July, 2023 | Horse Racing Free Tips

Dabirsim’s Horizon Dore Is Different Class In The Eugene Adam

Impressive in the Listed Prix Ridgway at ParisLongchamp last month, having chased home Big Rock (Fr) (Rock Of Gibraltar {Ire}) in Chantilly's G3 Prix de Guiche, the Patrice Cottier-trained Horizon Dore (Fr) (Dabirsim {Fr}) showed what he is made of in Saturday's G2 Prix Eugene Adam at Saint-Cloud. Sitting off the early pace set by Knight To King (Ire) (Kingman {GB}), the even-money favourite who sports the Gousserie yellow-and-green brushed the Dermot Weld challenger aside with a 10.51 split from the two to the one and surged to an emphatic 2 1/2-length success from Maniatic (Ire) (Intello {Ger}).

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Horizon Dore's first two starts in the autumn saw him win by a cumulative margin of 11 lengths, with the second seeing him beat the subsequent listed winner and triple group 3 runner-up Harry Way (Fr) (Galiway {GB}) by six with the eventual listed-placed Cambronne (Fr) (Alex The Winner)–a winner of this card's feature handicap–in third in Marseille-Borely's Listed Prix Delahante. Fifth to the subsequent G1 Prix du Jockey Club runner-up Big Rock in ParisLongchamp's G3 Prix la Force in April before getting closer in the Prix de Guiche, the bay whose ownership also includes Ecurie du Sud, Ecurie Gribomont, Daniel Dumoulin, François Delaunay, Chantal Becq as well as the Chehboub family's Yellow Agency, probably needs lively ground as he proved here and in the Ridgway.

Already gelded, Horizon Dore who was a bargain €45,000 buy at Arqana Deauville August could go the way of the Gousserie star Sealiway (Fr) (Galiway {GB}). “He's an easy horse to ride and has a big turn of foot,” Pauline Chehboub said. “We will travel with him, as he's a group one winner in the making who is versatile when it comes to trip. I think he'll improve again and we need to brainstorm with our associates, but we'll see about the Champion Stakes in October. He has huge potential.”

Pedigree Notes

Horizon Dore, who is kin to the G3 Prix du Calvados winner and GI Breeders' Cup Juvenile Fillies Turf third Cavale Doree (Fr) (Sunday Break {Jpn}), is the last foal out of Sweet Alabama (Fr) (Enrique {GB}) whose half-siblings include the multiple listed-placed Zayade (Fr) (Country Reel) and Winter Springs (Fr) (Stormy River {Fr}) who was second in the Delahante.

Saturday, Saint-Cloud, France
PRIX EUGENE ADAM-G2, €130,000, Saint-Cloud, 7-8, 3yo, c/g, 10fT, 2:07.82, g/s.
1–HORIZON DORE (FR), 127, g, 3, by Dabirsim (Fr)
1st Dam: Sweet Alabama (Fr), by Enrique (GB)
2nd Dam: Hallen (Fr), by Midyan
3rd Dam: Haumette (Fr), by Mille Balles (Fr)
1ST GROUP WIN. (€45,000 Ylg '21 ARQAUG). O-Gousserie Racing, Ecurie du Sud, Ecurie Gribomont, Daniel Dumoulin, Mlle Chantal Becq & Mme Francoise Delaunay; B-Chantal Becq (FR); T-Patrice Cottier; J-Mickael Barzalona. €74,100. Lifetime Record: 6-4-1-0, €160,600. *1/2 to Cavale Doree (Fr) (Sunday Break {Jpn}), GSW-Fr & GISP-US, $162,561. Werk Nick Rating: C. Click for the eNicks report & 5-cross pedigree, or the free Equineline.com catalogue-style pedigree.
2–Maniatic (Ire), 127, c, 3, Intello (Ger)–Hallucinante (GB), by Dubawi (Ire). O/B-Wertheimer et Frere (IRE); T-Andre Fabre. €28,600.
3–Bold Act (Ire), 127, g, 3, New Approach (Ire)–Dancing Sands (Ire), by Dubawi (Ire). O/B-Godolphin (IRE); T-Charlie Appleby. €13,650.
Margins: 2HF, HD, 2. Odds: 1.00, 4.30, 2.70.
Also Ran: Knight To King (Ire), Cassius (Fr). Video, sponsored by FanDuel TV.

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Sunday Insights: Big Prices And Big Pedigrees On Display

2nd-LRC, $45K, Msw, 2yo, 5f, 4:33 p.m.

Facing a field of entirely first-time starters, PRINCE OF MONACO (Speightstown) drew the enviable outside gate for his afternoon debut for trainer Bob Baffert and the prolific ownership group known as the 'Avengers'. Purchased for a coll $950,000 as a yearling out of last year's Fasig-Tipton Saratoga Select Sale, the dark bay colt is out of Medaglia d'Oro mare Rainier, herself a half to MSW/MGSP Laurie's Rocket (Bluegrass Cat) and to the dam of MSW/GSP Necker Island (Hard Spun). This is also the family of GI Frizette S. winner Adieu (El Corredor). Prince of Monaco enters off a best-of-61 work two back June 23 and Juan Hernandez gets aboard for his unveiling. TJCIS PPS

3rd-ELP, $70K, Msw, 2yo, f, 1mT, 1:43 p.m.

In Kentucky, Isle of Hope (Quality Road) debuts on the turf as a homebred for Clearsky Farms and trainer Brad Cox. Out of MGSW/GISP Justwhistledixie (Dixie Union), she is a half-sister to a quartet of successful runners including GI Breeders' Cup Juvenile hero New Year's Day (Street Cry {Ire}), MGSW Mohaymen (Tapit), GSW/GISP Enforceable (Tapit), and GSW Kingly (Tapit). TJCIS PPS

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Orseno Back ‘Home’ At Monmouth Park Looking To Make Impact As He Nears Career Milestone

Joe Orseno was so connected to Monmouth Park from the late 1980s to the early 2000s that he bought a condominium in nearby Long Branch, New Jersey that became his home during those years.

After a nearly 17-year hiatus, the 67-year-old trainer is back on a full-time basis, ready to make an impact once again on the Jersey Shore.

During Saturday's 12-race card he will send out two starters for D. J. Stable – the debuting 2-year-old Horsepower, by Good Samaritan, and Irish-bred Exuma, a 5-year-old Galileo gelding – and then will add two stakes contenders from Florida to his 17-horse stable at Monmouth. One, 2-year-old colt Mattingly, by Bucchero, is being pointed to the Tyro Stakes on July 30. The other, Beauty of the Sea, a 3-year-old Bucchero filly, is headed to the Blue Sparkler Stakes a week from Saturday.

For the meet so far, Orseno has two wins and two seconds from seven starters – with much more to come, he says, as he closes in on his 2,000th career victory. He is eight wins shy of the milestone.

“When my stable cut down six or seven years ago I had to rebuild and I decided to stay in South Florida,” said Orseno, who serves as the president of the Florida Thoroughbred Horsemen's Association and has been a Gulfstream Park mainstay the past two decades. “I thought it would be the best way to build my stable back up because there are a lot of breeders in Ocala and there are a lot of people there who knew me and said, 'If you're going to stay in Florida then we'll send horses to you.'

“I was down in numbers and I wasn't sure if I had enough to travel with so I decided to stay in one place. Now I have it going again. My stable is probably in the best shape now that it has been in a few years. So I'm back at Monmouth Park, a place I love.”

Orseno, who started on the Garden State and Atlantic City circuit in 1977, gradually made his return to Monmouth Park two years ago, winning with three of his 27 starters. He was 3-for-19 at the Monmouth Park meet a year ago.

He said he will be a more frequent visitor to New Jersey in July and August, flying in from Florida often, with long-time assistant Stacy Pryor currently overseeing his division at Monmouth Park.

“Two years ago I sent some to Monmouth Park and it didn't work out,” he said. “Last year we were much more organized when we went there. I was hoping to have 20 horses here last year and we only had about 10 but we felt it was working.

“So this year we decided to go full tilt with 20 stalls.”

Orseno, who won the Garden State Park training title in 1988, enjoyed his best year in 2000, when Red Bullet won the Preakness (G1), Macho Uno won the Breeders' Cup Juvenile (G1), and Perfect Sting captured the Breeders' Cup Filly and Mare Turf (G1), with his earnings coming in at $6,673,714 for the season.

He has trained five individual Grade 1 winners.

Orseno said that winning his 2,000th race will fit in nicely with those other achievements.

“I've been setting goals my whole life,” he said. “It's a goal that I set a while ago – 2,000 wins. It's an accomplishment. It's a lot of wins. It's not going to change anyone's idea of who I am but it will mean a lot to me personally.”

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Half-Sister To Arc Hero Torquator Tasso One Of The Stars Of BBAG’s Yearling Catalogue

A 235-strong catalogue, featuring a Guiliani (Ire) half-sister to G1 Prix de l'Arc de Tromphe hero Torquator Tasso (Ger) (Adlerflug {Ger}) and a full to Group 1 hero Tunnes (Ger) (lot 75), was revealed for the BBAG Yearling Sale on Saturday.

Set for Baden-Baden at 10 a.m. on Sept. 1, the sale boasts an additional 37 full- or half-siblings to group winners, with 51% of the yearlings catalogued out of black-type dams or dams who are siblings to black-type horses. Some of other lots of note include lot 44, a full-brother to Group 1 winner Donjah (Ger) (Teofilo {Ire}); a Gleneagles (Ire) half-brother to G1 Pretty Polly S. heroine La Petite Coco (Ire) (Ruler Of The World {Ire}) (lot 54); lot 174, a Sea The Moon (Ger) half-sister to G1 German Oaks victress Miss Yoda (Ger) (Sea The Stars {Ire}); and lot 188, a half-sister to fellow German Oaks scorer Toskana Belle (Fr) (Shamalgan {Fr}) by Dabirsim (Fr).

There are a variety of stallions represented, including Sea The Moon (Ger) (8), Soldier Hollow (GB) (9), Areion (Ger) (7), Cracksman (GB) (2), Kingman (GB) (1), Adlerflug (Ger) (6), Zarak (Fr) (6) Acclamation (GB) (1), Australia (GB) (2), Bated Breath (GB) (1), Camelot (GB) (1), Churchill (Ire) (1), Frankel (GB) (1), Gleneagles (Ire) (1), Harry Angel (Ire) (1), Holy Roman Emperor (Ire) (1), Kendargent (Fr) (2), Le Havre (Ire) (3), Mastercraftsman (Ire) (2), Mehmas (Ire) (2), Nathaniel (Ire) (2), New Bay (GB) (1), No Nay Never (1), Saxon Warrior (Jpn) (1), Sea The Stars (Ire) (5), Teofilo (Ire) (2), and Wooton Bassett (GB) (2). All of the yearlings barring one have been nominated to the 19 BBAG auctions races, as well.

For more information on the sale and the full catalogue, please visit the BBAG website.

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