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Galileo’s Daughter Of Midday A New Rising Star

Wetherby is an unlikely place to unearth a TDN Rising Star, but the Yorkshire venue more accustomed to hosting jumps meetings acted as the stage for the re-entry of a potential top-class filly on Sunday as Juddmonte's regally-bred Noon Star (Galileo {Ire}) took the opening 10-furlong Racingtv.com Fillies' Novice S. Last seen winning over an extended mile at Nottingham in October, the Sir Michael Stoute-trained daughter of the celebrated Midday (GB) (Oasis Dream {GB}) and full-sister to the G3 Sandown Classic Trial winner Midterm (GB) was under a seven-pound penalty tracking the early pace. Committed by Richard Kingscote with two furlongs remaining, the 4-5 favourite drew away to win by 2 1/2 lengths from the Gosden trainee Loving Dream (GB) (Gleneagles {Ire}), with six lengths back to that rival's stablemate Franklet (GB) (Frankel {GB}) in third. “She's a lovely-bred filly who has done everything right so far and learnt each time,” her rider commented of the G1 Epsom Oaks-entered winner, the sixth foal of the multiple group 1 winner who looks certain to throw one of her ilk at some point. “She's a very laid-back filly in all her work and very responsive at the racecourse. She does as she's asked and is a very straightforward, very sweet filly. I'm sure connections will ponder the Oaks and she is bred to go that way.”

Winning this race which also played host to the subsequent G2 Hardwicke S. winner Fanny Logan (Ire) (Sea the Stars {Ire}) two years ago, Noon Star who had caught the eye when third on debut over seven furlongs at Salisbury in September has a headstart on her dam in terms of the wins-to-runs ratio. Midday took three starts to break her maiden before slowly entering the stratosphere with a trio of triumphs in the G1 Nassau S. and wins in the G1 Yorkshire Oaks, G1 Prix Vermeille and GI Breeders' Cup Filly and Mare Turf. Her first foal, the aforementioned Midterm, flashed talent for this stable and was an ante-post favourite for the Derby but failed to hit those heights. Successful in the G3 N E Manion Cup, GSW-Aus, GSW-Eng, GSP-Fr, $375,077, he was followed the next year by the filly Mori (GB) (Frankel {GB}) who also won a Classic trial in the Listed Height of Fashion S. but did not make the Oaks and was second in the G2 Ribblesdale S., SW & GSP-Eng, $101,596.

Midday is a half-sister to Sun Maiden (GB), another daughter of Frankel who took the G3 Hoppings S. and was third in the G1 QIPCO British Champions Fillies & Mares S., G2 Ribblesdale S. and G2 Middleton S. for this stable, the G3 Nell Gwyn S. scorer and G1 Nassau S. third Hot Snap (GB) (Pivotal {GB}) and to Midsummer Sun (GB) (Monsun {Ger}) who was a listed winner and twice group 3-placed in Australia. Two other members of this esteemed dynasty are the G1 Eclipse S. and G1 Phoenix Champion S.-winning sire Elmaamul (Diesis {GB}) and Reams of Verse (Nureyev), who captured the Epsom Oaks 25 years ago. Midday's 2019 colt High Moor is by War Front, while she also has a 2021 daughter of Shamardal.

1st-Wetherby, £5,300, Novice, 4-25, 3yo/up, f, 10fT, 2:05.98, gd.
NOON STAR, f, 3, by Galileo (Ire)
1st Dam: Midday (GB) (Hwt. Older Mare-Eng at 11-14f, Hwt. Older Mare-Eng at 9 1/2-11f, MG1SW-Eng, MG1SP-Ire, G1SW-Fr, GISW-US, $3,438,502), by Oasis Dream (GB)
2nd Dam: Midsummer (GB), by Kingmambo
3rd Dam: Modena, by Roberto
Lifetime Record: 3-2-0-1, $12,230. O-Juddmonte; B-Juddmonte Farms Ltd (KY); T-Sir Michael Stoute. Click for the Racing Post result or the free Equineline.com catalogue-style pedigree.

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Group Winner Lone Eagle Returns at Sandown

Group 3 winner Lone Eagle (Ire) (Galileo {Ire}) will aim to enhance his G1 Cazoo Derby chances with a start in the G3 bet365 Classic Trial at Sandown Park on Apr. 23. Second at first asking at Sandown in August, he got off the mark later that month at Goodwood over a mile. He quickly added a Sept. 12 Doncaster handicap and the G3 Zetland S. over 10 furlongs at Newmarket in his juvenile swansong on Oct. 10.

Trainer Martyn Meade said, “The plan is to go to Sandown on Friday with Lone Eagle. He improved all the time last year and he did everything we asked of him. He is totally laidback at home. He is a horse that never shows anything at home but just gives his all on the racecourse.

“He coped with Sandown well first time out there when he was a bit unlucky, so hopefully he can go one better there this time.

“After the race on Friday it will tell us where we are and whether we need to work him on our Derby gallop at home but so far he is going the right way.

“I think he is pretty versatile ground-wise and I don't think he is ground dependent as far as I can ascertain, both from what we have seen at home or on the race track.”

Meade remained noncommittal on sending Statement (Ire) (Lawman {Fr}) to the G1 QIPCO 1000 Guineas after her second-place run in the G3 Dubai Duty Free S. on Sunday.

“Statement showed she is good enough for that level on Sunday and Alcohol Free (Ire) (No Nay Never) just got the first run on us a bit,” Meade said.

“I'm not sure about the 1000 Guineas yet as she had a hard race at Newbury. The 1000 Guineas is in just under a fortnight and I'm just going to see how she is over the next two or three days.

“She is in the race and if she is firing on all cylinders then we would go, but it might just come too quick and we might then go to the French Guineas instead as she does take a bit of minding.

“I do think she is top class but I don't want to back her up quick and end up leaving her season behind.”

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Lancaster House In Gladness Procession

Winless in three outings since registering a career high in last term's G3 Gladness S. at The Curragh, Gay Smith's Lancaster House (Ire) (Galileo {Ire}) went postward as the 9-4 favourite for this year's TRI Equestrian-sponsored renewal and became the first back-to-back winner of the seven-furlong event with an impressive 2 1/2-length victory from Current Option (Ire) (Camelot {GB}). The 5-year-old bay followed up last year's triumph with a second over course and distance in the G2 Minstrel S., but was off the radar and failed to beat a single rival in both G2 Solonaway S. at Leopardstown and G1 Queen Elizabeth II S. at Ascot. Finding a modicum of cover in a midfield sixth for the most part, he loomed large out wide passing the quarter-mile marker and kept on powerfully once seizing control soon after to easily assert superiority.

“He's a very solid horse and it's a nice bit of ground which he likes,” commented trainer Aidan O'Brien. “Ryan [Moore] was very impressed with him and felt he had loads of horse. He made the running in this race last year and it was nice that he was able to drop in and get a lead today. He's very versatile and has won over nine furlongs in soft ground at Listowel and finished very well here. Ryan said we could look at the [G1] Queen Anne at Royal Ascot] and Lope Y Fernandez could go for the [G1] Lockinge [at Newbury].”

Pedigree Notes

Lancaster House is the first of five foals, all by Galileo (Ire), and the lone performer out of MGSW GI Gamely S. runner-up Quiet Oasis (Ire) (Oasis Dream {GB}), herself a full-sister to G3 Prix La Rochette victor Young Pretender (Fr). His younger siblings include unraced 3-year-old filly Drummer Girl (Ire), unraced 2-year-old filly Yamato Nadeshiko (Ire) and a yearling filly. His fourth dam is G1 Irish Champion S.-winning matriarch Park Express (Ire) (Ahonoora {GB}), whose descendants include MG1SW sire New Approach (Ire) (Galileo {Ire}), GSW G1 Champion S. runner-up Dazzling Park (Ire) (Warning {GB}), G1 Phoenix S. scorer Alfred Nobel (Ire) (Danehill Dancer {Ire}) and G1 Epsom Oaks heroine Was (Ire) (Galileo {Ire}).

Saturday, Curragh, Ireland
TRI EQUESTRIAN GLADNESS S.-G3, €50,000, Curragh, 4-17, 3yo/up, 7fT, 1:25.36, gd.
1–LANCASTER HOUSE (IRE), 140, h, 5, by Galileo (Ire)
1st Dam: Quiet Oasis (Ire) (MGSW & GISP-US,
$282,379), by Oasis Dream (GB)
2nd Dam: Silent Heir (Aus), by Sunday Silence
3rd Dam: Park Heiress (Ire), by Sadler's Wells
O-Mrs Gay Smith; B-Barronstown Stud (IRE); T-Aidan O'Brien;
J-Ryan Moore. €30,000. Lifetime Record: 9-5-1-0, $140,377.
Click for the eNicks report & 5-cross pedigree. Werk Nick
Rating: A+.
2–Current Option (Ire), 140, g, 5, Camelot (GB)–Coppertop
(Ire), by Exceed and Excel (Aus). (62,000gns Ylg '17 TAOCT;
85,000gns 3yo '19 TATJUL). O-Dooley Thoroughbreds, Bart
O'Sullivan & Shamrock Thoroughbreds; B-Grange Con Holdings
Ltd (IRE); T-Adrian McGuinness. €10,000.
3–Know It All (GB), 137, f, 4, Lord Kanaloa (Jpn)–Common
Knowledge (GB), by Rainbow Quest. O-Qatar Racing Ltd;
B-Qatar Bloodstock Ltd (GB); T-Johnny Murtagh. €5,000.
Margins: 2HF, 1 3/4, HF. Odds: 2.25, 7.50, 4.00.
Also Ran: Wonder Elzaam (Ire), Speak In Colours (GB), Gustavus Weston (Ire), Comfort Line (Ire), Fiscal Rules (Ire), Free Solo (Ire), Brad The Brief (GB), Lustown Baba (Ire). Scratched: Surrounding (Ire). Click for the Racing Post result or the free Equineline.com catalogue-style pedigree.

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Love Targeting Mooresbridge

Last year's champion 3-year-old filly and dual Classic winner Love (Ire) (Galileo {Ire}) is among the entries for Saturday's G3 Alleged S. at The Curragh, but trainer Aidan O'Brien has indicated that the chestnut is likely to wait for the G2 Mooresbridge S. at the same venue on May 3. Love's stablemate Broome (Ire) (Australia {GB}), a multiple Group 3-winning 5-year-old, is likely to deputize in the Alleged.

“Broome is likely to run in the Alleged at The Curragh on Saturday,” O'Brien said. “He's already had a run, and Love might wait for the Mooresbridge. It's a long year, and we might wait a bit longer with her.”

Love made seven starts at two in 2019, the highlight being a win in the G1 Moyglare Stud S. She stepped out just three times last year but won on each occasion at Group 1 level: the 1000 Guineas, Oaks and Yorkshire Oaks. Love was withdrawn from the G1 Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe in October on account of the testing ground just prior to Ballydoyle's remaining runners defecting after a feed contamination.

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