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Half-Sister to Masar Debuts at Newmarket

Observations on the European Racing Scene turns the spotlight on the best European races of the day, highlighting well-pedigreed horses early in their careers, horses of note returning to action and young runners that achieved notable results in the sales ring. Saturday’s Insights features Sayyida (GB), a half-sister to Derby winner Masar (Ire).

2.00 Gowran Park, Mdn, €15,500, 2yo, f, 8fT
EYLARA (IRE) (Gleneagles {Ire}) takes the eye at the end of an emotional week for the Dermot Weld stable, being a half-sister to the talented Eziyra (Ire) (Teofilo {Ire}) who was one of the last pattern-race winners ridden by Pat Smullen in the 2017 G3 KPMG Enterprise S. Also placed in the G1 Irish and Yorkshire Oaks and the G1 Hong Kong Vase, she hails from the excellent Aga Khan family of Enzeli (Ire) (Kahyasi {Ire}), Ebadiyla (Ire) (Sadler’s Wells) and Estimate (Ire) (Monsun {Ger}).

2.05 Newmarket, Novice, £8,000, 2yo, f, 8fT
SAYYIDA (GB) (Dubawi {Ire}) debuts for the Godolphin-Charlie Appleby axis and is a fascinating prospect as a half-sister to the G1 Epsom Derby hero Masar (Ire) (New Approach {Ire}). The February-foaled daughter of the G2 UAE Derby heroine Khawlah (Ire) (Cape Cross {Ire}) has a significant benchmark to be measured against in Khalid Abdullah’s likely hot favourite Monsoon Moon (GB) (Kingman {GB}), the John Gosden-trained half-sister to the yard’s G1 St Leger winner Logician (GB) (Frankel {GB}) who was such a promising third on debut behind TDN Rising Star Love Is You (Ire) (Kingman {GB}) at Ascot earlier this month.

2.35 Saint-Cloud, Mdn, €22,000, unraced 2yo, c/g, 8fT
Ecki Sauren’s DJANGO UNCHAINED (FR) (Pastorius {Ger}) is yet another representative of trainer Henk Grewe’s regular Tours de France and faces one dozen fellow newcomers in this one-mile test. He is a half-brother to last term’s G1 Deutsches Derby runner-up Django Freeman (Ger) (Campanolgist) and this term’s otherwise unbeaten Deutsches Derby sixth Dicaprio (Ger) (Adlerflug {Ger}).

3.50 Saint-Cloud, Mdn, €22,000, unraced 2yo, f, 8fT
George Strawbridge’s homebred MOONY (GB) (Galileo {Ire}), who is inevitably a Freddy Head trainee, is the fourth foal out of the owner-breeder’s MG1SW distaffer Moonlight Cloud (GB) (Invincible Spirit {Ire}). She bids to become her dam’s first winner and is opposed by a baker’s dozen in this debutantes’ affair.

4.00 Newbury, Novice, £6,300, 2yo, 7fT
RIFLEMAN (IRE) (The Gurkha {Ire}) debuts for the Magnier/Tabor/Smith combination and the John Gosden stable and is the 15th foal produced by the $2-million G3 King George S. winner Dietrich (Storm Cat), with the previous best being the G1 Racing Post Trophy runner-up Aloft (Ire) (Galileo {Ire}). Among his rivals is Godfrey Wilson’s unraced homebred Run To Freedom (GB) (Muhaarar {GB}), a half-brother to the G1 Haydock Sprint Cup and G1 Diamond Jubilee-winning sire Twilight Son (GB) (Kyllachy {GB}) and group scorer Music Master (GB) (Piccolo {GB}) trained by their handler Henry Candy.

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Back-To-Back Irish Legers For Galileo’s Search For A Song

Dermot Weld’s esteemed career has been characterised by several landmark moments and there was another at The Curragh on Sunday as the master of Rosewell House delivered the high maintenance Search For a Song (Ire) (Galileo {Ire}) in perfect order to record back-to-back wins in the G1 Comer Group International Irish St Leger. In receipt of all the allowances when taking the race by the scruff of the neck in dynamic fashion 12 months ago, the Moyglare Stud homebred was content to creep into contention from rear this time as Oisin Orr played the waiting game. Travelling like the winner a long way before she loomed at the side of the ultra-game Ebor H. winner Fujaira Prince (Ire) (Pivotal {GB}) at the furlong pole, the 7-1 shot who had been pulled up during her penultimate start in the July 5 G3 Munster Oaks asserted for a two-length success as Twilight Payment (Ire) (Teofilo {Ire}) earned third place, a neck further behind. “At times she is difficult to keep right, but when she is right she is very good,” commented Weld, who was joining the late great Dr Vincent O’Brien on nine winners of this prestigious prize and who had earlier captured the G1 Prix Vermeille with Tarnawa (Ire) (Shamardal). “She was highly-geared earlier in the year and very unlucky in Cork, but also lucky as the man riding her used his head when he pulled her up after getting the bump on the bend. She was very free in the early part of the year as well, but that’s my job to train them and teach them. I had to get the confidence of the filly to learn to relax–it took time to her get her right, but it just shows that patience still pays dividends.”

Much water has passed under the bridge since Weld produced Vintage Crop (GB) (Rousillon) to land him his first Irish St Leger in 1993, weeks before that legendary performer pulled off the unthinkable at the time by becoming the first overseas-trained winner of the G1 Melbourne Cup. At that stage, Vincent O’Brien was at the end of his career but by the end of the decade Aidan was in command at Ballydoyle and the Irish racing scene was at the beginning of its revival. Twenty years into the new century, the strength-in-depth in the sport in this country exemplified by this weekend is remarkable, yet Weld is still more than capable of mixing it with the legions of competitors within the nation’s boundaries. “A rising tide lifts all boats,” the man who also trained the record-holding four-time Irish Leger hero Vinnie Roe (Ire) (Definite Article {GB}) succinctly stated in his post-race interview. “You have the best trainers in the world and I would say the best horses and maybe the best jockeys. You are only as good as your team and it’s been a special day. It’s my ninth Leger and I’ve trained her for the day for a long time.”

Search For a Song was in charge all of a mile out in the 2019 renewal, where she tanked Chris Hayes to the front and stayed in the clear as Kew Gardens (Ire) (Galileo {Ire}) stayed on in her slipstream. That was only her fifth career start, having previously finished fourth in the G1 Irish Oaks here and won York’s Listed Galtres S. so expectations were high that she could go on to do something special as a 4-year-old. Instead, she was well below-par when sixth in the 10 1/2-furlong G2 Mooresbridge S. here June 12 and things hardly improved as she stumbled badly on the first bend during Cork’s Munster Oaks. As a result she was 50-1 for the July 26 G1 Tattersalls Gold Cup at this venue and having been detached ran on strongly to be third before being pulled out of the course-and-distance G3 Irish St Leger Trial S. when in season Aug. 14.

“I wanted to get that run into her over a mile and a quarter in case people thought she was just a staying mare and you saw what the filly that beat her in the group 1 did yesterday,” Weld explained. “I was quietly confident today and it was lovely from Oisin, who was only 23 the other day. He switched her off beautifully. He’s put a lot of work into her, settling her and relaxing her to have her totally at ease and turning in I felt she would come and win. Chris [Hayes] rode her beautifully last year, don’t get me wrong, but Oisin has wonderful hands and he fills horses with confidence. I love horses getting into a rhythm and making gradual progress and that’s what he does very well. I thought that if everything went right, we had a great chance of a group 1 double as the autumn has always been the target for both her and Tarnawa and they are both peaking now. When you win the Vermeille and Irish Leger on the same day and you’re training only 100 horses, which is no number of horses in Ireland nowadays, you get a very big kick out of it. There is one more group 1 for her in France and then I look forward to training her next year. I’ll have to talk to Eva-Marie [Bucher Haefner] about it.”

Search For a Song is one of six individual black-type and five group winners out of the incredible Polished Gem (Ire) (Danehill), whose other daughter of Galileo, Amma Grace (Ire), had run second at 50-1 in the card’s appropriately-named G2 Moyglare “Jewels” Blandford S. Search For a Song’s other full-siblings of note are the Listed Esher S.-winning stayer Falcon Eight (Ire) and the 2-year-old colt Kyprios (Ire), a winner for Ballydoyle on debut at Galway on Tuesday. Polished Gem’s Free Eagle (Ire) (High Chaparral {Ire}) was one of the best runners for this stable in recent times, winning the G1 Prince of Wales’s S. before taking up duties at the Irish National Stud. She also produced the seven-times group-winning Custom Cut (Ire) (Nonowcato {GB}), the triple group scorer Sapphire (Ire) (Medicean {GB}), whose finest hour came when capturing the British Champions Fillies & Mares S. when it was a group 2, and the Australian group 3 winner Valac (Ire) (Dark Angel {Ire}).

Polished Gem’s dam is the 1988 G1 Irish 1000 Guineas heroine Trusted Partner (Affirmed), whose leading performer was the GI Matriarch S. and G2 Sun Chariot S. heroine Dress To Thrill (Ire) also by Danehill. On another day when Moyglare bloodlines came to the fore, Trusted Partner is also the third dam of this fixture’s G1 Goffs Vincent O’Brien National S. hero Thunder Moon (Ire) (Zoffany {Ire}) and was already the ancestress of the G3 Sirenia S. winner Love Lockdown (Ire) (Verglas {Ire}) and G1 Criterium International winner Vert de Grece (Ire) (Verglas {Ire}). The third dam Talking Picture (Speak John) landed the GI Matron S. and GI Spinaway S. before producing five stakes winners of which four share the US Triple Crown winner Affirmed as a sire. They include Easy To Copy, whose descendants are the G1 Grand Prix de Paris and G1 Sydney Cup hero Gallante (Ire) (Montjeu {Ire}) and Silence Please (Ire) (Gleneagles {Ire}) who was second in Saturday’s G3 Kilternan S.

Sunday, Curragh, Ireland
COMER GROUP INTERNATIONAL IRISH ST LEGER-G1, €400,000, Curragh, 9-13, 3yo/up, 14fT, 3:06.50, gd.
1–SEARCH FOR A SONG (IRE), 134, f, 4, by Galileo (Ire)
1st Dam: Polished Gem (Ire) (Broodmare of the Year-Ire), by Danehill
2nd Dam: Trusted Partner, by Affirmed
3rd Dam: Talking Picture, by Speak John
O/B-Moyglare Stud Farm Ltd (IRE); T-Dermot Weld; J-Oisin Orr. €232,000. Lifetime Record: Hwt. 3yo-Ire at 14f+ & SW-Eng, 9-4-1-1, $771,456. *Full to Falcon Eight (Ire), SW-Eng & GSP-Ire; and Amma Grace (Ire), GSP-Ire; and 1/2 to Free Eagle (Ire) (High Chaparral {Ire}), Hwt. Older Horse-Eur at 9.5-11f, G1SW-Eng, GSW & G1SP-Ire, $926,416; Sapphire (Ire) (Medicean {GB}), Hwt. Older Mare-Ire at 11-14f, MGSW & G1SP-Ire, GSW-Eng, $518,947; Custom Cut (Ire) (Notnowcato {GB}), Hwt. Older Horse-Ire at 7-9.5f, MGSW-Eng & Ire, $951,925; and Valac (Ire) (Dark Angel {Ire}), GSW-Aus, $277,097. Werk Nick Rating: A+++ *Triple Plus*. Click for the eNicks report & 5-cross pedigree.
2–Fujaira Prince (Ire), 137, g, 6, Pivotal (GB)–Zam Zoom (Ire), by Dalakhani (Ire). (90,000gns Ylg ’15 TATOCT). O-Sheikh Mohammed Obaid Al Maktoum; B-Rabbah Bloodstock Ltd (IRE); T-Roger Varian. €80,000.
3–Twilight Payment (Ire), 137, g, 7, Teofilo (Ire)–Dream On Buddy (Ire), by Oasis Dream (GB). (€200,000 5yo ’18 GOFHIT). O-Lloyd J Williams; B-Jim Bolger (IRE); T-Joseph O’Brien. €40,000.
Margins: 2, NK, 3. Odds: 7.00, 3.00, 4.50.
Also Ran: Barbados (Ire), Passion (Ire), Sovereign (Ire), Micro Manage (Ire), Raa Atoll (GB). Click for the Racing Post result or the free Equineline.com catalogue-style pedigree.

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Anthony Van Dyck Denies Stradivarius in the Foy

Coolmore’s 2019 G1 Epsom Derby hero Anthony Van Dyck (Ire) (Galileo {Ire}) was winless in seven starts, six of those attempts coming at the highest level, since registering that Blue Riband success and revelled in his old gusto to outbattle Stradivarius (Ire) (Sea the Stars {Ire}) in a pulsating renewal of Sunday’s G1 Qatar Prix Foy at ParisLongchamp. He lined up as the 19-5 second choice, coming back off a second to Ghaiyyath (Ire) (Dubawi {Ire}) in the June 5 G1 Coronation Cup at Newmarket and a fifth in Royal Ascot’s G2 Hardwicke S. last time, and led a steady tempo for the most part. He looked set to be swamped, but was up for a battle when tackled and headed by Stradivarius off the home turn, reclaiming the initiative with 300 metres remaining and staying on strongly under a continued drive to hold that rival’s renewed effort by short neck.

“We knew there was no early speed in the race and hatched a plan to move forward early,” revealed winning rider Mickael Barzalona. “We jumped off easily and I found myself in front, so I let him find a rhythm and go along bit by bit. I had a bit of trouble getting him to stretch out, but once he sensed the danger of Stradivarius he fought back gamely and found more with every stride. We know Stradivarius makes up ground easily, but sometimes gets caught for a bit of acceleration so I wasn’t too worried. I gave him a breather turning for home before winding him up and I think he enjoyed that. He has every right to a place in the line-up for the Arc as he gets into a good rhythm and just keeps galloping in a straight and true line.”

Owner Bjorn Nielsen has not discounted a tilt the Arc for his star stayer Stradivarius and said, “They have basically walked there and Frankie thought he should have gone in front. The race has turned into a sprint and we were only beaten a neck. To be beaten in such circumstances isn’t too much of a worry and certainly not a disgrace. I don’t know if he will run in the Arc, I need to speak with John [Gosden], but given how that race was run I wouldn’t rule it out. The ground conditions on the day will not play a huge part. He goes better on good ground, but can handle soft if needs be.”

Anthony Van Dyck is the fourth of five foals and one of three winners for G3 Blue Diamond Prelude victress Believe’n’succeed (Aus) (Exceed and Excel {Aus}), who also produced by G1 Railway S.-winning New Zealand champion sprinter Bounding (Aus) (Lonhro {Aus}) and a yearling filly by Galileo (Ire). His dam, full to MGSW sire Kuroshio (Aus) and the stakes-winning Agulhas (Aus), is a daughter of GI Alabama S. and GI Test S. heroine November Snow (Storm Cat). November Snow is a full-sister to GSW sire Scatmandu from a family featuring GI Carter H. hero Morning Line (Tiznow).

Sunday, ParisLongchamp, France
QATAR PRIX FOY-G2, €90,000, ParisLongchamp, 9-13, 4yo/up, 12fT, 2:33.27, gd.
1–ANTHONY VAN DYCK (IRE), 129, c, 4, by Galileo (Ire)
1st Dam: Believe’N’Succeed (Aus) (GSW-Aus, $157,067), by Exceed and Excel (Aus)
2nd Dam: Arctic Drift, by Gone West
3rd Dam: November Snow, by Storm Cat
O-Susan Magnier, Michael Tabor & Derrick Smith; B-Orpendale, Chelston & Wynatt (IRE); T-Aidan O’Brien; J-Mickael Barzalona. €51,300. Lifetime Record: G1SW-Eng, MGSW & MG1SP-Ire, GISP-US, 17-6-3-3, $2,107,750. *1/2 to Bounding (Aus) (Lonhro {Aus}), Ch. Sprinter-NZ, G1SW-NZ &, GSW-Aus, $578,367. Werk Nick Rating: A+++ *Triple Plus*. Click for the eNicks report & 5-cross pedigree.
2–Stradivarius (Ire), 129, h, 6, Sea the Stars (Ire)–Private Life (Fr), by Bering (GB). (330,000gns RNA Ylg ’15 TATOCT). O/B-Bjorn Nielsen (IRE); T-John Gosden. €19,800.
3–Nagano Gold (GB), 129, h, 6, Sixties Icon (GB)–Never Enough (Ger), by Monsun (Ger). (3,500gns Wlg ’14 TATFOA). O-Syndikat V3J; B-J Knight & E Cantillon (GB); T-Vaclav Luka. €9,450.
Margins: SNK, 1 1/4, 1 1/4. Odds: 3.80, 0.60, 17.00.
Also Ran: Skyward (Fr), Way To Paris (GB), Ziyad (Fr). Click for the Racing Post result or the free Equineline.com catalogue-style pedigree. Video, sponsored by Fasig-Tipton.

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Galileo’s Shale Gets Her Revenge In the Moyglare

Much has been made of the ability of the average Galileo (Ire) to endure more than a fair amount of engagement in battle, but there continues to be example after example as the weeks of the flat season roll on. There seems especially to be something in The Curragh’s hallowed turf to bring out those mystical qualities from within his charges and on Sunday it was Shale (Ire) who was drawing on it to garner the G1 Moyglare Stud S. Having beaten Pretty Gorgeous (Fr) (Lawman {Fr}) in the G3 Silver Flash S. at Leopardstown Aug. 6 only to lose out to her in the Aug. 22 course-and-distance G2 Debutante S., Donnacha O’Brien’s juvenile starlet was back in the ring to win on points as it came down to a slog. Tracking the Debutante third Mother Earth (Ire) (Zoffany {Ire}) throughout the early stages, the 9-2 second favourite was the first to come under a ride as Ryan Moore started to niggle before the halfway point. TDN Rising Star Pretty Gorgeous was tracking her every move and after Shale had earned the lead passing the two-furlong pole she was set upon by her arch-rival. John Oxley’s Joseph O’Brien trainee was in front briefly 200 yards from the line, but by the time they reached it Shale had the call over the 11-10 market-leader by 3/4 of a length, with Oodnadatta (Ire) (Australia {GB}) 1 3/4 lengths back in third. “She’s an incredibly tough filly and she’s done it very well,” commented Donnacha, who ironically had ridden Intricately (Ire) (Fastnet Rock {Aus}) for Joseph when winning this in 2016. “I know how much Joseph thinks of his filly, so I was surprised to beat her at Leopardstown. She was the first off the bridle and I didn’t think she was going to do anything at halfway, but she found a lot for pressure, toughed it out and was going away at the line. These Galileo fillies can keep improving and she has with every start.”

There was little sign when Shale was sixth on debut behind Oodnadatta in a seven-furlong Leopardstown maiden June 21 that she would hit these heights, but that has turned out to be a smart contest from which the subsequent G3 Marble Hill S. winner Minaun (Ire) (Zoffany {Ire}) sprang, among others. Off the mark over a mile on testing ground next time at Gowran Park July 8, the daughter of the emphatic G1 1000 Guineas heroine Homecoming Queen (Ire) (Holy Roman Emperor {Ire}) may have been in part benefitting from a front-runner’s bias back at Leopardstown as she held Pretty Gorgeous at bay in the Silver Flash reverting to this trip. When she was put in her place so readily in the Debutante last time, that looked to be the deciding blow in the contest but Shale’s doughtiness ultimately told in this championship bout.

“The ground was a little bit more in our favour today,” Donnacha added. “She’s a very low mover, so you would think she wants quick ground but her mother was the same and when they are very clear-winded and tough they tend to go on most conditions. I definitely thought she’d be closer today, but I wasn’t going to say that I thought she’d go and win as we don’t look under the bonnet at home. She has a few options–it could be the [G1 Prix] Marcel Boussac or Newmarket [for the G1 Fillies’ Mile] and after that she could go to America for the Breeders’ Cup. She’ll be even better when she goes back up in trip.” Pretty Gorgeous’s rider Declan McDonogh said, “It was a bit messy early, but I headed the winner and she then got a bit tired. I’ve no excuses–she ran a blinder.”

Homecoming Queen, who took the 2012 renewal of the Newmarket mile Classic by nine lengths, is another of the Coolmore broodmares locked on to Galileo and she now has three black-type performers including the stakes-placed First of Spring (Ire) and the G2 Futurity S. third Berkeley Square (Ire). Her dam Lagrion (Diesis {GB}) produced the mighty Arc hero Dylan Thomas (Ire), the juvenile champion Queen’s Logic (Ire) (Grand Lodge) and the G1 Epsom Oaks second Remember When (Ire) (Danehill Dancer {Ire}) whose son Serpentine (Ire) (Galileo {Ire}) is this year’s G1 Epsom Derby hero. His G2 Kilboy Estate S.-winning full-sister Wedding Vow (Ire) was also runner-up in the G1 Nassau S., while Queen’s Logic produced the G2 Diadem S. and G2 Lowther S. winner and G1 Prix de l’Abbaye de Longchamp and G1 Haydock Sprint Cup runner-up Lady of the Desert (Rahy). Homecoming Queen’s 2019 Galileo is a colt.

Sunday, Curragh, Ireland
MOYGLARE STUD S.-G1, €250,000, Curragh, 9-13, 2yo, f, 7fT, 1:27.19, gd.
1–SHALE (IRE), 128, f, 2, by Galileo (Ire)
1st Dam: Homecoming Queen (Ire) (Hwt. 3yo Filly-Eng at 7-9.5f, G1SW-Eng & GSW-Ire, $458,335), by Holy Roman Emperor (Ire)
2nd Dam: Lagrion, by Diesis (GB)
3rd Dam: Wrap It Up (Ire), by Mount Hagen (Fr)
1ST GROUP 1 WIN. O-Derrick Smith, Susan Magnier & Michael Tabor; B-Coolmore (IRE); T-Donnacha O’Brien; J-Ryan Moore. €150,000. Lifetime Record: 5-3-1-0, $241,134. *Full to Berkeley Square (Ire), GSP-Ire; and First of Spring (Ire), SP-US. Werk Nick Rating: A+++ *Triple Plus*. Click for the eNicks report & 5-cross pedigree.
2–Pretty Gorgeous (Fr), 128, f, 2, Lawman (Fr)–Lady Gorgeous (GB), by Compton Place (GB). (€55,000 Wlg ’18 ARQDE; 525,000gns Ylg ’19 TATOCT). O-John C Oxley; B-EARL Ecurie Haras du Cadran, Enrico Ciampi, SAS I.E.I. & Ecurie La Boetie (FR); T-Joseph O’Brien. €50,000.
3–Oodnadatta (Ire), 128, f, 2, Australia (GB)–Bewitched (Ire), by Dansili (GB). O-Robert Scarborough & Susan Magnier; B-Robert Scarborough & Carradale (IRE); T-Jessica Harrington. €25,000.
Margins: 3/4, 1 3/4, 3/4. Odds: 4.50, 1.10, 22.00.
Also Ran: Bubbles On Ice (Ire), Thunder Beauty (Ire), Aunty Bridy (Ire), A Ma Chere (Ire), Divinely (Ire), Snowfall (Jpn), Teresa Mendoza (Ire), Mother Earth (Ire), Elanora (Ire), Star Image (GB). Click for the Racing Post result or the free Equineline.com catalogue-style pedigree.

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