Month: May 2023

Nominees For TBA NH Breeders’ Awards Announced

The short-listed nominees for nine of the 14 Thoroughbred Breeders' Association National Hunt Breeders' Awards were unveiled on Tuesday.

Held at the Hilton Garden Inn at Doncaster on the evening of Monday, May 22, the Awards will be hosted by Nick Luck and are sponsored by Goffs UK. The awards and nominees are as follows:

 

Batsford Stud Trophy for Leading Chaser
Edwardstone – bred by Robert Abrey & Ian Thurtle
Le Milos – bred by Little Lodge Farm & Rahinston Farm
Midnight River – bred by Swanbridge Bloodstock Ltd.

 

Elusive Bloodstock Trophy for Leading Mares' Chaser
Pink Legend – bred by Francis Mahon
Snow Leopardess – bred by Marietta Fox-Pitt
Tweed Skirt – bred by Goldford Stud

 

Yorton Trophy for Leading Novice Chaser
Bold Endeavour – Bred by Lisa Hales
Notlongtillmay – Bred by B J Forrester
Thyme Hill – Bred by Overbury Stallions Ltd.

 

Highflyer Bloodstock Trophy for Leading Hurdler
Constitution Hill – bred by Sally Noott
Dashel Drasher – bred by Camilla Scott
I Like To Move It – bred by Mr & Mrs John Dawson

 

Mickley Stud Trophy for Leading Mares' Hurdler
Glimpse Of Gala – bred by Mrs Fran Marriott
Honeysuckle – bred by Dr Geoffrey Guy
Molly Ollys Wishes – bred by Keith & Dean Pugh

 

Midnight Legend Trophy for Leading Mares' Novice Hurdler
Luccia – Bred by Pump & Plant Services Ltd.
Kateira – Bred by Robert & Jackie Chugg
You Wear It Well – Bred by Reg & Jane Makin

 

Peel Bloodstock Trophy for Leading Novice Hurdler
Crambo – Bred by Sullivan Bloodstock Ltd.
Inthepocket – Bred by Tessa Greatrex & David Futter
Makin'yourmindup – Bred by Mill House Stud & Kathy Stuart

 

Shade Oak Stud Trophy for Leading NHF Horse
Aslukgoes – Bred by Roger Brookhouse
Crest Of Glory – Bred by Swanbridge Bloodstock Ltd.
Gentle Slopes – Bred by Yorton Farm Stud

 

Overbury Stud Trophy for Leading NHF Mare
Casa No Mento – Bred by Miss S J Turner
Lily Du Berlais – Bred by John Lightfoot
Mollys Mango – Bred by Mr & Mrs D Futter & Will Kinsey

 

Eric Gillie Trophy – Special Achievement Award

Dudgeon Cup Sponsored by Alne Park Stud – NH Broodmare of the Year

Horse & Hound Cup – Leading Active British-based Stallion by Individual Chase Winners in GB & Ire in 2022-23

Whitbread Silver Salver- Leading Active Stallion by Prize Money in Gb & Ire in 2022-23 (Progeny Sired in Britain).

Queen Mother's Silver Salver – NH Special Achievement Award

 

Tickets are priced from £65 (inc. VAT) per person for TBA members and £70 for non-members. The tickets include entry to the event, reception drinks, canapes, and a two-course dinner. For more information, please visit the TBA website.

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Dettori Masterclass Seals Chester Vase Win For Arrest

Juddmonte's €440,000 Goffs November foal Arrest (Ire) (Frankel {GB}–Nisriyna {Ire}, by Intikhab) closed his four-race juvenile campaign with a second in October's G1 Criterium de Saint-Cloud and made a winning sophomore return under a Frankie Dettori masterclass in Wednesday's G3 Boodles Chester Vase.

Maintaining a three-wide passage off the rail and racing on fresher ground in second for most of this G1 Derby trial, the 10-11 favourite was sent to the front leaving the half-mile pole behind and stayed on strongly thereafter, crossing the line underneath the stands' side rail, to easily account for Ballydoyle's Criterium third Adelaide River (Ire) (Australia {GB}) by a geared-down 6 1/2 lengths. Hadrianus (Ire) (Galileo {Ire}) was the only one of three other rivals visible to the naked eye and finished 10 lengths further back in third.

“He handled conditions well and the trainer had him fitter than he thought he did,” joked John Gosden after notching his first success in the race. “Frankie was anxious to stay on the fresh ground, so you'll notice he stayed a bit wide and in the straight he nearly took out the grandstand. He's a delightful colt, he's gone and won well over the trip. He's done nothing but mature and improve, it was the full mile-and-a-half today and we'll leave all options open for Epsom. I think he enjoyed the ground and if Epsom was fast I don't think he'd enjoy that sort of surface. We put him in the Arc on Tuesday and he's got the scope to train on at three, and four and five. Enable raced until she was six.”

Dettori added, “He won very easily, but it's very hard to judge horses on this ground and to know the quality of the field. He can only win by a good margin, he's a good size and he's going places. We know he stays well and doesn't mind the ground. We liked him as a 2-year-old, but he was very weak. He's strengthened up and we knew the ground was no problem and the distance was no problem. The race fell apart three out, but he couldn't have won any easier.”

Juddmonte's Barry Mahon continued, “That was great and we're over the moon. It was sort of Plan C [to come here], but at least it's worked out and he's won in good style. We'll wait and see how he comes out of this and see what the ground is like [at Epsom]. We're in a nice position, in that he's in everywhere, and he's won his trial and he's fit, so we can pick and choose where we want to go.”

Pedigree Notes
Arrest is the seventh of nine foals and one of six scorers out of an unraced half to MGSW G1 Nassau S. and G1 Grand Prix de Saint-Cloud placegetter Narniyn (Ire) (Dubawi {Ire}) and multiple stakes winner Temerity (Ind) (Intense Focus). The April-foaled bay is a half-brother to GSW G1 Hong Kong Gold Cup third Dinozzo (Ire) (Lilbourne Lad {Ire}), Listed Rous S. third Spring Loaded (Ire) (Zebedee {GB}), a yearling filly by Wootton Bassett (GB) and a weanling colt by Dark Angel (Ire). Descendants of his third dam Noufiyla (Ire) (Top Ville {Ire}) include MGSW G1 Poule d'Essai des Pouliches and GI Queen Elizabeth II Challenge Cup runner-up Maiden Tower (GB) (Groom Dancer) and G1 Prix Marcel Boussac third Copperbeech (Ire) (Red Ransom).

Wednesday, Chester, Britain
BOODLES CHESTER VASE S.-G3, £120,000, Chester, 5-10, 3yo, c/g, 12f 63yT, 2:52.31, sf.
1–ARREST (IRE), 128, c, 3, by Frankel (GB)
1st Dam: Nisriyna (Ire), by Intikhab
2nd Dam: Narmina (Ire), by Alhaarth (Ire)
3rd Dam: Noufiyla (Ire), by Top Ville (Ire)
1ST BLACK-TYPE WIN; 1ST GROUP WIN. (€440,000 Wlg '20 GOFNOV). O-Juddmonte; B-Swordlestown Little (IRE); T-John & Thady Gosden; J-Lanfranco Dettori. £67,224. Lifetime Record: G1SP-Fr, 5-3-1-1, $157,353. *1/2 to Dinozzo (Ire) (Lilbourne Lad {Ire}), GSW & G1SP-HK, $1,509,980; and Spring Loaded (Ire) (Zebedee {GB}), SP-Eng, $300,332. Werk Nick Rating: A+++ *Triple Plus*. Click for the eNicks report & 5-cross pedigree, or the free Equineline.com catalogue-style pedigree.
2–Adelaide River (Ire), 128, c, 3, Australia (GB)–Could It Be Love, by War Front. O-Susan Magnier, Michael Tabor, Derrick Smith & Westerberg; B-Coolmore (IRE); T-Aidan O'Brien. £25,596.
3–Hadrianus (Ire), 128, c, 3, Galileo (Ire)–Laugh Out Loud (GB), by Clodovil (Ire). 1ST GROUP BLACK TYPE. (62,000gns Ylg '21 TADEY). O-Susan & John Waterworth; B-C O P Hanbury (IRE); T-Charlie Johnston. £12,816.
Margins: 6HF, 10, 97. Odds: 0.91, 2.25, 6.00.
Also Ran: Duke Of Oxford (GB), Galactic Jack (Ire).

 

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Savethelastdance Routs Cheshire Oaks Rivals

Aidan O'Brien trainee Savethelastdance (Ire) (Galileo {Ire}–Daddys Lil Darling, by Scat Daddy) shed maiden status with a game frontrunning display over 10 furlongs at Leopardstown last month and stormed to the head of ante-post betting lists for Epsom's G1 Oaks after unleashing a spectacular performance in Wednesday's Listed Weatherbys Digital Solutions Cheshire Oaks at Chester.

The 8-11 favourite's only moment of worry came at the break, when hampered as the gates opened, and she was bustled along early to retain contact with the main cluster. Inching forward inside the last half-mile, she powered to the front rounding the home turn and surged ever clear into another county in the straight, hitting the line with a scarcely believable 22-length margin in hand on There's The Door (Ire) (Starspangledbanner {Aus}). Ermesinde (Ire) (Golden Horn {GB}) ran on to finish 3 1/4 lengths further adrift in third. Savethelastdance's victory was a record-breaking eighth Robert Sangster Memorial Cup for O'Brien, a contest won in recent years by subsequent Oaks winners Light Shift (Kingmambo) and Enable (GB) (Nathaniel {Ire}).

“I was very impressed and you can only be impressed by what she's done there,” said Ryan Moore after annexing a sixth edition of the contest. “They kind of all gave up with a half-mile to go and she was just getting going, but she gave me a very good feel. She's probably given me as good a feel in this race as the ones I've ridden in it before. She stepped a little slow, but they went very hard early on and she just relaxed and followed them round. I thought I'd just make sure she knew what she had to do and she stretched all the way to the line and ran right through the line.”

Pedigree Notes
Savethelastdance is the first of three reported foals produced by GI American Oaks victrix Daddys Lil Darling (Scat Daddy), herself a half-sister to GI Breeders' Cup Turf Sprint hero Mongolian Saturday (Any Given Saturday). The March-foaled chestnut is a full-sister to the hitherto unraced 2-year-old colt Mr Hampstead and half to a weanling filly by Into Mischief. Daddys Lil Darling, of course, won infamy when sent over from the States by Ken McPeek to contest Enable's 2017 G1 Oaks and was scratched in a thunderstorm after unshipping Olivier Peslier in the preliminaries and bolting to the start.

Wednesday, Chester, Britain
WEATHERBYS DIGITAL SOLUTIONS CHESHIRE OAKS (FOR THE ROBERT SANGSTER MEMORIAL CUP)-Listed, £100,000, Chester, 5-10, 3yo, f, 11f 75yT, 2:36.64, sf.
1–SAVETHELASTDANCE (IRE), 128, f, 3, by Galileo (Ire)
1st Dam: Daddys Lil Darling (GISW-US, $1,335,305), by Scat Daddy
2nd Dam: Miss Hot Salsa, by Houston
3rd Dam: Miss High Blade, by Highland Blade
1ST BLACK-TYPE WIN. O-Susan Magnier, Michael Tabor, Derrick Smith & Westerberg; B-Daddys Lil Darling Syndicate (IRE); T-Aidan O'Brien; J-Ryan Moore. £56,020. Lifetime Record: 3-2-0-0, $80,696.
2–There's The Door (Ire), 128, f, 3, Starspangledbanner (Aus)–Callisto Star (Ire), by Fastnet Rock (Aus). 1ST BLACK TYPE. (€80,000 Ylg '21 GOAUTY). O-Paul & Clare Rooney; B-Kevin J Molloy (IRE); T-David Evans. £21,330.
3–Ermesinde (Ire), 128, f, 3, Golden Horn (GB)–Eye Witness (Ger), by Adlerflug (Ger). 1ST BLACK TYPE. (€45,000 Wlg '20 GOFNOV; €58,000 RNA Ylg '21 GOFOR). O-Venice Consulting, d'Ascanio & Gambini; B-Kildaragh Stud (IRE); T-Kevin Philppart De Foy. £10,680.
Margins: 22, 3 1/4, 2 1/4. Odds: 0.73, 6.00, 25.00.
Also Ran: Sirona (Ger), Ashtanga (GB), Cite D'Or (Fr), Wintercrack (GB). Scratched: Luckin Brew (Ire).

 

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