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Kingman’s Commissioning Strikes Late For G1 Fillies’ Mile Glory

Isa Salman and Abdulla Al Khalifa's homebred 2-year-old filly Commissioning (GB) (Kingman {GB}–Sovereign Parade {Ire}, by Galileo {Ire}) backed up a July 30 debut victory at Newmarket's July course with a taking score in last month's G2 Rockfel S. and stepped forward to provide rider Rab Havlin with a first Group 1 triumph in Friday's G1 bet365 Fillies' Mile back at the town's Rowley Mile venue. The 8-13 favourite was alert from the traps and was positioned in a close-up sixth through the early stages. Tanking forward to go second with three furlongs remaining, she was stirred into action at the foot of the hill and quickened in style to take control with 100 yards remaining, en route to a one-length success from long-time leader Novakai (GB) (Lope De Vega {Ire}), herself 4 3/4 lengths clear of 'TDN Rising Star' Bright Diamond (Ire) (El Kabeir) in third.

Commissioning, half to a yearling colt by Fastnet Rock (Aus), is the second of three foals and lone performer produced by a winning full-sister to G1 Irish Derby and G1 St Leger hero Capri (Ire) (Galileo {Ire}), G3 Stanerra S.-winning G1 Irish Oaks and G1 British Champions Fillies & Mares third Passion (Ire) (Galileo {Ire}) and G3 Loughbrown S. victor Cypress Creek (Ire) (Galileo {Ire}). The April-foaled bay's second dam Dialafara (Fr) (Anabaa), herself a half-sister to G3 Prix de Conde runner-up Diaghan (Fr) (Lawman {Fr}), is a daughter of G2 Prix de Malleret and G3 Prix de la Nonette victrix and G1 Prix Vermeille runner-up Diamilina (Fr) (Linamix {Fr}). Diamilina, in turn, is kin to four black-type performers headed by G3 Prix La Rochette winner and multiple Group 1-placed sire Diamond Green (Fr) (Green Desert).

Friday, Newmarket, Britain
BET365 FILLIES' MILE-G1, £528,750, Newmarket, 10-7, 2yo, f, 8fT, 1:36.53, gd.
1–COMMISSIONING (GB), 128, f, 2, by Kingman (GB)
1st Dam: Sovereign Parade (Ire), by Galileo (Ire)
2nd Dam: Dialafara (Fr), by Anabaa
3rd Dam: Diamilina (Fr), by Linamix (Fr)
1ST GROUP 1 WIN. O/B-Isa Salman & Abdulla Al Khalifa (GB); T-John & Thady Gosden; J-Robert Havlin. £299,854. Lifetime Record: 3-3-0-0, $412,703. Werk Nick Rating: A+. Click for the eNicks report & 5-cross pedigree, or the free Equineline.com catalogue-style pedigree.
2–Novakai (GB), 128, f, 2, Lope De Vega (Ire)–Elasia (GB), by Nathaniel (Ire). 1ST GROUP 1 BLACK TYPE. O/B-Sheikh Mohammed Obaid Al Maktoum (GB); T-Karl Burke. £113,681.
3–Bright Diamond (Ire), 128, f, 2, El Kabeir–Starlite Sienna (Ire), by Elusive Pimpernel. 1ST GROUP 1 BLACK TYPE. (€23,000 Ylg '21 GOFSPT; €52,000 2yo '22 TATGOR). O-Sheikh Rashid Dalmook Al Maktoum; B-Tom Molan (IRE); T-Karl Burke. £56,894.
Margins: 1, 4 3/4, 1 1/4. Odds: 0.62, 11.00, 7.00.
Also Ran: Polly Pott (GB), Library (Ire), Sparkling Beauty (Fr), Alseyoob (Ire), Ferrari Queen (Ire).

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Commissioning Looks To Maintain Order In The Fillies’ Mile

John and Thady Gosden had an unsually quiet season with their 2-year-olds until Isa Salman and Abdulla Al Khalifa's Commissioning (GB) (Kingman {GB}) came along and blew the scene apart in the G2 Rockfel S. a fortnight ago. Friday's G1 bet365 Fillies' Mile also on Newmarket's Rowley Mile appears hers for the taking on Friday if she can reproduce that kind of performance in such a competitive edition of that prize.

Like her, Sheikh Rashid Dalmook Al Maktoum's TDN Rising Star Bright Diamond (Ire) (El Kabeir) debuted in style on the July Course here and after winning by nine lengths Aug. 6. lost nothing in defeat when third from a compromising position in the seven-furlong G3 Prestige S. at Goodwood three weeks later. “She didn't get the run of the race at Goodwood as we were a bit slowly away, the first two were always the first two and we were the only horse to make ground up on them,” trainer Karl Burke said. “I think if she'd jumped better she'd have probably beaten them.”

The Megsons' rags-to-riches sensation Polly Pott (GB) (Muhaarar {GB}) adds a twist to this tale, having provided a grand finale to the career of Harry Dunlop in Doncaster's G2 May Hill S. Sept. 8. Is this a step too far for the 21,000gns Book 2 bargain or is there a tear-provoking moment in store to follow Alpinista's triumph on Sunday? At the other end of the spectrum, Ballydoyle's Library (Ire) (Galileo {Ire}) is of course impossible to ignore despite her underwhelming second in Leopardstown's Listed Ingabelle S. Sept. 10, with the step up to a mile sure to suit and any amount of improvement to come.

Lose Yourself In The Oh So Sharp

In the seven-furlong G3 Godolphin Lifetime Care Oh So Sharp S., there is a fascinating clash of the unbeaten Tom Clover-trained Newbury conditions scorer Crystallium (GB) (Expert Eye {GB})–only 22,000gns at the Book 2 Sale–and the Rockfel third Rage Of Bamby (Ire) (Saxon Warrior {Jpn}), with several budding stars such as the Sept. 24 Curragh maiden winner Small Oasis (GB) (Sioux Nation) from the Michael Grassick stable and the Ralph Beckett-trained July Course winner Lose Yourself (Ire) (Lope De Vega {Ire}). “We think she could be special, but the ground would be a big worry,” Grassick admitted on Thursday. “She's a far better filly with a bit of juice in the ground, so hopefully the ground doesn't get too quick for her.” Beckett's strike-rate on the Rowley Mile in the autumn is formidable and his juveniles seem especially tuned in this season, while there is also Roisin Henry's impressive Doncaster novice winner Midnight Mile (Ire) (No Nay Never), of whom Richard Fahey said, “We've been minding her as she's a filly for the future, but she's been working well.”

Crowned Prince?

Newmarket also stages the G3 Newmarket Academy Godolphin Beacon Project Cornwallis S. over five furlongs, where Middleham Park's impressive Listed Harry Rosebery S. winner Prince Of Pillo (Ire) (Prince Of Lir {Ire}) could become that breakthrough good horse that trainer Keith Dalgleish seems destined for. The G2 Thoroughbred Industry Employee Awards Challenge S. sees Cheveley Park Stud's brilliant if unpredictable Sacred (GB) (Exceed And Excel {Aus}) look to inch William Haggas towards the trainers' championship. Her emphatic display in Newbury's Listed Dubai Duty Free Cup over this seven-furlong trip Sept. 16 was the Sacred we know best. “If she runs a big race then we might be tempted to travel to the Breeders' Cup, but she'll tell us I suppose,” the Stud's managing director Chris Richardson said. “We appreciate Keeneland can have soft ground at that time of year and it's not like it would have been had the Breeders' Cup been at Santa Anita, for example, but we'll keep the window of opportunity open for now anyway.”

There is also the 10-furlong G3 Newmarket Pony Academy Pride S., where Shadwell's improving Listed John Musker Fillies' S. winner Shaara (GB) (Shamardal) is the exciting one.

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Kingman’s Commissioning Stars In The Rockfel

Newmarket's Cambridgeshire meeting is always a hotbed of future Classic prospects and Friday's G2 Al Basti Equiworld Dubai Rockfel S. unearthed one of the most exciting from Britain in 2022 as Isa Salman and Abdulla Al Khalifa's Commissioning (GB) (Kingman {GB}) maintained her unbeaten record in the 'Win and You're In' qualifier for the Nov. 4 GI Breeders' Cup Juvenile Fillies Turf.

Impressive in a July Course novice over this seven-furlong trip that has worked out well July 30, the John and Thady Gosden-trained bay was always travelling smoothly for Robert Havlin racing far side halfway down the field. Showing some signs of greenness but also evidence of a huge engine as she arrived into contention running down into the dip, the hooded 7-2 second favourite took the measure of Rage Of Bamby (Ire) (Saxon Warrior {Jpn}) a furlong out and readily asserted on the climb to the line. She had 2 3/4 lengths to spare there over the eye-catching closer Electric Eyes (Ire) (Siyouni {Fr}), another Karl Burke juvenile to make an impact in a hot race, with Rage Of Bamby fading late to be 1 1/4 lengths further away in third.

“I had to wake her up a bit and almost got into trouble by getting there too soon, so I just sat there at the two pole,” Havlin said. “When she picked up, it was kind of immediate and I got a bit lonely in front. She would stay a mile no problem–I ride her quite a lot at home and we've always thought that as she finishes her work strongly. She can be busy in the mornings but is uncomplicated at the races.”

John Gosden is looking at a potential quick return to the Rowley Mile for the G1 Fillies' Mile in two weeks' time.

“We wanted to give her a bit of time after her debut, as she was growing and she is not a big heavy robust filly. Frankie said he couldn't pull her up after her debut and she went all the way to the very end. She was just getting rolling with a furlong to go there and it was slightly the same today. The Fillies' Mile comes quickly, but she doesn't have to run again after and it is close to home. If she is happy and well, we might look at it. There is also a Breeders' Cup invitation. We did that before we went to Del Mar with a filly that won this. She didn't stay a mile, but this one will.”

Karl Burke said of the runner-up, “She is a potentially high-class filly and she has proved that today. She got a little bit sandwiched coming out of the stalls and we didn't want to be that far back. She is quite a keen-travelling horse and she always wants a bit of cover. I'd say we won't run again. She is an inexperienced filly, but she is a big raw filly and this time of the year I don't want to run her back quick and we are running out of options. The horse that finished second in this last year didn't do too bad in the 1000 Guineas!”

Eve Johnson Houghton said of Rage Of Bamby, “I definitely think she was the second-best horse in the race. I think she had been softened up by the winner and the second horse came and got her. Possibly we need to drop her back in trip, as she had them all cooked a furlong out and I'm not sure she stayed the seven furlongs 100 per cent in that company.”

Commissioning is the first runner for the dam, whose son of Fastnet Rock (Aus) sells at the upcoming Book 2. A €175,000 purchase from the Aga Khan Studs draft at the 2010 Arqana December Mixed Sale, she is a full-sister to a pair of talented Ballydoyle performers in the G1 Irish Derby and G1 St Leger hero Capri (Ire) and the G3 Stanerra S. winner and G1 Irish Oaks and G1 QIPCO British Champions Fillies & Mares S.-placed Passion (Ire). Also a full-sibling to the G3 Loughbrown S.-winning stayer Cypress Creek (Ire), the Cheltenham Festival winning hurdler Brazil (Ire) and Rosegreen's 'TDN Rising Star' juvenile Tower of London (Ire), she is a granddaughter of the G2 Prix de Malleret and G3 Prix de la Nonette scorer and G1 Prix Vermeille runner-up Diamilina (Fr) (Linamix {Fr}).

The fourth dam is the Malleret runner-up Diamonaka (Fr) (Akarad {Fr}), whose sire son Diamond Green (Fr) (Green Desert) was runner-up in the G1 Poule d'Essai des Poulains, G1 Prix du Moulin de Longchamp and G1 St James's Palace S., while she is also the second dam of the G1 Melbourne Cup runner-up Bauer (Ire) (Halling).

Friday, Newmarket, Britain
AL BASTI EQUIWORLD, DUBAI ROCKFEL S.-G2, £114,000, Newmarket, 9-23, 2yo, f, 7fT, 1:24.40, gd.
1–COMMISSIONING (GB), 128, f, 2, by Kingman (GB)
1st Dam: Sovereign Parade (Ire), by Galileo (Ire)
2nd Dam: Dialafara (Fr), by Anabaa
3rd Dam: Diamilina (Fr), by Linamix (Fr)
1ST BLACK TYPE WIN, 1ST GROUP WIN. O/B-Isa Salman & Abdulla Al Khalifa (GB); T-John & Thady Gosden; J-Robert Havlin. £64,649. Lifetime Record: 2-2-0-0, $78,027. Werk Nick Rating: A+. Click for the eNicks report & 5-cross pedigree, or click for the free Equineline.com catalogue-style pedigree.
2–Electric Eyes (Ire), 128, f, 2, Siyouni (Fr)–Love Is Blindness (Ire), by Sir Percy (GB).
1ST BLACK TYPE, 1ST GROUP BLACK TYPE. (45,000gns Ylg '21 TATOCT). O-Clipper Logistics; B-Fairway Thoroughbreds Pty Ltd (IRE); T-Karl Burke. £24,510.
3–Rage Of Bamby (Ire), 128, f, 2, Saxon Warrior (Jpn)–Rabiosa Fiore (GB), by Sakhee's Secret (GB).
1ST BLACK TYPE, 1ST GROUP BLACK TYPE. O-Hot To Trot Racing 2 & Mrs A G Kavanagh; B-Azienda Agricola Capannacce Di Teodora Giorgi (IRE); T-Eve Johnson Houghton. £12,266.
Margins: 2 3/4, 1 1/4, 2 3/4. Odds: 3.50, 16.00, 7.00.
Also Ran: Sweet Harmony (Ire), Sydneyarms Chelsea (Ire), Dance In The Grass (GB), Rich (GB), Dubai Jemila (GB), Olivia Maralda (Ire), Lakota Sioux (Ire), Ipanema Princess (Ire), Eximious (Ire), Cell Sa Beela (GB), Leitzel (GB).

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Commissioning Faces Rockfel Test At HQ

After Thursday's appetiser, Newmarket's Cambridgeshire meeting steps up on Friday with the five pattern races including the G2 Al Basti Equiworld Dubai Rockfel S. for the 2-year-old Classic aspirants, a “Win And You're In” for the GI Breeders' Cup Juvenile Fillies at Keeneland in November. Currently favourite for the seven-furlong contest is Isa Salman and Abdulla Al Khalifa's impressive July Course winner Commissioning (GB) (Kingman {GB}), who looks to provide John and Thady Gosden with a first group success for their team of 2-year-olds in 2022. There are a clutch of proven black-type performers up against her and four other unexposed and unbeaten fillies, including the Eve Johnson Houghton-trained Rage Of Bamby (Ire) (Saxon Warrior {Jpn}) who looked a smart type when doubling her tally over this trip at Leicester Sept. 6. The race also serves as a measurement of just how good the G1 Moyglare Stud S. heroine Tahiyra (Ire) (Siyouni {Fr}) is, with Gallop Racing's Aug. 6 G3 Sweet Solera S. in attendance having finished last of 11 behind The Aga Khan's star 12 days ago.

Over To Potapova

In the G2 Al Basti Equiworld Dubai Joel S., the likes of the G3 Sovereign S. and G3 Prix Quincey winner Tempus (GB) (Kingman ({GB}) and G3 Criterion S. scorer Pogo (Ire) (Zebedee {GB}) have to deal with the mercurial filly Potapova (GB) (Invincible Spirit {Ire}). Reinvigorated by exaggerated hold-up tactics when beating two subsequent Group 3 winners in Sandown's G3 Atalanta S. last time Aug. 20, the Cheveley Park Stud homebred could finally be about to fulfil her potential and remains one of the autumn's potential improvers. The G3 Princess Royal Al Basti Equiworld, Dubai S. sees Sunderland Holdings' Sea Silk Road (Ire) (Sea The Stars {Ire}) and Godolphin's Eternal Pearl (GB) (Frankel {GB}) re-oppose, having been first and second in Goodwood's Listed Height of Fashion S. over 10 furlongs May 20. Both have been upwardly-mobile since, with Eternal Pearl particularly so having won Deauville's G3 Prix Minerve over 12 1/2 furlongs last time Aug. 14.

Ballydoyle Loaded For Saturday Group 1s

Final fields were confirmed for Saturday's G1 Juddmonte Cheveley Park S. and G1 Juddmonte Middle Park S., with Aidan O'Brien providing the likely favourite for both in the already-accomplished No Nay Never duo Meditate (Ire) and Blackbeard (Ire). Both contests are typically deep, with the nine fillies pitched against Meditate in the Cheveley Park including another No Nay Never of real substance in Rockcliffe Stud's G2 Flying Childers S. and G3 Molecomb S. scorer Trillium (GB). The Middle Park includes Nick Bradley Racing and Elaine Burke's G2 Gimcrack S. runner-up Marshman (GB) (Harry Angel {Ire}) and Godolphin's impressive G3 Sirenia S. scorer Mischief Magic (Ire) (Exceed And Excel {Aus}).

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