-old filly, a $625,000 KEESEP yearling, is trained by Todd Pletcher. Bridlewood Farm and Don Alberto Corp. purchased Cathryn Sophia, with this filly in utero, for $2.3 million at the 2017 Keeneland November sale.

Courtlandt Farms' Big City Momma (Quality Road), a $700,000 KEESEP purchase, will look to improve on a third-place effort in her six-furlong debut at Belmont May 6 for trainer Shug McGaughey, while Bill Mott saddles Summer Wind Equine firster More Moonshine (Malibu Moon). Out of Unenchantedevening (Unbridled's Song), the sophomore is a full-sister to Grade I winner Moonshine Memories and a half to stakes winner and graded placed Indian Evening (Indian Charlie). Whisper Hill Farm homebred Perfect Grace (Tapit), a daughter of champion Havre de Grace (Saint Liam), makes her third trip to the post following a pair of runner-up efforts at Gulfstream for trainer Ralph Nicks.

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