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New Bay’s Claymore Wins The Hampton Court

There was so much focus on The Queen's Reach For the Moon (GB) (Sea the Stars {Ire}) in the build-up to Thursday's G3 Hampton Court S., it had almost assumed the air of a foregone conclusion but in the final analysis the Royal runner was second-best to the G3 Craven S. runner-up Claymore (Fr) (New Bay {GB}). With Frankie's day about to get even worse, Adam Kirby set off in front on Mary Slack's 7-1 second favourite and refused to let the Gosden runner past when it came down to a straight fight in the final two furlongs. At the line, there was a 1 3/4-length margin back to the 2-5 favourite, who looked not to see out the 10-furlong trip, with Kingmax (Ire) (Kingman {GB}) a length behind in third.

Claymore, who had impressed with an emphatic debut win over seven at Newmarket in October in which My Prospero (Ire) (Iffraaj {GB}) was third, had returned with a second to Native Trail (GB) (Oasis Dream {GB}) in the Craven which continues to grow in stature with each passing week. The third Hoo Ya Mal (GB) (Territories {Ire}) is now a well-known name following his Derby second, Kingmax was in fourth, the fifth-placed Star of India (Ire) (Galileo {Ire}) took the Listed Dee S. and the one who was last of the six was Zechariah (Ire) (Nathaniel {Ire}) who went so close in Wednesday's G2 Queen's Vase here. For all the promise of his performance in that Newmarket contest, it seemed to be undone by Claymore's rank display from a coffin-box draw in the G1 Poule d'Essai des Poulains at ParisLongchamp May 15 so it was a relief that he was able to pull it all together again.

Trainer Jane Chapple-Hyam is now on two winners for the week, which in terms of string size is nothing short of a remarkable tally. She said, “Claymore is in his comfort zone when he is up there bowling along in front. He has got a huge stride. Stepping up to 10 furlongs has helped him. It is lovely that Mary Slack has come over from South Africa for today and he will be able to stand at one of her studs. There is no plan at the moment. Wherever Mary wants to go, I'll send him.” The owner added, “We thought he would run well in the French Guineas, but he was hopeless from a terrible draw. This was the return. I have never been to these heights before.”

John Gosden suggested that a drop in trip could be next for Reach For the Moon. “The mother was very, very fast, so perhaps we've run him beyond his trip,” he commented. “I'm not sure he quite stayed it out, but we'll see–it could well be a possibility. He's never run over that trip before. He ran a great race first time back in the Heron Stakes and My Prospero franked the form in the St James's Palace, so we may well be dealing with a horse who only stays a stiff mile. I don't know.”

Claymore is out of the unraced Brit Wit (GB) (High Chaparral {Ire}), who is a daughter of the Listed Harvest S. winner and G2 Park Hill S.-placed Brisk Breeze (Ger) (Monsun {Ger}). The third dam Bela-M (Ire) (Ela-Mana-Mou {Ire}) took the Listed Nereide-Rennen and was third in the G3 Prix Fille de l'Air. The dam's unraced 2-year-old filly Uniqa (Fr) (Cloth of Stars {Ire}) is followed by a yearling filly by Amaron (GB) named Baroness von Aesch (Ger) and a filly foal by Areion (Ger).

Thursday, Ascot, Britain
HAMPTON COURT S.-G3, £100,000, Ascot, 6-16, 3yo, 9f 212yT, 2:07.45, g/f.
1–CLAYMORE (FR), 128, c, 3, by New Bay (GB)
1st Dam: Brit Wit (GB), by High Chaparral (Ire)
2nd Dam: Brisk Breeze (Ger), by Monsun (Ger)
3rd Dam: Bela-M (Ire), by Ela-Mana-Mou (Ire)
1ST BLACK-TYPE WIN; 1ST GROUP WIN. (€5,000 Ylg '20 ARQDOY; £10,000 2yo '21 TATGOR). O-Mrs Mary Slack; B-Guenther Schmidt (FR); T-Jane Chapple-Hyam; J-Adam Kirby. £59,200. Lifetime Record: 4-2-1-0, $101,110. Werk Nick Rating: A. Click for the eNicks report & 5-cross pedigree.
2–Reach For The Moon (GB), 128, c, 3, Sea The Stars (Ire)–Golden Stream (Ire), by Sadler's Wells. O/B-The Queen (GB); T-John & Thady Gosden. £22,390.
3–Kingmax (Ire), 128, c, 3, Kingman (GB)–Baino Hope (Fr), by Jeremy. 1ST BLACK TYPE; 1ST GROUP BLACK TYPE. (£120,000 Ylg '20 GOFOR). O-Amo Racing Ltd; B-Sunderland Holding Inc (IRE); T-David Loughnane. £11,190.
Margins: 1 3/4, 1, 3/4. Odds: 7.00, 0.40, 16.00.
Also Ran: Cresta (Fr), Maksud (GB), Howth (Ire). Click for the free Equineline.com catalogue-style pedigree.

 

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Last Call For Breezers At Goresbridge In Newmarket

NEWMARKET, UK—A little later than scheduled, the European 2-year-old sales season will conclude on Thursday with the Tattersalls Ireland Goresbridge Breeze-up, which has returned to Newmarket for a second year owing to ongoing Covid travel restrictions.

What was already a bumper catalogue for a one-day sale of more than 200 horses has been beefed up still by the inclusion of 16 wild cards that have been rerouted from other recent sales for a variety of reasons. They include horses with some pretty starry pedigrees, so be prepared for some of the major action to take place late in the day.

Indeed the last three catalogued all have plenty to recommend them on paper. Lot 241 from Mayfield Stables is the American Pharoah colt out of the Irish champion 2-year-old filly Damson (Ire) (Entrepreneur), who has already produced a smart juvenile in the form of G2 Flying Childers S winner Requinto (Ire) (Dansili {GB}).

He will be followed by a son of Kingman (GB), offered by Kilbrew Stables and sold for 300,000gns when he was offered in the same ring as a foal. Lot 242's dam Patsy Boyne (Ire) (Galileo {Ire}) is a three-parts sister to High Chaparral (Ire) and recent updates to an already lovely page have come in the form of the G1 Prix de Diane victory for Fancy Blue (Ire) (Deep Impact {Jpn}), whose dam Chenchikova (Ire) is High Chaparral's full-sister. 

Both of the above were withdrawn from last week's Arqana Breeze-up Sale at Doncaster, the latter with a stone bruise, but the final lot through the ring on Friday, 243, was bought back at £150,000. The son of Dark Angel (Ire) is the second foal of the Irish 1000 Guineas winner Jet Setting (Ire) (Fast Company {Ire}) and is consigned by Star Bloodstock. 

Among those in the original line-up for the Goresbridge sale, Folistown Farm's Dandy Man (Ire) colt (lot 51) could be in line for an update come Friday as he is a half-brother to the dam of Mystery Angel (Ire) (Kodi Bear {Ire}), who was supplemented for the Oaks earlier this week by her trainer George Boughey.

Plenty of this season's leading freshman sires are represented, including Galileo Gold (Ire), who sired his first stakes winner, Ebro River (Ire), last Thursday. That colt was bred by Tally-Ho Stud, which stands Galileo Gold, and offers one of his juveniles for sale at the breeze (lot 44), as well as four by his fellow freshman Cotai Glory (GB) and four by leading second-season sire Mehmas (Ire), himself a former breeze-up graduate.

Hyde Park Stud features early with lot 4, an Invincible Spirit (Ire) first foal of the Frankel (GB) mare Elphin (GB). The colt's dam hails from the Juddmonte family that includes Mandaloun (Into Mischief) who could yet be named as this year's winner of the Kentucky Derby following confirmation on Wednesday that the B-sample taken from Medina Spirit (Protonico) has also tested positive for the prohibited corticosteroid betamethasone.

Ardglas Stables has a draft of five juveniles for the final sale of the year, including the sole breezer by Claiborne Farm's Blame in the catalogue. Offered as lot 162, she is a half-sister to the American listed winner Touch Magic (Lion Heart) and five other winners, and is from a family which includes GI Hopeful S winner Sky Mesa.

Mary Reynolds, who runs Ardglas Stables with Ambrose O'Mullane, noted that she was pleased by the level of activity on the sales grounds at Park Paddocks over the last few days.

“I'm getting a good vibe about the sale and we've been very busy,” she said. “We've an Oasis Dream (GB), an Aclaim (Ire) colt, and fillies by Acclamation (GB) and Blame, and they have all been very busy. We couldn't have been happier with the job they've done on the ground for the breeze this morning. We know Newmarket inside out by now.”

Reynolds added, “We've more expense added to it by travelling them over from Ireland, which wasn't easy with the way things are, but the simple fact is that the sale has moved to the UK because nobody can travel to Ireland. 

“I'm sure ITM and Tattersalls Ireland are all doing their bit in trying to bring people in for the sale. We've had a long winter, myself and Ambrose, we did all of the horses ourselves with no help, so it will be great to have a little break after this before we get going again with the yearlings.”

The catalogue also features 11 fillies who are eligible for the Great British Bonus Scheme, which celebrated its first anniversary this week and has thus far paid out just shy of £2.5 million in bonuses for Flat and National Hunt fillies and mares.

One of the scheme's multiple winners this season is the George Boughey-trained Beautiful Sunshine (GB), a daughter of the prolific first-season sire Ardad (Ire) who was withdrawn from the Tattersalls Craven Sale. Her two wins have netted £40,000, the majority of which is paid to her owner Amo Racing. Bred by Jocelyn Targett, Beautiful Sunshine is now on course for a step into stakes company at Royal Ascot.

The Tattersalls Ireland Goresbridge Breeze-up Sale gets underway in Newmarket at 10.30am.

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