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Dubawi’s Creative Force In Control In The Sprint

Godolphin's G3 Jersey S. hero Creative Force (Ire) (Dubawi {Ire}) had failed to strike in three outings since registering that June 19 Royal Ascot triumph and went postward for Saturday's G1 British Champions Sprint back at the Berskhire venue coming off a three-length sixth in last month's G1 Sprint Cup at Haydock. Notable as Charlie Appleby's first Champions Day contender, he kept jockey William Buick's jockeys' championship hopes alive with a decisive victory in the six-furlong dash. The €400,000 Goffs Orby yearling had sealed a run of four straight wins in the Jersey and has since run fifth in Newmarket's July 10 G1 July Cup and second contesting Goodwood's July 27 G2 Lennox S. in his penultimate start. The eventual winner was positioned sixth within range of the leaders through the early fractions until making a manoeuvre to slipstream the pacesetting Glen Shiel (GB) (Pivotal {GB}) at the quarter-mile marker. Easing out of that rival's wake to seize control approaching the final furlong, the 11-2 chance was not for catching thereafter and was ridden out in the closing stages to hit the line with a one-length advantage as low-drawn runners dominated. Shadwell's Minzaal (Ire) (Mehmas {Ire}) closed late to finish a length behind Glen Shiel in third while King Power Racing's 3-1 favourite Art Power (Ire) (Dark Angel {Ire}) was compromised by his stands' side drawn and ran on strongly to fail by head for third.

“I'm delighted, it's a great team result, it's been a great season and this lad deserves it,” beamed trainer Charlie Appleby after marching to the cusp of a first trainers' championship. “James Doyle felt he was a sprinter earlier this season and I was confident with this horse after Haydock, where the ground was too fast for him. I'm delighted for the horse because he has been on the go all year. He was out at the Craven Meeting and rose through the ranks and came here to win the Jersey at the Royal meeting. We've been lucky with the likes of Blue Point at this level and this guy can travel for fun. William [Buick] was confident riding him and he has won over seven furlongs here, so he wasn't going to stop. This was my first runner at Champions Day, it's a fantastic crowd and the sun is shining down. It's soft ground and that is what we expect at this time of year, but it is not dead ground as they are going through it. Creative Force is a typical Dubawi who should get better with age and the sprint division is there for someone to take the mantle next year. We've been looking for a new star sprinter since Blue Point was retired and this horse can be a fun horse for the next year or two. There's a hole there to be filled and I think he is a young enough horse to do that.”

“Creative Force won the Jersey here and goes through that ground, which is a big help, and he really did deserve it,” said rider William Buick, who would ultimately finish two winners shy of sharing the jockeys' championship with Oisin Murphy. “The ground was very fast and he stumbled out of the stalls at Haydock. It's game over if you stumble out of the stalls in a six-furlong Group 1, but he did get himself back into it and he ran well. Today's race worked out perfectly as we had a nice draw and I liked the look of it. It worked out how I wanted it to and he was in good form going into it. He certainly deserved it, but we thought it was a good chance for him to show his best today. There were a lot of runners and they all turned up, but he travelled into it very smoothly and it was a case of just waiting with him a little bit.”

Reflecting on Buick's failed title challenge, Appleby said, “I think it's something that William himself will say he has enjoyed and it's all very well riding these good horses at the big meetings, but he's been mucking it out round the smaller tracks. Success breeds success and you can't beat having winners so William riding more has given him more opportunity to ride more winners and I think we've seen a better rider. He has always been a rider at the top of his game, but now he's riding so many of these horses and so many different types of horses. I noticed at the back end of last year his style of riding was changing and we've seen that hunger this year. Win, lose or draw, William isn't going to walk away deflated from what he's achieved this year. He has that character that he will go forward again and do the same next year. For me, he's a huge part of the team and the more winners he rides, the happier I am. It's a sporting industry and the last thing you want is someone who is sat on the bench for the week and then coming out on the weekend. It's alright when you do it at a certain level of your career, but William is too young to be doing that just yet.”

Archie Watson was far from downhearted with the display of runner-up Glen Shiel, who also ran second in this year's G1 Diamond Jubilee S. at the Royal meeting. “He does come alive here, that's his second Group 1 second place here this year and I am delighted,” the trainer said. “The first-time blinkers worked, they really lit him up and he jumped and travelled very well. He quickened away and just found one very good horse of Charlie's to beat him. He's just a dream for the owners to have and a dream for us to have.”

Hollie Doyle, who took the meeting opener aboard Trueshan (Fr) (Planteur {Ire}) in the G1 British Champions Long Distance Cup, made a bold attempt to lead out from the front on 22-1 chance Glen Shiel (GB) (Pivotal {GB}), but was denied by a superior force on the day. “It was another brilliant run from Glen Shiel and he is such a credit to connections,” she commented.

Creative Force becomes the 46th Group 1 winner for his sire (by Dubai Millennium {GB}) and is one of three stakes winners produced by Listed Fairy Bridge S. victrix and G2 Blandford S. placegetter Choose Me (Ire) (Choisir {Aus}), herself kin to Listed Waterford Testimonial S. victor Shanghai Glory (Ire) (Exceed and Excel {Aus}). The March-foaled chestnut is a half-brother G1 Queen Elizabeth II S. heroine Persuasive (Ire) (Dark Angel {Ire}), stakes-winning G3 Prix de Lieurey runner-up Tisbutadream (Ire) (Dream Ahead), the unraced 2-year-old colt Mr Zero (Ire) (Dark Angel {Ire}) and a yearling filly by Dark Angel (Ire). Creative Force's third dam Ajuga (The Minstrel) finished third in the Listed Sandy Lane S. and has three black-type winners to her credit headed by G2 EuropaChampionat scorer Bad Bertrich Again (Ire) (Dowsing) and Listed Cheshire Oaks victrix Alumni (GB) (Selkirk), herself the dam of Czechoslovakian champion and stakes-winning G2 Prix Daniel Wildenstein and G2 Oettingen-Rennen runner-up Dux Scholar (GB) (Oasis Dream {GB}). His fourth dam is the G1 Irish 1000 Guineas and G1 Champion S. heroine Cairn Rouge (Ire) (Pitcairn {Ire}), whose descendants are headed by dual G1 Paddock S. heroine Queen Supreme (Ire) (Exceed and Excel {Aus}) and elite-level winners Ventura (Chester House) and Harlem (GB) (Champs Elysees {GB}).

Saturday, Ascot, Britain
QIPCO BRITISH CHAMPIONS SPRINT S.-G1, £531,250, Ascot, 10-16, 3yo/up, 6fT, 1:13.79, g/s.
1–CREATIVE FORCE (IRE), 127, g, 3, by Dubawi (Ire)
1st Dam: Choose Me (Ire) (SW & MGSP-Ire, $388,395), by Choisir (Aus)
2nd Dam: Hecuba (GB), by Hector Protector
3rd Dam: Ajuga, by The Minstrel
1ST GROUP 1 WIN. (€400,000 Ylg '19 GOFOR). O-Godolphin; B-Owenstown Bloodstock Ltd (IRE); T-Charlie Appleby; J-William Buick. £301,272. Lifetime Record: 10-6-1-0, $614,244. *1/2 to Persuasive (Ire) (Dark Angel {Ire}), Hwt. Older Mare-Eur at 7-9.5f, G1SW-Eng & MG1SP-Ire, $1,161,785; and Tisbutadream (Ire) (Dream Ahead), SW & MGSP-Eng, GSP-Fr, $133,016. Werk Nick Rating: A+. Click for the eNicks report & 5-cross pedigree.
2–Glen Shiel (GB), 128, g, 7, Pivotal (GB)–Gonfilia (Ger), by Big Shuffle. (£45,000 5yo '19 GOFSPR). O-Hambleton Racing XXXVI & Partner; B-Darley (GB); T-Archie Watson. £114,219.
3–Minzaal (Ire), 127, c, 3, Mehmas (Ire)–Pardoven (Ire), by Clodovil (Ire). (85,000gns Wlg '18 TATFOA; 140,000gns Ylg '19 TATOCT). O-Shadwell Estate Company Ltd; B-Ringfort Stud (IRE); T-Owen Burrows. £57,163.
Margins: 1, 1, HD. Odds: 5.50, 22.00, 16.00.
Also Ran: Art Power (Ire), Vadream (GB), Highfield Princess (Fr), Ventura Diamond (Ire), Happy Power (Ire), Kinross (GB), Ainsdale (GB), Happy Romance (Ire), Brando (GB), Thunder Moon (Ire), Dragon Symbol (GB), Gustavus Weston (Ire), Keep Busy (Ire), Last Empire (GB), Rohaan (Ire), Nando Parrado (GB), Azano (GB). Click for the Racing Post result or the free Equineline.com catalogue-style pedigree.

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Tattersalls Book 3 Concludes On Record Note

NEWMARKET, UK–The trickledown effect can perhaps be viewed as more of a flood this past fortnight at Tattersalls with unusually strong trade for each book of yearlings helping its successor to similarly eye-catching gains.

And so it was with Book 3, which just about equalled last year's figures in one single day following a bullish session on Thursday. Trade dropped another notch during the graded second session but its own returns were still way in advance of the corresponding day last year and helped to create record figures for Book 3.

A final-day aggregate of 3,324,350 gns pushed the Book 3 total to 10,593,150gns, which was more than 3 million gns beyond last year's total with just 12 more horses being sold this time around. Over the two days, 471 yearlings changed hands, bringing a fractionally improved clearance rate of 86%.

Significant gains were made in both the median and average, with the former being up 64% at 18,000gns, while the average of 22,49gns represented a rise of 40%.

Passing The Test

The British sire ranks have been given a major boost this season with some notable success for first-season sires Ardad (Ire), Time Test (GB) and Ulysses (Ire) in particular, and those results on the track have been reflected in the ring through Books 2 and 3.

While a pinhooked Ulysses colt topped the first day of Book 3 at 150,000gns, it was Nicky Welby's Time Test colt from the family of Bill Gredley's outstanding racemare User Friendly (GB) (Slip Anchor {GB}) who headed the final day, selling for 95,000gns to Montgomery Motto. The son of the unraced Shamardal mare Purest (GB) was consigned for the breeder by Whatton Manor Stud.

“All of the credit must go to Nicky,” said Whatton Manor's Ed Player. “She hasn't had the easiest time as her head man was injured but Nicky and her team have done a great job and the colt turned up here looking fantastic and just tucked straight into his hay.”

Welby, who is based in Sussex and owns six mares, explained, “We bought Purest as a companion really. We had bought Western Pearl as a yearling, raced her with William Knight and were incredibly lucky as she got black type. We thought we might as well have her at home and breed from her, and we bought Purest to run with her when she was carrying her first foal by Delegator.”

The 12-year-old mare is already the dam of two winners, including the multiple scorer Lory Di Tony (GB), and she is back in foal to that filly's sire Adaay (Ire).

A former trainer at Calder, Florida, Motto is assembling a team of horses to race in Ireland. He said of his purchase (lot 1745), “This is one of the best athletes I've seen here and he has a lovely temperament to match. It's hard to go wrong with a Shamardal mare and she has produced a useful runner abroad. I went a bit higher than planned, but the money nearly always finds the horse. He will go to Richard Brabazon for breaking and we will make plans from there.”

Time Test had 15 second-crop yearlings sold through Book 3 for an average of 39,667gns from a covering fee of £8,500.

More Power To Fahey

Overbury Stud's Ardad has also been punching high this year, with the G1 Middle Park S. and G1 Prix Morny winner Perfect Power (Ire) as his foremost flagbearer, and the stallion's leading player in Book 3 will be going to the same trainer, Richard Fahey, after Robin O'Ryan outbid Nancy Sexton at 85,0000gns.

Sold as lot 1723 by Peter Balding of Throckmorton Court Stud, who bred the colt in partnership with Lady Whent, he is out of the treble winner Night Affair (GB), a Bold Edge (GB) half-sister to the top sprinter and young stallion Twilight Son (GB).

O'Ryan was acting on behalf of owner Steve Bradley, who was standing with him in the gangway and said after signing the ticket, “I think the breeze-up boys were in competition with us. This colt looks a nice early type, these boys recommended him, there is Twilight Son on the page, hopefully he is lucky for us.”

O'Ryan added, “The sire is doing so well. I bought three Ardads last year and they have all won.”

Giving an update on Fahey's stable star Perfect Power, he said, “He is absolutely fine and is on holiday now and we will probably run him in one of the Classic trials next spring. That will tell us whether he will stay the Guineas trip. He is a relaxed horse so he has every chance.”

Ardad also brought a good result close to home for the team at Overbury Stud, which consigned lot 1738, who was bred and led up by the stud's assistant stud groom Kirsty Windsor.

The filly is the only foal of Polymnia (GB) (Poet's Voice {GB}), who was given to Windsor by stud manager Simon Sweeting when the mare proved tricky to get in foal. She eventually went in foal to Ardad but sadly died after producing her only daughter in April last year. The mare was out of a winning Key Of Luck half-sister to the 1000 Guineas winner Sky Lantern (Ire).

“She lived in my field and then came to Overbury, and I have to thank Simon for helping me out. She's been so easy to do. She has a great temperament and just eats and sleeps,” said Windsor after the dark brown filly sold for 37,000gns to Richard Brown of Blandford Bloodstock.

New Boys Star

Emma Foley and Damian Flynn of Redgate Bloodstock started the week well with all three of their yearlings sold for decent sums at Book 2 and that success rolled over into Book 3, with another three sold. That trio included one of the early leaders, a filly by Coolmore's first-crop sire Sioux Nation, who was bought by Federico Barberini for 50,000gns on behalf of Clipper Logistics.

“We were all here yesterday and saw her a few times and I've bought her with Joe Foley for Clipper,” said the agent. “She is out of a mare who has already produced a good winner and is from a good farm. Damian and Emma Flynn do a great job.”

Out of the winning Holy Roman Emperor (Ire) mare Gregoria (Ire), lot 1644 is a half-sister to the 93-rated To Glory (GB) (Toronado {Ire}), who was twice a winner this year in Ireland for Ger Lyons before being sold to race on in Hong Kong.

Sioux Nation's nine yearlings to sell at Book 3 returned an average of 32,333gns.

The first European yearlings of Tweeenhills resident Zoustar (Aus) have also been popular at Tattersalls over the last fortnight and his Book 3 offerings included two fillies from Andrew Black's Chasemore Farm, both of whom are out of mares by Red Clubs (Ire) and featured among the leading lots on the days.

A daughter of the listed-placed The Gold Cheongsam (Ire), catalogued as lot 1812, will be going into training with Mark Loughnane, having been bought for 50,000gns. She is a half-sister to the 2-year-old Qipao (GB) (Muhaarar {GB}), who is trained for Andrew Black by Mark Johnston and won her first two races this season before running fourth in the listed Star S.

Bloodstock agent Hamish Macauley was also in pursuit of a Zoustar yearling on behalf of Tally-Ho Stud, with the team there planning to breeze lot 1759 after Macauley was the successful bidder at 77,000gns. Also from Chasemore, the filly is a half-sister to three winners and is out of the G3 Firth of Clyde S. victrix Roger Sez (Ire).

The final single session of Book 4 will conclude the Tattersall October Yearling Sale, starting from 10am on Saturday.

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Dubawi’s Eldar Eldarov A New Rising Star at Nottingham

KHK Racing's 2.7-million guineas October Book 1 purchase Akhu Najla (GB) (Kingman {GB}) ran second for Roger Varian in his Leicester unveiling Tuesday and the partnership was back in action with £480,000 Arqana@Doncaster Breeze-Up graduate Eldar Eldarov (GB) (Dubawi {Ire}), who powered to 'TDN Rising Stardom' in the second division of Wednesday's British Stallion Studs EBF Maiden S. at Nottingham. The 13-8 favourite tanked forward from a slot in rear to track the leaders in fourth after the initial exchanges of this debut and crept closer once into the home straight. Looming large on the bridle soon after passing the three-furlong marker, he assumed control approaching the two pole and stretched clear in impressive fashion to easily account for Janoobi (Ire) (Night of Thunder {Ire}) by a geared-down five lengths.

Eldar Eldarov is the third of five foals and second scorer out of Listed Prix de Liancourt, Listed Prix Zarkava and Listed Prix de la Pepiniere winner All At Sea (GB) (Sea the Stars {Ire}). He is a half-brother to Listed Rothesay S. third A La Voile (GB) (Invincible Spirit {Ire}), a yearling colt by Roaring Lion and a weanling filly by Study of Man (Ire). All At Sea is one of five black-type performers produced by G1 Deutschlandpreis, G1 Rheinland-Pokal and G1 Preis von Europa victrix Albanova (GB) (Alzao), herself a full-sister to dual G1 Champion S. heroine Alborada (GB). The February-foaled bay shares his second dam with last month's G1 Preis von Europa winner Alpinista (GB) (Frankel {GB}).

2nd-Nottingham, £7,000, Mdn, 10-13, 2yo, 8f 75yT, 1:47.87, g/s.
ELDAR ELDAROV (GB), c, 2, by Dubawi (Ire)
1st Dam: All At Sea (GB) (MSW-Fr, $133,622), by Sea the Stars (Ire)
2nd Dam: Albanova (GB), by Alzao
3rd Dam: Alouette (GB), by Darshaan (GB)
(£110,000 Ylg '20 GOFOR; £480,000 2yo '21 ARQDEA). 1ST-TIME STARTER. Lifetime Record: 1-1-0-0, $5,137. O-KHK Racing Ltd; B-Kirsten Rausing (GB); T-Roger Varian. Click for the Racing Post result or the free Equineline.com catalogue-style pedigree.

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Poetic Flare Retires To Shadai Stallion Station

Poetic Flare (Ire) (Dawn Approach {Ire}–Maria Lee {Ire}, by Rock of Gibraltar {Ire}), the top-rated 3-year-old miler of 2021, has been retired from racing and will stand at Shadai Stallion Station in Japan from next year.

Winner of the G1 2000 Guineas and G1 St James's Palace S., the colt has provided his master trainer Jim Bolger with perhaps the pinnacle of his parallel career as a breeder, for he not only bred, owned and trained Poetic Flare's sire and fellow Classic winner Dawn Approach, but he also trained his grandsire New Approach (Ire), whose five Group 1 victories included the Derby. Furthermore, Bolger bred Poetic Flare's first two dams and trained his third dam.

Poetic Flare was not among Monday's five-day confirmations for the G1 Queen Elizabeth II S. on QIPCO British Champions Day, which would have provided a potentially thrilling rematch with top older miler Palace Pier (GB) (Kingman {GB}), who beat the 3-year-old by just a neck in a pulsating finish to the G1 Prix Jacques Le Marois at Deauville in August.

“I'm sure many racegoers will be disappointed not to see him at Ascot, and I am disappointed myself that he is not going there, but it was not possible,” Bolger told TDN on Tuesday. “He will be standing at Shadai and will be leaving soon for Japan.”

Of the sale of a colt to the Yoshida family's powerful stallion operation, he added, “This is a first for me, but it is a great opportunity for the horse and I will be supporting him with mares myself, even though it won't be that straightforward.”

Poetic Flare started his career by winning the first 2-year-old race of the 2020 season at Naas but a growth spurt meant that he wasn't seen again until lining up for the G1 Darley Dewhurst S. some seven months later. He finished 10th that day, almost nine lengths behind the winner St Mark's Basilica (Fr) (Siyouni {Fr}), but finished his juvenile campaign in style by winning the G3 Killavullan S. at Leopardstown just a week later. Another seven days after that his stablemate and fellow Bolger-bred Mac Swiney (Ire) (New Approach {Ire}) gave another boost to the sireline by winning the G1 Vertem Futurity at Doncaster. The pair would meet again the following May at The Curragh when Mac Swiney narrowly got the upper hand in testing conditions for the Irish 2000 Guineas, but by then Poetic Flare had already won the QIPCO 2000 Guineas at Newmarket and contested the French equivalent, finishing sixth in the G1 Poule d'Essai des Poulains.

Campaigned rigorously by Bolger, the powerfully built Poetic Flare bounced back at Royal Ascot to post a commanding victory in the G1 St James's Palace, beating runner-up Lucky Vega (Ire) (Lope De Vega {Ire}) by 4 1/2 lengths. The following month he was back in action in the G1 Sussex S., in which he was beaten into second by Alcohol Free (Ire) (No Nay Never), with the G1 Falmouth S. winner Snow Lantern (GB) (Frankel {GB}) behind him in third.

His narrow defeat in the Jacques Le Marois was followed by what transpired to be the final start of his career when finishing less than a length behind St Mark's Basilica for third in the G1 Irish Champion S. on his first attempt over 10 furlongs.

Ridden throughout his career by Bolger's son-in-law Kevin Manning in the colours of the trainer's wife, Jackie, Poetic Flare, who is out of the Rock Of Gibraltar (Ire) mare Maria Lee (Ire), raced 11 times for five wins and four places, with his earnings just passing £1 million.

He is a member of the fourth crop of the former champion 2-year-old Dawn Approach, who went on to complete the 2000 Guineas and St James's Palace S. double later emulated by his son. Dawn Approach spent the first seven seasons of his stud career at Darley's Kildangan Stud in Ireland, but as support for him dwindled he returned to his birthplace of Bolger's Redmondstown Stud in 2021, where he covered around 40 of his breeder's own mares.

Shadai Stallion Station on the Japanese island of Hokkaido is currently home to 31 stallions. Teruya Yoshida lost his flagship sire Deep Impact (Jpn) in July 2019 after the multiple champion suffered a cervical fracture.

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