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Earthlight on Track for Jean Prat Return

Andre Fabre’s unbeaten Earthlight (Ire) (Shamardal) is eyeing a return in the July 12 G1 Prix Jean Prat, after a minor sprain kept him on the bench instead of contesting the G3 Prix de Fontainebleau last month. The Godolphin runner will have a gallop at Saint-Cloud next week. Having won all five races at two, including two Group 1s, Earthlight was prominent through the winter in the betting for the G1 English 2000 Guineas.

“He’s doing ok, he’s back in work,” said Fabre. “He’s going to go to Saint-Cloud next week for a public workout, just because we don’t really have any other option. We’re looking to run him in the Prix Jean Prat, that is the aim with him.

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Kingman’s Palace Pier Best In the St James’s Palace

Frankie is on fire again at his favourite venue and he took the final day of Royal Ascot by storm as he steered TDN Rising Star Palace Pier (GB) (Kingman {GB}) to success in the G1 St James’s Palace S. Settled just behind the frantic pace early, Sheikh Hamdan bin Mohammed Al Maktoum’s unbeaten 4-1 shot came wide off the turn and in the last half furlong saw off Pinatubo (Ire) (Shamardal) and Wichita (Ire) (No Nay Never) by a length and a head.

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Sea the Stars’s Fanny Logan Takes the Hardwicke

There was a surprise in Friday’s G2 Hardwicke S., as the 4-year-old filly Fanny Logan (Ire) (Sea the Stars {Ire}) rolled back the years as a Frankie Dettori-ridden Royal Ascot winner in Sheikh Mohammed’s vintage maroon-and-white silks. Runner-up in Haydock’s G3 Pinnacle S. over this mile-and-a-half trip last time June 7, last year’s G3 Darley Pride S. winner who campaigns under the Sheikha Al Jalila Racing banner was reserved in rear early off the honest tempo. Launched wide in the straight, the 17-2 shot struck the front approaching the furlong pole and stayed on strongly to beat Alounak (Fr) (Camelot {GB}) by 2 1/2 lengths, with 1 3/4 lengths back to Defoe (Ire) (Dalakhani {Ire}) in third.

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Godolphin Cadets on Parade at Headquarters

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. Thursday’s Insights features a full-sister to MG1SW Wild Illusion (GB) (Dubawi {Ire}).

1.30 Newmarket, Mdn, £6,400, 2yo, 7fT
YIBIR (GB) (Dubawi {Ire}), due postward in a first-time hood for this debut, is kin to three stakes performers headed by full-sister Wild Illusion (GB), who annexed the G1 Prix Marcel Boussac, G1 Nassau S. and G1 Prix de l’Opera for Charlie Appleby. Opening up for the same trainer here, he is joined by stablemate and fellow Godolphin homebred Master of the Seas (Ire) (Dubawi {Ire}), who is half to a quartet of black-type performers including the stakes-winning G1 St James’s Palace S. runner-up Latharnach (Iffraaj {GB}), another former Appleby trainee. Opposition also includes Teme Valley 2’s hitherto unraced Legion of Honour (GB) (Wootton Bassett {GB}), who is a Roger Varian-trained £280,000 Goffs UK Premier yearling from the family of G1 Prix Maurice de Gheest-winning millionaire Brando (GB) (Pivotal {GB}).

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