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Glass Slippers Returns in Temple S.

Multiple Group 1 winner Glass Slippers (GB) (Dream Ahead) will make her first start of 2021 in the G2 Casumo Temple S. at Haydock on May 22. A winner of the 2019 G1 Prix de l'Abbaye, the 5-year-old mare added the G1 Derrinstown Stud Flying Five S. at The Curragh last September and, second in the 2020 l'Abbaye, signed off with a win in the GI Breeders' Cup Turf Sprint for owner/breeder Bearstone Stud and trainer Kevin Ryan.

“The plan is to start her off in the Temple S. prior to going to Royal Ascot,” Ryan said. “Although this is her first run of the year she is in great form. Anything she does at Haydock she will improve for it, but it is a good starting point. Haydock is a good galloping track and we are very much looking forward to getting her going there.

“She had a fantastic time last year, though it is always in the back of your mind that she is better in the second half of the season. Whether that is going to be different this year I don't know, but we are very fortunate to have her back in training again this year as she is an exceptional mare.”

“Retirement is always something that is always going to be there after what she has done. She is a homebred filly and they [Bearstone Stud Limited] have been breeding horses for a long time. They wanted to have another season racing with her which is very sporting as she is still plenty young enough to breed plenty of foals later on.”

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Glass Slippers Takes Rail Trip To Become First European To Win Turf Sprint

Glass Slippers (GB) justified a long flight from her European base with a brilliant performance under a patient ride by jockey Tom Eaves to win the Grade 1 Breeders' Cup Turf Sprint Saturday. The 4-year-old filly hung well back, tucked along the rail behind the majority of the field through the backstretch and around the turn, appeared to have nowhere to go until a gap opened up, allowing Eaves to quietly ease her closer to the pace. Still, Glass Slippers was forced to wait behind dueling Wildman Jack and Into Mystic in front, hemmed in to her right shoulder by Extravagant Kid. She found another gear and burst through a narrow gap inside of Extravagant Kid, charging forward to challenge Wildman Jack, easily putting him away and holding off a wall of late challengers led by Wet Your Whistle. The final margin was a half length.

“It's just brilliant,” said Eaves. “We arrived on Monday and we exercised her on the turf track all week. We also walked it a couple of times. I spoke to Ryan Moore beforehand for some advice on how to ride the track. What a training performance. She's been great all year so come to and win it's unreal. She's raced round a bend before but the plan was to go on the instead and ride for a bit of luck. We had a great run through which doesn't always work but it did today. To have a Breeders' Cup winner Is amazing and a day I won't forget. She'll be in training again next year.”

The win is the first in the Breeders' Cup Turf Sprint for a European-based horse.

Wet Your Whistle was second, followed by Leinster. Glass Slippers paid $22.40 to win.

The final time for the five and a half furlongs was 1:01.53.

Kevin Ryan trains Glass Slippers for owner/breeder Bearstone Stud Limited. She is the daughter of Dream Ahead and Night Gypsy (GB) by Mind Games (GB). The filly came to this race off a narrow second-place finish in the G1 Prix de l'Abbaye de Longchamp on Oct. 20, and a win prior to that in the G1 Flying Five Stakes at the Curragh.

“Awesome. I'm ecstatic,” said Ryan. “To come and compete against the best sprinters in the world and beat them is just amazing. She's been great all week. Every day getting fresher and cantering on the turf track every morning. I said to Tom earlier in the week now you're going quicker running into bend let's see how she changes her legs and straight away no issues at all in the bend. I knew then we were in business. We decided going on a brave ride up the inner and go the shortest route and if it didn't work such is life. Today was our day.”

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Glass Slippers Makes History For Europe in the Turf Sprint

Bearstone Stud’s Glass Slippers (GB) (Dream Ahead) became the first European invader to win the GI Breeders’ Cup Turf Sprint, weaving her way through traffic to score a late-charging victory at Keeneland Saturday. Sent off at 10-1, the bay filly settled well slightly behind midpack as longshot Into Mystic (Into Mischief) took the field through an opening quarter in :21.26 while prompted by Bombard (War Front) and Texas Wedge (Colonel John). She inched closer along the rail on the turn and cut the corner into the straight and she was shoulder to shoulder with Imprimis (Broken Vow), both ready to strike following a half in :43.81. While Imprimis’s lane was abruptly closed off by Leinster (Majestic Warrior), Glass Slippers found a seam and charged to daylight before holding off the late-closing Wet Your Whistle (Stroll). Leinster, favored at 4-1, settled for third after racing prominently throughout.

Glass Slipper is the fourth female to beat the boys in the Turf Sprint.

“What a training performance,” winning rider Tom Eaves said. “She’s been great all year, so come to and win it’s unreal. She’s raced round a bend before, but the plan was to go on the inside and ride for a bit of luck. We had a great run through, which doesn’t always work, but it did today. To have a Breeders’ Cup winner is amazing and a day I won’t forget.”

Of the result, winning trainer Kevin Ryan said, “Awesome. I’m ecstatic. To come and compete against the best sprinters in the world and beat them is just amazing. She’s been great all week. Every day getting fresher and cantering on the turf track every morning. I said to Tom earlier in the week, ‘Now you’re going quicker running into bend let’s see how she changes her legs’ and straight away no issues at all in the bend. I knew then we were in business. We decided going on a brave ride up the inner and go the shortest route and if it didn’t work, such is life. Today was our day.”

Glass Slippers won last year’s G1 Prix de l’Abbaye de Longchamp. She opened 2020 with a fifth-place effort in the G1 King’s Stand S. at Royal Ascot in June and was second in the July 31 GII King George Qatar S. before winning the Sept. 13 G1 Derrinstown Stud Flying Five S. at The Curragh. She missed by just a neck when second in her defense attempt in the Prix de l’Abbaye last time out Oct. 4.

Pedigree Notes:

Terry Holdcroft’s Bearstone Stud purchased Glass Slippers’ second dam Ocean Grove for 20,952gns at the 1996 Tattersalls December sale. That mare’s first foal was Glass Slippers’ dam Night Gypsy.

Glass Slippers is the first American graded stakes winner for her three-time Group 1-winning sire Dream Ahead.

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Belardo’s Lullaby Moon Powers To Miesque Triumph

Ralph Beckett trainee Lullaby Moon (GB) (Belardo {Ire) bagged two of her first three outings before hitting the board in Ayr’s Sept. 19 G3 Firth of Clyde Fillies’ S. and broke through for a first black-type success in Redcar’s Oct. 3 Listed Two-Year-Old Trophy last time. Sent postward as the 11-10 odds for Saturday’s G3 Prix Miesque at Chantilly, she overcame a troubled passage to justify favouritism and earn a career high in the seven-furlong contest. The eventual winner was swiftly into stride and on the lead early, but was shuffled back to race fifth along the rail as keener rivals set each other alight up front after the initial exchanges. Slipping down to seventh and boxed up along the far-side fence in the straight, she made smooth headway to seize the moment when an opening appeared inside the final quarter mile and quickened clear once seizing control with 150 metres remaining to register an ultimately emphatic two-length success from Asterella (Fr) (Olympic Glory {Ire).

Lullaby Moon, who becomes the third pattern-race winner for her freshman sire (by Lope de Vega {Ire}), is one of five scorers from as many runners and the lone stakes representative for Bold Bidder (GB) (Indesatchel {Ire}), herself kin to two black-type performers headed by Listed St Hugh’s S. third Right Answer (GB) (Lujain), who in turn produced the dual stakes-placed Galtymore Lad (GB) (Indesatchel {Ire}). Descendants of her third dam Aryaf (Vice Regent) include MGSW sire Mind Games (GB) (Puissance {GB}) and Listed Taby Open Sprint Championship third Better Built (GB) (Xaar {GB}). Bold Bidder, whose fourth dam is Irish 1000 Guineas heroine Front Row (Ire) (Epaulette {Ire}), has a yearling colt by Ribchester (Ire) and a colt foal by Washington DC (Ire) to come.

Saturday, Chantilly, France
PRIX MIESQUE-G3, €56,000, Chantilly, 10-31, 2yo, f, 7fT, 1:35.82, hy.
1–LULLABY MOON (GB), 123, f, 2, by Belardo (Ire)
1st Dam: Bold Bidder (GB), by Indesatchel (Ire)
2nd Dam: Quiz Show (GB), by Primo Dominie (GB)
3rd Dam: Aryaf, by Vice Regent
1ST GROUP WIN. (16,000gns Ylg ’19 TAOCT). O-Amo Racing Ltd & C Obank; B-Bearstone Stud (GB); T-Ralph Beckett; J-Richard Kingscote. €28,000. Lifetime Record: SW & GSP-Eng, 6-4-0-1, €107,877. Werk Nick Rating: A+++ *Triple Plus*. Click for the eNicks report & 5-cross pedigree.
2–Asterella (Fr), 123, f, 2, Olympic Glory (Ire)–Asteria (Fr), by Orpen. O/B-John Goelet (FR); T-Mikel Delzangles. €11,200.
3–Kennella (Fr), 123, f, 2, Kendargent (Fr)–Ella Diva (Fr), by Heliostatic (Ire). O-Derek Ronald Lodge; B-Gaec Campos (FR); T-Nicolas Caullery. €8,400.
Margins: 2, NK, NK. Odds: 1.10, 23.00, 20.00.
Also Ran: Coeursamba (Fr), Miss Louna (Fr), Tahlie (Fr), Demonstration (Fr), Kolka (GB), Make Gold (Fr), Bonita Queen (Fr). Click for the Racing Post result or the free Equineline.com catalogue-style pedigree. Video, sponsored by Fasig-Tipton.

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