First Black Type Winner For Soldier’s Call

Ballyhane Stud's first-crop sire Soldier's Call (GB) had his first black-type winner on Saturday as Dawn Charger (Ire) captured Chantilly's G3 Prix Eclipse. Runner-up in ParisLongchamp's G3 Prix d'Arenberg over five furlongs last month, Saif Mohammad Alketbi and Elaine Burke's €40,000 Tatts Ireland September graduate travelled easily for Pierre-Louis Jamin close to the pace returning to six. In front before two out, the 9-2 shot found the line a neck ahead of the strong-finishing Laulne (Fr) (Starspangledbanner {Aus}) to cap a stellar week for the Karl Burke stable.

Saturday, Chantilly, France
PRIX ECLIPSE-G3, €80,000, Chantilly, 9-16, 2yo, 6fT, 1:08.94, g/s.
1–DAWN CHARGER (IRE), 122, f, 2, by Soldier's Call (GB)
1st Dam: Dushlan (Ire), by New Approach (Ire)
2nd Dam: Duaisbhanna (Ire), by Rock Of Gibraltar (Ire)
3rd Dam: Ovazione (GB), by Seeking The Gold
1ST BLACK-TYPE WIN; 1ST GROUP WIN. (€40,000 Ylg '22 TATIRY). O-Saif Mohammad Alketbi & Elaine Burke; B-Jim Bolger (IRE); T-Karl Burke; J-Pierre-Louis Jamin. €40,000. Lifetime Record: 6-3-2-0, €72,862. *1/2 to Serious Challenge (Ire) (Fracas {Ire}), SP-Ire. Werk Nick Rating: A. Click for the eNicks report & 5-cross pedigree, or the free Equineline.com catalogue-style pedigree.
2–Laulne (Fr), 126, f, 2, Starspangledbanner (Aus)–Lady Francesca (GB), by Montjeu (Ire). O-Gerard Augustin-Normand; B-Franklin Finance SA (FR); T-Yann Barberot. €16,000.
3–Mr Fleurant (Ire), 126, c, 2, Invincible Spirit (Ire)–Andalouserie (Fr), by Poet's Voice (GB). 1ST BLACK TYPE; 1ST GROUP BLACK TYPE. O-Baron Edouard de Rothschild; B-SC Ecurie de Meautry (IRE); T-Andre Fabre. €12,000.
Margins: NK, 2HF, NK. Odds: 4.40, 3.70, 4.40.
Also Ran: Action Point (Ire), Majestic Beauty (GB), Loch Pike (Ire), Three Havanas (Ger), Mount Vernon (Fr). Video, sponsored by FanDuel TV.

 

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Getting Into Topgear

There will be further sorting of the juvenile pecking order on Friday, with Chantilly's six-furlong G3 Prix Eclipse featuring Hisaaki Saito's unbeaten Topgear (Fr) (Wootton Bassett {GB}).

Having beaten TDN Rising Star Shaikha (Fr) (Ribchester {Ire}) in the 6 1/2-furlong Prix Irish River conditions race at Deauville Aug. 26, the Fabrice Chappet-trained colt is one of a clutch of unexposed types looking to break through in pattern company. They include Abu Khadra Stables' Fai Fai (GB) (Acclamation {GB}), an Andre Fabre-trained colt who scored on debut over that same course and distance Aug. 17, and Stall Ad Episas's Andreas Suborics-trained filly Best Flying (Fr) (Pedro the Great) who was impressive when winning over this trip also at Deauville Aug. 8 and when taking a valuable Baden-Baden sales race Aug. 29.

Also on the card is the G3 Prix Bertrand de Tarragon for fillies and mares over nine furlongs, where Fabre reintroduces Juddmonte's 'TDN Rising Star' Petricor (GB) (Frankel {GB}) following an absence since winning the Listed Prix Finlande over this trip at ParisLongchamp May 2. Also lining up are Godolphin's Aug. 6 Vichy and Aug. 29 Deauville scorer Sundoro (Ire) (Sea the Stars {Ire}), a Henri-Alex Pantall-trained half-sister to Pinatubo (Ire) (Shamardal), The Aga Khan's Sept. 5 Listed Prix de la Cochere scorer Varkesha (Fr) (Pivotal {GB}) and Gemini Stud's Mar. 21 Listed Prix la Camargo winner Sweet Lady (Fr) (Lope de Vega {Ire}) who gets her autumn campaign underway.

Newbury's card features the seven-furlong Listed Dubai Duty Free Cup, where another 'TDN Rising Star' Albasheer (Ire) (Shamardal) stays on the comeback trail having finished second in a conditions event at Salisbury 24 days ago as he encounters a trio of Godolphin runners headed by the Mar. 6 G1 Jebel Hatta third Al Suhail (GB) (Dubawi {Ire}). It also stages the 41st Running of the Haynes, Hanson & Clark Conditions S., whose honour roll boasts the luminaries Henbit, Shergar (GB), Rainbow Quest, Unfuwain, King's Theatre (Ire) and Nayef. Ayr's two-day Gold Cup meeting sees the Listed British EBF Stallions Harry Rosebery S. and Listed Arran Scottish Sprint EBF Fillies' S. take centre stage, with the former a speed test for the juveniles including the exciting filly Peggy Sioux (GB) (Oasis Dream {GB}), a Kevin Ryan-trained Sept. 1 Hamilton novice winner who sports the Guy Reed Racing silks.

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What’s In a Name: Plainchant (Fr)

Friday, Chantilly, France
PRIX ECLIPSE-G3, €56,000, Chantilly, 9-18, 2yo, 6fT, 1:08.48, g/s 1–PLAINCHANT (FR), 121, f, 2, by Gregorian (Ire)
                1st Dam: Nadinska (GB), by Doyen (Ire)
                2nd Dam: Funny Girl (Ire), by Darshaan (GB)
                3rd Dam: Just For Fun (Fr), by Lead On Time
1ST GROUP WIN. (€3,000 RNA Wlg ’18 ARDEC; €5,000 Ylg ’19
AROCT). O-Alain Jathiere, Maurizio Guarnieri & Sauro-Andrea
Fiordelli; B-EARL Elevage des Loges (FR); T-Maurizio Guarnieri;
J-Valentin Seguy. i28,000. Lifetime Record: 5-3-1-1, €77,900.

The very fast and now Group 3 winner 2-year-old filly Plainchant (Fr) (Gregorian {Ire}-Nadinska {GB}, by Doyen {Ire}) has a learned name straight out of the Early Middle Ages. “Plainchant is a form of medieval church music that involves chanting or words that are sung, without any instrumental accompaniment”, according to Wikipedia, and a Gregorian chant is its more popular and famous variation, often credited by legend to Pope Gregory I (590-604). The stallion Gregorian is by Clodovil (Ire), whose name may be an alteration or a reference to the name of Clovis, the first king of the Franks (died 511) and founder of the Merovingian dynasty (later maligned as les rois fainéants). This talented young filly is trained by Maurizio Guarnieri, a member of the up and coming group of Italian trainers in France–a migration phenomenon that, in general terms, is both new and old: some Latin cousins from beyond the Alps have historically done well in France. Napoleone Buonaparte, Amedeo Modigliani and Yves Montand come to mind.

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