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Over £97 Million Bet Into World Pool In First Three Days Of Goodwood Festival

Wagering into the World Pool topped £97 million over the first three days of the Qatar Goodwood Festival. The gross turnover for World Pool bets increased by almost 66% when compared to 2021's figures of £59 million. World Pool, which is a collaboration of global totes, enables racing fans from all over the globe to bet into a single pool.

There were three World Pool “Moment of the Day” awards handed out, as well as £1,000 and a bottle of champagne to the racing staff who looked after the winning horse. The winners are as follows:

 

  • Tuesday, July 26: Willie Dwan, groom of Lord Riddiford (Ire) (Zebedee {GB}) who had his third win at the Qatar Goodwood Festival in the Class 2 Nicholson Gin H.
  • Wednesday, July 27: Jane Stanforth, groom of Oscula (Ire) (Galileo Gold {GB}), who won the G3 Whispering Angel Oak Tree S., having had six runs in 54 days.
  • Thursday, July 28: Hollie Thomas, groom of Royal Scotsman (GB) (Gleneagles {Ire}) who broke the 2-year-old track record when winning the G2 Richmond S.

The overall winner of the 16 “Moment of the Day” awards, will be announced as the “Moment of the Year” on QIPCO British Champions Day, with the winning yard receiving £34,000.

Winfried Engelbrecht-Bresges, Chief Executive Officer of the Hong Kong Jockey Club, said, “The stunning growth of World Pool continued with fantastic results at the Qatar Goodwood Festival. What is most pleasing to see is the resonance of the World Pool brand across all customer segments and geographies over the three days. It is clear that customers are seeing the true value of World Pool liquidity and stakeholders are seeing the true value of the funding mechanism which results in higher returns to the industry. We appreciate the efforts by Goodwood, UK Tote, our global partners and of course the participants to make it such a successful event.”

Adam Waterworth, Managing Director at Goodwood Racecourse, said: “We are delighted to see the significant growth in World Pool at the Qatar Goodwood Festival. As our most high-profile racing meeting of the year, it has always been our aim to ensure as many people as possible around the world can watch and bet on the excellent racing. As well as being a positive development for racing fans, World Pool is one of the most important initiatives in British racing from which Goodwood benefits, allowing us to reinvest in our prize money and racecourse experience.”

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Ebaiyra Takes Up Munich Challenge

In The Aga Khan's centenary year, Ebaiyra (Distorted Humor) looks to provide another highlight in Sunday's G1 Grosser Dallmayr-Preis – Bayerisches Zuchtrennen. Having enjoyed a confidence-boosting win in the Listed Prix de la Pepiniere at Chantilly July 12, last year's G1 Grand Prix de Saint-Cloud runner-up is looking for a first success at the highest level at which she has been placed on three occasions. Intriguingly, the Francis-Henri Graffard-trained 5-year-old meets Gestut Park Wiedingen's July 3 G1 Deutsches Derby and June 6 G2 Union-Rennen hero Sammarco (Ire) (Camelot {GB}) and Gestut Paschberg's fellow 3-year-old Queroyal (Ger) (Churchill {Ire}) who took the Baden-Baden's G3 Derby-Trial May 28 before finishing ninth behind Sammarco in the domestic Derby.

 

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Sea The Stars’s Sea La Rosa On Top In The Lillie Langtry

Stamina was the prime requirement in Saturday's G2 Qatar Lillie Langtry S. on the final day of the Qatar Goodwood Festival and Sunderland Holding's Sea La Rosa (Fr) (Sea The Stars {Ire}–Soho Rose {Ire}, by Hernando {Fr}) came through with under a perfectly-judged ride from Tom Marquand. Settled third early several lengths off the lone leader Urban Artist (GB) (Cityscape {GB}), the William Haggas-trained 9-4 second favourite who was last seen finishing runner-up in the G2 Lancashire Oaks at Haydock July 2 enjoyed a cool ride and was in front passing the furlong pole en route to a length verdict over that enterprisingly-ridden rival, with the 13-8 favourite Emily Dickinson (Ire) (Dubawi {Ire}) a neck away in third having been even further detached for the most part. “Today was a weird race, but she's tough and she seemed to stay well,” Maureen Haggas said. “As soon as she hits the front, she stops so you have to get her there on the line.”

 

Sea La Rosa, who was successful in the Listed River Eden Fillies' S. over 13 furlongs on Lingfield's Polytrack in October, had returned to take Haydock's G3 Pinnacle S. May 28 before missing out to Free Wind (Ire) (Galileo {Ire}) over the same course and 12-furlong distance in the Lancashire Oaks. With her main market-rival Emily Dickinson so far out of her ground, this was a race that fell right for her but she is a progressive type from the most consistent stable in the country this season where black-type races are concerned. “It's hard to tell how good she could be, because she's still improving and now she's won a group two race there's only one place to go,” Maureen Haggas added. “She gives everything and she's very admirable. She is in the Irish St Leger, but that is William's department.”

Tom Marquand commented, “It was a tough one, because we know Urban Artist stays very well and you never quite know how much a horse has left in front. This filly gives you great confidence on the way round, because she travels so strongly and you know she is going to grit it out. It was just a case of trying to pick her up at the right time. When you have one loose on the front end, you have to time it so your horse is catching it but with not enough time for the others to use you as a second wave. It's a hard one, but watching the Tour de France in the past week has probably helped me with that–except we didn't have a lead-out man.”

Bred in France by Ecurie des Monceaux with the French assimilation, Sea La Rosa is a full-sister to the recent G3 Bahrain Trophy winner Deauville Legend (Ire) and a half to the G3 Derrinstown Stud 1000 Guineas Trial runner-up Dean Street Doll (Ire) (Oasis Dream {GB}). The listed-winning second dam Soho Rose (Ire) (Hernando {Fr}) is a full-sister to the G2 Pretty Polly S. winner and stakes producer Hanami (GB) and a half to another listed scorer in Dubai Rose (GB) (Dubai Destination) who produced the dual G2 Prix de Royallieu heroine The Juliet Rose (Fr) (Monsun {Ger}). Soho Rose's yearling filly is by Golden Horn (GB).

Saturday, Goodwood, Britain
QATAR LILLIE LANGTRY S.-G2, £300,000, Goodwood, 7-30, 3yo/up, f/m, 14fT, 3:00.58, g/f.
1–SEA LA ROSA (IRE), 134, f, 4, by Sea The Stars (Ire)
     1st Dam: Soho Rose (Ire) (SW-Ger, SP-Fr), by Hernando (Fr)
     2nd Dam: Russian Rose (Ire), by Soviet Lad
     3rd Dam: Thornbeam, by Beldale Flutter
(€200,000 Ylg '19 ARAUG). O-Sunderland Holding Inc; B-Ecurie des Monceaux (IRE); T-William Haggas; J-Tom Marquand. £170,130. Lifetime Record: 13-6-4-2, $408,187. *Full to Deauville Legend (Ire), GSW-Eng, $226,224. Werk Nick Rating: A+++ *Triple Plus*. Click for the eNicks report & 5-cross pedigree.
2–Urban Artist (GB), 134, m, 7, Cityscape (GB)–Cill Rialaig (GB), by Environment Friend (GB). O-Pangfield Racing V; B-Moran & Billington (GB); T-Hugh Morrison. £64,500.
3–Emily Dickinson (Ire), 122, f, 3, Dubawi (Ire)–Chicquita (Ire), by Montjeu (Ire). O-Mrs J Magnier/M Tabor/D Smith/Westerberg; B-Chicquita Syndicate (IRE); T-Aidan O'Brien. £32,280.
Margins: 1, NK, SHD. Odds: 2.25, 18.00, 1.63.
Also Ran: Yesyes (GB), Viola (Ire), Forbearance (Ire), Glenartney (GB). Scratched: Typewriter (Ire). Click for the free Equineline.com catalogue-style pedigree.

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All Emotion As Frankel Hits A Century Of Stakes Winners

The all-conquering Frankel (GB) reached a new benchmark on Saturday when Emotion (GB) became the 14-year-old stallion's 100th stakes winner worldwide from just seven crops of racing age.

Not many horses are given a two-hour Valentine's night special on BBC Radio 5 Live to launch the start of their first covering season, but not many horses are Frankel. Those connected to the Juddmonte champion who were interviewed for that unprecedented terrestrial broadcast back in 2013 were keen to point out that being a top-class racehorse does not necessarily guarantee that that horse will carry all before him once in the stallion barn. Frankel, however, is doing just that.

Champion sire for the first time in Britain and Ireland in 2021, succeeding his own outstanding father Galileo (Ire) in the year of his death, Frankel is now responsible for 25 Group/Grade 1 winners and currently heads the European table for the 2022 season, in which he has already been represented by the Classic winners Westover (GB), Homeless Songs (GB) and Nashwa (GB), along with Group 1 winners Inspiral (GB), Alpinista (GB) and Onesto (Ire). He became the fastest sire in history to notch 50 group winners in 2021, and his current tally in that regard has already been elevated to 67.

Frankel has not of course been short of opportunities as, from the start, he has been sent some of the best-bred and best-performed mares around. The lag between covering that first book and their offspring appearing on the track gave ample time for the naysayers to start crabbing Frankel's stock that appeared at the sales, but once they hit the racecourse doubts soon started to be allayed.

His first runner, Cunco (Ire), won on debut in May 2016, was then third in the Chesham, and won the G3 Sandown Classic Trial the following season. From that same crop, Fair Eva (GB)–appropriately a Juddmonte homebred–became Frankel's first black-type winner in the G3 Princess Margaret S. At the end of that year, a first breakthrough win at the top level came in Japan, when Soul Stirring (Jpn) won the G1 Hanshin Juvenile Fillies. The daughter of the top-class racemare Stacelita (Fr) (Monsun {Ger}) then scored a double first the following season when going on to win the G1 Yushun Himba (Japanese Oaks) to give Frankel an important first Classic winner.

It was also a sign of things to come in regard to his increasingly international influence as a sire, despite the fact that he has never left the Banstead Manor stallion yard since he moved there from Warren Place in October 2012. Instead, mares came to him from all over the world. From the outset Frankel has covered in Newmarket to Southern Hemisphere time, with the demand for that service having grown in recent years.

That was no doubt in part owing to the success of his first Australian Group 1 winner Hungry Heart (Aus), whose dam Harlech (GB) (Pivotal {GB}) was purchased at the Tattersalls July Sale from Godolphin by Yulong Investments and sent straight to Frankel to be covered before departing for Australia.

Bred on the same cross as Hungry Heart is Frankel's first European Group 1 winner, Cracksman (GB), who is now a promising first-season sire for Darley, while the G1 St James's Palace S. winner Without Parole (GB) is standing at Newsells Park Stud, and Logician (GB), one of Frankel's eight European Classic winners, has joined the National Hunt ranks at Shade Oak Stud. The number of Group 1-winning sons standing at stud in Europe will soon grow, not least when last season's Derby and Irish Derby winners, Godolphin stablemates Adayar (Ire) and Hurricane Lane (Ire) are eventually retired.

Frankel's latest benchmark equals to the day the record of his fellow Juddmonte homebred Danehill in reaching the milestone of 100 stakes winners, though Danehill was of course also shuttling to Australia, covering larger books there than Frankel's Southern Hemisphere coverings in England. In the race to a century of black-type winners, he has surpassed his own remarkable sire Galileo, as well as another pre-eminent British stallion, Dubawi (Ire).

On the racecourse, perhaps the most memorable image of Frankel's three-season tour de force was his breathtaking triumph in the G1 2000 Guineas, in which he streaked to such an early, wide-margin lead that maintaining it seemed scarcely believable. He did just that, and now Frankel's tearaway talent echoes through his stallion career.

 

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