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Freddy Head To Retire At The End Of 2022

French trainer Freddy Head will retire from training at the end of the year, Jour de Galop reported on Saturday. Best known during his training years as the trainer of the 14-time Group 1 winner Goldikova (Ire) (Anabaa), Head also celebrated top-level success with Marchand d'Or (Fr) (Marchand De Sable), Tamayuz (GB) (Nayef), and Moonlight Cloud (GB) (Invincible Spirit {Ire}), among others. He was also the first person to ever win a Breeders' Cup race as a jockey and a trainer, aboard Miesque (Kingmambo) in the 1987/88 GI Breeders' Cup Mile and as a trainer with Goldikova in that same race from 2008-2010.

Prior to his training career which started in 1997, Head was a celebrated French champion jockey, with wins spanning all of the French Classics, a G1 Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe, and both the colts' and fillies' Guineas in Newmarket.

“I won my first race at 16 and during all these years, I almost never stopped,” the 75-year-old told Jour de Galop. “It's time for me to take some rest and enjoy.”

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Group 2 Winner Quickthorn Ready For Cadran Challenge

Group winner Quickthorn (GB) (Nathaniel {Ire}) will start next in the G1 Prix du Cadran at ParisLongchamp on Oct. 1, trainer Hughie Morrison confirmed on Saturday. Since beginning his 2022 campaign in April, Lady Blyth's 5-year-old gelding was second in the Listed Further Flight S. at Nottingham and filled that position again in the G3 Sagaro S. behind Princess Zoe (Ger) (Jukebox Jury {Ire}) at Ascot at the end of April. The G3 Henry II S. went his way at Sandown one month later and he triumphed in the G2 Prix Maurice de Nieuil at ParisLongchamp on July 14. In his most recent appearance, he ran out a 14-length winner of the G2 Lonsdale Cup at York on Aug. 19, and turned in a solid work for Morrison on Saturday.

Morrison said, “He worked well this morning and will go for the Cadran. He's in great form.”

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Dark Angel’s Barefoot Angel Springs 20-1 Shock At Ayr

Richard Fahey trainee Barefoot Angel (Ire) (Dark Angel {Ire}–Love In The Desert {GB}, by Lemon Drop Kid) bettered an Aug. 1 debut second at Ripon with an Aug. 25 breakthrough at Carlisle and continued on the rise with an impressive tally at long odds in Saturday's G3 Virgin Bet Firth Of Clyde Fillies' S. at Ayr, her third straight start at the six-furlong trip. The 20-1 outsider was held up in rear through the initial stages of this stakes bow. Slicing through the pack to go sixth passing the quarter-mile pole, she quickened to the front with 150 yards remaining and was ridden out to prevail by a neck from Believing (Ire) (Mehmas {Ire}) for a career high.

Barefoot Angel becomes the 53rd pattern-race winner for her sire (by Acclamation {GB}) and the first out of Listed Empress S. third Love In The Desert (Lemon Drop Kid), herself kin to G3 Clasico Cesar del Rio runner-up Andeluna (Mineshaft) and to the dam of six black-type performers headed by the multiple stakes-winning Roy's Revenge (Ven) (League Of Nations). Barefoot Angel's third dam Brackish (Alleged), a half-sister to GI Matron S.-winning blue hen Fall Aspen (Pretense), produced a trio of stakes winners headed by G1 Derby Italiano runner-up Merzouk (Theatrical {Ire}). Love In The Desert's fourth foal is a yearling filly by Invincible Army (Ire).

Saturday, Ayr, Britain
VIRGIN BET FIRTH OF CLYDE FILLIES' S.-G3, £40,000, Ayr, 9-17, 2yo, f, 6fT, 1:11.67, gd.
1–BAREFOOT ANGEL (IRE), 128, f, 2, by Dark Angel (Ire)
1st Dam: Love In The Desert (GB) (SP-Eng), by Lemon Drop Kid
2nd Dam: Jenny Lake, by Danzig
3rd Dam: Brackish, by Alleged
1ST BLACK-TYPE WIN; 1ST GROUP WIN. (€120,000 Ylg '21 GOFOR). O-Mrs H Steel; B-Guy O'Callaghan (IRE); T-Richard Fahey; J-Paul Mulrennan. £22,684. Lifetime Record: 3-2-1-0, $35,049. Werk Nick Rating: D+. Click for the eNicks report & 5-cross pedigree, or the free Equineline.com catalogue-style pedigree.
2–Believing (Ire), 128, f, 2, Mehmas (Ire)–Misfortunate (Ire), by Kodiac (GB). (70,000gns Ylg '21 TATOCT; 115,000gns 2yo '22 TATBRE). O-Highclere Thoroughbred Racing (Jane Addams); B-M Mullen & Cloneymore Farm (IRE); T-George Boughey. £8,600.
3–Queen Me (Ire), 128, f, 2, Dubawi (Ire)–Queen Kindly (GB), by Frankel (GB). O-Jaber Abdullah; B-Rabbah Bloodstock Ltd (IRE); T-Kevin Ryan. £4,304.
Margins: NK, 3/4, 1 1/4. Odds: 20.00, 12.00, 1.50.
Also Ran: Minnetonka (Ire), Secret Angel (Ire), Bonny Angel (GB), Marine Wave (Ire), Poetic Union (GB), Maria Branwell (Ire), Carmela (Ire), Lunarscape (GB), All The Time (Ire). Scratched: Immortal Beauty (Ire).

 

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Glenfinnan Takes The 300th Tattersalls October Book 1 Bonus

Glenfinnan (Ire) (Harry Angel {Ire}) ran out a two-length winner of the eight-furlong British Stallion Studs EBF Maiden S. at Yarmouth on Thursday, and in the process became the 300th winner to earn the €20,000 Tattersalls October Book 1 Bonus. The Mick and Janice Mariscotti colourbearer and Andrew Balding trainee was making his third start. After the win of Glenfinnan, who was a 100,000gns purchase from the draft of Glidawn Stud last year, the Book 1 Bonus has paid £7,125,000 to owners.

Balding was winning his 16th Tattersalls October Book 1 Bonus and said, “Book 1 of the Tattersalls October Yearling Sale is Europe's premier yearling sale and we have had great success buying there. The introduction of the £20,000 October Book 1 Bonus was a great initiative from Tattersalls and my owners are always thrilled to win one. We'll be looking for suitable candidates for next year's bonuses at the sale in two weeks' time.”

The £20,000 Tattersalls October Book 1 Bonus is open to all yearlings offered at Book 1 of the Tattersalls October Yearling Sale which takes place from Oct. 4-6.

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