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Irish Oaks Conundrum

Emily Upjohn (GB) (Frankel {GB}) couldn't make the flight, so it's time to move on and focus on those left to fight out Saturday's G1 Juddmonte Irish Oaks at the Curragh, which unusually features none of the fillies who participated in the Oaks.

That means that it is even more of a puzzle, with Zhang Yuesheng's June 16 G2 Ribblesdale S. winner Magical Lagoon (Ire) (Galileo {Ire}) left as short-priced favourite even though she is yet to tackle Group 1 company. What her half-length defeat of Sea Silk Road (Ire) (Sea The Stars {Ire}) at Royal Ascot represents is hard to know, but it may be telling that Aidan O'Brien has opted to take her on again with the well-beaten third History (Ire) (Galileo {Ire}). Stable form is a plus for Jessie Harrington, who also saddles Vimal Khosla's course-and-distance June 1 maiden winner Fennela (Ire) (Sea The Stars {Ire}), but a trio of Ballydoyle contenders stand in her way.

Another Emily To The Rescue

Emily Upjohn's absence leaves a large dent in the 2022 renewal, but there is a chance that another of that name will come out on top in Emily Dickinson (Ire) (Dubawi {Ire}). One of Rosegreen's trio, she came back from a lengthy absence having disappointed in the Listed Lingfield Oaks Trial to run the year-older Rosscarbery (Ger) (Sea The Stars {Ire}) to a short head in Leopardstown's 14-furlong G3 Stanerra S. last Thursday. A daughter of the 2013 Irish Oaks heroine Chicquita (Ire) (Montjeu {Ire}), she produced a rare surge at the end of that contest and in another stride would have been past the vastly-improved Twomey runner. Ryan Moore has opted for the daughter of You'resothrilling (Storm Cat), Toy (Ire) (Galileo {Ire}), who has been 11th in the G1 Poule d'Essai des Pouliches at ParisLongchamp May 15 and 12th in the G1 Prix de Diane at Chantilly June 19. It is an unorthodox route to this race, but her rider's faith in her ability shines through. “We believe she is better than she has shown to date,” he said.

Best Of The Rest

The Curragh's Saturday card also features the G3 Jebel Ali Racecourse And Stables Anglesey S., where Ballydoyle's 'TDN Rising Star' Little Big Bear (Ire) (No Nay Never) is slated to run having been taken out of the G2 July S. due to the fast ground prevalent at Newmarket. The June 15 Listed Windsor Castle S. winner will have the June 24 course maiden scorer Slan Abhaile (Ire) (Territories {Ire}) to contend with, while in the G2 Barberstown Castle Sapphire S., Craig Bernick and Antony Beck's G3 Marble Hill S. winner and G1 Middle Park S. runner-up Castle Star (Ire) (Starspangledbanner {Aus}) makes his reappearance after a 294-day layoff.

“He had a little hiccup in the spring, so is a little later starting back,” trainer Fozzy Stack explained. “He seems in good order, he's ready to start back, but will probably need the run as he hasn't run for quite a while.”

Scott Heider's Joseph O'Brien-trained Brostaigh (Ire) (Footstepsinthesand {GB}) comes off the back of a win in the G2 Prix du Gros-Chene at Chantilly June 5 and has developed a granite exterior the more sprinting practice she has been given.

Later in the day, Saint-Cloud stages a fascinating G2 Prix Eugene Adam, where Sunderland Holdings' June 14 G1 St James's Palace S. third My Prospero (Ire) (Iffraaj {GB}) takes on the Wertheimers' unbeaten Apr. 17 G3 Prix Noailles scorer Junko (GB) (Intello {Ger}) and Vagalame (Ire) (Lope De Vega {Ire}), who dead-heated for fifth with Onesto (Ire) (Frankel {GB}) in the June 5 Prix du Jockey Club.

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Where Did They Come From: G1 Juddmonte Irish Oaks

Although the €500,000 G1 Juddmonte Irish Oaks will not be a clash of the G1 Cazoo Oaks one-two Tuesday (Ire) (Galileo {Ire}) and Emily Upjohn (GB) (Sea The Stars {Ire}), the latter withdrawn due to transportation issues at the 11th hour on Friday morning, there is plenty of quality in the seven-horse field still signed on. Aidan O'Brien is not empty-handed with the withdrawal of Tuesday either, as he will still run three for the Coolmore partners, led by Toy (Ire) (Galileo {Ire}).

CAIRDE GO DEO (FR), Camelot (GB)–Elusive Galaxy (Ire) (Elusive City)
Owner: Mark Dobbin
Breeder: SARL Haras du Logis Saint Germain (Fr)
Trainer: Ger Lyons
Sales History: Gaelic Bloodstock purchased her for €105,000 out of Arqana's Deauville Select Sale.
Pedigree Notes:
One of five winners from six to race for the G2 Debutante S. third Elusive Galaxy (Ire), Cairde Go Deo traces to Canadian stakes winner Twilight Spook (Wajima), who won the Star Shoot S. at Woodbine. Her dam's latest foal, the 2-year-old colt Elusive Empire (Fr) (Territories {Ire}), has yet to face the starter.

EMILY DICKINSON (IRE), Dubawi (Ire)–Chicquita (Ire) (Montjeu {Ire})
Owner: Mrs. John Magnier/Michael Tabor/Derrick Smith/Westerberg
Breeder: Chicquita Syndicate (Ire)
Trainer: Aidan O'Brien
Pedigree Notes: A daughter of the €6-million Goffs November mare Chicquita, who won the Irish Oaks in 2013, Emily Dickinson is a half-sister to two black-type placed runners–GI American Oaks second and Irish Oaks third Nicest (Ire) (American Pharoah) and G3 Silver Flash S. third Secret Thoughts (War Front). Chicquita is a half-sister to two stakes winners led by the well-traveled G1 MacKinnon S. heroine Magic Wand (Ire) (Galileo {Ire}). Following Emily Dickinson is the unraced Dubawi (Ire) filly Beware (Ire) and her yearling full-sister.

FENNELA (IRE), Sea The Stars (Ire)–Green Room (Theatrical {Ire})
Owner: Vimal Khosla
Breeder: Vimal & Gillian Khosla (Ire)
Trainer: Jessica Harrington
Sales History: Foaled in May, she did not meet her reserve and was a buy back at £775,000 at the Goffs Orby Sale.
Pedigree Notes: A half-sister to the Group 1 winners Lord Shanakill (Speightstown), Together Forever (Ire) (Galileo {Ire}) and Forever Together (Ire) (Galileo {Ire}). Green Room's half-sister, Spanish Fern (El Gran Senor) won both the GI Yellow Ribbon S. and GII Santa Ana H. Rising first-season sire star Havana Grey (GB) (Havana Gold {Ire}) is under the stakes-winning third dam, Chain Store (Nodouble). Although she did not produce a foal in 2020 or last year, Green Room has a colt foal by Waldgeist (GB).

HISTORY (IRE), Galileo (Ire)–Prize Exhibit (GB) (Showcasing {GB})
Owner: M Tabor, D Smith, Mrs. J. Magnier & Westerberg
Breeder: Barronstown Stud (Ire)
Trainer: Aidan O'Brien
Sales History: Bought for 2.8 million gns at Book 1 of the Tattersalls October Yearling Sale.
Pedigree Notes: Out of three-time graded winner Prize Exhibit, who also ran third in the GI Del Mar Oaks, History is the first foal, runner and winner for her dam. Prize Exhibit, is a half-sister to G1 Sussex S. victor Mohaather (GB) (Showcasing {GB}), as well as the dam of G1 Queen Anne S. victor Accidental Agent (GB) (Delegator {GB}). Her Galileo (Ire) juvenile colt Joaquin Sorolla (Ire) has yet to race, while her youngest foal is a colt by Frankel (GB).

MAGICAL LAGOON (IRE), Galileo (Ire)–Night Lagoon (Ger) (Lagunas {GB})
Owner: Zhang Yuesheng
Breeder: Coolmore (Ire)
Trainer: Jessica Harrington
Sales History: A 305,000gns Tattersalls October Book 1 yearling.
Pedigree Notes: A half-sister to Novellist (Ire) (Monsun {Ger}), who won Group 1 races in four different countries. Their dam claimed the G3 Preis der Winterkonigin and was the highest-rated German juvenile filly of her year, besides being a half-sister to the G1 German Derby runner-up Night Tango (Ger) (Acatenago {Ger}). Magical Lagoon was her final foal.

SHOW OF STARS (GB), Showcasing (GB)–Gloryette (GB) (Raven's Pass)
Owner: Martin Schwartz & Charles & Paul O'Callaghan
Breeder: Lofts Hall Stud & Mrs. C R Philipson (GB)
Trainer: Paddy Twomey
Sales History: Bought for 100,000gns at the Tattersalls October Yearling Sale, Book 1.
Pedigree Notes: Show Of Stars is the second foal and winner out of a half-sister to three black-type winners including the sires Elusive Pimpernel (Elusive Quality) and Palavicini (Giant's Causeway). Under the third dam is former sire and G3 Furstenberg-Rennen victor Big Bad Bob (Ire) (Bob Back), as well as the globetrotting filly Snow Fairy (Ire) (Intikhab), who won this race after the English equivalent in 2010. Gloryette has a Muhaarar (GB) juvenile colt Enochdhu (Fr), a yearling filly by Wootton Bassett (GB) and an Advertise (GB) colt of this year still to come.

TOY (IRE), Galileo (Ire)–You'resothrilling (Storm Cat)
Owner: D Smith, Mrs J Magnier, M Tabor, Westerberg
Breeder: Coolmore (Ire)
Trainer: Aidan O'Brien
Pedigree Notes: Running in her third consecutive fillies' Classic but without black type as yet, she is the eighth foal, and eighth winner for her two-time group-winning dam, herself a full-sister to the 'Iron Horse' Giant's Causeway (Storm Cat). Of Toy's siblings, three have won at the Classic level–Marvellous (Ire), Gleneagles (Ire), and her year-older sister Joan Of Arc (Ire).

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Oaks Heroine Tuesday To Skip Irish Classic

Eight fillies will head postward for Saturday's G1 Juddmonte Irish Oaks following Thursday morning's confirmation of final declarations for the €500,000 Classic. The Co. Kildare venue will be denied the opportunity of a rematch between Epsom's G1 Oaks first and second, Tuesday (Ire) (Galileo {Ire}) and Emily Upjohn (GB) (Sea The Stars {Ire}), with the former being the highest-profile absentee from the select field. Aidan O'Brien will instead rely on Toy (Ire) (Galileo {Ire}, who is set to partnered by Ryan Moore, Wayne Lordan's mount History (Ire) (Galileo {Ire} and the Seamus Heffernan-piloted Emily Dickinson (Ire) (Dubawi {Ire}). They have been allocated stalls six, seven and two, respectively. John and Thady Gosden trainee and 'TDN Rising Star' Emily Upjohn, who is rated an odds-on chance to regain her winning thread, will have Frankie Dettori in the plate and has drawn gate four. Zhang Yuesheng's G2 Ribblesdale S. victrix Magical Lagoon (Ire) (Galileo {Ire}) has been drawn on the outside in gate eight.

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Irish Oaks Headlines Saturday Action

Aidan O’Brien will be looking to bring down more barricades on Saturday as he chases the record of Sir Michael Stoute in The Curragh’s G1 Juddmonte Irish Oaks. With five wins in the mile-and-a-half Classic, he sits one shy of the tally wracked up over the decades by the Newmarket-based legend and it will be no surprise were he to join him in 2020. Four fillies contest the latest renewal from Rosegreen, with Evie Stockwell’s G1 Epsom Oaks and G2 Ribblesdale S. runner-up Ennistymon (Ire) (Galileo {Ire}) the current standard-bearer on that form. Normally, being beaten nine lengths in the Epsom monument would be no commendation coming into this equivalent, but to be that distance from her exalted stablemate Love (Ire) (Galileo {Ire}) is probably creditable. “We’ve been very happy with Ennistymon since her last run in Epsom. She ran a great race, so we’re looking forward to this,” O’Brien said.

Ennistymon’s rider Wayne Lordan was on Snow (Ire) (Galileo {Ire}) when she beat her elders in the G3 Munster Oaks at Cork July 5, which was her first try at this trip. Previously runner-up in the June 21 G3 Blue Wind S. over 10 furlongs June 21, the full-sister to Kew Gardens (Ire) is charting the kind of progress that makes one from her stable with her pedigree impossible to discount in this company. That also applies to Laburnum (Ire) (Galileo {Ire}), who came off second-best in a tussle with the Ger Lyons-trained Even So (Ire) (Camelot {GB}) in the Listed Naas Oaks Trial over a mile and a quarter last time July 4.

“We were delighted with Laburnum the last day, she was very inexperienced going into it–a baby, really,” O’Brien said of the full-sister to Roderic O’Connor (Ire). “When she won her maiden she didn’t know much, so we felt that she had to run again to learn. She seems to be in good form and is stepping up to a mile and a half. It will be very interesting to see what happens with her, but there is every chance she is going to move up plenty. She is a very straightforward filly.”

Earlier on the Curragh card, the O’Brien-Lordan combination is in evidence in the G2 Paddy Power Minstrel S. on the exciting Lancaster House (Ire) (Galileo {Ire}), who beat the high-class Speak In Colours (GB) (Excelebration {Ire}) with authority in the G3 Gladness S. over this seven-furlong trip June 13. He has to contend with last year’s winner Romanised (Ire) (Holy Roman Emperor {Ire}), who stages his return to action for Robert Ng and Ken Condon. Already successful in the 2018 G1 Irish 2000 Guineas, he proved himself a genuine top-class performer on his latest two outings when winning the G1 Prix Jacques le Marois and finishing runner-up in the G1 Prix du Moulin.

Aidan O’Brien’s record in the G2 GAIN Railway S. is remarkable, with his tally of 13 successes just one short of the late great Vincent O’Brien. Wayne Lordan is on the June 26 course-and-distance maiden winner Merchants Quay (Fr) (No Nay Never), leaving Michael Hussey to partner the July 3 Navan maiden scorer Forest of Dreams (Ire) (No Nay Never). Jessie Harrington saddles Zhang Yuesheng’s June 8 Naas maiden winner Lucky Vega (Ire) (Lope de Vega {Ire}), while Ger Lyons relies on To Glory (GB) (Toronado {Ire}) who was off the mark over another 150 yards on debut at Limerick June 29. The fixture’s other pattern race is the G2 Comer Group International Curragh Cup, in which Lordan is on Ballydoyle’s unexposed June 18 Fairyhouse maiden-winning 3-year-old Memorabilis (Ire) (Galileo {Ire}) as he takes on Lloyd Williams’ veteran Twilight Payment (Ire) (Teofilo {Ire}) who scored over course and distance last time in the June 27 G3 Vintage Crop S.

Earlier in the afternoon, Newbury host the G3 bet365 Hackwood S. for the sprinters, with Sheikh Mohammed Obaid Al Maktoum’s TDN Rising Star Repartee (Ire) (Invincible Spirit {Ire}) looking to step up on his winning return in Windsor’s Listed Carnarvon S. over this six-furlong trip June Jun 28. Among the unexposed 3-year-old’s opponents is last year’s G2 City of York S. winner Shine So Bright (GB) (Oasis Dream {GB}), who was third when attempting to force the issue in the seven-furlong Listed Surrey S. at Epsom July 4. “As long as the ground is on the quick side, I would hope he’ll run very well. I think they’re calling the ground good at the moment and as long as it stays that way, I’m sure he’ll be fine,” trainer Andrew Balding said. “He’s a very useful horse on his day and I was happy with his last run at Epsom.”

Also on the card is the Listed bet365 Rose Bowl S. over six furlongs, where Manton Park Racing’s Method (Ire) (Mehmas {Ire}) bids to uphold the form of his Doncaster debut June 26. Having beaten the subsequent G2 Duchess of Cambridge S. runner-up Fev Rover (Ire) (Gutaifan {Ire}) there by 4 1/4 lengths, there is an understandable air of excitement surrounding the latest Martyn Meade project. “He was quite impressive at Doncaster, but this is a totally different ball game,” he said with a dash of humility. “He’s come out the race really well and I’m expecting him to progress and make a good showing of himself. It’s a natural stepping-stone. It’s just the right sort of race for him. I think he learnt a lot the other day.”

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