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Observations: Craven Breeze-Up Topper Debuts at Ascot

Observations on the European Racing Scene turns the spotlight on the best European races of the day, highlighting well-pedigreed horses early in their careers, horses of note returning to action and young runners that achieved notable results in the sales ring. Saturday's Insights features Ocean Runner (Ire), a joint sale topper at the Tattersalls Craven Breeze-Up Sale, at Ascot.

15.10 Ascot, Novice, £15,000, 2yo, 5fT
OCEAN RUNNER (IRE) (Blue Point {Ire}) was the joint-sale topper at the Tatts Craven Breeze-Up last month and starts out for Godolphin's Charlie Appleby stable responsible for last year's winner Noble Style (GB) (Kingman {GB}). A 625,000gns purchase, the March-foaled son of the G3 Grangecon Stud S. winner Most Beautiful (GB) (Canford Cliffs {Ire}) encounters Victorious Racing and Fawzi Nass's impressive Windsor winner Valour And Swagger (Ire) also by Blue Point.

14.45 Haydock, Cond, £25,000, 3yo/up, 6fT
CREATIVE FORCE (IRE) (Dubawi {Ire}) is without a win since the 2021 G1 British Champions Sprint S. and is judged in need of a confidence boost by Charlie Appleby as a result. Narrowly denied in the G1 Platinum Jubilee S. last June, Godolphin's 5-year-old needs to get back to that form following a disappointing third in Newmarket's G3 Abernant S. last month.

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A 31st TDN Rising Star For Kingman

Ascot's Naas Racecourse Royal Ascot Trials Day British EBF Fillies' S. offers the G1 Coronation S. hopefuls a chance to get acquainted with the track and Normandie Stud's Queen For You (Ire) (Kingman {GB}–Fallen For You {GB}, by Dansili {GB}) could be one for that contest after earning TDN Rising Star status on Wednesday. Debuting in the mile encounter, the John and Thady Gosden-trained daughter of the 2012 Coronation heroine whose half-siblings include the multiple group winner Glorious Journey (GB) (Dubawi {Ire}) and who is a full-sister to the listed scorer Love Is You (Ire) recovered from a tardy start to find cover behind the leaders in fifth after the initial stages.

Looming large on the stands' side at the quarter-mile marker, the 4-1 chance quickened smartly to lead approaching the final furlong and was ridden out by Robert Havlin in the closing stages to account for Copy Artist (GB) (No Nay Never) by two lengths. “This filly is still raw, but she has talent,” the rider said. “She quickened up well, she'll have learnt plenty and she can only come forward for the run.” Thady Gosden added, “She'd been going nicely at home and her mother won the Coronation Stakes, while Kingman was a champion miler. So yes, we would take a look at the Coronation Stakes. It's five weeks away, but another run would benefit her.”

 

Queen For You, amazingly the 31st TDN Rising Star for her sire, whose best in that category so far are Persian King (Ire) and Palace Pier (GB), is the sixth of eight foals and fourth scorer produced by Fallen For You, whose progeny include the multiple group winner Glorious Journey (GB) (Dubawi {Ire}) and Kingman's Listed Radley S. scorer and G3 Nell Gwyn S. third Love Is You (Ire). A daughter of the Listed Silver Trophy scorer and multiple group-placed Fallen Star (GB) (Brief Truce), she is kin to the Listed Heron S. winner Fallen Idol (GB) (Pivotal {GB}) and to the G2 Lancashire Oaks runner-up Fallen In Love (GB) (Galileo {Ire}).

Fallen In Love was in turn responsible for Kingman's Serve The King (GB), who took the GII Red Smith S. and was second in the GI Joe Hirsch Turf Classic, and also for the G3 Prix de Flore scorer Loving Things (GB) (Pivotal {GB}) who was third in the Lancashire Oaks. Also connected to the G1 Lockinge S.-winning sire Fly To The Stars (GB) (Bluebird) and the G2 Mehl-Mulhens-Rennen winner Peace At Last (Ire) (Oasis Dream {GB}), Fallen For You's 2-year-old filly Fight For You (Ire) is by Saxon Warrior (Jpn) while she also has a yearling colt by Lope De Vega (Ire).

3rd-Ascot, £40,000, Cond, 5-3, 3yo, f, 8fT, 1:46.04, gd.
QUEEN FOR YOU (IRE), f, 3, by Kingman (GB)
     1st Dam: Fallen For You (GB) (G1SW-Eng, $286,833), by Dansili (GB)
     2nd Dam: Fallen Star (GB), by Brief Truce
     3rd Dam: Rise And Fall (GB), by Mill Reef
Lifetime Record: 1-1-0-0, $25,703. O/B-Normandie Stud Ltd (IRE); T-John & Thady Gosden. Click for the free Equineline.com catalogue-style pedigree.

 

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Daughter Of Fallen For You Debuts At Ascot

Observations on the European Racing Scene turns the spotlight on the best European races of the day, highlighting well-pedigreed horses early in their careers, horses of note returning to action and young runners that achieved notable results in the sales ring. Wednesday's Observations features a daughter of Group 1 winner Fallen For You (GB) (Dansili {GB}).

2.40 Ascot, Novice, £40,000, 3yo, f, 8fT
QUEEN FOR YOU (IRE) (Kingman {GB}) is the fifth foal out of the G1 Coronation S. heroine Fallen For You (GB) (Dansili {GB}) who faces a stiff task on debut in this Naas Racecourse Royal Ascot Trials Day British EBF Fillies' S. for aspirants of the 2023 renewal of that Royal test. Normandie Stud's March-foaled bay, whose half-siblings include the multiple group winner Glorious Journey (GB) (Dubawi {Ire}) and who is a full-sister to the listed scorer Love Is You (Ire), is pitched against experienced rivals by John and Thady Gosden but receives upwards of nine pounds as a result.

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Bradsell Back At Ascot

Ascot's Wednesday fixture features some interesting pointers to the Royal meeting and, while the card needs some work to be seen as a true “trials” event, the G3 British Racing School 40th Anniversary Commonwealth Cup Trial is likely to provide some meaningful clues ahead of the main event. The six-furlong test, registered as the Pavilion S., sees the return of Victorious Racing's impressive G2 Coventry S. winner Bradsell (GB) (Tasleet {GB}) who has not been seen since sustaining an injury during the G1 Phoenix S. in August.

“He's looking like a typical sprinter now and he's a chunky little horse,” jockey Hollie Doyle said of the TDN Rising Star. “His work has been pretty solid and it's a great starting point. It's practically the Commonwealth Cup minus a few, so it's a very hot race. He has his course-and-distance form and although he may be unknown on the ground, a few of them are in the same boat.”

Paying The Penalty

Forced to race under a four-pound extra burden are Godolphin's G1 Breeders' Cup Juvenile Turf Sprint winner Mischief Magic (Ire) (Exceed And Excel {Aus}) and Rockcliffe Stud's G2 Flying Childers S. and G3 Molecomb S. scorer Trillium (GB) (No Nay Never), with Charlie Appleby saying of the former, “He is better suited to a bigger field and a sounder surface, but it's very much a starting point for the season and hopefully a stepping stone to the Commonwealth Cup.” Both failed to make a serious impact in their Newmarket Group 1 tests in the autumn and Trillium needs to prove she can see out this sixth furlong and race with more restraint.

New Route For Marbaan

Sheikh Ahmed Al Maktoum's G2 Vintage S. winner Marbaan (GB) (Oasis Dream {GB}) failed in two Group 1 contests at two, leaving Charlie Fellowes keen to test the waters back at sprinting. “I felt towards the end of last year that maybe he didn't quite see out the seven furlongs,” he said. “Being by Oasis Dream, I think there's a good chance he might be happier over six furlongs and I think Ascot will really suit him. I think the ground will be perfect and I guess we'll find out where we really stand for this year. He took a while to come to hand this year but he did a really nice piece of work last week and that's given me the confidence that six furlongs should be fine.”

The Long And The Short Of It

Wednesday's G3 Longines Sagaro S. and Listed Howden Bloodstock Paradise S. offer the chance for the Gold Cup and Queen Anne hopefuls to stretch their legs, with the former hosting another encounter between gunslingers Trueshan (Fr) (Planteur {Ire}) and Coltrane (Ire) (Mastercraftsman {Ire}), who duked it out in the course-and-distance G2 British Champions Long Distance Cup in October while the Paradise sees Sunderland Holdings' G1 Champion S. third My Prospero (Ire) (Iffraaj {GB}) revert to the mile over which he was third in last year's G1 St James's Palace S.

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