Month: May 2022

Guiliani’s Mountaha Outclasses Schwarzgold-Rennen Rivals

Gestut Schlenderhan's homebred 3-year-old filly Mountaha (Ger) (Guiliani {Ire}–Montfleur {GB}, by Sadler's Wells) ran third to subsequent G3 Preis der Winterkonigin heroine Lizaid (Ger) (Zarak {Fr}) when making her debut over one mile at Hannover last September and bested a pair of subsequent winners when breaking through over the same trip at Dortmund in her only other start the following month. Sent postward with confidence aplenty as the 21-10 favourite to make a winning comeback in Sunday's G3 Karin Baronin von Ullmann – Schwarzgold-Rennen at Cologne, she took the one-mile heat by storm and was mightily impressive in scorching to a six-length triumph. Steadied to track the leaders from off the pace in seventh after breaking in the front rank, Mountaha made eyecatching headway in the centre of the track to launch her challenge with 300 metres remaining and powered clear inside the final furlong to easily outclass French raider Chaussons Roses (Ire) (New Approach {Ire}) by daylight for a career high.

Mountaha is not entered in the June 12 G2 German 1000 Guineas and will target Dusseldorf's Aug. 7 G1 Preis der Diana – German Oaks, for which she now shares 5-1 joint-favouritism with last month's G3 Dr Busch-Memorial victrix Mylady (Ger) (The Grey Gatsby {Ire}). “She is something very special,” winning rider Andrasch Starke told GaloppOnline. “She had been working very well at home and looked an absolute picture in the parade ring beforehand. The [one-mile] trip isn't her ideal distance, but she did everything well and confirmed what we knew she could do.” Trainer Markus Klug, who registered a treble on the day's card, added, “Mares with a lot of class can also run to the front at the wrong distance. She looked very good today and, of course, her main goal is the [Preis der] Diana. We'll get her home, see how she is and we'll continue from there.” Baron Georg von Ullmann made a sporting gesture at the prize-giving ceremony for the contest sponsored by the Ullmann family. “She is a very good mare and the victory is something very special,” he said. “I passed the honorary prize on to the second-placed finisher, as I think that's how it should be.”

Mountaha, who becomes the second pattern-race winner for her sire (by Tertullian), is the 10th of 11 foals and one of seven scorers out of a half-sister to three stakes performers headed by GSW sires Mr. Mellon (Red Ransom) and Seeking the Best (Ire) (Seeking the Gold). The April-foaled homebred is kin to G1 Doomben Cup-winning sire Mawingo (Ger) (Tertullian) and a 2-year-old colt by Adlerflug (Ger). Her GIII Busher S.-winning second dam Mackie (Summer Squall) ran third in the GI Ashland S. and is a half-sister to MGISW sires Sea Hero (Polish Navy) and Hero's Honor (Northern Dancer).

Sunday, Cologne, Germany
KARIN BARONIN VON ULLMANN – SCHWARZGOLD-RENNEN-G3, €55,000, Cologne, 5-8, 3yo, f, 8fT, 1:37.01, gd.
1–MOUNTAHA (GER), 128, f, 3, by Guiliani (Ire)
1st Dam: Montfleur (GB), by Sadler's Wells
2nd Dam: Mackie, by Summer Squall
3rd Dam: Glowing Tribute, by Graustark
1ST BLACK-TYPE WIN; 1ST GROUP WIN. O/B-Gestut Schlenderhan (GER); T-Markus Klug; J-Andrasch Starke. €32,000. Lifetime Record: 3-2-0-1, €35,150. *1/2 to Mawingo (Ger) (Tertullian), G1SW-Aus, GSW-Ger & G1SP-Sin, $992,288. Werk Nick Rating: F. Click for the eNicks report & 5-cross pedigree.
2–Chaussons Roses (Ire), 128, f, 3, New Approach (Ire)–Go Lovely Rose (Ire), by Pivotal (GB). 1ST BLACK TYPE; 1ST GROUP BLACK TYPE. O-Mme Anne-Marie Hayes; B-Knocktoran Stud (IRE); T-Fabrice Chappet. €12,000.
3–La Estrellita (Ire), 128, f, 3, Churchill (Ire)–La Merced (Ger), by Tiger Hill (Ire). (€26,000 Ylg '20 BBAGS). 1ST GROUP BLACK TYPE. O-El Sur Racing; B-Stiftung Gestut Fahrhof (IRE); T-Michael Figge. €6,000.
Margins: 6, HF, 1. Odds: 2.10, 6.60, 10.70.
Also Ran: Lacuna (GB), Rondina (Ger), Barina (Ire), Valpolicella (Ger), Quarantini (Ger), Enjoy The Dream (GB). Click for the free Equineline.com catalogue-style pedigree.

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Stone Age Caps Galileo Week To Extend Ballydoyle’s Derby Dominance

Barely moments after the news broke that Luxembourg (Ire) (Camelot {GB}) will miss the G1 Cazoo Derby, a stunning G3 Derby Trial win by Stone Age (Ire) (Galileo {Ire}–Bonanza Creek {Ire}, by Anabaa) caused the Ballydoyle seismometer to significantly downgrade its disaster measurement. Throughout what can only be termed as “Galileo week”, the stable's Classic trial winners have come in a relentless flow and the injury to the G1 Vertem Futurity Trophy which would normally have registered as a five on the Richter scale was only a one or two as Peter Brant, Susan Magnier and Michael Tabor's 10-11 favourite had delivered his own dynamic display in the famed Leopardstown trial. Putting himself in the midst of an already outrageous battalion of Epsom Classic contenders from Rosegreen, last year's G1 Criterium de Saint-Cloud runner-up who had more than hinted at this kind of prowess with a nine-length maiden win at Navan Mar. 29 may well have done enough to secure Ryan Moore's allegiance heading to the Blue Riband. Power-packed the whole way isolated in front, he kept it up from the top of the straight to do it like Bolshoi Ballet (Ire) (Galileo {Ire}) had 12 months ago. At the line, there was a 5 1/2-length margin back to Glory Daze (Ire) (Cotai Glory {GB}), who was in turn a neck ahead of French Claim (Fr) (French Fifteen {Fr}). “He has that class, he's able to pick up and then he pushes it out all the way to the line,” enthused Aidan O'Brien, whose magical week involved nine winners partnered by the similarly untouchable Moore.

After all three UK Derby trials were scooped from Wednesday to Saturday, the pressure was on Stone Age to stretch the sequence in this staging post which has held such gravitas ever since Galileo himself put his stamp on it 21 years ago. Not Aidan O'Brien's first winner of the race, the late great stallion of steel was nevertheless the most important of the 15 overall and his influence will continue on this race a long time after his recent passing. This week has taken the form of a prolonged tribute to the sire's legend, with the clinching of the worldwide stakes record from Danehill in Wednesday's Listed Cheshire Oaks merely signalling the opening of the floodgates. His progeny have cleaned up in all bar one of the Classic trials on offer at Chester, Naas, Lingfield and here and this was stakes winner number 353, with Stone Age following Thoughts of June (GB), Changingoftheguard (GB), Star of India (GB), United Nations (GB) and History (Ire) in another landmark period for a stable which brooks no limitations.

Aside from his second in the Criterium de Saint-Cloud, Stone Age had also filled that spot behind Atomic Jones (Fr) (Wootton Bassett {GB}) in this venue's G2 Champions Juvenile S. on the Irish Champions Day card and in a Galway maiden where the smart Buckaroo (GB) (Fastnet Rock {Aus}) had his measure. A winter's maturing, change of tactics, stepping up to middle distances and faster ground have resulted in a colt who is now a force to be reckoned with as the summer's big heats approach. “We always felt he was very good and we weren't really worrying about winning a maiden last year,” O'Brien reflected. “He has plenty of pace–he's a high cruiser, he's tactical and he keeps going. He ran over seven in a group 1 at two, so he's a high-tempo horse. He's a big hardy horse, he's not a wimp now.”

Ballydoyle's pecking order is there to be established now, with York still to come. While last year's Derby Trial winner Bolshoi Ballet went to Epsom alone, that is unlikely to happen in 2022 and O'Brien admitted he is unable to establish a clear hierarchy among the trial winners so far. “It's impossible really,” he continued. “Because all the trials were at different times they were all on different work schedules. Ryan will talk to the lads and hopefully they'll come up with a solution to the whole thing. You'd have to be very happy, any of the ones that had two runs have come forward from their first to their second.”
Stone Age's dam is a full-sister to the G3 Prix de Psyche and G3 Prix de Flore winner and G1 Prix de l'Opera runner-up Board Meeting (Ire) (Anabaa), who produced the Listed Prix Michel Houyvet scorer and G3 Prix de Conde runner-up Big Blue (GB) from a mating with Galileo. The second dam, the four-times group-winning Bright Moon (Alysheba), is also responsible for the G1 Prix de Diane and Prix de l'Opera heroine Bright Sky (Ire) (Wolfhound) and the dam of the G2 Union-Rennen and G3 Preis des Winterfavoriten winner Best of Lips (Ire) by Galileo's The Gurkha (Ire). Bonanza Creek has the 2-year-old filly Sandy Creek (Ire) (Frankel {GB}) and a yearling filly by Churchill (Ire).

Sunday, Leopardstown, Ireland
DERBY TRIAL S.-G3, €70,000, Leopardstown, 5-8, 3yo, 10fT, 2:08.25, gd.
1–STONE AGE (IRE), 131, c, 3, by Galileo (Ire)
     1st Dam: Bonanza Creek (Ire), by Anabaa
     2nd Dam: Bright Moon, by Alysheba
     3rd Dam: Bonshamile (GB), by Ile de Bourbon
1ST BLACK TYPE WIN, 1ST GROUP WIN. O-Peter M Brant & Mrs John Magnier & Michael Tabor; B-White Birch Farm SC (IRE); T-Aidan O'Brien; J-Ryan Moore. €42,000. Lifetime Record: G1SP-Fr, 7-2-3-1, $152,155. Werk Nick Rating: A. Click for the eNicks report & 5-cross pedigree.
2–Glory Daze (Ire), 131, c, 3, Cotai Glory (GB)–Pioneer Alexander (Ire), by Rip Van Winkle (Ire).
1ST BLACK TYPE, 1ST GROUP BLACK TYPE. (£3,000 Ylg '20 GOFSPT). O-Glory Gold Partnership; B-Mount Armstrong Stud (IRE); T-Andrew Oliver. €14,000.
3–French Claim (Fr), 131, c, 3, French Fifteen (Fr)–Zahrada, by Galileo (Ire).
1ST BLACK TYPE, 1ST GROUP BLACK TYPE. (€9,000 Ylg '20 ARQAU; £36,000 2yo '21 TATGOR). O-Teme Valley; B-Mathieu Daguzan-Garros & Jean-Claude Gour (FR); T-Paddy Twomey. €7,000.
Margins: 5HF, NK, 3 1/4. Odds: 0.91, 18.00, 2.75.
Also Ran: Atomic Jones (Fr), Duke de Sessa (Ire), Manu Et Corde (Ire), Great Max (Ire). Click for the free Equineline.com catalogue-style pedigree.

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Ballydoyle And Galileo Streak Continues At Leopardstown

The week's narrative had involved Aidan O'Brien, Ryan Moore and the ground-breaking Galileo (Ire) and that ran into Sunday's G3 Cornelscourt S. at Leopardstown as the aptly-named History (Ire) swooped in the last of the trials for the G1 Irish 1000 Guineas. At 2.8million gns the second-highest-priced lot at the 2020 Tattersalls October Yearling Sale Book 1, the daughter of the multiple graded-stakes winner Prize Exhibit (GB) (Showcasing {GB}) was last seen breaking her maiden at this trip at Gowran Park in September. Soon manoeuvred to mid-division from her wide draw, the 3-1 second favourite overcome a less-than-ideal trip to challenge hard in the straight and overhaul the painfully honest Agartha (Ire) (Caravaggio) passing the furlong marker. Drawing on that ethereal extra which has blessed the stable's Classic crop this week, she dug in to score by 3/4 of a length with the runner-up again wearing her heart on her sleeve under her three-pound penalty. “We were running her to see whether we go to an Irish Guineas or an Oaks and Ryan said to go to the Irish Guineas and do the Oaks after,” Aidan O'Brien explained.

History, who had run into two smart compatriots when runner-up on her first two starts in August behind Cairde Go Deo (Fr) (Camelot {GB}) at The Curragh and Panama Red (Ire) (Showcasing {GB}) at Tipperary, is the first foal out of the aforementioned Prize Exhibit whose career tally included wins in the GII Monrovia S. and GII San Clemente H. Also third in the GI Del Mar Oaks, she is a full-sister to the G1 Sussex S. and G2 Summer Mile hero Mohaather (GB) and a half to the dam of the G1 Queen Anne S. hero Accidental Agent (GB) (Delegator {GB}). The listed-placed third dam Roo (GB) (Rudimentatry) produced five black-type performers including Prize Exhibit's listed-placed dam Roodeye (GB) (Inchinor {GB}) and the G1 Prix Morny runner-up Gallagher (GB) (Bahamian Bounty {GB}). Also connected to the G2 Gimcrack S. winner Bannister (GB) by Inchinor and the G1 Middle Park S. hero Astaire (Ire) (Intense Focus), Prize Exhibit also has the 2-year-old full-brother to History named Joaquin Sorolla (Ire).

Sunday, Leopardstown, Ireland
CORNELSCOURT S.-G3, €50,000, Leopardstown, 5-8, 3yo, f, 8fT, 1:41.74, gd.
1–HISTORY (IRE), 128, f, 3, by Galileo (Ire)
     1st Dam: Prize Exhibit (GB) (MGSW & GISP-US, GSP-Eng, $697,375), by Showcasing (GB)
     2nd Dam: Roodeye (GB), by Inchinor (GB)
     3rd Dam: Roo (GB), by Rudimentary
1ST BLACK TYPE WIN, 1ST GROUP WIN. (2,800,000gns Ylg '20 TATOCT). O-M Tabor/D Smith/Mrs.J Magnier/Westerberg; B-Barronstown Stud (IRE); T-Aidan O'Brien; J-Ryan Moore. €30,000. Lifetime Record: 4-2-2-0, $51,761. Werk Nick Rating: A+. Click for the eNicks report & 5-cross pedigree.
2–Agartha (Ire), 131, f, 3, Caravaggio–Arya Tara (Ire), by Dylan Thomas (Ire). O-Scott C Heider; B-Whisperview Trading Ltd (IRE); T-Joseph O'Brien. €10,000.
3–Honey Girl (GB), 128, f, 3, Mayson (GB)–Fleeting Image (GB), by Sir Percy (GB).
1ST BLACK TYPE, 1ST GROUP BLACK TYPE. (3,000gns Wlg '19 TATFOA; 4,500gns Ylg '20 TAOCT). O-David M Fitzgerald; B-P T Tellwright (GB); T-Henry De Bromhead. €5,000.
Margins: 3/4, 1 1/4, NO. Odds: 3.00, 1.50, 28.00.
Also Ran: Show of Stars (GB), Panama Red (Ire), Lady of Inishfree (Ire), Princess Olly (Ire), Lullaby (Ire), Nectaris (GB), Suwappu (GB), Beautiful Sunshine (GB). Scratched: Suwayra (Ire). Click for the free Equineline.com catalogue-style pedigree.

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