Tag: Alpheratz (Ire)

Gleneagles’s Brilliant Best In The Park Express

Aidan O'Brien's 2024 Flat Turf campaign got off to a perfect beginning at The Curragh on Monday as the 3-year-old filly Brilliant (Ire) (Gleneagles {Ire}–Plying, by Hard Spun) flew the flag in the G3 Lodge Park Stud Irish EBF Park Express S.

Runner-up in the G3 Newtownanner Stud Irish EBF S. over this mile trip and track and third in the seven-furlong G3 Weld Park S. also here last term, the 7-2 second favourite was steadied towards the rear early by Declan McDonogh and crept into contention once straightened for home. Getting to the front a furlong out, the 1000 Guineas entry had to battle on the testing surface to see off fellow 3-year-old Alpheratz (Ire) (Phoenix Of Spain {Ire}) but proved up to the task to prevail by half a length.

“I think she probably had the best form in the race and, on her first run of the year, I'm delighted with her,” O'Brien said. “She'd been working nicely and is a hardy filly. It's a big call for three-year-olds against older horses on that ground at this time of the year. She'll step up and a mile is good for her. That will be her trial and she'll go into one of the Guineas now after that. She might end up going to Newmarket and back here. She doesn't really want that ground, but she went in it.”

 

Pedigree Notes

Brilliant, who was last seen finishing fifth in the G1 Fillies' Mile, is the third black-type winner for Plying, with the chief progeny being the G1 Sussex S., G1 July Cup, G1 Coronation S. and G1 Cheveley Park S. heroine Alcohol Free (Ire) (No Nay Never). The dam, a half-sister to the G2 Flying Childers S. and G3 Princess Margaret S.-placed Kissing Lights (Ire) (Machiavellian) also connected to the sires Raise A Grand (Ire) and Weldnaas, has a 2-year-old filly by Lope De Vega (Ire) to follow.

Monday, The Curragh, Ireland
LODGE PARK STUD IRISH EBF PARK EXPRESS S.-G3, €68,500, Curragh, 3-18, 3yo/up, f/m, 8fT, 1:51.68, hy.
1–BRILLIANT (IRE), 120, f, 3, by Gleneagles (Ire)
           1st Dam: Plying, by Hard Spun
           2nd Dam: Nasaieb (Ire), by Fairy King
           3rd Dam: Atyaaf, by Irish River (Fr)
1ST BLACK TYPE WIN, 1ST GROUP WIN. (650,000gns Ylg '22 TATOCT). O-D Smith,Mrs J Magnier,M Tabor,Westerberg; B-Jossestown Farm (IRE); T-Aidan P. O'Brien; J-Declan Patrick McDonogh. €41,100. Lifetime Record: 10-2-1-3, $103,483. *1/2 to Alexander James (Ire) (Camelot {GB}), SW-Fr, $129,284; 1/2 to Alcohol Free (Ire) (No Nay Never), Hwt. Older Mare-Eng- at 5 – 7 f., Hwt. Older Mare-Eur- at 5 – 7 f., MG1SW-Eng, $2,546,735. Werk Nick Rating: A. Click for the eNicks report & 5-cross pedigree, or the free Equineline.com catalogue-style pedigree.
2–Alpheratz (Ire), 120, f, 3, Phoenix Of Spain (Ire)–Rosie Scot (Ire), by Holy Roman Emperor (Ire). 1ST BLACK TYPE, 1ST GROUP BLACK TYPE. (15,000gns Ylg '22 TATSOM). O-Gerard Kervick; B-Lynn Lodge Stud (IRE); T-Joseph G Murphy. €13,700.
3–Goldana (Ire), 140, m, 5, Galileo Gold (GB)–Humble And Proud (Ire), by Pivotal (GB). (£40,000 Ylg '20 GOFOR; €120,000 HRA '22 ARQDEC). O-Sights On Gold Partnership; B-Patrick Grogan (IRE); T-Joseph O'Brien. €6,850.
Margins: HF, 3/4, 4 1/4. Odds: 3.50, 4.00, 1.50.
Also Ran: Everlasting (Ire), Magical Sunset (Ire), Mammas Girl (GB), Sli Na Ghealai (Ire), Lady of Inishfree (Ire), Cadeau Belle (Fr), Peace of Mine (Ire). Scratched: You Send Me (Ire).

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The Curragh Welcomes Back the Flat

No sooner is the Cheltenham Festival wound up than the Flat Turf season begins at The Curragh on Monday, leaving no time to draw breath. Offering the ultimate contrast to the recent jumping spectacles is the opening five-furlong Castle Star And Alkumait At Capital Stud Irish EBF Maiden for 2-year-olds, where a clutch of the entries are by the first-season sires Sergei Prokofiev, Verbal Dexterity (Ire), Far Above (Ire) and Arizona (Ire). It is Whitsbury Manor Stud's resident Sergei Prokofiev who could have the favourite in the Adrian Murray-trained colt Arizona Blaze (GB), sporting the silks of AMO Racing Limited and Giselle De Aguiar, but this is a race that Jim Bolger likes to make an early statement in and it is significant that he saddles Verbal Dexterity's son Monotone (Ire) in his colours. A half-brother to his former TDN Rising Star and G1 Irish 2000 Guineas fourth Wexford Native (Ire) (Teofilo {Ire}), it would be no surprise to see him emulate Dawn Approach (Ire), who gave his sire New Approach (Ire) his first winner in this back in 2012.

Ballydoyle roll out the first of their turf runners in the well-tried Old Faithful (Fr) (Siyouni {Fr}) in the seven-furlong maiden for 3-year-old colts and geldings and the filly Mayfair (Ire) (Justify) in the fillies' version. A daughter of the G1 Cheveley Park S. winner Clemmie (Ire) (Galileo {Ire}), she is chosen to represent the yard in the maiden won three years ago by the subsequent G1 Prix de Diane heroine Joan Of Arc (Ire) (Galileo {Ire}), so there could be a hint there. In the G3 Lodge Park Stud Irish EBF Park Express S., the Rosegreen establishment puts forward the G3 Newtownanner Stud Irish EBF S. runner-up Brilliant (Ire) (Gleneagles {Ire}) and the Galway maiden scorer Everlasting (Ire) (Kingman {GB}), both entered in the 1000 Guineas, while there is a G1 Irish Oaks entry involved in Gerard Kervick's Gowran Park winner Alpheratz (Ire) (Phoenix Of Spain {Ire}) from the Joseph Murphy stable. The intrigue begins again.

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