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Frankie on Snowfall in Cazoo Oaks

Aidan O'Brien has booked Frankie Dettori for the G3 Musidora S. winner Snowfall (Jpn) (Deep Impact {Jpn}) in Friday's G1 Cazoo Oaks at Epsom, for which 14 fillies were confirmed on Wednesday. Registering a career-best when winning by 3 3/4 lengths in that extended 10-furlong trial at York May 12, she joins 'TDN Rising Star' and likely favourite Santa Barbara (Ire) (Camelot {GB}) and three others from Rosegreen in the mile-and-a-half Classic. As expected, Ryan Moore sticks with the May 2 G1 1000 Guineas fourth Santa Barbara, while Seamie Heffernan takes the mount on the G3 Flame of Tara S. winner Divinely (Ire) (Galileo {Ire}), Wayne Lordan is on the G3 Blue Wind S. third Willow (Ire) (American Pharoah) and William Buick picks up the ride on the Listed Cheshire Oaks fourth La Joconde (Ire) (Frankel {GB}).

O'Brien was at The Curragh on Wednesday and gave the low-down on the quintet. “We always thought the world of Snowfall last year, but she didn't really put it together. Maybe it was the winter under her belt or going up in trip which helped her or a bit of both, but we were pleased with her at York,” he said. “With Santa Barbara, we had to be careful with her going to the Guineas but we were able to train her a little bit harder for the Oaks and we've been very happy with her since. She looks like she'll definitely get a mile and a quarter and there is a good chance of her getting the trip. Being by Camelot, she has that influence for stamina but she's not short of pace and class. Wayne [Lordan] really liked Willow at Naas and we think she's gone the right way while we always thought Divinely would improve for a step up in trip. We were very happy with her at Lingfield–it was a slowly-run race and all her figures from her work have been very favourable with the others. La Joconde is a maiden, but has worked nicely and we always thought she was better than her form so we are letting her take her chance as well.”

After the draw was made for the £395,000 contest, it was Shadwell's Cheshire Oaks runner-up Zeyaadah (Ire) (Tamayuz {GB}) who was handed the disadvantageous one stall with Qatar Racing's Ocean Road (Ire) (Australia {GB}) alongside in two. The latter, who was third behind Sherbet Lemon (Lemon Drop Kid) and Save a Forest (Ire) (Kingman {GB}) and in front of Divinely in the May 8 Listed Lingfield Oaks Trial, was the subject of a bullish bulletin from trainer Hugo Palmer on Wednesday.

“I think she has come on an enormous amount from Lingfield,” he said of the half-sister to the dual GI Northern Dancer Turf S. hero Wigmore Hall (Ire) (High Chaparral {Ire}) who was given a sighter of Epsom last week. “I'd be confident that she has come on at least 10 pounds and if she has come on 20 pounds she is going to be right there. I weighed her on Monday. She was only just ready to run when she went to Lingfield and she has stripped down to hard-fit now. She is 18 kilos lighter than she was at Lingfield. Her work has been really good. She is an outsider, but I think she is a lively outsider. She has a lot of improvement to find, not least to beat the two horses that beat her last time, but I think everyone is united that it's a pretty open year.”

Sheikh Hamdan bin Mohammed Al Maktoum's Cheshire Oaks winner Dubai Fountain (Ire) (Teofilo {Ire}) and the G1 QIPCO 1000 Guineas runner-up Saffron Beach (Ire) (New Bay {GB}) have been drawn six and seven respectively, with Ali Saeed's Musidora third Teona (Ire) (Sea the Stars {Ire}) in eight.

In other Epsom news to break on Wednesday, Aidan O'Brien announced that last year's G2 Beresford S. winner High Definition (Ire) (Galileo {Ire}) will miss Saturday's G1 Cazoo Derby at Epsom for which he was the winter ante-post favourite and wait for the G1 Irish Derby at The Curragh on June 26.

Confirming that 'TDN Rising Star' Bolshoi Ballet (Ire) (Galileo {Ire}) will be the stable's sole representative in the blue riband, the Ballydoyle handler said during racing at The Curragh, “Nothing is written in stone until ten o'clock in the morning, but it looks like the two horses are going to be split. It looks like Bolshoi Ballet is going to Epsom and it looks like High Definition is coming straight here. Bolshoi would be our only runner at Epsom–that's what the lads are thinking to give the two of them a chance at a Derby. It's the right thing.”

O'Brien revealed that the four other remaining entries would go in separate directions. “St Mark's Basilica and Van Gogh are going to France [for Sunday's G1 Prix du Jockey Club],” he continued. “Kyprios is going to Ascot for the Queen's Vase and Sir Lamorak might go for the King Edward. We were lucky to get the run into High Definition at York and we think he's a very good horse. A little more time won't do him any harm. It was just to give the two of them a chance until they have to meet. The Curragh Derby is a very important race, as the Epsom Derby is also. I'm very happy with both horses. If we didn't get the run into High Definition then there was no decision to make, as if he didn't run in York then he definitely wouldn't go to Epsom.”

With Frankie Dettori no longer required by Ballydoyle, the 50-year-old who was widely expected to be on High Definition instead gets the call-up for TDN Rising Star John Leeper (Ire) (Frankel {GB}). Cristina Patino's May 15 Listed Fairway S. winner was due to be ridden by Adam Kirby, but the owner-breeder was intent on snaring the jockey who steered Snow Fairy (Ire) (Intikhab) to glory in the 2012 G1 Irish Champion S.

“Frankie was the first choice and was approached quite a while ago, but he has been riding a lot for Aidan in England and that was going to happen until the bolt out of the blue from Ballydoyle this afternoon,” trainer Ed Dunlop explained to the Racing Post. “There are no negatives with Frankie riding in the Derby and the horse's work is all done now. He's done everything we've wanted him to do so far and, touch wood, everything is going well going into the race. The news today came a bit out of the blue, but once Mrs. Patino heard she was very keen and instructed us to see if Frankie was available.”

Before Epsom's action gets underway, Thursday's Leopardstown card features the Listed Glencairn S. over a mile, where The Aga Khan's 2020 G3 Amethyst S. winner Sinawann (Ire) (Kingman {GB}) makes his seasonal bow, and the 12-furlong Listed Nijinsky S. for 3-year-olds. The Mediterranean (Ire) (Galileo {Ire}), who was one of the members of Ballydoyle's drastically trimmed-down Derby list, heads here instead having been successful in a maiden over the course and distance May 9. The son of the classy Flashy Wings (GB) (Zafonic) meets Chantal Regalado-Gonzalez's Fernando Vichi (Ire) (Australia {GB}), who gives more clues as to the measurable ability of Bolshoi Ballet (Ire) (Galileo {Ire}) having been third to the hot Derby favourite in the same card's G3 Derrinstown Stud Derby Trial.

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Easy Pickings For Palace Pier In the Lockinge

Frankie Dettori could afford to be at his showboating best at Newbury on Saturday, with TDN Rising Star Palace Pier (GB) (Kingman {GB}) in imperious mood as he gave his evergreen rider the ideal big-race thrill in the G1 Al Shaqab Lockinge S. Hot property as the 1-2 favourite following his eight-length comeback success in the Apr. 23 G2 Sandown Mile, Sheikh Hamdan bin Mohammed Al Maktoum's G1 St James's Palace S. and G1 Prix Jacques le Marois hero travelled typically smoothly in the early stages despite ending up towards the rear after receiving an early bump. In the event, the normally laid-back dude could have afforded his mostly outclassed rivals even more of a headstart as he was on their case with uncharacteristic alacrity as soon as Frankie moved in the saddle approaching three out. Once his jockey had indulged in two lengthy glances behind and to his left, Palace Pier was off and away and by the two pole there was an air of the ridiculous about a renewal that so many had believed was deep and competitive. Thankfully, the filly Lady Bowthorpe (GB) (Nathaniel {Ire}) saw to it that he had to gallop out to the line but as she pulled away from the rest it was clear that she was only keeping the winner marginally occupied. At the line, there was as comfortable a 1 1/2-length margin as is possible, while the progressive and smart yardstick Top Rank (Ire) (Dark Angel {Ire}) 5 1/2 lengths away in third and clear of the main pack. “What he did between the three and the one was mindboggling,” commented Dettori, who has begun 2021 as he left off last year by taking two of the three domestic group 1s staged so far. “He usually hits a flat spot, but he just took off today and was just a bit bored in front.”

Oozing talent at two, Palace Pier had a way of making his racing look easy in a brace of outings over seven furlongs at Sandown before any fancy plans were offset by a minor tibia injury. Missing the G1 2000 Guineas as a result, he instead went for a mile handicap on the same day on Newcastle's Tapeta and did enough there and in the interim to earn a tilt at Pinatubo (Ire) (Shamardal) in the St James's Palace S. Outstaying Godolphin's champion there before overcoming soft ground to upstage the G1 Coronation S. heroine Alpine Star (Ire) (Sea the Moon {Ger}) in the Jacques le Marois, his final 3-year-old start was in the G1 Queen Elizabeth II S. but little went to plan in deep ground there and he could only manage third on three racing plates.

While crack milers like his own sire, the moment the gears shift is often a brief one but Palace Pier's performance on his seasonal bow at Sandown last month was of a different ilk. Ultimately undeniably impressive as a wide-margin winner there, he could not be described as push-button but this slicker display may have delayed the move to longer distances that was immediately touted for him after that race. Frankie may have lost his beloved Enable (GB) (Nathaniel {Ire}), but he has a rare talent on cue again to head to his favourite meeting along with Stradivarius (Ire) (Sea the Stars {Ire}). “These kind of horses don't come along very often,” he said. “This is what champions can do, they make other horses look moderate and pass them like they are standing still. It's an amazing feeling and a nice surprise, as he is very deceptive–he's so lazy in the mornings so I didn't expect him to do that. He took five lengths out of the field and was in front a long way out with a headwind.”

Dettori is convinced he can do more. “He is 100% up there with the best milers I've ridden, but he's probably got to win another couple of group 1s to say he's the best,” he added. “He has low mileage and is just learning. I love the horse–he's a very happy horse and great to be around in the mornings. He saves his best for the races and mentally he's grown up and knows how to run his race now. He's a joy to ride, like a hovercraft on water and everything went so smooth.”

John Gosden said, “He relaxed well in the race and having been a little bit squeezed leaving the gate, Frankie said he got back further than he wanted. He came through very nicely and had to go, then he got a little bit lonely looking around in front having picked those others off so fast. A lot of them do get quicker with age and there's no doubt he accelerated more than Frankie expected, with the filly running a great race to be second. He hasn't been over-raced, so is on an upward curve and I think he would get a mile and a quarter as he relaxes so well.”

“With his father, if you told me I had to change his trip I would have brought him back to six for a July Cup–he had that kind of speed–but a change for this horse would mean going up two furlongs,” Gosden Sr added. “We'll see, but it's pretty obvious at this stage to go for the [June 15 G1] Queen Anne [at Royal Ascot] and think about it after that. I could see the Juddmonte International as a very possible target for him, as Royal Ascot to the Eclipse is very tight with 16 days being quite tough if they've had a hard race. Although the Juddmonte would be a strong possibility, there is a little race in France called the Prix Jacques le Marois at the same time, but getting to France is quite difficult now. He has a bundle of class and is a good character like his father. An exciting horse.”

Lady Bowthorpe's trainer William Jarvis was fully rewarded for his decision to send the runner-up into battle here and he was left pondering what damage the G2 Dahlia S. winner could do back among her own sex. “We're absolutely delighted and very proud of her,” he said. “We knew what we were taking on with Palace Pier, but she's finished five lengths clear of the third and so it was a great performance. It's funny, because when Ryan Moore finished unplaced on her in a Newmarket handicap last year we were left scratching our heads, but she got no run and Ryan said she was definitely listed-class and probably a group filly. She's special and is going back against fillies in races like the [June 16 G2] Duke of Cambridge [S. at Royal Ascot] and the [G1] Falmouth [S. at Newmarket July 9].”

Palace Pier's unraced dam Beach Frolic (GB) (Nayef) is a half to the G2 Dante S. winner Bonfire (GB) (Manduro {Ger}) and this stable's G2 Windsor Forest S. and G3 Musidora S. scorer Joviality (GB) (Cape Cross {Ire}), who was also third in the GI Beverly D S. She is a granddaughter of Miss d'Ouilly (Fr) (Bikala {Ire}), who is a half-sister to another Jacques le Marois winner in Miss Satamixa (Fr) (Linamix {Fr}) who later produced the GIII Cardinal H. winner Miss Caerleona (Fr) (Caerleon). She is in turn the dam of another former notable Gosden runner in Karen's Caper (War Chant), who took the G3 Nell Gwyn S., GIII Noble Damsel Breeders' Cup H. and GIII Eatontown S. and was also runner-up in the GI Queen Elizabeth II Challenge Cup and the G1 Coronation S.

Miss Caerleona was also responsible for the GII Davona Dale H. winner Miss Coronado (Coronado's Quest), who was herself responsible for the stakes scorer and GI Las Virgenes S. third Arethusa (A.P. Indy). This is also the family of the triple group 1-winning 1,000 Guineas and Irish Oaks heroine Blue Bunting (Dynaformer) and the group 1 sprinter Comicas (Distorted Humor). Beach Frolic's 2-year-old colt Highland Frolic (Fr) (Highland Reel {Ire}) was a 320,000gns purchase by McCalmont Bloodstock at the Tattersalls October Yearling Sale Book 1, while she also has a yearling colt by Almanzor (Fr).

Saturday, Newbury, Britain
AL SHAQAB LOCKINGE S.-G1, £350,000, Newbury, 5-15, 4yo/up, 8fT, 1:40.96, g/s.
1–PALACE PIER (GB), 126, c, 4, by Kingman (GB)
1st Dam: Beach Frolic (GB), by Nayef
2nd Dam: Night Frolic (GB), by Night Shift
3rd Dam: Miss d'Ouilly (Fr), by Bikala (Ire)
(600,000gns Ylg '18 TATOCT). O-Sheikh Hamdan bin Mohammed Al Maktoum; B-Highclere Stud & Floors Farming (GB); T-John & Thady Gosden; J-Lanfranco Dettori. £198,485. Lifetime Record: Hwt. 3yo-Eur at 7-9.5f & G1SW-Fr, 8-7-0-1, $1,089,811. Werk Nick Rating: B. Click for the eNicks report & 5-cross pedigree.
2–Lady Bowthorpe (GB), 123, m, 5, Nathaniel (Ire)–Maglietta Fina (Ire), by Verglas (Ire). (82,000gns Ylg '17 TAOCT). O-Ms E L Banks; B-Scuderia Archi Romani (GB); T-William Jarvis. £75,250.
3–Top Rank (Ire), 126, h, 5, Dark Angel (Ire)–Countess Ferrama (GB), by Authorized (Ire). (26,000gns Ylg '17 TAOCT). O-Saeed Manana; B-Wicklow Bloodstock (IRE); T-James Tate. £37,660.
Margins: 1HF, 5HF, 4 3/4. Odds: 0.50, 22.00, 11.00.
Also Ran: Lord Glitters (Fr), Happy Power (Ire), Lord Campari (Ire), My Oberon (Ire), Lope Y Fernandez (Ire), Century Dream (Ire), Pogo (Ire), Safe Voyage (Ire). Scratched: Bless Him (Ire). Click for the Racing Post result or the free Equineline.com catalogue-style pedigree.

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O’Brien, Dettori Team Up To Win 1,000 Guineas With Mother Earth

Frankie Dettori celebrated winning the 20th Classic of his career with victory on Mother Earth in the QIPCO 1,000 Guineas – then joked he has “plenty of time” to beat the legendary Lester Piggott's record of 30.

It was a fourth victory in the race for the 50 year old Italian jockey and a seventh for trainer Aidan O'Brien.

Taking the lead just inside the final quarter mile, Zoffany filly Mother Earth, a 10-1 chance, kept on finding more and at the finish had a length to spare over the staying on Saffron Beach (9-1). A futher neck back in third was 22-1 chance Fev Rover.

Speaking after the race Dettori said: “I was super excited to win that! I didn't have the pressure to ride the favorite and had a very willing partner on a filly who I knew would give me everything.

“Aidan gave me a lot of confidence this morning and said to forget about (favored) Santa Barbara and just ride my own race. He told me to get cover and I did and like I said I forgot about the favorite and just kicked at the top of the hill.

“I knew she'd stay really well and I won – it's as simple as that! It's my 20th Classic (in Britain) at 50 years old. I'm only 10 behind Lester now so I've got plenty of time!

“It's great to do it at Newmarket. I'm extremely happy and I got lucky to get that ride. Lester was 56 so I've got six years left and Kevin (Manning, 54, winner of Saturday's 2,000 Guineas with Poetic Flare) won yesterday – come on the oldies!”

Before the QIPCO 1000 Guineas, many had expected an O'Brien victory in the race to come via his 5-2 joint favorite Santa Barbara, who finished fourth under Ryan Moore.

But O'Brien said of Mother Earth: “She's a very good filly and always was. It was unfair to the favorite (Santa Barbara) to come but we had to come with the view to coming back over here for the Oaks.

“Santa Barbara is only a baby and Ryan said that he'd liked to have waited longer but he saw Frankie coming down his outside and he had to come then and she was just green in the dip, but after having one easy run it was a great run.

“Mother Earth is a very consistent filly – she had a great run in America last time out last year and that was very professional. She relaxed and quickened and did everything really well, so we're delighted. I think Mother Earth will stick to a mile and we'll step Santa Barbara up in trip – the latter was always going to go to the Oaks next time and this filly was always going to go to the Irish Guineas next. That was the plan.

“We won't go again with Santa Barbara (before the Cazoo Oaks). We felt that she would learn as much coming here as she would for three runs, but it was a risk doing it that she was going to get beaten.

“She'll be fine, she's classy and she would have learnt a lot today and she has plenty time to get over that. Ryan was very happy and he said to me that in an ideal world he didn't want to commit as early.

“But with Frankie coming he had to keep going then and she was a little bit unbalanced going into the dip, which is understandable as we've never taken her off the bridle at home. Hopefully she'll come out of it ok and it will do her good.

“I didn't ask Frankie anything afterwards – I just listened. I'm sure you could hear it all as well! It's great to have him and he's an unbelievable rider.”

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1000 Guineas Glory For Zoffany’s Mother Earth

In a renewal of Newmarket's G1 Qipco 1000 Guineas which polarised the dreamers and the cynics, experience ultimately told on Sunday with Frankie Dettori the chief benefactor as he steered Mother Earth (Ire) (Zoffany {Ire}) to glory. Whereas Ballydoyle's Santa Barbara (Ire) (Camelot {GB}) had created all the electricity in the build-up to a Classic which lost some key cast members along the way, it was the stable's hard-working journeywoman who nestled under the radar and emerged clear-best to uphold the prime formlines of 2020. Successful in the G3 Coolmore Stud Irish EBF Fillies' Sprint S. and third in the course-and-distance G1 Fillies' Mile before ending up second in the GI Breeders' Cup Juvenile Fillies Turf, Derrick Smith's colour-bearer was an over-generous 10-1 shot boasting the second-highest official rating in this field. Switched off towards the rear early racing on the far side, the bay arrived full of running out wide to take the lead 1 1/2 furlongs from the finish as Santa Barbara had an understandable moment of greenness. As the field drove to the line spread across the track, Mother Earth was already gone beyond recall to give O'Brien a seventh renewal and fifth since 2016. A length second was Saffron Beach (Ire) (New Bay {GB}), who denied Fev Rover (Ire) (Gutaifan {Ire}) by a neck with the 5-2 joint-favourite Santa Barbara nosed out in fourth.

A fourth 1000 Guineas for Dettori means that between the winning riders of the two weekend Classics there is a grand total of 104 years. Like Saturday's hero Kevin Manning, Frankie has a wealth of experience which is invaluable in these clashes and he was in typically ebullient form as he celebrated his 20th Classic victory. “Come on the oldies. We can still do it!” he said. “Aidan gave me a lot of confidence. I rode her cold, followed Ryan and kicked at the top of the hill. I knew she'd get home and I was able to enjoy it. I think she'll get a mile and a quarter. She's very easy to handle and she's very brave. She's not very big, but she's got a big engine.”

Introduced as soon as the Irish flat season resumed after the lockdown last June, Mother Earth was second to the precocious Frenetic (Ire) (Kodiac {GB}) over an extended five furlongs at Navan before finishing a distant third in the G3 Albany S. nine days later at Royal Ascot. Backed up quickly when a four-length winner of the Coolmore Stud Irish EBF Fillies' Sprint over the same six-furlong trip at Naas, she looked in need of further when third behind Aloha Star (Ire) (Starspangledbanner {Aus}) and old rival Frenetic in The Curragh's G2 Airlie Stud S. Her subsequent performance when third behind TDN Rising Star Pretty Gorgeous (Fr) (Lawman {Fr}) in the G2 Debutante S. again at The Curragh in August suggested that even seven furlongs was insufficient, but when Seamie Heffernan attempted to employ her stamina from the front in the G1 Moyglare Stud S. the plan backfired and she faded to 11th.

In a now-notorious error, Mother Earth was third in the Fillies' Mile where her number cloth was mixed up with stablemate Snowfall (Jpn) (Deep Impact {Jpn}) but after all the focus on that mistake had died away her performance when chasing home Pretty Gorgeous and another TDN Rising Star in Indigo Girl (GB) (Dubawi {Ire}) was clearly another step up. Very few fillies can start so early and end up running such a strong race in a Breeders' Cup contest, but she proved one of those rarities as she charged late to narrow the winning margin of Aunt Pearl (Ire) (Lope de Vega {Ire}) in the Juvenile Fillies Turf. It was significant that she was chosen to go with Santa Barbara to Newmarket and with Frankie boasting such a fine strike-rate for the stable ultimately no surprise that she came through for a stable that now focuses intently on this Classic and its fillies in general.

“The fillies live close to each other and everyone was delighted with both of them,” O'Brien said. “The race went lovely and we were delighted with Santa Barbara–we got a great run out of her and she'll head for the [June 4 G1 Epsom] Oaks now with Mother Earth going for the [G1] Irish 1000 Guineas [at The Curragh May 23]. Going into the dip on fast ground, it wouldn't surprise you that Santa Barbara was green but she would have learnt a lot. She's an unbelievably beautiful big, powerful filly with everything in the right place. Mother Earth is a very good filly, always was, and she put her head down and ran to the line. She is very tough and very genuine and obviously Zoffany is a big loss.”

“It was unfair to Santa Barbara to come, but we had to with a view to coming back for the Oaks,” O'Brien continued. “Ryan said he would have liked to have waited longer, but he saw Frankie coming on his outside and he had to go. We never took her off the bridle at home–today was her first time. Hopefully she'll come out of it okay and it will do her good. We were never going to over-race her and wanted to limit the amount of times she ran, with a late-season campaign planned after the Oaks.”

Saffron Beach's trainer Jane Chapple-Hyam said of the runner-up, “It would have been the quickest ground she has been on, but she can handle it because she is versatile as you saw in the Oh So Sharp on good-to-soft and here on the quicker ground. We are just all thrilled and I'm sure the owners are highly delighted. This time last year, she wasn't even in training. She has seen the mile out 100 per cent. I knew she would get the mile and I know she will get a mile and a quarter as well. There is a good one in her.” Richard Fahey had made no secret beforehand of his expectations of Fev Rover and her performance was justification of that. “We were delighted with her–it wasn't a truly-run race really,” her trainer commented. “Paul [Hanagan] felt the ground was a bit quick for her and she just rolled about a bit, but you'd have to be happy with that. She probably will go further in time and a bit of juice in the ground doesn't bother her at all. She's in the Irish Guineas and that was going to be the plan–that or Royal Ascot.”

On a weekend where Jim Bolger has been omnipresent where it mattered, it was the master of Coolcullen who initially campaigned the dam Many Colours (GB) (Green Desert) and drew from her a win in the Listed Dance Design S. and second in the G3 Denny Cordell & Lanwades Stud Fillies S. before she switched to Saeed bin Suroor. It took her a while to produce a black-type performer, but 12 years after her own exploits in that sphere she had the G2 Premio Dormello winner Night Colours (Ire) (Night of Thunder {Ire}) in October 2019. Earlier that month, Mother Earth had been a relatively cheap €150,000 purchase by M V Magnier at the Goffs Orby in what would amount to yet another piece of prescience from Coolmore. Many Colours's latest produce are a yearling filly by Sioux Nation and a colt foal by Zoffany.

Mother Earth becomes the first Classic winner for her sire, who was taken from the industry all too soon given his recent rise to prominence. Many Colours was the leading performer for First of Many (GB) (Darshaan {GB}), in turn a full-sister to the G3 Lillie Langtry S. runner-up Without a Trace (Ire) and a half to the Listed Marygate S. winner Patience Alexander (Ire) (Kodiac {GB}) who was also third in the Albany. She is connected to the G3 Anglesey S. and G3 Molecomb S. winner Lady Alexander (Ire) (Night Shift), dam of the G3 Palace House S.-winning successful sire Dandy Man (Ire) (Mozart {Ire}) and to Anthem Alexander (Ire) (Starspangledbanner {Aus}) who took the G2 Queen Mary S. and was placed in the G1 Cheveley Park S. and G1 Commonwealth Cup.

Sunday, Newmarket, Britain
QIPCO 1000 GUINEAS S.-G1, £375,000, Newmarket, 5-2, 3yo, f, 8fT, 1:36.37, g/f.
1–MOTHER EARTH (IRE), 126, f, 3, by Zoffany (Ire)
1st Dam: Many Colours (GB) (SW & GSP-Ire, MSP-UAE, $276,926), by Green Desert
2nd Dam: First of Many (GB), by Darshaan (GB)
3rd Dam: Star Profile (Ire), by Sadler's Wells
1ST GROUP 1 WIN. (€150,000 Ylg '19 GOFOR). O-Derrick Smith, Susan Magnier & Michael Tabor; B-Grenane House Stud (IRE); T-Aidan O'Brien; J-Frankie Dettori. £212,663. Lifetime Record: GSW-Ire & GISP-US, 9-2-2-4, $590,961. *1/2 to Night Colours (Ire) (Night of Thunder {Ire}), GSW-Ity, $139,607. Werk Nick Rating: A+. Click for the eNicks report & 5-cross pedigree.
2–Saffron Beach (Ire), 126, f, 3, New Bay (GB)–Falling Petals (Ire), by Raven's Pass. (55,000gns Wlg '18 TATFOA). O-Mrs B V Sangster, J Wigan & O Sangster; B-China Horse Club International Ltd (IRE); T-Jane Chapple-Hyam. £80,625.
3–Fev Rover (Ire), 126, f, 3, Gutaifan (Ire)–Laurelita (Ire), by High Chaparral (Ire). (£20,000 Ylg '19 GOFFPR). O-Nick Bradley Racing 43 & Partner; B-Manister House Stud (IRE); T-Richard Fahey. £40,350.
Margins: 1, NK, NO. Odds: 10.00, 9.00, 22.00.
Also Ran: Santa Barbara (Ire), Alcohol Free (Ire), Vadream (GB), Sacred (GB), Statement (Ire), Star of Emaraaty (Ire), Seattle Rock (GB), Thunder Beauty (Ire). Scratched: Lullaby Moon (GB). Click for the Racing Post result or the free Equineline.com catalogue-style pedigree.

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