Poule d’Essai des Pouliches: Where did they come from?

Homebreds hold the upper hand in the fillies' Classic, but the Arqana Deauville Select Yearling Sale, delayed from August and renamed in the first year of the pandemic, is well represented with graduates at ParisLongchamp on Sunday. Notably, Blue Diamond Stud bought the dams of both Mangoustine (Fr) and Sicilian Defense (GB) on the same day at the Arqana December Sale of 2019.

 

ROSACEA (IRE), Soldier Hollow (GB)–Relizane (GB) (Zamindar)
Owner/Breeder: Haras De La Perelle
Trainer: Stephane Wattel
Pedigree insight: She is the third foal out of Relizane (GB) (Zamindar), a winner in France and half-sister to the Canadian Grade I winner Reggane (Red Ransom).

 

TIMES SQUARE (FR), Zarak (Fr)–See You Always (GB) (Siyouni {Fr})
Owner: Allan Belshaw
Breeder: Times Of Wigan Ltd
Pedigree insight: The dam is an unraced half-sister to the useful sprinter Direct Times (Ire) (Acclamation {GB}), who is out of a winning half-sister, Elegant Times (Ire) (Dansili {GB}), to Group 2 scorer Welsh Emperor (Ire) (Emperor Jones) and listed-winning sprinter Majestic Times (Ire) (Bluebird).

 

ACER ALLEY (GB), Siyouni (Fr)–Willow View (Lemon Drop Kid)
Owner/Breeder: Merry Fox Stud Limited
Trainer: Francis Graffard
Pedigree insight: A half-sister to nine-furlong Grade I winner Digital Age (Ire) (Invincible Spirit {Ire}), this filly's unraced dam is a half-sister to G1 Moyglare Stud S. winner Cursory Glance (Distorted Humor).

 

JUMBLY (GB), Gleneagles (Ire)–Thistle Bird (GB) (Selkirk)
Owner: Emmy Rothschild and Partner
Breeder: Emily Rothschild
Trainer: Roger and Harry Charlton
Pedigree insight: A half-sister to three winners, she is the fourth foal out of the classy race mare Thistle Bird (GB), who won the G1 Pretty Polly S. at the Curragh in 2014.

 

TOY (IRE), Galileo (Ire)–You'resothrilling (Ire) (Storm Cat)
Owner: D Smith, Mrs J Magnier, M Tabor, Westerberg
Breeder: Coolmore
Trainer: Aidan O'Brien
Pedigree insight: From an outstanding family, she is a sister to seven black-type performers, including dual Guineas and St James's Palace S. winner Gleneagles (Ire), and Irish 1000 Guineas winner Marvellous (Ire). You'resothrilling was also a classy race mare and won the G2 Cherry Hinton S.

 

DAISY MAISY (GB), Wootton Bassett (GB)–Shasta Daisy (GB) (Champs Elysees {GB})
Owner: Mme Gitte Poulsen-Allaire & Philippe Allaire
Breeder: Gestut Zur Kuste Ag
Trainer: Yann Barberot
Sales history: Bought for €240,000 at the Arqana Select Yearling Sale at Deauville (Yann Barberot).
Pedigree insight: Her dam Shasta Daisy (GB) (Champs Elysees {GB}) is out of a winning stakes-placed sister to Juddmonte-bred sires Showcasing (GB) and Camacho (GB).

 

ZELDA (FR), Zelzal (Fr)–Hortensia (Ity) (Orpen)
Owner: Infinity Nine Horses, Ecurie Castillon Bloodstock and Ecurie Jeffroy
Breeder: SCEA des Prairies, Ecurie De Castillon et al
Trainer: Jean-Claude Rouget
Pedigree insight: From the first crop of Zelzal, her half-brother Chez Pierre (Fr) (Mehmas {Ire}) is unbeaten in France and recently won a stakes race in the U.S. Her dam is a half-sister to the dam of Breeders' Cup Juvenile winner Vale Of York (Ire) (Invincible Spirit {Ire}).

 

MANGOUSTINE (FR), Dark Angel (Ire)–Zotilla (Ire) (Zamindar)
Owner: Infinity Nine Horses, Ecurie des Monceaux et al
Breeder: Ecurie des Monceaux, Lordship Stud & Qatar Bloodstock Limited
Trainer: Mikel Delzangles
Sales history: Bought for €46,000 at the Arqana Deauville Select Yearling Sale (David Redvers).
Pedigree insight: She is out of a half-sister to the Poule d'Essai des Pouliches and Breeders' Cup Juvenile Fillies Turf winner Flotilla (Fr) (Mizzen Mast). Granddam Louvain (Ire) (Sinndat {Ire}) is a half-sister to the G1 Haydock Sprint Cup winner G Force (Ire) (Tamayuz {GB}). This is the same family as Lassaut (Fr), who runs in the Poule d'Essai des Poulains.

 

HEAT OF THE MOMENT (GB), Bobby's Kitten–Heat Of The Night (GB) (Lear Fan)
Owner/Breeder: Kirsten Rausing
Trainer: Jane Chapple-Hyam
Pedigree insight: Her half-sister Here To Eternity (Stormy Atlantic) has produced the Hong Kong Group 1 winners Time Warp (GB) and Glorious Forever (GB), both by Archipenko, and was herself a listed-winning miler.

 

CACHET (IRE), Aclaim (Ire)–Poyle Sophie (GB) (Teofilo {Ire})
'TDN Rising Star'.
Owner: Highclere Thoroughbred Racing – Wild Flower
Breeder: Hyde Park Stud
Trainer: George Boughey
Sales history: Unsold at the Tattersalls Ascot Yearling Sale, she reappeared at the Tattersalls Craven Breeze-up Sale in April 2021 and was bought by Highclere for 60,000gns.
Pedigree insight: While she was bred by Hyde Park Stud, it was the late Cecil Wiggins who did the mating, and nurtured the family for generations. Poyle Sophie formed part of a dispersal of his stock when she sold carrying Cachet for just 3,000gns to John Bourke of Hyde Park Stud at the Tattersalls December Sale. Poyle Sophie is a half-sister to four winners.

 

MQSE DE SEVIGNE (IRE), Siyouni (Fr)–Penne (Fr) (Sevres Rose {Ire})
Owner: Baron Edouard De Rothschild
Breeder: Sc Ecurie De Meautry
Trainer: Andre Fabre
Pedigree insight: A half-sister to five winners including German Group 1 scorer Meandre (Fr) (Slickly {Fr}), her dam was listed-placed in France.

 

SEA OF ASH (FR), Wooton Bassett (GB)–Sea Of Leaves (Stormy Atlantic)
Owner: Albert Frassetto
Breeder: Johayro Investments Limited
Trainer: Gianluca Bietolini
Sales history: Sold for €55,000 at the Arqana Deauville Select Sale (Marco Bozzi Bloodstock).
Pedigree insight: A half-sister to two winners, she is her twice-winning dam's sixth foal, and is from the family of American Grade I winners Aptitude (A.P. Indy) and Sleep Easy (Seattle Slew).

 

OSMOSE (FR), Zoffany (Ire)–Meseika (Medaglia d'Oro)
'TDN Rising Star'.
Owner: H H Sheikh Mohammed Bin Khalifa Al Thani
Breeder: Al Shahania Stud
Trainer: Jean-Claude Rouget
Pedigree insight: Her dam is an unraced half-sister to dual American Grade I winner Unique Bella (Tapit), whose dam, Unrivaled Belle (Unbridled's Song), won the GI Breeders' Cup Ladies' Classic in 2010.

 

SICILIAN DEFENSE (GB), Muhaarar (GB)–Manasarova (More Than Ready)
Owner: Benjamin Teboul
Breeder: Haras de Saint Pair
Trainer: Yann Barberot
Sales history: Sold for €35,000 from Saint Pair in a private sale at the Arqana Deauville Select Yearling Sale.
Pedigree insight: She is the second foal out of the listed-placed 2-year-old winner Manasarova, who is out of an unraced half-sister to a US Grade II winner Shakis (Machiavellian), and from the family of Singspiel (Ire) (In the Wings {GB}) and Rahy (Blushing Groom {Fr}).

 

WHO KNOWS (FR), Siyouni (Fr)–Zain Al Boldan (GB) (Poliglote {GB})
Owner: Teruya Yoshida
Breeder: S.A.S Gerard Larrieu, S.A. Aga Khan & Sarl Haras De Saint-Faust
Trainer: Stephane Wattel
Sales history: Sold at the Arqana Deauville Select Yearling Sale for €150,000 (Gerard Larrieu).
Pedigree insight: A half-sister to the Group 2 winner Poetic Dream (Ire) (Poet's Voice {GB}) and black-type performer Chevalier Cathre (Fr) (Sea The Moon {Ger}), her dam, Zain Al Boldan (GB) (Poliglote {GB}) was a listed winner in Britain.

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McGivern Optimistic as Speedy Fillies Catch Attention at Arqana

DEAUVILLE, France–Deliverance came a day early for Katie McGivern at the Arqana Breeze-Up Sale as lot 64, a Sioux Nation filly and lot 66, a filly by Siyouni (Fr), finished in the top five fastest times overall in the session.

It was McGivern's fillies, the only two that she brought to one of the premier breeze-up sales in Europe, who emerged from the cavalry of 130 juveniles as being up there with the fastest on show.

McGivern stuck her neck out in going to €68,000 for the Siyouni filly out of Stars So Bright (Ire) (Sea The Stars {Ire}) at the Goffs Sportsman's Yearling Sale and she looks like being handsomely rewarded when she offers the speedster under the banner of Derryconnor Stud on Friday.

“I'm delighted,” the in-demand consignor said in between showing the fillies post-breeze. “They put in a solid breeze and had shown some pretty good homework before coming here. They stepped up on what I asked them to do here.

“The Siyouni just naturally knew how to go. There was no teaching in her. The Sioux Nation was very straightforward as well in fairness. I actually came over here on my own with them.

“Everyone was asking me why I didn't bring staff with me but I kept telling them how straightforward they were and they showed that today. I have a girl helping me today and for the sale tomorrow but usually the good ones are horizontal.”

So, too, is McGivern, who knows a thing or two about producing good horses. Daban (Ire) (Acclamation {GB}), winner of the 2017 G3 Nell Gwyn S., is one of many high-class graduates from McGivern's nursery and, given the Siyouni and Sioux Nation fillies have passed the vet and pulled out of the breeze in top shape, the popular consignor was feeling optimistic on the eve of the sale.

She said, “They stepped up to the mark. You can do all of the homework you like but some will let you down at the sales. Not these fillies. I'm very proud of them.

“I bought the Sioux Nation in Book 2 at Tattersalls in October. I gave 36,000gns for her out of Sherbourne Lodge and I bought the Siyouni in the Sportsman's Sale off Castlebridge for €68,000, which would be a huge amount for me. We gave a big price for her as €40,000 is normally my maximum but we were lucky in that the mare hadn't produced a winner when we bought her but the first foal out of her has won since and that definitely helps.”

McGivern added, “It's very busy here and hopefully they sell well. I know they vet 100% which is a relief because there's no point in having a fast one who isn't going to pass the vet. I actually had Kaboo (More Than Ready) here last year, and he didn't pass the vet despite being the fifth fastest, so he only made €40,000 in the end. Thankfully, these two have passed so that hurdle is crossed. I'll definitely sleep easy tonight but it will be nerve-wracking tomorrow.”

There was a real international feel to the afternoon session, with Joseph O'Brien, Jean-Claude Rouget, George Boughey, Thady Gosden and Francis Graffard some of the many recognisable faces in baking heat.

Few have concentrated so heavily and reaped such rewards with breezers in recent years quite like Michael O'Callaghan has and, while he hopes to be active at the sale which kicks off at 2 p.m. local time, the Irish trainer admitted it will be tough to compete against the international competition.

“It's going to be very hard,” O'Callaghan admitted in between viewings on Thursday evening. “This, the best breeze-up sale there is, and the consignors keep their best horses for France. It will be hard to buy the best of them but we will give it a good go.”

He added, “Blue De Vega (Ger) (Lope de Vega {Ire}), Now Or Later (Ire) (Bushranger {Ire}), Letters Of Note (Ire) (Azamour {Ire}), they all came from the breeze-up sales and we'll be doing our best to find the next one tomorrow [Friday].”

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Cachet to Attempt 1000 Guineas Double

Trainer George Boughey told At The Races Friday that he would attempt the English-French Guineas double with G1 QIPCO 1000 Guineas heroine Cachet (Ire) (Aclaim {Ire}). The 'TDN Rising Star' will travel to ParisLongchamp for the G1 Poule d'Essai des Pouliches on May 15. The race comes just 14 days after her English Guineas win.

Sunday, after the Guineas, her trainer George Boughey said the filly would be pointed to the June 17 G1 Coronation S. at Ascot for her next start, her next step on her way to a start in the Breeders' Cup at Keeneland in the autumn, saying she loved fast ground. But Friday, he reversed course.

“Next weekend, we are going to run in France,” he told At The Races. “As long as the track doesn't turn into a quagmire, that's our plan. This morning, she was in great form. All the lights are green. She's got an extraordinary mind.”

Only four fillies in history have successfully attempted the double: Imprudence II (Fr) (Canot {Fr}) in 1947, Miesque (Nureyev) in 1987, Ravinella (Mr. Prospector) in 1988 and Special Duty (GB) (Hennessy) in 2010. Last year, Mother Earth (Ire) (Zoffany {Ire}) was beaten by Coeursamba (Fr) (The Wow Signal {Ire}) at ParisLongchamp after having won at Newmarket.

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Seven Days: Sharing The Joy

The first Classics of the year are in the book: four in total, in Britain and Italy. Charlie Appleby sends out major winners with such metronomic regularity that it is easy to forget that there was a time when the Godolphin blue silks were a scarcity in Classic fields. 

Having gone so close in last year's 2000 Guineas with Master Of The Seas (Ire) (Dubawi {Ire}), who was narrowly denied by the Jim Bolger-trained Poetic Flare (Ire) (Dawn Approach {Ire}), Appleby left nothing to chance this year when aiming both barrels at the Rowley Mile and firing in a one-two with Coroebus (Ire) (Dubawi {Ire}) and Native Trail (GB) (Oasis Dream {GB}). Though the second-favourite overturned the favourite, for the Godolphin team that was very much the right result, the winner being a homebred by the operation's beloved flag-bearer Dubawi and a member of a family which has brought repeated success for Sheikh Mohammed. That includes two Dubai World Cups courtesy of Thunder Snow (Ire) (Helmet {Aus}), a half-brother to Coroebus's dam First Victory (Ire) (Teofilo {Ire}). The 2000 Guineas was just the first of an extraordinary run of success for Teofilo as a broodmare sire over the weekend. He popped up again as the damsire of 1000 Guineas winner Cachet (Ire) (Aclaim {Ire}), just 40 minutes after he filled the same role in the breeding of Ed Walker's G2 Dahlia S. winner Dreamloper (Ire) (Lope De Vega {Ire}).

Fifteen years ago, Teofilo's own Classic season spluttered to a halt without ever really getting started. Having finished the previous season as champion 2-year-old in Europe, a tendon problem ruled him out of the 2000 Guineas, and his trainer and breeder Jim Bolger eventually retired him in August with just his juvenile credentials to his name as he joined the Darley roster. But what credentials they were, representing a faultless progression through the summer of 2006, from maiden, to Listed and Group 2 success, followed by a brace of Group 1s, both at the expense of Coolmore's Holy Roman Emperor (Ire).

At stud, Teofilo has never quite had the flashy profile of some of his major rivals in the stallion list, which include of course his own over-achiever of a sire, Galileo (Ire). But as we have discussed in these pages before, Teofilo has steadily compiled an admirable record, with 22 Group 1 winners worldwide, and as every proper stallion should become as they age, he is now a force to be reckoned with as a broodmare sire. His three Classic winners in this sphere include the Bolger-bred Mac Swiney (Ire) (New Approach {Ire}).

Though Teofilo is not represented by many sons at stud, it is worth nothing that the speedy Havana Gold (Ire) has already notched three stakes winners this season–among the British-based sires only Dubawi and Frankel (GB) have had more–and Havana Gold's son Havana Grey (GB) is currently the co-leader with Sioux Nation in the freshman sires' table with four winners apiece.

Riotous Response For Cachet 

The 1000 Guineas winner Cachet turns out to have been very well named. Her antics have not only brought her much respect and distinction, but also for her trainer George Boughey, for whom she was a first Classic winner in only his third full season with a licence. She is not the first to have demonstrated Boughey's prowess, of course. Mystery Angel (Ire) became the trainer's first black-type winner exactly a year earlier when landing the Listed Pretty Polly S. and, after being boldly supplemented for the Oaks, she ran a mighty race to be second to Snowfall (Jpn) (Deep Impact {Jpn}).

Cachet only had to leave her back gate at Saffron House Stables and stroll across Southfields to land the biggest victory of her career to date, but some longer-distance travel may soon be required again.

“She makes my job very easy,” Boughey told TDN on Monday. “She has always been sound, she eats up and trains. She's very hard to fault because she's so willing. I had a long chat to Jake Warren and Harry Herbert and it's almost not doing her justice to not consider another Guineas. 

“The French Guineas might just suit her a bit better than Ireland and she loves her racing. I've never thought I've over-raced her. I'm sure some people would say that they thought I have, but she loves it and I think we are going to consider the French Guineas before Royal Ascot.”

Six of Cachet's ten starts have come on her neighbouring racecourses in Newmarket, but she has already made overseas trips to Longchamp and to Del Mar, when she was fourth, beaten only a length, in the GI Breeders' Cup Juvenile Fillies Turf.

Boughey added, “It's a long year and I quite want to end up in the Breeders' Cup again. For me, having a Breeders' Cup winner is perhaps my biggest career goal. Of course everyone wants to win the Derby but travelling horses is something I really want to do, and we've done it with a degree of success already to France.”

He added of his home track, “The good thing about racing at Newmarket is that they're back in their box in an hour. She's had two runs [this season], and obviously [the 1000 Guineas] was a hard race, but the run before was like a racecourse gallop. She hardly did a stroke. It's a big advantage being here.”

The Newmarket faithful certainly gave Boughey and Cachet a rousing return to the winner's enclosure on Sunday. The Rowley Mile can sometimes lack atmosphere but that was not the case after the 1000 Guineas, when the sense of collective joy was infectious. 

“I've never known a reception like it,” said the trainer. “It was almost like Best Mate winning a third Gold Cup. My biggest task now is trying to get through my messages. I've got 400 to read still. All my family was there yesterday–aunts, uncles, brother, sisters, cousins, mum, dad, it was amazing. That was probably where quite a lot of the noise came from.”

A lot of the noise also came from the 20 members of the Highclere Racing Syndicate which owns Cachet. As one of the Coolmore contingent mentioned as he passed by the winner's enclosure, a major winner for a syndicate is a superb result for racing's broader appeal, as that joy was multiplied and shared by so many.

“That's the families of all those owners celebrating now, and it's great to see,” he said. 

With one riotously happy weekend stored in the memory banks to sustain them through the darker months of winters, the smiling riders of George Boughey's string pulled out on Monday morning as usual. It may have been a Bank Holiday in Britain but the work never stops in a racing stable, even if it started a little later than usual, with eyes a bit blearier following the previous night's celebrations. The trainer was back in his usual spot atop Warren Hill, keenly observing his string as they completed a steady canter. As he drove back down the Moulton Road, he received a cheery wave of congratulation from fellow trainer Chris Wall, cycling by.

Chatting to TDN a little later on, the equable Boughey confessed, “I never thought I'd have one like her in a lifetime. The first horse I bought, I made Sam Haggas buy me something to try to win a classified race, so it's come a long way for sure.”

That was only in 2019. Boughey has indeed come a long way. He'll go farther still, for sure.

Acclaim For Aclaim

There has been plenty of interest in the offspring of Time Test (GB) at recent sales but he has been firmly usurped by his National Stud mate Aclaim (Ire) in the second-crop sires' race. A Group 1-winning son of Acclamation (GB) from the family of Montjeu (Ire), Aclaim is the first of that intake to sire a Group 1 winner this year. Cachet remains his sole black-type winner, but his first crop also contains the Group 2-placed Jacinda (GB), and he has the clearly highly regarded Royal Aclaim (Ire) entered for both the G1 King's Stand S. and the Commonwealth Cup at Royal Ascot.

Trained by James Tate, Royal Aclaim is on the comeback trail since her sole run at Newcastle in May 2021, three weeks after graduating from the Tattersalls Guineas Breeze-up Sale with a price tag of 60,000gns, the same amount paid by Highclere for Cachet at the earlier Craven Sale. We may have seen nothing of Royal Aclaim since her maiden victory but she had some pretty smart horses behind her that day, notably the subsequent dual Group 1 winner Perfect Power (Ire) (Ardad {Ire}) and the Listed winner and multiple Group-placed Fearby (Ire) (Havana Gold {Ire}).

Like Dark Angel (Ire) and Mehmas (Ire) before him, Aclaim could yet prove to be another influential member of the expanding line of one of Northern Dancer's less heralded sons, Try My Best, through grandson Royal Applause (GB). The latter remains in luxurious retirement at The Royal Studs in Sandringham at the age of 29.

On The Attack

In Rome on Sunday, the Endo Botti-trained Swipe Up (Ire) rather appropriately became the 50th group winner for Teofilo's old friend Holy Roman Emperor (Ire) when landing the G3 Premio Regina Elena (Italian 1000 Guineas). Bred by George Kent at Knockenduff Stud and sold for just £6,000 at the Goffs UK Premier Yearling Sale, she was followed home, at a five-length distance, by another daughter of the same sire, Nonna Ercolina (Ire). Another Coolmore stallion Highland Reel (Ire) provided the third home, Atamisque (Ire), to bring up an Irish-bred trifecta. 

In the Italian 2000 Guineas, the G3 Premio Parioli, the winner See Hector (Ger) represented, like Cachet, another European second-season sire in Counterattack (Aus). The son of Redoute's Choice (Aus) may be less familiar to European breeders as he did all of his racing in Australia, where he won a Group 3 sprint and earned three Group 1 placings. Bred on the same Redoute's Choice-Snippets cross as Australian supersire Snitzel (Aus) and a half-brother to the Dane Shadow-sired Group 1 winners Red Tracer (Aus) and Shellscrape (Aus), Counterattack joined the Faust family's Gestut Karlshof in 2018. He was represented by his first stakes winner, Pirouz (Ger), in the Listed Premio Emanuele Filiberto, a trial for the Derby Italiano, in Milan on Saturday. This was swiftly followed by his first group success with See Hector, both winners having been bred by Gestut Karlshof. 

“It's extraordinary. We're very happy to see Counterattack have a Classic winner in his first crop, especially as he has only 20 to 25 horses in training,” said Holger Faust, the racing manager for See Hector's owner Cometica Ag and whose parents run Gestut Karlshof.

He added, “We were looking for a son of Redoute's Choice. Back in the days when Counterattack started at our place Redoute's Choice was the sire of 11 stallions who have produced a Group 1 winner, and now I think that number is 15. We are very keen to stand stallions by a good sire of sires. In our opinion that is very important.”

He added, “So Redoute's Choice was one factor, but the other was that Counterattack ran 27 times in three years, so he was tough. Also it was a question of quality, because the Australians maybe have the best sprinters in the world. Last but not least, on his dam side, he is a brother to two Group 1 winners. The fact also that he is out of a Snippets mare made it more and more exciting.”

Along with See Hector, potential forthcoming runners for Counterattack in Classics in Germany and Italy include Pirouz, Open Skies (Ger), and Zandjan (Ger), who broke his maiden in Munich on Saturday. 

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