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Love Pointing to Yorkshire Oaks

Dual Classic heroine Love (Ire) (Galileo {Ire}) will skip the G1 Irish Oaks and instead point for the G1 Yorkshire Oaks in August, Racing Post reported on Monday. The Aidan O’Brien pupil, who won the G1 QIPCO 1000 Guineas at Newmarket in June and the G1 Investec Oaks at Epsom on July 4, will then target the G1 Prix de l’Arc de Triomphe.

“Love doesn’t run this weekend,” O’Brien told Racing Post. “She is perfect. What we are thinking at the moment is that she probably going to go straight to York for the Yorkshire Oaks, and then on to the Prix de l’Arc de Triomphe after that.”

“We are going to run Ennistymon (Ire) (Galileo {Ire}), and Passion (Ire) (Galileo {Ire}), who also ran at Epsom,” O’Brien said of his Irish Oaks fillies. “We’re also planning on running Laburnum (Ire) (Galileo {Ire}), who was just beaten in an Oaks trial at Naas, as well as Snow (Ire) (Galileo {Ire}), who won the Oaks trial at Cork.”

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Seven Wild Cards Added to Arqana Summer Catalogue

Some of the wild cards for the Arqana Summer Sale have been announced, Arqana revealed on Monday. The seven horses-in-training will go under the hammer along with the rest of the catalogue-consisting of 2-year-olds and horses-in-training–on July 20. Lot 124, AQPS Herbiers (Fr) (Waldpark {Ger}), won at Moulins and is consigned by Mathieu Brasme; while Augustin Adeline de Boisbrunet offers 4-year-old geldings Gin Coco (Fr) (Cokoriko {Fr}) (lot 140, AQPS) and lot 125, Melanos (Fr) (Blue Bresil {Fr}). The placed Trezy Boy (Fr) (Le Havre {Ire}) (lot 141) hails from the draft of Carlos and Yann Lerner; and the G3 Prix Aguado third Prunay (Fr) (Prince Gibraltar {Fr}) (lot 142) will also go through the ring for trainer Sylvain Dehez. Rounding out the septet are: \fs21cf2lot 156, Galurin (Fr) (Sunday Break {Jpn}), an AQPS from Laurent Viel’s yard; and AQPS Genet Joli (Fr) (Centennial {Ire}) as lot 157.

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Aidan and Donnacha O’Brien Temporarily Banned From Irish Courses

Trainers Aidan and Donnacha O’Brien have been fined €2,500 each and prohibited from attending race meetings in Ireland for two weeks for failing to enter The Curragh through the health screening area at a meeting last month. The pair were found to have breached coronavirus health screening protocols at the County Kildare course on June 12, which was G1 Irish 2000 Guineas day during the week racing resumed in Ireland. The matter was heard by the referrals panel of the Irish Horseracing Regulatory Board on Monday.

A tweet from the IHRB read, “At a referral hearing of Aidan O’Brien [Trainer] & Donnacha O’Brien [Trainer] following a referral from The Curragh on 12/06/20 both trainers were fined €2,500 & prohibited from attending a racecourse for 2 weeks for failing to enter The Curragh through the health screening area.”

IHRB press officer Niall Cronin said, “We noted the decision of the referrals committee and the various protocols regarding Covid-19 are very serious. It is important that they are strictly adhered to at all times to make sure that racing can continue in a safe manner for everyone involved.”

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What’s In a Name: Valeria Messalina

Group 3 winner Valeria Messalina (Ire), a 3-year-old filly by Holy Roman Emperor (Ire), carries a name heavy with reputation–good and bad but never indifferent. There were many Roman Emperors in the life of the historical Valeria Messalina, who lived in the first century, during the first decades of the Empire: her husband Claudius (she was his third wife), her cousin Caligula, her cousin Nero, and her great-granduncle Augustus. The emperors of the Julio-Claudian dynasty did not appear to be exemplary models of conservative family values, and Valeria Messalina was probably affected by that perception: she became a target for accusations of promiscuity and unfaithfulness–maybe politically motivated claims at the time, but later picked up by serious historians. She was eventually executed by a Praetorian guard on the order of her husband’s men on account of conspiracy against the Emperor. Her legend lived ever after in figurative arts, literature and the popular imagination–a phenomenon that is somehow similar to that of the public fascination with the great outlaws (Robin Hood, Billy The Kid, etc).

Sunday, Cork, Ireland
IRISH STALLION FARMS EBF BROWNSTOWN S.-G3, €65,000, Cork, 7-12, 3yo/up, f/m, 7fT, 1:23.72, gd.
1–VALERIA MESSALINA (IRE), 128, f, 3, by HolyRomanEmperor (Ire)
                1st Dam: Arty Crafty, by Arch
                2nd Dam: Princess Kris (GB), by Kris (GB)
                3rd Dam: As You Desire Me (Ire), by Kalamoun (GB)
   1ST BLACK TYPE WIN, 1ST GROUP WIN. O-Anthony Rogers;
B-Airlie Stud (IRE); T-Jessie Harrington; J-Shane Foley. Lifetime
Record: 4-2-1-0, $70,913. *1/2 to Pincheck (IRE) (Invincible
Spirit {Ire}), GSW-Ire, $179,594.

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