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Eclipse Remains Enable’s Target

The G1 Coral-Eclipse at Sandown remains the most likely comeback target for superstar mare Enable (GB) (Nathaniel {Ire}). The two-time G1 Prix de l’Arc de Triomphe heroine was just denied in her bid for an historic third consecutive victory in the ParisLongchamp showpiece at the end of last season. Less than a fortnight later, Enable’s owner-breeder Khalid Abdullah delighted racing fans by confirming his charge would stay in training as a 6-year-old–with a return to Paris in the autumn top of the agenda. Connections decided against an appearance at Royal Ascot, but the owner’s racing manager Teddy Grimthorpe reports the John Gosden-trained mare to be firmly on course for the Eclipse on July 5 following a pleasing workout under Frankie Dettori last week.

“It’s been a gradual build-up–she’s a 6-year-old mare, so I don’t think John wants to do anything too quickly,” Grimthorpe told Sky Sports Racing. “She’s always told us when she’s ready to go, rather than the other way round. She’s had a couple of good works on the Limekilns on the Round Gallop–nothing too strenuous, but Frankie [Dettori] sat on her on Friday, and I think was very happy with her.”

Enable won the Eclipse, Ascot’s G1 King George and the G1 Yorkshire Oaks en route to the Arc last year–and a similar campaign may be in the offing.

Grimthorpe added, “She’s coming [to hand]. I think Prince Khalid is happy that we go to the Eclipse. She’s been in good form. I think it’s fair to say she will build-up towards the Arc. How she gets there will be up to her and John. I imagine it will be a fairly similar pattern [to last year]–there are only so many races that fall at the right time for her to get to ParisLongchamp. The Arc is the main target, and we’ll be guided by that.”

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Don’t Miss ABR’s Belmont Stakes Live Show June 20

Like most major sporting events this year, New York’s most important horse race, the Belmont Stakes, was rescheduled. The “Test of the Champion” will be run this Saturday, June 20, without any fans allowed on site. To bring fans and horseplayers closer to the action on Belmont Stakes day, America’s Best Racing is proud to announce that it will be live streaming three hours of continuous coverage via Facebook Live and Twitter Live beginning at 3:00 PM ET on Saturday.

Romansied to Target Minstrel

Classic winner Romanised (Ire) (Holy Roman Empeor {Ire}) is set to kick off his 2020 campaign in next month’s G2 Paddy Power Minstrel S. at The Curragh. The 5-year-old won the seven-furlong event last year, and trainer Ken Condon has set his sights on the July 18 contest once again. Romanised won the G1 Irish 2000 Guineas in 2018 before adding a second Group 1 win to his record when lifting the Jacques le Marois last year–and a return to Deauville is also on the radar.

Condon said, “Romanised will run in the Minstrel S. next month, and we might have an away day before that–possibly at Leopardstown on July 1. We wanted to have his first run at home and then return to Deauville for the Jacques le Marois.”

Romanised is then likely to return to France again for the Prix du Moulin at ParisLongchamp–in which he finished runner-up last September.

Condon added, “He looks well. He has a few kilos to loose, but he’s coming along. I would think he’ll go for the Moulin after Deauville. Robert [Ng, owner] is Hong Kong-based and has never seen him in the flesh, so he might like him to have a run out there, and he’s retiring after this year.”

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First Winner For Crestwood Farm’s Texas Red Comes At Santa Anita

My Girl Red's front-running score in a Santa Anita Park maiden special weight on June 14 marked the first winner for her sire, Breeders' Cup Juvenile winner Texas Red.

Racing as a homebred for Erich Brehm, My Girl Red completed the 4 1/2-furlong race in :52.90 seconds under jockey Flavien Prat. She was trained by Keith Desormeaux, who also conditioned Texas Red for an ownership group that included Brehm.

My Girl Red is out of the stakes-placed Fusaichi Pegasus mare Morakami, who Brehm purchased for $21,000 at the 2017 Keeneland January Horses of All Ages Sale to be part of Texas Red's first book of mares.

Texas Red, an 8-year-old son of Afleet Alex, stands at Crestwood Farm in Lexington, Ky., for an advertised fee of $10,000.

He is best known for his 6 1/2-length triumph in the 2014 Breeders' Cup Juvenile at Santa Anita, which earned him a spot as an Eclipse Award finalist as champion 2-year-old male, ultimately finishing behind American Pharoah.

Texas Red won three of nine starts during his on-track career for earnings of $1,767,300. In addition to his Breeders' Cup score, he won the Grade 2 Jim Dandy Stakes as a 3-year-old, and earned in-the-money efforts in the G1 FrontRunner Stakes, G2 San Vicente Stakes, and G3 Dwyer Stakes.

Bred in Kentucky by Stonestreet Thoroughbred Holdings, Texas Red is out of the Chilean-born stakes-winning Jeune Homme mare Ramatuelle. His extended family includes Chilean champion Nuevo Maestro and Argentine champion Le Ken.