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New Bay’s Saffron Beach Bounces Back In The Atalanta

Yet another member of the cast from the G1 Falmouth S. to uphold the high standard of form of that July 9 Newmarket feature, Saffron Beach (Ire) (New Bay {GB}) who had scoped dirty after finishing 11th there came roaring back in Saturday's G3 Betway Atalanta S. at Sandown. Tracking the leading pair under Hollie Doyle, the May 2 G1 1000 Guineas runner-up was sent to the front approaching the two-furlong marker and stayed on strongly to take the mile contest by 2 1/4 lengths from Waliyak (Fr) (Le Havre {Ire}), with Ville de Grace (GB) (Le Havre {Ire}) half a length away in third. “I was surprised she went off the price she did, as on form figures she had the best in the race if she turned up and she did,” Doyle said of the 9-2 shot. “She settled beautifully today and that ground probably slowed her down a bit and she dropped her head. I knew she would get a bit further, so I committed two down and she ran through the line. I think she would get 10 furlongs, but ridden like that I don't see why she can't stay at a stiff mile.”

Successful in the seven-furlong G3 Oh So Sharp S. on soft ground at Newmarket in October, Saffron Beach found the speedier Sacred (GB) (Exceed and Excel {Aus}) 3/4 of a length too strong in the G3 Nell Gwyn S. over the same course and distance on her return Apr. 14 before her stellar effort in the Guineas. Eighth when failing to stay in the storm-hit G1 Epsom Oaks June 4, the chestnut had a valid excuse for her Falmouth flop but had a class edge here as long as that experience had not left a mark. “She really enjoyed coming up the hill the last two furlongs,” trainer Jane Chapple-Hyam said. “We had our hiccup in the Oaks and a hiccup in the Falmouth, where she scoped dirty afterwards, and she has come back here as the filly we know that she is. It was important today, just because we believe in the horse and I had to drop her back to a group 3 just to get the horse's confidence back as much as anything. I'd love to have a little go at the [GI] E. P. Taylor [at Woodbine Oct. 17] as I love to travel. I made my decision in the Oaks and it was wrong, so I think I have to leave it to the owners.”

Saffron Beach's dam Falling Petals (Ire) (Raven's Pass) counts among her half-siblings the G1 Middle Park S. third Huntdown (Elusive Quality) and the latter's full-sister Continua, who in turn produced the G3 World Trophy S. and G3 Molecomb S.-winning sire Cotai Glory (GB) (Exceed and Excel {Aus}). The second dam is the listed-placed Infinite Spirit (Maria's Mon), while the third dam Eternal Reve (Diesis {GB}) annexed the G3 Matron S. and was runner-up in the G1 Coronation S. and is related to the leading sire Miswaki. Falling Petals' unraced 2-year-old colt by Cotai Glory's sire was bought for 120,000gns by Shadwell at the Tattersalls October Yearling Sale Book 2 and is named Eshkaal (Ire), while she also has a yearling filly by Australia (GB) due to sell at the upcoming Book 1 Sale and a 2021 full-brother to Saffron Beach.

Saturday, Sandown, Britain
BETWAY ATALANTA S.-G3, £80,000, Sandown, 8-21, 3yo/up, f/m, 8fT, 1:42.73, gd.
1–SAFFRON BEACH (IRE), 124, f, 3, by New Bay (GB)
1st Dam: Falling Petals (Ire), by Raven's Pass
2nd Dam: Infinite Spirit, by Maria's Mon
3rd Dam: Eternal Reve, by Diesis (GB)
(55,000gns Wlg '18 TATFOA). O-Mrs B V Sangster, J Wigan & O Sangster; B-China Horse Club International Ltd (IRE); T-Jane Chapple-Hyam; J-Hollie Doyle. £45,368. Lifetime Record: G1SP-Eng, 7-3-2-0, $227,596. Werk Nick Rating: A++. Click for the eNicks report & 5-cross pedigree.
2–Waliyak (Fr), 130, f, 4, Le Havre (Ire)–Vadariya (GB), by Sea The Stars (Ire). (€240,000 Ylg '18 ARAUG). O-Fawzi Abdulla Nass; B-Soledad de Moratalla & Alban Chevalier du Fau (FR); T-Roger Varian. £17,200.
3–Ville de Grace (GB), 124, f, 3, Le Havre (Ire)–Archangel Gabriel, by Arch. (€300,000 RNA Ylg '19 ARAUG). O/B-Hunscote Stud Ltd & Chris Humber (GB); T-Sir Michael Stoute. £8,608.
Margins: 2 1/4, HF, HF. Odds: 4.50, 4.50, 22.00.
Also Ran: Potapova (GB), Maamora (Ire), Jouska (GB), Auria (GB), Indigo Girl (GB), Rosemary and Thyme (GB), Illykato (GB). Scratched: Meu Amor (Fr). Click for the Racing Post result or the free Equineline.com catalogue-style pedigree.

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Veronique a Timely Purchase for Holmes

Tony Holmes has enjoyed sales success with mares he has purchased in partnership with employees of his Marula Park Stud in the past, but next week the native New Zealander and a 22-year veteran of the farm may have success on the next level when they send Veronique (Mizzen Mast) (hip 244D) through the ring during Monday’s first session of the Keeneland November Breeding Stock Sale. Holmes purchased the mare, in foal to Mastery, privately after she RNA’d for $22,000 at last year’s Keeneland November sale. It was 10 months later that her son Nashville (Speightstown) made a smashing debut at Saratoga (video), earning the ‘TDN Rising Star’ designation. When the 3-year-old colt romped home by an effortless looking 9 3/4 lengths in a Keeneland allowance (video) Oct. 10, Holmes and his partner decided to supplement the mare to the November sale.

“There is a really nice man who has worked for us for 22 years and I was looking for a mare for us to own together,” Holmes explained of Veronique’s purchase last fall. “I financed the mare and that was the whole objective. He’s been the backbone of our operation and he’s a really nice guy. The plan was to sell babies out of this mare for an income. But things have swung around in our favor, so you’ve got to take them when they do that.”

While Nashville hadn’t made it to the races yet, the colt had made a good impression in the sales ring where he sold for $460,000 to WinStar Farm and China Horse Club at the 2018 Keeneland September sale.

“Obviously, her babies had sold well and I knew that, at that time, Nashville was having a spell,” Holmes said of the mare’s appeal. “I had heard that he had ability and I knew he was at WinStar and having a spell there. I knew there was still hope.”

Nashville was pre-entered in both the GI Breeders’ Cup Sprint and GI Breeders’ Cup Big Ass Dirt Mile, but it was announced Monday he would instead target Saturday’s Perryville S. on the championship undercard.

Holmes said Nashville’s impressive victories, and more importantly his potential successes, will likely take his dam’s popularity to the next level in the sales ring.

“I think it’s huge,” he said of Nashville’s promise. “I’ve had mares before and sometimes they win a nice race, but with him, it’s just the way he’s done it. And then Elliott Walden said he’s one of the fastest horses WinStar Farm has ever had. I’ve been in the position before, but not with a horse with this much talent.”

Veronique’s page received another update last week when her 2-year-old Market Cap (Candy Ride {Arg}) graduated by seven lengths at Laurel Park Oct. 30 (video).

The 9-year-old Veronique will sell Monday in foal to GI Pacific Classic winner Collected (City Zip).

“He was a horse who had won nearly $3 million, he was a good-looking horse that [Bob] Baffert trained,” Holmes said of the choice of matings. “I thought he was attractive at that price with his looks and his race record.”

Veronique’s weanling filly (hip 885) by Mastery will sell during Wednesday’s third session of the auction.

“She’s beautiful,” Holmes said of the weanling. “The man that works for us–he obviously owns half of her too–and we have four weanlings in the sale, but she gets the most grooming. Put it that way.”

The unraced Veronique is out of Styler (Holy Bull), a full-sister to GI Kentucky Derby winner Giacomo, and she is a half-sister to stakes winner Almond Roca (Speightstown) and graded placed Calistoga (Speightstown). She will be consigned to the November sale by Paramount Sales.

Holmes purchased Crystal Shard (Mr. Prospector) for $23,000 at the 2010 Keeneland November sale, also on behalf of a partnership of his farm workers. Her yearling colt at that time would go on to be GI Wood Memorial S. winner Gemologist. The mare was sold privately at a hefty profit.

Asked what another success would mean for his longtime employee, Holmes laughed and said, “I hope he shows up the next day.”

He continued, “There was another time there we bought a mare together and it was the dam of Gemologist. So he’s been on a bit of a home run, but after he sold that mare, the next night he was out there working overtime. But it could be a real life changer for him. They are nice people. So, hopefully. Could be.”

The Keeneland November sale opens with a single Book 1 sessions beginning at noon Monday. The auction continues through Nov. 18 with sessions beginning daily at 10 a.m.

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New Bay’s Saffron Beach Wins the Oh So Sharp

Having impressed when scoring on debut in a seven-furlong Sept. 26 Newmarket maiden, Saffron Beach (Ire) (New Bay {GB}) returned to the same course and distance to enhance her reputation in Friday’s G3 Godolphin Lifetime Care Oh So Sharp S. at Newmarket. Settled in second early by Adam Kirby, the 9-4 favourite took over passing the two-furlong pole and asserted for a half-length success from Thank You Next (Ire) (No Nay Never), with Shine For You (GB) (Siyouni {Fr}) 1 1/4 lengths away in third. “She’s quite a nice filly and a strong galloper,” the winning rider said. “She’s a filly with a good mind as well, as she was backed up relatively quickly and will be a lovely prospect for next year.”

Saffron Beach, whose task was made easier here by the withdrawal of the G2 Rockfel S. second Nazuna (Ire) (Kodiac {GB}) and the flop of the G3 Weld Park S. runner-up Thinking of You (American Pharoah), could be off to Keeneland with trainer Jane Chapple-Hyam eyeing the Breeders’ Cup. “That was very good and the staff at home have done a wonderful job,” she said. “She is a quick learner and I’d love to have a crack at the Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Turf, if the owners will allow me. We know she is good. I had Annie Skates who was second in the Juvenile Fillies’ race at the Breeders’ Cup and this one is probably a quicker learner than Annie. For what she has done at home, we thought this was a suitable step up in grade.”

Sporting the Ben Sangster silks and owned in partnership with James Wigan, Saffron Beach is out of the Godolphin Polytrack winner Falling Petals (Ire) (Raven’s Pass) who was bought by the China Horse Club at the 2016 Goffs November Sale for €235,000. She is a daughter of the dual stakes-placed Infinite Spirit (Maria’s Mon) who also threw the G3 Criterion S. winner and G1 Middle Park S. third Huntdown (Elusive Quality). His full-sister Continua is the dam of three stakes performers headed by the smart sprinter Cotai Glory (GB) (Exceed and Excel {Aus}), who captured the G3 World Trophy and G3 Molecomb S. and was placed in the G1 Kings Stand S. and GII Nearctic S. A granddaughter of the G3 Matron S. winner and G1 Coronation S. and GI Queen Elizabeth II Challenge Cup runner-up Eternal Reve (Diesis {GB}), Falling Petals’ son of Cotai Glory’s sire Exceed and Excel sells on Monday at the Tattersalls October Yearling Sale Book 2. She also has a 2020 filly by Australia (GB).

Friday, Newmarket, Britain
GODOLPHIN LIFETIME CARE OH SO SHARP S.-G3, £47,000, Newmarket, 10-9, 2yo, f, 7fT, 1:27.00, sf.
1–SAFFRON BEACH (IRE), 126, f, 2, by New Bay (GB)
1st Dam: Falling Petals (Ire), by Raven’s Pass
2nd Dam: Infinite Spirit, by Maria’s Mon
3rd Dam: Eternal Reve, by Diesis (GB)
1ST BLACK-TYPE WIN; 1ST GROUP WIN. (55,000gns Wlg ’18 TATFOA). O-Mrs B V Sangster, J Wigan & O Sangster; B-China Horse Club International Ltd (IRE); T-Jane Chapple-Hyam; J-Adam Kirby. £26,654. Lifetime Record: 2-2-0-0, $41,070. Werk Nick Rating: A++. Click for the eNicks report & 5-cross pedigree.
2–Thank You Next (Ire), 126, f, 2, No Nay Never–Two Pass (Ire), by Mtoto (GB). (€34,000 Wlg ’18 GOFNOV; £52,000 Ylg ’19 GOFFPR). O-Middleham Park CXXII & Steven Rocco; B-Grenane House Stud (IRE); T-Richard Hannon. £10,105.
3–Shine For You (GB), 126, f, 2, Siyouni (Fr)–Lady Viola (GB), by Sir Percy (GB). (£140,000 Ylg ’19 GOFFPR; 85,000gns 2yo ’20 TATBRE). O-Taylor & O’Dwyer and Partners; B-Mr & Mrs A E Pakenham (GB); T-Richard Hannon. £5,057.
Margins: HF, 1 1/4, HF. Odds: 2.25, 9.00, 10.00.
Also Ran: Mamba Wamba (Ire), Setarhe (Ire), Quiet Assassin (Ire), Thinking of You, Alicestar (GB), Emulate Rose (GB). Scratched: Nazuna (Ire). Click for the Racing Post result or the free Equineline.com catalogue-style pedigree.

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Cobh First Black-Type Winner For Kodi Bear

Rathbarry Stud’s Kodi Bear (Ire) (Kodiac {GB}) was handed his first black-type winner on Friday as Cobh (Ire) captured Salisbury’s Listed Irish Stallion Farms EBF Stonehenge S. Runner-up in the Listed Pat Eddery S. at Ascot July 25, China Horse Club International’s bay tracked the early pace before taking over passing the two-furlong pole. Driven out to hold Fancy Man (Ire) (Pride of Dubai {Aus}), he scored by half a length, with 3 1/4 lengths back to Surprise Exhibit (GB) (Showcasing {GB}) in third.

Friday, Salisbury, Britain
IRISH STALLION FARMS EBF STONEHENGE S.-Listed, £23,500, Salisbury, 8-21, 2yo, 8fT, 1:43.76, g/s.
1–COBH (IRE), 127, c, 2, by Kodi Bear (Ire)
1st Dam: Arbeel (GB), by Royal Applause (GB)
2nd Dam: Waafiah (GB), by Anabaa
3rd Dam: First Waltz (Fr), by Green Dancer
1ST BLACK-TYPE WIN. (€66,000 Wlg ’18 GOFNOV; €100,000 Ylg ’19 GOFOR). O-China Horse Club International Ltd; B-Awbeg Stud (IRE); T-Clive Cox; J-Adam Kirby. £13,327. Lifetime Record: 3-2-1-0, $28,280.
2–Fancy Man (Ire), 127, c, 2, Pride of Dubai (Aus)–Fancy (Ire), by Galileo (Ire). (€30,000 Ylg ’19 GOFOR). O-Michael Pescod; B-Longfield Stud (IRE); T-Richard Hannon. £5,053.
3–Surprise Exhibit (GB), 127, c, 2, Showcasing (GB)–Astonishing (Ire), by Galileo (Ire). O/B-Apple Tree Stud (GB); T-Archie Watson. £2,529.
Margins: HF, 3 1/4, 4 1/4. Odds: 2.75, 6.00, 28.00.
Also Ran: Seventh Kingdom (GB), Knight Salute (GB), Coul Queen (Ire), Sugauli (Ire). Scratched: Bowland Park (GB). Click for the Racing Post result.

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