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Highest Ground Returns at Haydock

Observations on the European Racing Scene turns the spotlight on the best European races of the day, highlighting well-pedigreed horses early in their careers, horses of note returning to action and young runners that achieved notable results in the sales ring. Wednesday’s Insights features the return of two ‘TDN Rising Stars’.

1.10 Haydock, Novice, £5,400, 3yo/up, 10f 100yT
HIGHEST GROUND (IRE) (Frankel {GB}) makes his eagerly-awaited return, having earned TDN Rising Star status a long time ago when impressing on his winning debut at Leicester in September. The Niarchos Family’s relative of the sire King of Happiness (Spinning World) encounters another TDN Rising Star in Gestut Ammerland and Newsells Park Stud’s Waldkonig (GB) (Kingman {GB}), the John Gosden-trained half-brother to Waldgeist (GB) (Galileo {Ire}) who was third when odds-on for the Listed Newmarket S. earlier this month.

2.10 Haydock, Novice, £6,400, 2yo, 7f 37yT
CAIRN ISLAND (IRE) (Kodiac {GB}) cost trainer Kevin Ryan 525,000gns at the Tattersalls October Book 1 Sale and debuts for Sheikh Mohammed Obaid Al Maktoum in this intriguing affair. The half-brother to the useful Galileo (Ire) pair of Cameron Highland (Ire) and Field of Miracles (Ire) gets seven pounds from Russell Jones’s Tom Dascombe-trained Devious Company (Ire) (Fast Company {Ire}), who beat some rivals who fared well in last week’s Listed Chesham S. including March Law (Ire) (Lawman {Fr}) on his debut at Haydock earlier this month.

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Frankel’s Frankly Darling Wins the Ribblesdale

Having been narrowly denied in the Queen Anne, Frankie was quick to get off the mark at Royal Ascot 2020 on Anthony Oppenheimer’s Frankly Darling (GB) (Frankel {GB}) in the G2 Ribblesdale S. Free early racing in second, the 11-8 favourite had plenty in reserve when sent on with two furlongs remaining and was being eased late to record an impressive two-length success with the Ballydoyle pair Ennistymon (Ire) (Galileo {Ire}) and Passion (Ire) (Galileo {Ire}) second and third. John Gosden was enjoying a landmark 50th Royal winner, with Dettori now on 68.

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Goffs Orby Topper Starts at Newbury

Observations on the European Racing Scene turns the spotlight on the best European races of the day, highlighting well-pedigreed horses early in their careers, horses of note returning to action and young runners that achieved notable results in the sales ring. Sunday’s Insights features a €3.2-million Goffs Orby sale-topping full-sister to two Group 1 winners.

1.25 Chantilly, Cond, €28,000, 3yo, f, 10 1/2fT
BONNE IDEE (GB) (Frankel {GB}) created a big impression for the Andre Fabre stable when winning a Lyon-Parilly maiden last month and takes the next step towards grander targets here. Khalid Abdullah’s daughter of the smart Mirror Lake (GB) (Dubai Destination) and half to the Australian Group 2 winner Imaging (GB) (Oasis Dream {GB}) faces four rivals over the course and distance of next month’s G1 Prix de Diane, for which she holds an entry.

1.55 Leopardstown, Debutantes, €12,000, 3yo, f, 8fT
SATIN AND SILK (IRE) (Galileo {Ire}) is Coolmore’s John Gunther-bred 900,000gns Tattersalls October Book 1 purchase and she debuts in blinkers for Ballydoyle. A half-sister to the GI Florida Derby hero Materiality (Afleet Alex) and GII Gazelle S. winner My Miss Sophia (Unbridled’s Song), she faces 14 here.

2.30 Leopardstown, Debutantes, €12,000, 3yo, c/g, 8fT
NAPA VALLEY (IRE) (Galileo {Ire}) is one of two from Ballydoyle with Seamie Heffernan siding with this half-brother to the star sprinting juvenile Tiggy Wiggy (Ire) (Kodiac {GB}) who holds an entry in Wednesday’s G3 Hampton Court S. He is joined by Ramesses the Great (Pioneerof The Nile), another bred by John Gunther this time in partnership with Winstar Farm and a $575,000 Keeneland September half-brother to last year’s GI Breeders’ Cup Classic hero Vino Rosso (Curlin).

3.15 Newmarket, £5,400, 3yo/up, f/m, 7fT
CRESSIDA (GB) (Dansili {GB}) is yet another John Gosden-trained 3-year-old filly to fascinate, being Juddmonte’s full-sister to the GI Beverly D. S. dead-heating runner-up Grand Jete (GB) from the family of the sires Showcasing (GB) and Camacho (GB). Not seen since a taking winning debut at Kempton in July, the homebred is joined by the stable’s unraced Spiritus Sanctus (Ire) (Invincible Spirit {Ire}), Lady Bamford’s 600,000gns Tattersalls December Foal purchase who is a full-sister to the high-class Ektihaam (Ire).

5.0 Newmarket, £6,400, 3yo/up, f/m, 12fT
DO YOU LOVE ME (IRE) (Galileo {Ire}) is the 2018 Goffs Orby topper at €3.2million who debuts for Phoenix Thoroughbred Limited and Karl Burke. The full-sister to the Group 1-winning duo Forever Together (Ire) and Together Forever (Ire) and half to fellow top-level scorer Lord Shanakill (Speightstown) meets Godolphin’s National Treasure (Ire) (Camelot {GB}), Charlie Appleby’s twice-raced relative of the GI Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Turf winner Wrote (Ire) (High Chaparral {Ire}) who fetched €500,000 at the same ground-breaking auction.

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