The 4-1 chance broke smartly from the outside stall and raced without cover in fifth through the initial fractions of this third start at the seven-furlong trip. Inching closer to the leading duo from halfway, she came under pressure passing the quarter-mile marker and was driven out inside the final furlong to deny Sakti (Ire) (Caravaggio) by a half-length in the dying embers. Long-time leader Brilliant (Ire) (Gleneagles {Ire}) kept on gamely once headed and finished a neck adrift in a close-up third.

“She won easy enough in Leopardstown and there was plenty of interest in her, but Tony O'Callaghan, despite all the horses he has, wasn't for selling,” explained trainer Noel Meaded. “He just wanted to keep her and said to roll the dice and see how she goes. Obviously there is a little bit of pressure on when you do that and [breeder] Peter [Kelly] was happy enough to do that as well. She's a good filly and she's a filly that will improve because she's a Harzand. She's going to be better next year, and probably a mile-and-a-half filly. I know she only just won, but Ger [Lyons] thinks quite a lot of his filly and you are always running against something decent from Ballydoyle. It's hard to win a stakes race in Ireland. Ben [Coen] said she was a little green and leaning away from them in the last furlong-and-a-half. He said she'll come on a ton. With the ground the way it was, it maybe suited her more than the others because of her stamina.”

Caught U Looking

The Group 1-entered daughter of Harzand created quite an impression at Leopardstown and she's taken the rise in class in her stride.@tuvastables has a filly that might just be heading to the top!@curraghrace | @BenCoen2 pic.twitter.com/EIat2NbC8q

— Racing TV (@RacingTV) September 24, 2023

Pedigree Notes
Caught U Looking, half-sister to a weanling colt by Supremacy (Ire), is the first of two foals out of an unraced half-sister to G3 Abernant S. and G3 Supreme S. winner Double Or Bubble (Ire) (Exceed And Excel {Aus}) and G3 Chartwell Fillies' S. victrix Mix And Mingle (Ire) (Exceed And Excel {Aus}). The March-foaled bay's second dam Mango Lady (GB) (Dalakhani {Ire}) is a winning half-sister to MGSW G1 St Leger and G1 Rheinland-Pokal runner-up High Accolade (GB) (Mark Of Esteem {Ire}) and the dual stakes-placed Oasis Knight (Ire) (Oasis Dream {GB}).

Sunday, Curragh, Ireland
WELD PARK S.-G3, €55,000, Curragh, 9-24, 2yo, f, 7fT, 1:30.33, sf.
1–CAUGHT U LOOKING (IRE), 128, f, 2, by Harzand (Ire)
1st Dam: Wild Mix (GB), by Mastercraftsman (Ire)
2nd Dam: Mango Lady (GB), by Dalakhani (Ire)
3rd Dam: Generous Lady (GB), by Generous (Ire)
1ST BLACK-TYPE WIN; 1ST GROUP WIN. (€27,000 Ylg '22 GOAUYR). O-Anthony F O'Callaghan & Sabina Kelly; B-Kelly Equine Services (IRE); T-Noel Meade; J-Ben Coen. €33,000. Lifetime Record: 3-2-0-0, $51,921. Werk Nick Rating: B+. Click for the eNicks report & 5-cross pedigree, or the free Equineline.com catalogue-style pedigree.
2–Sakti (Ire), 128, f, 2, Caravaggio–Oh Grace (Ire), by Lawman (Fr). (€52,000 Wlg '21 GOFNO1). O-David Spratt, Sean Jones & Mrs Lynne Lyons; B-T Darcy & V McCarthy (IRE); T-Ger Lyons. €11,000.
3–Brilliant (Ire), 128, f, 2, Gleneagles (Ire)–Plying, by Hard Spun. (650,000gns Ylg '22 TATOCT). O-D Smith, Mrs J Magnier, M Tabor & Westerberg; B-Jossestown Farm (IRE); T-Aidan O'Brien. €5,500.
Margins: HF, NK, 2 3/4. Odds: 4.00, 2.25, 7.00.
Also Ran: Dollerina (Ire), Settlement (GB), Content (Ire), Peggy O'Neil (Ire).

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“She generally is quick away and leads and it was a really tough performance,” said O'Brien. “Declan [McDonogh] said she really felt good today, she's a progressive filly and has held her form very well all the way through. For the last furlong-and-a-half I was wondering what was going to come and get her, but she just kept finding. I'd say that is probably it for this season, she is a Group winner now and is a nice filly to look forward to next spring.”

Pedigree Notes:

Basil Martini, who becomes the 15th pattern-race scorer for her sire (by Choisir {Aus}), is the first of three foals produced by a daughter of Argentina's G2 Marcos Levalle victrix Bailonguera (Arg) (Southern Halo). She is a half-sister to a yearling filly by Footstepsinthesand (GB) and a weanling filly by Mehmas (Ire). Bailonguera, kin to the G1 De Honor heroine Bonaventura (Arg) (Merce Cunningham), is the dam of three black-type perfomers, headed by Listed Prix Petite Etoile victrix Bayargal (Bernstein), and her descendants also include dual Group 3-winning G1 Steward's Cup second Joyful Trinity (Ire) (Zanzibari) and this term's G3 Prix de Meautry hero Bouttemont (Ire) (Acclamation {GB}). Bailonguera's half-sister Baleares (Arg) (Senor Pete) is the dam of dual Group 1-winning Argentinian champion Batallosa (Arg) (Southern Halo). Basil Martini's Footstepsinthesand half-sister is due to sell as lot 805 at this week's Goffs Sportsman's sale.

Sunday, Curragh, Ireland
WELD PARK S.-G3, €55,000, Curragh, 9-25, 2yo, f, 7fT, 1:27.20, yl.
1–BASIL MARTINI (IRE), 128, f, 2, by Starspangledbanner (Aus)
1st Dam: Under Offer (Ire), by Bated Breath (GB)
2nd Dam: Bailonguera (Arg), by Southern Halo
3rd Dam: Balromana (Arg), by Logical
1ST BLACK-TYPE WIN, 1ST GROUP WIN. (£160,000 Ylg '21 GOFFUK). O-Mrs M V Magnier & Mrs Paul Shanahan; B-Summit Bloodstock (IRE); T-Joseph O'Brien; J-Declan McDonogh. €33,000. Lifetime Record: 5-1-3-0, $43,635. Werk Nick Rating: C. Click for the eNicks report & 5-cross pedigree, or the free Equineline.com catalogue-style pedigree.
2–Gan Teorainn (Ire), 128, f, 2, Saxon Warrior (Jpn)–Dance Troupe (GB), by Rainbow Quest. 1ST BLACK TYPE; 1ST GROUP BLACK TYPE. O/B-Ennistown Stud (IRE); T-Jim Bolger. €11,000.
3–Keep In Touch (Ire), 128, f, 2, Tamayuz (GB)–Unaccompanied (Ire), by Danehill Dancer (Ire). 1ST BLACK TYPE; 1ST GROUP BLACK TYPE. O/B-Moyglare Stud Farm Ltd (IRE); T-Dermot Weld. €5,500.
Margins: HF, NK, NK. Odds: 12.00, 28.00, 8.50.
Also Ran: Clever And Cool (Ire), Dower House (Ire), Caroline Street, Sioux Spirit (Ire), Maybe Just Maybe (Jpn), Decorated My Life (Ire), Pandora Lovegood (Ire).

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Sammarco beat the subsequent G2 T von Zastrow Stutenpreis scorer Amazing Grace (Ger) (Protectionist {Ger}) in the G1 Grosser Dallmayr-Preis over 10 furlongs at Munich July 31 and holds the Arc prospects of Mendocino (Ger) (Adlerflug {Ger}) and Torquator Tasso (Ger) (Adlerflug {Ger}) up to the light having finished behind them in the Sept. 4 G1 Grosser Preis von Baden.

At the Curragh, the seven-furlong G3 Weld Park S. for 2-year-old fillies sees Marc Detampel and Michael Buckley's Caroline Street (No Nay Never) back up 15 days after her gallant second to Auguste Rodin (Ire) (Deep Impact {Jpn}) in Leopardstown's G2 Champions Juvenile S. Sept. 10.

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Runner-up on debut over six furlongs at Fairyhouse July 7, Concert Hall went one better over this track and trip 11 days later before failing to get involved in the Aug. 21 G2 Debutante S. on soft ground again over seven here. In the Moyglare, she was staying on to real effect late to get within a length of the third Sunset Shiraz and so this represented improvement on that bare form. In a race where it paid to come from behind, the winner overcame a bump from Cigamia (Karakontie {Jpn}) a furlong out to wear down the game runner-up who might have been paying for chasing the strong early tempo.

Concert Hall is the fourth foal and first black-type winner out of the aforementioned Was, who is a full-sister to this year's G2 Curragh Cup winner and 2020 G1 Epsom Derby third Amhran Na Bhfiann (Ire), the G3 Derrinstown Stud Derby Trial S. scorer Douglas MacArthur (Ire) and the G3 Prix Cleopatre runner-up Al Naamah (Ire). She is also a full-sibling of the unraced dam of the Listed Prix Charles Laffitte winner and G3 Prix de Flore runner-up Mashael (Fr) who shares Dubawi as a sire with Concert Hall.

The second dam is the Listed Blenheim S. and Listed Rochestown S.-placed Alluring Park (Ire) (Green Desert), a daughter of the high-class dual champion Park Express (Ire) (Ahonoora {GB}) which makes her a half-sister to the brilliant five-times group 1-winning champion, Derby hero and prolific sire New Approach (Ire) by Was's sire Galileo. She is also a half to the G3 Matron S. winner and G1 Irish Champion S. and G1 Irish 1000 Guineas-placed Dazzling Park (Ire) (Warning {GB}) who is the second dam of Ballydoyle's past G1 Phoenix S. hero Alfred Nobel (Ire) (Danehill Dancer {Ire}). This is also the family of the GII Royal Heroine Mile S. winner and GI Gamely S. runner-up Quiet Oasis (Ire) (Oasis Dream {GB}), who produced this stable's dual G3 Gladness S. winner Lancaster House (Ire) also by Galileo, and this year's G1 Newmarket H. hero Zoutori (Aus) (Zoustar {Aus}). Was's yearling is a full-brother to Concert Hall.

Sunday, The Curragh, Ireland
WELD PARK S.-G3, €50,000, Curragh, 9-26, 2yo, f, 7fT, 1:26.70, gd.
1–CONCERT HALL (IRE), 128, f, 2, by Dubawi (Ire)
     1st Dam: Was (Ire) (G1SW-Eng, G1SP-Ire, $496,294), by Galileo (Ire)
     2nd Dam: Alluring Park (Ire), by Green Desert
     3rd Dam: Park Express (Ire), by Ahonoora (GB)
1ST BLACK TYPE WIN, 1ST GROUP WIN. O-D Smith, Mrs J Magnier, M Tabor, Westerberg; B-Was Syndicate (IRE); T-Aidan O'Brien; J-Seamie Heffernan. €30,000. Lifetime Record: 5-2-1-0, $63,966. Werk Nick Rating: A. Click for the eNicks report & 5-cross pedigree.
2–Sunset Shiraz (Ire), 128, f, 2, Time Test (GB)–Sunny Again (GB), by Shirocco (Ger). (£100,000 Ylg '20 GOFOR). O-Lindsay Laroche; B-Mount Coote Estates (IRE); T-Gavin Cromwell. €10,000.
3–Seisai (Ire), 128, f, 2, Gleneagles (Ire)–Lillebonne (Fr), by Danehill Dancer (Ire). (€40,000 Wlg '19 GOFNOV; £78,000 Ylg '20 GOFOR). O-Simon Munir & Isaac Souede; B-Peter Henley, John Connolly & Pattern Blds (IRE); T-Joseph O'Brien. €5,000.
Margins: 1, NK, 1 1/4. Odds: 4.50, 3.30, 7.00.
Also Ran: Trevaunance (Ire), Cigamia, Albula (Ire), Lovely Mana (Ire), Madonnadelrosario (Ire), Pink Fire Lilly (Ire).
Scratched: Hello You (Ire), Tranquil Lady (Ire). Click for the Racing Post result or the free Equineline.com catalogue-style pedigree.

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Alpinista's chief threat comes from the younger generation, headed by this year's G1 Deutsches Derby hero and G1 Grosser Preis von Baden runner-up Sisfahan (Fr) (Isfahan {Ger}). Darius Racing's Henk Grewe trainee had subsequent G2 Grand Prix de Deauville fourth Sea of Sands (Ger) (Sea the Stars {Ire}) back in 13th in the July 4 Hamburg Classic and is set to challenge for favouritism. Gestut Schlenderhan seeks a record-equalling fourth win and is represented by the sophomores Northern Ruler (Ger) (Ruler of the World {Ire}) and Walkaway (Ger) (Adlerflug {Ger}). Northern Ruler, an Andreas Wohler trainee, prevailed in Chantilly's June 20 Prix du Lys and ran third in last month's G3 Prix de Reux at Deauville. Walkaway, from the Markus Klug barn, finished fourth in Dusseldorf's Aug. 1 G1 Preis der Diana (German Oaks) and lines up here off a second in last month's G2 T Von Zastrow Stutenpreis at Baden-Baden.

Earlier on the Cologne card, six 2-year-olds head postward for the 7 1/2-furlong Listed Ursula Rosendahl-Preis Winterkonigin Trial. As the name suggests, it's a stepping to Baden-Baden's Oct. 17 G3 Preis der Winterkonigin, Germany's leading event for juvenile fillies, and Gestut Park Wiedingen's homebred Dishina (Ger) (Soldier Hollow {GB}) will bid to add lustre to her resume after posting an impressive 2 1/2-length tally in a six-furlong Hoppegarten maiden last month. Her rivals include Antoine Griezmann's consistent G3 Prix d'Aumale sixth Txope (Fr) (Siyouni {Ire}), from the Philippe Decouz stable, and El Sur Racing's Munich maiden winner and Michael Figge trainee La Estrellita (Ire) (Churchill {Ire}), who ran second to subsequent G3 Prix Eclipse runner-up Best Flying (Fr) (Pedro the Great) in a €102,500 BBAG sales-related race at Baden-Baden last month.

Group race action is also in store in Ireland with the seven-furlong G3 Weld Park S. and G3 Raa Atoll Loughbrown S., over two miles, standing out on The Curragh's eight-race programme. Heavy rain is forecast to hit the Co. Kildare venue in the afternoon and a slew of withdrawals will follow if the track's condition, rated as good for now, is significantly altered beyond its present status. Amo Racing's Hello You (Ire) (Invincible Spirit {Ire}) is highly unlikely to make the journey from England and carry a five-pound penalty in the Park S. for juvenile fillies–having won Friday's G2 Unibet Rockfel S. at Newmarket–and skipping the engagement will leave 10 standing for the €50,000 heat.

Lindsay Laroche's four-race maiden Sunset Shiraz (Ire) (Time Test {GB}), a £100,000 Mount Coote Stud graduate of last year's Goffs Orby sale, seeks a first win of any kind and her form in defeat bears scrutiny. The Gavin Cromwell trainee progressed from reversals at Roscommon and Bellewstown to finish a two-length second to Agartha (Ire) (Caravaggio) in the Aug. 21 G2 Debutante S., over this course and distance, and followed up over the same strip with a third behind Discoveries (Ire) (Mastercraftsman {Ire}) and Agartha in the Sept. 12 G1 Moyglare Stud S. last time. Concert Hall (Ire) (Dubawi {Ire}), one of two Ballydoyle contenders, ran fourth in the Moyglare and was also behind Sunset Shiraz in the Debutante. Simon Munir and Isaac Souede's Listed Churchill S. victrix Seisai (Ire) (Gleneagles {Ire}) comes back off a fourth in the Debutante and is accompanied by Joseph O'Brien stablemate Albula (Ire) (Galileo {Ire}), who was second in the Aug. 27 G3 Flame of Tara S. tackling one mile here when last seen. Teme Valley Racing's Galway winner Tranquil Lady (Ire) (Australia {GB}) is the third of Joseph O'Brien's runners and is joined by maiden winners Trevaunance (Ire) (Muhaarar {GB}), a Moyglare Stud nominee from the Jessica Harrington stable, and Flaxman Stables Ireland's Cigamia (Karakontie {Jpn}), representing Willie McCreery.

The stamina-sapping Loughbrown has gone the way of Aidan O'Brien or Dermot Weld in five of the last eight renewals and the powerhouse stables are set to engage once more. Ballydoyle sends forth G1 Grand Prix de Paris fourth and G1 St Leger third The Mediterranean (Ire) (Galileo {Ire}) while Rosewell House depends on dual G1 Irish St Leger heroine Search For A Song (Ire) (Galileo {Ire}), who ran sixth in this month's latest edition of that Classic.

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Introduced in the five-furlong Naas maiden won by TDN Rising Star More Beautiful (War Front) and from which the subsequent group winners Miss Amulet (Ire) (Sir Prancealot {Ire}) and Aloha Star (Ire) (Starspangledbanner {Aus}) also emerged on the first day back after the lockdown June 8, Elysium was an uneventful 10th there. Off the mark next time when Miss Amulet was fourth over another 164 yards at Navan June 23, the bay was third on her first try at this seven-furlong trip in Leopardstown’s Foran Equine Irish EBF Auction Race Final July 16 before her runner-up placing in another of that series of races in deep ground at Roscommon. “I’ve always thought a lot of her–she has shown us oceans of toe at home and I was a bit disappointed at Leopardstown, but Colin [Keane] said she didn’t really understand what it was all about as she’d never been as quick as that before. She certainly seems to have held her form very well and we’ll have to see where we are now. She’s not in anything coming up except a sales race and that was where we were thinking of going after this, but now I don’t know. There are three of us involved in the ownership and we thought we’d buy a few cheap ones with a view to selling. I bought four and I think they are okay.”

In a remarkable year for bargain-buy juveniles, Elysium was joining a growing club of domestic group-race winners alongside the €8,000 sensations Minaun (Ire) (Zoffany {Ire}) and Laws of Indices (Ire) (Power {GB}) and the high-class Cadillac (Ire) (Lope de Vega {Ire}) who fetched just €40,000. Elysium is the second individual pattern-race winner for her Kildangan Stud-based first-season sire and follows two days after his other, Isabella Giles (Ire), lit up Newmarket in the G2 Rockfel S. The dam is the Listed Chesham S. runner-up Sonning Rose (Ire) (Hawk Wing), who is kin to three black-type performers headed by the G3 Premio Carlo Chiesa runner-up Universo Star (Ire) (Excellent Art {GB}). This is the family of the three-times group 1-winning Prix de l’Arc de Triomphe heroine Gold River (Riverman). Sonning Rose’s filly foal is by Sioux Nation.

Sunday, Curragh, Ireland
WELD PARK S.-G3, €50,000, Curragh, 9-27, 2yo, f, 7fT, 1:28.17, yl.
1–ELYSIUM (IRE), 128, f, 2, by Belardo (Ire)
     1st Dam: Sonning Rose (Ire) (SP-Eng), by Hawk Wing
     2nd Dam: Shinkoh Rose (Fr), by Warning (GB)
     3rd Dam: Sandpiper’s Dream, by Lyphard
1ST BLACK-TYPE WIN; 1ST GROUP WIN. (€15,000 Ylg ’19 GOAUTY). O-The London Racing Partnership; B-Tullpark Ltd (IRE); T-Noel Meade; J-Billy Lee. €30,000. Lifetime Record: 5-2-1-1, $59,453. Werk Nick Rating: C+. Click for the eNicks report & 5-cross pedigree.
2–Aunty Bridy (Ire), 128, f, 2, Camacho (GB)–Benedicte (Ire), by Galileo (Ire). O-David Granville; B-Karis Bloodstock Ltd & Rathbarry Stud (IRE); T-Jim Bolger. €10,000.
3–Thinking of You, 128, f, 2, American Pharoah–Fabulous (Ire), by Galileo (Ire). O-Michael Tabor, Susan Magnier & Derrick Smith; B-Orpendale/Chelston/Wynatt (KY); T-Joseph O’Brien. €5,000.
Margins: 1HF, 3/4, NO. Odds: 12.00, 4.50, 3.30.
Also Ran: No Speak Alexander (Ire), Sense of Style (Ire), A Ma Chere (Ire), Keeper of Time (Ire), Angel Palm (GB), Star Image (GB), Halla Rince (Ire). Scratched: Monday, No Stopping Her (Ire). Click for the Racing Post result or the free Equineline.com catalogue-style pedigree.

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Also on the card is the G3 Comer Group International Loughbrown S., where The Aga Khan’s smart stayer Kastasa (Ire) (Rock of Gibraltar {Ire}) is fitted with a visor following her third placing in Naas’s G3 Stanerra S. Aug. 23. Successful by seven lengths in this 12 months ago, the Dermot Weld-trained homebred encounters Ballydoyle’s June 27 G1 Irish Derby third Dawn Patrol (Ire) (Galileo {Ire}) who was sixth in the G1 St Leger at Doncaster Sept. 12.

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