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Stonestreet Star Campanelle Gets First U.S. GSW in Ladies Sprint

It may be hard to believe, but American runner–and international star–Campanelle (Ire) (Kodiac {GB}) was winning her first U.S. graded event in Saturday's GIII Mint Ladies Sprint S. at Kentucky Downs. Of course, she's a Group 1 winner and highweight in both England and France, but the remarkable U.S-trained and -based 4-year-old's biggest win on American soil previously was Keeneland's listed Giant's Causeway S. in April. She'd shipped over to Royal Ascot after the Giant's Causeway to deadheat for third in the G1 Platinum Jubilee S. June 18, no easy feat amongst a 24-horse field.

Campanelle has more frequent flier miles than many people: bred in Ireland, she made her first start in the U.S. (a debut maiden win at Gulfstream), then shipped to Royal Ascot for a win in the G2 Queen Mary S. Back to the U.S. to train, she shipped to France for a G1 Darley Prix Morny victory, then back stateside again for a fourth in the GI Breeders' Cup Juvenile Fillies Turf. And that was just as a 2-year-old. Campanelle opened her 3-year-old campaign at Royal Ascot with a win in the G1 Commonwealth Cup, came back to the U.S. to train, and shipped overseas again but faltered in France at Deauville. She closed out her sophomore year in the U.S. and then began her 4-year-old account at Keeneland before the third at Ascot and now the Franklin, Ky. win. Combined, the dizzying schedule and top wins have turned Campanelle into one of the most respected female turf sprinters in the world, making her 3-5 price in the Ladies Sprint no surprise.

Her performance was no surprise either. A close-up fourth as Creative Credit (Creative Cause) flew through a :21.55 first quarter, Campanelle continued rating and was patiently parked in third at the :44.73 half. The bay came flying five wide and menacingly on the outside as Bay Storm (Kantharos), who had been tracking the leader all the way, had the wire measured. The two battled late and drove together down the stretch with neither wanting to give an inch. Campanelle edged in front and Bay Storm fought back, but Campanelle's class prevailed to get her nose down on the wire as Bay Storm had to settle for the runner-up sport after being heartbreakingly close to notching her first graded win.

“She is a fighter,” said Barbara Banke, in whose Stonestreet Stables silks Campanelle runs. “She's super fast, and she is not going to let anyone get by her if she can help it. [Jockey Irad Ortiz, Jr.] cut it a little close, but she's really good.”

Ortiz agreed: “I love her. She's the most kind, fun to ride. She's crazy good. She made the lead a little earlier today. I hit her a couple of times. She responded so I put the stick away, keeping busy on her. Maybe she got confused a little. But she saw that filly and fought back.”

Pedigree Notes:

Standing at Tally-Ho Stud in Ireland, Kodiac (GB) counts 37 group/graded winners among his 81 Northern Hemisphere-bred black-type winners. Two–Campanelle and English GSW Shaden (Ire)–are out of Namid (GB) mares, quite a statistic since they represent exactly one-third of the stakes winners out of Namid daughters. Tally-Ho, who also bred Campanelle, bought her dam for 39,000gns at Tattersalls July in 2016, got an Exceed And Excel (Aus) filly out of her in 2017, and promptly bred her back to Kodiac, resulting in Campanelle, who is the last reported foal out of Janina (GB).

Saturday, Kentucky Downs
MINT LADIES SPRINT S.-GIII, $736,030, Kentucky Downs, 9-10, 3yo/up, f/m, 6 1/2fT, 1:14.57, fm.
1–CAMPANELLE (IRE), 121, f, 4, by Kodiac (GB)
          1st Dam: Janina (GB) (SW-Eng), by Namid (GB)
          2nd Dam: Lady Dominatrix (Ire), by Danehill Dancer (Ire)
          3rd Dam: Spout House (Ire), by Flash of Steel (Ire)
(190,000gns Ylg '19 TATOCT). O-Stonestreet Stables LLC;
B-Tally Ho Stud (IRE); T-Wesley A. Ward; J-Irad Ortiz, Jr.
$317,130. Lifetime Record: Hwt. Filly at 2-European, English &
French Free Hand, G1SW-Fr & Eng, 10-6-0-2, $1,060,417.
Werk Nick Rating: A++. Click for the
eNicks report & 5-cross pedigree.
Free Equineline.com catalogue-style pedigree.
2–Bay Storm, 123, f, 4, Kantharos–Stormy Regatta, by
Midshipman. 1ST GRADED BLACK TYPE. ($400,000 2yo '20
OBSAPR). O-Bridlewood Farm; B-Candy Meadows LLC (KY);
T-Jonathan Thomas. $186,000.
3–She Can't Sing, 123, m, 5, Bernardini–Distorted Music, by
Distorted Humor. 1ST GRADED BLACK TYPE. O/B-Lothenbach
Stables, Inc. (Bob Lothenbach) (KY); T-Chris M. Block. $93,000.
Margins: NO, 3, 1. Odds: 0.78, 13.17, 33.29.
Also Ran: Brooke Marie, Jouster, Star Devine (Ire), In Good Spirits, Creative Credit, Candace O, Violenza, Elle Z, Tobys Heart. Scratched: Honey Pants, Ready To Venture (GB), Recoded, Touch of Class.
Click for the Equibase.com chart or the TJCIS.com PPs. VIDEO, sponsored by TVG.

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Queen Mary-bound ‘Monster’ Love Reigns Has Grogan Family in Dreamland

In winning her maiden by almost ten lengths on debut at Keeneland, Queen Mary favourite Love Reigns (Ire) (US Navy Flag) tore to shreds what many people thought possible for an unraced 2-year-old filly in the month of April.

There would have been more competition had Real Madrid taken to the field against a bunch of schoolboys such was the authority of the display. Love Reigns burst into the lead from stall one, powered home to win unchallenged, and the clock backed up what filled the eye.

Not even Golden Pal (Uncle Mo), who won the G2 Breeders' Cup Turf Sprint over the same course and distance in 2020, could run a quicker time than Love Reigns did in that scintillating debut.

“Any time Ben McElroy vets your horse, you know you have something special, so I was delighted that Ben bought her. When you breed horses, all you can hope for is that they go to the best trainers, and we couldn't have dreamed of better connections buying Love Reigns,” – Eoghan Grogan

Now her breeders, the father and son team of Pat and Eoghan Grogan at Killourney Mor Farm in County Offaly, are rightly dreaming about what the filly might go on to achieve at Royal Ascot.

“It's not often you see 2-year-olds win maidens by about ten lengths, especially over five and a half furlongs, and we were gob-smacked watching it,” said Eoghan, who works full-time on the farm alongside his Dad.

“I watched it with my father and, as soon as she crossed the line, I turned to him and said, 'this is a monster.' She looked incredible at Keeneland and it's the stuff of dreams to have bred one like her.”

He added, “We always loved her and she was the pick of that crop in 2020. She was a tank, a real ball of muscle.

“For her to go on and do that, it was just unreal. There has been a fantastic buzz around town and we're really looking forward to Royal Ascot now.”

Pat Smullen put Offaly on the map. The Faithful County, as it is known, is also famous for being home to Open Championship-winning golfer Shane Lowry as well as the internationally recognisable Irish whiskey Tullamore Dew.

Love Reigns may soon join that list of famous Offaly produce which is all the more remarkable given the Grogans never set out to become breeders.

Pat, a builder by trade, was once owed money by a man who settled the debt with a horse. While that horse was never much use, it sparked a love affair with the sport that burns bright to this day, and the family are keen to capitalise on their recent run of success.

“It's mad really, because if he [Pat] never got that first horse, I don't know if he'd have come down this route at all. I had no interest in horses at the time either,” explains Eoghan.

“That horse he got as part of the deal didn't work out but he was bitten by the bug and then he bought Don't Care (Ire) (Nordico) a year afterwards. She was a very good producer and got things going for us which caught my interest. I saw that you can make a good living out of this game if you have the right stock and that's what it's all about really.”

He added, “We've eight mares of our own and there's six boarders for other clients. Myself and my father are at it full-time and it's starting to take off in the past three or four years but it has been 20 years in the making. Some of the families are starting to develop as we wanted so it's great.”

Love Reigns is out of Humble And Proud (Ire) (Pivotal {GB}), whose career at Ballydoyle was cut short through injury, but she has become a proven producer on the farm. Not that things have been all plain sailing with her second career as a broodmare. They haven't.

Before her most prolific son, Glorious Empire (Ire) (Holy Roman Emperor {Ire}), became a Group 1 winner in America, Humble And Proud didn't go in foal for three years but, after having one of her ovaries removed, has gone in foal in each of the last four seasons and is bidding for a fifth in the coming weeks.

Grogan explained, “She's gone from being written off to one of our best broodmares and it wasn't as if her progeny were a massive success in the sales ring at the start either. They weren't. I think the best price we got for one before Love Reigns was £40,000.”

In Love Reigns, the Grogans certainly brought something special to the Orby Sale last year and were rewarded when Ben McElroy went to €160,000 to secure the filly on behalf of Barbara Banke's Stonestreet Stables.

Grogan remembers, “There was loads of interest in her. She was vetted five or six different times and all of the good guys were on her. Any time Ben McElroy vets your horse, you know you have something special, so I was delighted that Ben bought her. When you breed horses, all you can hope for is that they go to the best trainers, and we couldn't have dreamed of better connections buying Love Reigns.”

He added, “She was a stunning individual with a temperament to match her looks. She actually had a colic on the Saturday of the Orby Sale and I was wondering if it was going to work out or not with her but she settled down pretty quick. She tightened up a good bit and didn't show herself as well as she can on the Saturday but, she bounced back great on the Sunday, and from then on she was great. She has always had a great temperament and nothing really fazed her.”

It is that bombproof temperament which should stand to Love Reigns when she makes the trip over to Royal Ascot for the Queen Mary.

One of her last pieces of work was reported to have gone well at Keeneland, according to McElroy, who is predicting a big performance from the filly in the Queen Mary, provided she gets her ground.

He said, “She worked on Sunday and it's all systems go for Royal Ascot now. The ground was actually soft at Keeneland and I definitely think she will want it firm at Royal Ascot. Hopefully we get lucky with the weather and, if we do, I'd be very happy about her chances in the Queen Mary.”

McElroy knows a thing or two about what a Royal Ascot winner looks like. Dual Royal Ascot scorer Campanelle (Ire) (Kodiac {GB}), who returns in Ward's raiding party for the this year, was also sourced in Ireland by McElroy on behalf of Stonestreet for 190,000gns and the renowned agent recalls how Love Reigns was just what he looks for in sourcing a royal runner.

He explained, “Barbara Banke loves Royal Ascot so, when we go to the sales, we're looking for something that's going to be a precocious 2-year-old that will suit Wesley Ward and be out in April or early May. That sets you up, if you are good enough, to take a tilt at one of the 2-year-old races at Royal Ascot. Obviously in her case, she always showed herself to have a lot of potential and Irad Ortiz rode her in two or three pieces of work before she ever ran and relayed to Wesley that she was his best 2-year-old, never mind Stonestreet's.”

McElroy added, “We were excited for her debut at Keeneland but she was drawn one in a 12-horse field, which is always a worry, but she proved Irad right on that performance. One of the reporters from the DRF told Wesley that it was the fastest 2-year-old performance in Keeneland, which encompasses Breeders' Cup races, meaning she ran faster than Golden Pal did as a 2-year-old. Visually, it looked very impressive, and the clock backed it up.”

Humble And Proud, the rather aptly-named broodmare, gave birth to a Mehmas (Ire) colt last week, and the Grogan family are now contemplating a return to US Navy Flag (War Front) on the strength of what Love Reigns did on debut.

She may only have graced the track once, but it's not often that a filly has left such an impression. Like McElroy, the Grogans will be hoping that Love Reigns can prove their eyes-and the clock-right in the Queen Mary.

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Golden Pal Leads Ward Ascot Workers

Wesley Ward worked five of his Royal Ascot contenders over the Keeneland turf Friday led by GI Breeders' Cup Turf Sprint winner Golden Pal (Uncle Mo). He covered five panels in a bullet 1:02.80 (1/8) (video). Winner of the GII Shakertown S. last out Apr. 9, the bay is being pointed at the G1 King's Stand S. at the Royal meeting June 14.

“I thought he had an unbelievable breeze today,” Ward said. “The turf was soggy, and I love to breeze on a deep, soft turf. They come in and out of the works so good. He broke off 10 lengths in front of a 2-year-old filly, ['TDN Rising Star'] Love Reigns (Ire) (U S Navy Flag)–she's no match for a horse like him at this stage of her career–but she had a target. She had a great work (1:03.60) following the fastest horse in the world. He skipped over it–it was unbelievable. That's what you want to see.”

Love Reigns, owned by Stonestreet Stables, scored a 9 3/4-length victory at Keeneland in her Apr. 29 career debut sprinting on turf. She is scheduled to race in the G2 Queen Mary S. June 15.

Stonestreet also owns G1 Platinum Jubilee S.-bound Campanelle (Ire) (Kodiac {GB}) (1:04) and Palace of Holyroodhouse S. contender Ruthin (GB) (Ribchester {Ire}) (1:04.80) (video). Campanelle is bidding for her third win at Royal Ascot, following triumphs in the Queen Mary in 2020 and G1 Commonwealth Cup in 2021.

Ward's other Royal Ascot worker was Andrew Farm and For the People Racing Stable's No Nay Hudson (Ire) (No Nay Never) (1:06.40), who is headed to the Windsor Castle June 15. No Nay Hudson won his career debut at Keeneland Apr. 28 on the dirt.

On June 8, they have a direct flight from Indianapolis to London Stansted Airport, “and they land and have a 10-minute ride to Chelmsford Racecourse, where they'll stay for three days until they go to Ascot,” Ward said.

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Campanelle Exudes Class in Giant’s Causeway

Stonestreet Stables LLC's Campanelle (Ire) (Kodiac {GB}) touched 3-2 in the final stages of the wagering for Saturday's Listed Giant's Causeway S. at Keeneland, but drifted all the way out to 19-10 and asserted her class to post her third career black-type success in stakes-record time.

Away fairly, the 190,000gns Tattersalls October acquisition settled in fifth position and raced a touch keen three off the inside into the turn. Going well on the turn, she was eased out into the four path at the quarter, was shaken up and hit the front with a little less than a furlong to race and pulled away to take it by about two lengths in the stakes-record time of 1:01.98. 'TDN Rising Star' Star Devine (Ire) (Fastnet Rock {Aus}) sat a perfect inside trip and kicked on to be second.

Winner of the G2 Queen Mary S. at Royal Ascot in 2020, Campanelle added a two-length success in Deauville's G1 Prix Morny, but failed to see out the mile when fourth in the GI Breeders' Cup Juvenile Fillies Turf. Second past the post in last year's G1 Commonwealth Cup at the Royal meeting, the bay was put up to the victory, but was a disappointing 12th in the G1 Prix Maurice de Gheest in August and was a quietly ridden third in this track's GIII Franklin County S. when last seen Oct. 15.

While it has been an uncharacteristically quiet beginning to the Keeneland meet with his 2-year-olds, trainer Wesley Ward is quickly snapping up the turf stakes, having saddled Golden Pal (Uncle Mo) in the GII Shakertown S. last Saturday and Ruthin (GB) (Ribchester {Ire}) in Friday's Limestone S. Ward indicated that Campanelle is on track for the £1-million G1 Platinum Jubilee June 18, Ward said. Click for the Equibase.com chart or VIDEO, sponsored by TVG.

GIANT'S CAUSEWAY S., $162,461, Keeneland, 4-16, 3yo/up, f/m, 5 1/2fT, 1:01.98 (NSR), gd.
1–CAMPANELLE (IRE), 122, f, 4, Kodiac (GB)–Janina (GB) (SW-Eng), by Namid (GB). (190,000gns Ylg '19 TATOCT). O-Stonestreet Stables LLC; B-Tally Ho Stud (IRE); T-Wesley A. Ward; J-Irad Ortiz Jr. $83,700. Lifetime Record: Hwt. 2yo Filly-Eur, Eng & Fr, G1SW-Eng & Fr, 8-5-0-1, $644,789.
2–Star Devine (Ire), 122, f, 4, Fastnet Rock (Aus)–Stars At Night (Ire), by Galileo (Ire). 'TDN Rising Star' (200,000gns Ylg '19 TATOCT). O-Lawrence Goichman; B-Rockhart Trading Ltd (IRE); T-Jorge R Abreu. $27,000.
3–Goin' Good, 122, f, 4, Congrats–Good Deed, by Broken Vow. O/B-Klein Racing (KY); T-Brad H Cox. $17,992.
Margins: 2HF, 1HF, NO. Odds: 1.90, 17.30, 9.30.
Also Ran: Change of Control, Elle Z, Jouster, Risky Reward, Phantom Vision, Violenza, A G Indy, Hear My Prayer, Headline Hunter, Ghosting Kim. Scratched: Ambassador Luna, Social Chatter.

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