August, 2021 | Horse Racing Free Tips

New Bay’s Saffron Beach Bounces Back In The Atalanta

Yet another member of the cast from the G1 Falmouth S. to uphold the high standard of form of that July 9 Newmarket feature, Saffron Beach (Ire) (New Bay {GB}) who had scoped dirty after finishing 11th there came roaring back in Saturday's G3 Betway Atalanta S. at Sandown. Tracking the leading pair under Hollie Doyle, the May 2 G1 1000 Guineas runner-up was sent to the front approaching the two-furlong marker and stayed on strongly to take the mile contest by 2 1/4 lengths from Waliyak (Fr) (Le Havre {Ire}), with Ville de Grace (GB) (Le Havre {Ire}) half a length away in third. “I was surprised she went off the price she did, as on form figures she had the best in the race if she turned up and she did,” Doyle said of the 9-2 shot. “She settled beautifully today and that ground probably slowed her down a bit and she dropped her head. I knew she would get a bit further, so I committed two down and she ran through the line. I think she would get 10 furlongs, but ridden like that I don't see why she can't stay at a stiff mile.”

Successful in the seven-furlong G3 Oh So Sharp S. on soft ground at Newmarket in October, Saffron Beach found the speedier Sacred (GB) (Exceed and Excel {Aus}) 3/4 of a length too strong in the G3 Nell Gwyn S. over the same course and distance on her return Apr. 14 before her stellar effort in the Guineas. Eighth when failing to stay in the storm-hit G1 Epsom Oaks June 4, the chestnut had a valid excuse for her Falmouth flop but had a class edge here as long as that experience had not left a mark. “She really enjoyed coming up the hill the last two furlongs,” trainer Jane Chapple-Hyam said. “We had our hiccup in the Oaks and a hiccup in the Falmouth, where she scoped dirty afterwards, and she has come back here as the filly we know that she is. It was important today, just because we believe in the horse and I had to drop her back to a group 3 just to get the horse's confidence back as much as anything. I'd love to have a little go at the [GI] E. P. Taylor [at Woodbine Oct. 17] as I love to travel. I made my decision in the Oaks and it was wrong, so I think I have to leave it to the owners.”

Saffron Beach's dam Falling Petals (Ire) (Raven's Pass) counts among her half-siblings the G1 Middle Park S. third Huntdown (Elusive Quality) and the latter's full-sister Continua, who in turn produced the G3 World Trophy S. and G3 Molecomb S.-winning sire Cotai Glory (GB) (Exceed and Excel {Aus}). The second dam is the listed-placed Infinite Spirit (Maria's Mon), while the third dam Eternal Reve (Diesis {GB}) annexed the G3 Matron S. and was runner-up in the G1 Coronation S. and is related to the leading sire Miswaki. Falling Petals' unraced 2-year-old colt by Cotai Glory's sire was bought for 120,000gns by Shadwell at the Tattersalls October Yearling Sale Book 2 and is named Eshkaal (Ire), while she also has a yearling filly by Australia (GB) due to sell at the upcoming Book 1 Sale and a 2021 full-brother to Saffron Beach.

Saturday, Sandown, Britain
BETWAY ATALANTA S.-G3, £80,000, Sandown, 8-21, 3yo/up, f/m, 8fT, 1:42.73, gd.
1–SAFFRON BEACH (IRE), 124, f, 3, by New Bay (GB)
1st Dam: Falling Petals (Ire), by Raven's Pass
2nd Dam: Infinite Spirit, by Maria's Mon
3rd Dam: Eternal Reve, by Diesis (GB)
(55,000gns Wlg '18 TATFOA). O-Mrs B V Sangster, J Wigan & O Sangster; B-China Horse Club International Ltd (IRE); T-Jane Chapple-Hyam; J-Hollie Doyle. £45,368. Lifetime Record: G1SP-Eng, 7-3-2-0, $227,596. Werk Nick Rating: A++. Click for the eNicks report & 5-cross pedigree.
2–Waliyak (Fr), 130, f, 4, Le Havre (Ire)–Vadariya (GB), by Sea The Stars (Ire). (€240,000 Ylg '18 ARAUG). O-Fawzi Abdulla Nass; B-Soledad de Moratalla & Alban Chevalier du Fau (FR); T-Roger Varian. £17,200.
3–Ville de Grace (GB), 124, f, 3, Le Havre (Ire)–Archangel Gabriel, by Arch. (€300,000 RNA Ylg '19 ARAUG). O/B-Hunscote Stud Ltd & Chris Humber (GB); T-Sir Michael Stoute. £8,608.
Margins: 2 1/4, HF, HF. Odds: 4.50, 4.50, 22.00.
Also Ran: Potapova (GB), Maamora (Ire), Jouska (GB), Auria (GB), Indigo Girl (GB), Rosemary and Thyme (GB), Illykato (GB). Scratched: Meu Amor (Fr). Click for the Racing Post result or the free Equineline.com catalogue-style pedigree.

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Quick Suzy Goes For Prix Morny, BC Juvenile Turf Sprint Berth Sunday

Royal Ascot winner Quick Suzy (IRE) is set to take on 13 rivals in the 6-furlong Group 1 Darley Prix Morny at Deauville on Sunday. The Darley Prix Morny winner will receive an automatic berth into the $1 million Grade 2 Juvenile Turf Sprint through the international Breeders' Cup Challenge Series.

The Breeders' Cup Challenge Series is an international series of 84 stakes races whose winners receive automatic starting positions and fees paid into a corresponding race of the Breeders' Cup World Championships, which will be held at Del Mar racetrack in Del Mar, California, on Nov. 5-6.

Owned by the Eclipse Thoroughbred Partners, Quick Suzy blitzed her rivals in the Group 2 Queen Mary Stakes at Ascot on June 16 and will be looking to emulate Campanelle (IRE) by completing the Queen Mary-Prix Morny double, which Lady Aurelia also achieved in 2016.

Quick Suzy is trained by Gavin Cromwell in Navan, Ireland. Cromwell commented, “Quick Suzy goes for the Prix Morny. She was entered in the Phoenix Stakes (G1) at the Curragh last week, but we gave her a break after Ascot and the race just came too soon after that break. Fillies have a very good record in the Prix Morny and, on top of that, Queen Mary winners have a great record in it too, so it looks the right race for her. It fits perfectly into her schedule too. Gary Carroll will ride and we're really looking forward to the race. She's in great form.”

The Richard Hannon-trained and Al Shaqab Racing-owned Armor (GB) won the Group 3 Markel Molecomb Stakes at Goodwood by 3 ¼ lengths and steps up to Group 1 company for the first time. The son of No Nay Never will be ridden by Patrick Dobbs.

The unbeaten Velocidad (GB) took out the Group 2 Airlie Stud Stakes at the Curragh on his second start. Trained by Joseph O'Brien, the 2-year-old son of Gleneagles (IRE) will be ridden by Ryan Moore for the first time.

Asymmetric (IRE) is another Group 2 winner in the field. The son of Showcasing (GB) built on his second-place finish in the Group 2 Tattersalls July Stakes at Newmarket to win the Group 2 Unibet Richmond Stakes in his latest start. Runner-up that day at Goodwood in the Unibet Richmond Stakes was Khunan (GB). The son of Twilight Son (GB) is one of two runners in the race for trainer Richard Fahey, who also saddles Group 2 Norfolk Stakes winner Perfect Power (IRE). Hollie Doyle and Christophe Soumillon are booked to ride, respectively.

The French challenge is headed by the Andre Fabre-trained Trident (FR). Impressive on debut, Trident was narrowly beaten in the Group 3 Darley Prix de Cabourg over course and distance. He will be partnered with Mickael Barzalona.

As a part of the benefits of the Challenge series, the Breeders' Cup will pay the entry fees for the winner of the Darley Prix Morny to start in the Breeders' Cup Juvenile Turf Sprint, which will be run at five furlongs over the Del Mar turf course. Breeders' Cup also will provide a travel allowance of $40,000 for all starters based outside of North America to compete in the World Championships. The Challenge winner must be nominated to the Breeders' Cup program by the Championships' pre-entry deadline of Oct. 25 to receive the rewards.

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Stakes Winner Anna’s Bandit Retired

No Guts No Glory Farm's 7-year-old mare Anna's Bandit, whose resume includes 11 stakes wins at three different tracks in two states as well as purse earnings of $806,655 over six seasons, has been retired from racing and will become a broodmare.

Bred and owned and trained by Maryland-based John 'Jerry' Robb and his wife, Gina, and ridden in 33 of her 39 lifetime starts by Xavier Perez, Anna's Bandit retires with a career record of 17 wins, five seconds, and eight thirds.

The Maryland Jockey Club will honor Anna's Bandit with a retirement ceremony between races during the 37th Jim McKay Maryland Million Day program Oct. 23 at Laurel Park.

“We're very excited. It's always hard, especially with a horse like Anna that's done so much, that you have to make this decision,” Gina Robb said. We couldn't be prouder of her. Now she's coming home and I'm so grateful, I really am.

“She means the world to us. She's like one of our children, basically. I think anybody who breeds horses can kind of relate to that, especially when it's a mom and pop kind of thing like we are,” she added. “We're a little operation. They're all there with us on the farm, and bringing her home to the farm that we built means so much to us. I'm really happy for her that she had such an incredible career, and now she's able to start over in a new chapter.”

In her most recent race, the daughter of Great Notion out of the No Armistice mare Onearmedbandit ran fifth in a six-furlong optional claiming allowance July 26 at Colonial Downs in New Kent, Va., behind fellow multiple stakes winner Never Enough Time.

“We were pretty much decided that this was going to be her last year regardless, it didn't matter if she was good, bad, or indifferent,” Gina Robb said. “She came out of that Colonial race a little tired, and we were kind of shaking our heads because we thought it was one of her easier spots.

“When she came back from Colonial, we just kind of didn't like the way she was going,” she added. “She doesn't have anything major where we had to stop her, but I think in all of our minds and our hearts and how much she means to us, we really didn't want to take any more chances.”

Perez, who reached 1,000th career wins in June at Delaware Park in Wilmington, Del., rode Anna's Bandit to 14 wins, four seconds, and seven thirds, and all but $114,540 of her purse earnings. Other jockeys to ride Anna's Bandit were Eric Camacho and Katie Davis in 2016 and 2017 and Gerald Almodovar in the May 29, 2020 Original Gold at Charles Town in Charles Town, W.Va., her last win.

“She deserves it,” Perez said of retirement. “She doesn't owe anything to anybody. She did her job and she made us proud. She's safe and where she belongs. I'm happy for her.”

In 2019, Anna's Bandit won nine of 11 starts and more than $400,000 in purses, tying for the most wins of any horse in North America. Her career stakes wins included the 2018 and 2019 Conniver, 2019 Maryland Million Distaff and 2019 Politely at Laurel Park in Laurel, Md., and 2019 Timonium Distaff.

In West Virginia, where she was bred, Anna's Bandit won the Down Town Allen and Sadie Hawkins in 2018; Original Gold, Sadie Hawkins, and West Virgina Cavada Breeders' Classic in 2019; and Original Gold in 2020.

Her Maryland Million win came just a week after Anna's Bandit won the Cavada, a feat Gina Robb felt was at the top of a laundry list of accomplishments.

“That one year that when she won all those stakes, it was kind of like a blur,” she said. “After she won the West Virginia-bred race and came back in seven days … I have the goosebumps thinking of it. That had to be the most incredible of all the races.”

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Anna's Bandit also placed in 10 other stakes, including a third behind Majestic Reason and Victim of Love in the 2020 Grade 3 Runhappy Barbara Fritchie, her lone graded-stakes attempt. Majestic Reason was a three-time stakes winner that was retired following the race, while Victim of Love went on to win back-to-back editions of the Grade 3 Vagrancy in 2020 and 2021 and run third in the 2020 Grade 1 Ballerina.

“She's amazing. She's always going to be one of the best horses I ever rode, or anybody rode,” Perez said. “They don't come around too often. You have to be lucky and be in the right place at the right time. It worked out for me.”

Anna's Bandit's success has been nothing short of remarkable. She showed she was special early on, debuting with a 6 ¾-length maiden special weight triumph May 6, 2016 at Laurel Park in Laurel, Md., and jumping straight into stakes company. She finished third in the Astoria at Belmont Park in Elmont, N.Y., and second in the Debutante at Churchill Downs in Louisville, Ky., the latter in July, before going to the sidelines.

She went 14 ½ months between races, the result of multiple operations to repair leg injuries that went undiagnosed during her formative years.

Anna's Bandit was limited to four starts in 2020, due to both the coronavirus pandemic that paused live racing in Maryland for 2 ½ months from mid-March to late May, and a minor foot issue in late summer that prompted Robb to give her the rest of the year off. She began this year running fifth in the June 13 Shine Again at historic Pimlico Race Course in Baltimore, Md., and second in the July 10 Dashing Beauty at Delaware Park.

Plans call for Anna's Bandit to be bred in 2022, though the details have yet to be worked out.

“We are just trying to get over the fact that she's retired. We do have time to discuss where we're going on February 15th, because we plan on trying to get her in foal early,” Gina Robb said. “We would like to ship her and bring her home and not have her stay anywhere else. I don't know that I'm ready to let her go. I'm just getting her back.

“I think the first year we might keep her local, to a Maryland sire or on the East Coast, somewhere close so we can ship and go and keep her home where I don't have to worry about anything else. I'm very excited to be a part of her broodmare career, and to have her first foal on this farm is going to be one remarkable day.”

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Solario Success For Sea The Stars’ Reach For The Moon

The Queen has a serious Classic candidate for 2022 judged on the manner of the win of her homebred Reach For the Moon (GB) (Sea the Stars {Ire}) in Saturday's G3 Betway Solario S. at Sandown. Runner-up to TDN Rising Star Point Lonsdale (Ire) (Australia {GB}) in the Listed Chesham S. over this seven-furlong trip June 19, the bay had since beaten the subsequent York nursery winner Harrow (Ire) (El Kabeir) by four lengths in a Newbury novice July 16 and it was all about him as he started as the 2-5 favourite. Settled in a perfect rhythm on the outside by Frankie Dettori tracking the leading duo, he travelled smoothly to the front passing the two-furlong pole and stayed straight and true on his own to dominate from there. At the line, there was a four-length margin to the Chesham third Great Max (Ire) (Wootton Bassett {GB}), who held on to second by a short head from Rerouting (Ire) (El Kabeir). “He was quite babyish at the beginning of his career–quite coltish and not concentrating, but with racing he is getting better and better,” Dettori said. “Today he stopped his antics and was focusing better. He has got a good size, a wonderful stride and he has got gears. He is a very exciting prospect.”

John Gosden is generally a fan of Sandown and it was no surprise that he was able to equal Sir Henry Cecil's record of six successes in this prize which he had used as a launchpad for the future celebrities Raven's Pass, Kingman (GB) and Too Darn Hot (GB) (Dubawi {Ire}). Whether Reach For the Moon will get to those heights remains to be seen, but his trainer is more than satisfied with his progress so far. “They didn't go much pace, so Frankie thought he would get on with it. He didn't think he would go to the front that fast and go that far clear,” he commented. “He did well, as he has learned a lot running up the Sandown hill on his own but he has showed a bit of class I thought. You have got to look towards the autumn and we would like to wind up in one of those nice group 1s, so we will see how he is over the next few days and make our decision. He is lively, but nothing more than that–he doesn't pull. He is very progressive and has done everything right. He has developed and strengthened.”

Reach For the Moon's dam Golden Stream (Ire) (Sadler's Wells) defied her staying pedigree by exhibiting genuine pace by winning the Listed Eternal S. and Listed October S. and finishing runner-up in the G3 Chartwell Fillies' S. and G3 Oak Tree S. over seven furlongs. Her son Mainstream (GB) (Dansili {GB}) was runner-up over that trip in the G1 Winx S. behind the legendary mare after which the race was named when racing in Australia as Invictus Prince, while his full-sister Thames Pageant {GB}) is in turn the dam of this year's Listed Prix de la Vallee d'Auge winner and G2 Queen Mary S. runner-up Twilight Gleaming (Ire) (National Defense {GB}). Golden Stream, who is out of the triple group-winning G2 Ribblesdale S. winner Phantom Gold (GB) (Machiavellian), is a full-sister to the possibly unlucky G1 Epsom Oaks runner-up Flight of Fancy (GB) who in turn produced the dual G3 Winter Hill S. scorer Fabricate (GB) (Makfi {GB}). Her yearling filly is by Dubawi (Ire), while she also has a colt foal by Siyouni (Fr).

Saturday, Sandown, Britain
BETWAY SOLARIO S.-G3, £60,000, Sandown, 8-21, 2yo, 7fT, 1:31.58, gd.
1–REACH FOR THE MOON (GB), 127, c, 2, by Sea the Stars (Ire)
1st Dam: Golden Stream (Ire) (MSW & MGSP-Eng, $168,794), by Sadler's Wells
2nd Dam: Phantom Gold (GB), by Machiavellian
3rd Dam: Trying for Gold, by Northern Baby
1ST BLACK-TYPE WIN; 1ST GROUP WIN. O/B-The Queen (GB); T-John & Thady Gosden; J-Lanfranco Dettori. £34,026. Lifetime Record: 4-2-2-0, $75,999. *1/2 to Mainstream (GB) (Dansili (GB)), G1SP-Aus, $161,654. Werk Nick Rating: A. Click for the eNicks report & 5-cross pedigree.
2–Great Max (Ire), 127, c, 2, Wootton Bassett (GB)–Teeslemee (Fr), by Youmzain (Ire). (€72,000 Wlg '19 GOFNOV; 260,000gns Ylg '20 TATOCT). O-Amo Racing Ltd; B-Ennistown Stud (IRE); T-Michael Bell. £12,900.
3–Rerouting (Ire), 127, g, 2, El Kabeir–Coursing (GB), by Kyllachy (GB). (€46,000 Wlg '19 GOFNOV; £26,000 RNA Ylg '20 GOFFUK; £20,000 2yo '21 GOFTY). O/T-Michael O'Callaghan; B-Rossenarra Stud (IRE). £6,456.
Margins: 4, NO, 3 1/4. Odds: 0.40, 7.50, 18.00.
Also Ran: Austrian Theory (Ire), Atheby (GB), Star From Afarhh (GB). Scratched: Cresta (Fr). Click for the Racing Post result or the free Equineline.com catalogue-style pedigree.

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