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Delmotte On The Trail Of Classic Glory

Every owner starting out in racing will have big dreams. That said, when José Delmotte first took a share in a racehorse more than 25 years ago, he may not have allowed his mind to wander as far as one day being the breeder of Europe's champion 2-year-old.

But that is where the Frenchman now finds himself. That one share led to a horse in training, followed by a few more, then some broodmares, the purchase of a farm in France's Orne region, and now that famous graduate of his Haras d'Haspel: Native Trail (GB) (Oasis Dream {GB}).

Godolphin's unbeaten Cartier Champion Two-Year-Old Colt of 2021 bears a British suffix as his dam Needleleaf (GB) (Observatory) was in the country to foal ahead of her 2019 visit to Kingman (GB). That latter mating made a lot of sense as the unraced Needleleaf, bought by Delmotte on the advice of his friend and bloodstock advisor Marc-Antoine Berghgracht, is a Juddmonte-bred full-sister to two Group winners, African Rose (GB) and Helleborine (GB). The latter had already produced an early star for Kingman in the young Coolmore sire Calyx (GB).

In fact both sisters are black-type producers as the G1 Haydock Sprint Cup winner African Rose is the dam of Fair Eva (GB), a first-crop stakes winner for Frankel (GB) when landing the G3 Princess Margaret Juddmonte S. on her second start. In hindsight, signing for the 2-year-old Needleleaf for 60,000gns in December 2015 now looks like an excellent bit of business.

“I like buying from Juddmonte. They are the best breeders in the world in my opinion and since I have been working with Marc-Antoine, that is for the past six years, we have always looked at their draft,” Delmotte told TDN during Arqana's Breeding Stock Sale in Deauville in December.

Arqana was also the scene for another of the breeder's highly memorable moments of 2021 back in August when Native Trail's Kingman half-sister sold through the Haras d'Haspel draft for €950,000. It will come as no surprise that the buyer was Godolphin's agent Anthony Stroud, who earlier in the year had signed for Native Trail at the Tattersalls Craven Breeze-up for 210,000gns. It was the colt's third sale of his short lifetime, with Delmotte having sold him as a foal to Sam Sangster for €50,000, who then reoffered him as a Book 1 yearling for 67,000gns at October Book 1, where he was bought by Mags O'Toole and Norman Williamson to go breezing.

Needleleaf's first two living offspring have clearly been given a collective thumbs-up from a range of experienced horse folk and she has swiftly risen to become the star of Haras d'Haspel's band of 50 mares.

Delmotte recalled his first encounter with the mare in Newmarket. He said, “There was this unraced 2-year-old filly, a sister to two Group winners which had been retained by Juddmonte to breed from. So it seemed logical for them to sell [Needleleaf] as she wasn't as talented as her sisters and they already had several mares from the same family. I bought her because of her Group-winning relatives and also because of her sire [Observatory]. I liked the fact that his bloodlines were quite different from those you normally find in Europe, so I thought she would be easy to mate.”

He added, “We had some misfortune with her as her first foal, who was a magnificent Siyouni (Fr) filly, died a few months after birth. But the following foal was Native Trail and he has secured his place in the history books, which is amazing.”

Despite that early setback, Needleleaf's broodmare career has been relatively plain sailing since then. It didn't take long for Native Trail to start dropping massive hints as to his ability. Two months after the breeze-up sale, he won on debut at Sandown and followed up a month later with victory in the G2 Superlative S. at Newmarket's July Course. With his sister then signed up to the Godolphin team from the August Sale, he went on to enhance both their pedigrees further still, with back-to-back Group 1 wins in the Goffs Vincent O'Brien National S. at the Curragh followed by the Darley Dewhurst S., earning himself a closing mark for his 2-year-old season of 122. The winter favourite for the 2000 Guineas is safely tucked up at Charlie Appleby's Godolphin base at Moulton Paddocks, where his breeder paid him a visit during the December Sales.

“I would like to take this opportunity to thank Godolphin as they bought his sister from me and welcomed us, with Marc-Antoine and a few friends, to their private training centre in Newmarket and we were treated like royalty,” said Delmotte. “We were allowed to see and hold Native Trail and we had a very open, no-filter discussion with Charlie Appleby about his future plans. It was great, they were so kind to us.”

With Frankel having already worked well with her family, Needleleaf is currently in foal to his young son Cracksman (GB) and she has a yearling filly by Siyouni. Now nine, the mare is one of around 15 that Delmotte will send from France to either Britain or Ireland this covering season, and in Needleleaf's case it will be to Newmarket for a date with Dubawi (Ire).

“I had to! It is not our usual strategy but I had to give her an exceptional mating,” said Delmotte. “We continue to upgrade our broodmare band but I don't want to go crazy. I don't want to spend €500-600,000 on a broodmare. I try to invest in good families and then work very hard on matings. I prefer to use proven sires, that is why I sent Needleleaf to Oasis Dream. I like him and find that he suits a lot of European bloodlines. I try to remain sensible.”

The 300-hectare Haras d'Haspel, based in good breeding country between Haras du Logis and Haras de Montaigu, was also associated with some Classic names during 2021. Berghgracht's MAB Agency signed for a filly foal by The Wow Signal (Ire) for €24,000 from the 2018 Arqana Breeding Stock Sale and, reoffered the following August, she was sold by Haras d'Haspel for €40,000 to Jean-Claude Rouget, for whose stable she won last year's G1 Poule d'Essai des Pouliches.

Furthermore, the Dalakhani (Ire) mare Biancarosa (Ire) is a boarder at Haspel for Teruya Yoshida, owner/breeder of Tokyo Gold (Fr) (Kendargent {FR}), who was born and raised at the farm and won the G2 Derby Italiano in 2021 for Chantilly-based trainer Satoshi Kobayashi. Delmotte also enjoyed a homebred stakes winner of his own in the Fabrice Chappet-trained Bel Aristo (Fr) (New Approach {Ire}), a progressive stayer whom he races in partnership with Antoine Gilibert. Meanwhile on the National Hunt side, the unbeaten Jonbon (Fr) (Walk In The Park {Ire}), a full-brother to Douvan (Fr) who set a new record price for a point-to-pointer when sold for £570,000 at Goffs UK in 2020, was born and raised at the stud for breeder Lotfi Kohli.

“I have always loved horses. My business is in property development and one of my agents had racehorses. I bought a share with him some 25 years ago and ending up owning the horse outright,” Delmotte recalled.

“That's how I started. I had racehorses, then kept a few broodmares and bought a property to keep the horses. My daughter and her husband were involved in dressage, she was working in a company but wasn't very happy there and what she really loved was horses, so I bought her a farm.”

What started out as a family passion has resulted in one of the most exciting horses in training in Europe, and though Native Trail has already achieved plenty, naturally his breeder's thoughts have now turned to the Classic season ahead.

He added, “His trainer told us he that is a very laidback horse, and I think he can be a very, very good 3-year-old. If you look at his last race, he just kept lengthening his stride to the finish line. He was truly awesome in the final furlong. It is a dream for me. I am pinching myself.”

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Haspel On Trail Of Success

DEAUVILLE, France–There were tears of delight from breeder Jose Delmotte and his friend and agent Marc-Antoine Berghgracht following the sale of Delmotte's Kingman (GB) filly (lot 62) for a session-leading €950,000 on Saturday evening at Arqana.

From the Juddmonte family of young sire Calyx (GB), the filly's dam Needleleaf (GB) (Observatory {GB}) was bought as an unraced 2-year-old from the Juddmonte draft at Tattersalls December Sale by Berghgracht six years ago for 60,000gns. The sister to Group 1-winning sprinter African Rose (GB) has already hit the big time with her second foal, Native Trail (GB) (Oasis Dream {GB}), who provided a welcome update to an already strong catalogue page last month by winning the G2 Superlative S. for Godolphin. It was that same outfit that came calling for the statuesque yearling, whose breeding so closely resembles that of G2 Coventry S. winner Calyx, who is by the same sire and is out of another full-sister to Needleleaf, the Group 3 winner Helleborine (GB).

Delmotte, who owns Haras d'Haspel in Normandy and offered just one yearling during the select part of the August Sale, said, “It's a great sale. I heard all the wonderful compliments people were paying her, that she was exceptional, fabulous.”

He added, “Marc-Antoine has always tried to push me in the right direction to try and improve the quality of our mares. And whoever you speak to in the world of bloodstock, they always tell you that the model breeding operation is Juddmonte. So whenever we are at a sale [in Newmarket] we always look to see what they have that corresponds to our needs that might be somewhere near our budget.”

Delmotte sold Native Trail as a foal at the Arqana December Sale for €50,000 and he eventually found his way into Charlie Appleby's stable after being offered as a breezer by Norman Williamson of Oak Tree Farm at the Craven Sale in April.

The breeder continued, “With her brother he was already very big, which is why we sold him as a foal because we were worried that later on he would be the size of a hunter. Of course he ended up eventually being bought by Godolphin and that has worked out very well. It's a wonderful story and it is a story of friendship with Marc-Antoine.”

The agent himself was at first too overcome to speak, but after hugging Delmotte, he added, “It's very emotional because in this profession you have to be able to take the rough with the smooth and Jose has known plenty of setbacks. But now he has this wonderful mare producing these excellent horses, and he also has the sister of St Mark's Basilica (Fr) on his farm as well.”

Berghgracht continued, “It's all about teamwork and he and the team at Haras d'Haspel really deserve this. You never know with horses. He had a filly by Siyouni who knocked herself in her box on Thursday and had to be withdrawn. It can happen at any time. Now he is in the fortunate position of having this wonderful mare who is from a great operation and who is still young. Who knows where she could lead?”

The pandemic-affected 2020 sales season meant that there was no Arqana August Sale last year, but comparing Saturday's figures to those recorded at the same session in 2019 saw a slight rise in the clearance rate to 72% for 57 sold from 79 offered. The average and median were both down, if such a comparison is a fair one, to €202,930 (-29%) and €170,000 (-23%).

Monceaux's Early Splash

An early echo of last year's €2.5 million sale-topper was provided when lot 17 was knocked down at €750,000 an hour into the Arqana August Yearling Sale.

Vendor, buyer and sire were all repeated when Oliver St Lawrence and Fawzi Nass plumped for a Dubawi (Ire) yearling sold by Ecurie des Monceaux. This one was a colt, however, and the dark bay is the second foal of the LNJ Foxwoods homebred G3 Prix Minerve winner Golden Valentine (Fr) (Dalakhani {Ire}), herself out of a half-sister to the Wertheimer brothers' celebrated Goldikova (Ire).

“This lovely Dubawi colt caught our eye at an early stage and the owner was keen to buy him,” said St Lawrence, who confirmed that he will race for the Saudi-based KHK Racing, which part-owns last year's sale-topper, a half-sister to Arc winner Sottsass (Fr) who has been named Pure Dignity (GB).

“He will be trained in the UK,” the agent added.

Bred in partnership by Monceaux and LNJ Foxwoods, the colt is a grandson of the G3 Prix Cleopatre winner Gold Round (Ire), who was bought from the Wertheimer draft carrying Golden Valentine in the same ring in 2012 for €520,000 by Alex Solis. Golden Valentine's first foal is a Galileo (Ire) colt named Shadowfax (GB) who sold for €450,000 at last year's Select Sale and is now in training with John and Thady Gosden in Newmarket under the ownership of Qatar Racing and LNJ Foxwoods.

St Lawrence had his bidding boots on early and also claimed the first Roaring Lion yearling to pass through the ring in Europe for €140,000. Lot 4 was offered by Haras d'Etreham and is out of the Pivotal (GB) mare Every Time (GB) from the immediate family of G1 Moyglare Stud S winner Cursory Glance (Distorted Humour) and Digital Age (Ire) (Invincible Spirit {Ire}), a Grade I winner on the American turf for Chad Brown.

Ecurie des Monceaux, which ended the session as leading vendor by aggregate with 15 sold for €3,357,000, was also responsible for the third-top lot of the session, a filly by the late champion sire Galileo (Ire) out of the listed-placed Johannesburg mare Militante (Ire).

“They've stopped making Galileos and he has been such a world-changing sire,” lamented David Redvers after signing for the chestnut half-sister to the G3 Prix de Lieurey winner Wind Chimes (GB) (Mastercraftsman {Ire}) at €600,000.

He added of lot 56, who was bought for Qatar Racing, “She is strong and correct–everything we want in a filly to add to our broodmare band–and I thought she was good value at that price. She has come off the best farm in France and she will remain in France to be trained.”

From Trotting To Galloping

Florent Fonteyne of Trotting Bloodstock had a productive five minutes when buying consecutive lots from the Haras de Colleville draft for €220,000 and €380,000. The fillies are both daughters of the young Colleville resident and leading sophomore sire Galiway (GB), with the latter, lot 31, being a full-sister to the G1 Prix Jean-Luc Lagaradere winner and this season's G1 Prix du Jockey Club runner-up Sealiway (Fr).

“We were very keen to buy from France's leading breeder Guy Pariente and it is possible he may keep a share in the fillies,” said the young agent, who noted that he was acting on behalf of owners Thomas Lines and Ronan Kerdraon, who race as SARL Groupe KR and have 12 horses in training. The partnership began its involvement in Thoroughbred racing just two years ago, having had a previous involvement in trotting.

He added, “The clients have sent mares to Galiway and are fans of the stallion.”

Sealiway's sister has already been named Seagala (Fr) by her breeder and she is a daughter of the listed Prix Herod winner Kensea (Fr), who is by Galiway's stud-mate Kendargent (Fr).

She followed into the ring a filly bred on exactly the same Galiway-Kendargent cross who is also a sister to group winner and out of a group-winning mare. In the case of lot 30, she is a sibling to another smart juvenile in Kenway (Fr), winner of the G3 Prix La Rochette, and a daughter of the G3 Prix Eclipse winner Kendam (Fr), who was also third in the G1 Prix de la Foret. If a formula works, why not repeat it?

Trio For Godolphin

Anthony Stroud and David Loder, in Deauville on behalf of Sheikh Mohammed and in the company of trainer Charlie Appleby, were the leading buyers in the name of Godolphin with three yearlings bought for €1,500,000. The majority of that tally was accounted for by the day's top lot, but they also signed for lot 68, a Lope De Vega colt bred and consigned by Ballylinch Stud.

The chestnut, bought for €350,000, is the first foal of Normandel (Fr) (Le Havre {Ire}), who won a listed race in the colours of her breeder Gerard Augustin-Normand when trained by Pia Brandt and later won the G3 Park Express S. for Ballylinch and Jim Bolger.

Normandel is a full-sister to La Pyle (Fr), whose son Pyledriver (GB) (Harbour Watch {GB}) won this season's G1 Coronation Cup, and a half-sibling to Augustin-Normand's G1 Grand Prix de Paris winner Mont Ormel (Fr) (Air Chief Marshal {Ire}).

The colt was one of two by Lope De Vega bought by Godolphin on Saturday, along with lot 10, another first foal, this one out of dual winner Front Contender (Ire) (Teofilo {Ire}) and bought for €200,000 from La Motteraye Consignment.

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Arqana Back In Business With August Highlight

DEAUVILLE, France–As the first full day of showing got underway for Arqana's August Yearling Sale, the sales grounds gradually filled as visitors arrived from Britain and Ireland, along with a planeload of agents and owners who came straight to Normandy from Saratoga.

As if to welcome France's premier sale back to its rightful slot in the calendar, the sun also made an appearance as Arqana prepared to bring the curtain up on the European yearling season. The three-day auction begins its run on Saturday, with two select evening sessions after racing concludes next door at the Hippodrome La Touques followed by Monday's 1pm kick-off for the final, longer session.

Last year's edition, rebranded as the Select Sale when pandemic restrictions meant it had to be postponed to September, was as ebullient as any of its August predecessors and featured three seven-figure yearlings, led by Ecurie des Monceaux's predictable headline-grabber, the Dubawi (Ire) half-sister to Arc winner Sottsass (Fr) (Siyouni {Fr}) and multiple Grade 1 winner Sistercharlie (Ire) (Myboycharlie {Ire}), who sold for €2.5 million. Now known as Pure Dignity (GB), the chestnut filly is in training in Newmarket with Roger Varian for HH Shaikh Nasser Al Khalifa and KHK Racing.

There is no yearling from her illustrious dam Starlet's Sister (Ire) (Galileo {Ire}) in the catalogue this year, but we can once again expect the team behind Ecurie des Monceaux to play a leading role at France's premier yearling auction. Its 38-strong draft will be one of the first to take to the ring when it offers lot 3, a Lope De Vega (Ire) half-brother to the G1 Haskell Invitational winner Coil (Point Given) and G1 Hollywood Derby winner Chiropractor (Kitten's Joy).

The Lepeudry family's Elevage de Tourgeville has been well represented by graduates on the international stage in recent years including the likeable Lord Glitters (Fr) (Whipper) and G1 Prix Marcel Boussac winner Lily's Candle (Fr) (Style Vendome {Fr}), and the latter's half-sister by Frankel (GB) appears early in the Saturday session as lot 16.

“This is the diamond for us, there are not many chances to have a Frankel around the farm,” said Felix Lepeudry, who returned to his family's stud in January following stints in Newmarket as assistant trainer to both Roger Varian and Marco Botti.”

Further top-class claims close-up in the family are made by Lys Gracieux (Jpn) (Heart's Cry {Jpn}), whose four Group/Grade 1 wins include the Arima Kinen and the Cox Plate and who shares her grandam, the Tourgeville foundation mare Miller's Lily (Fr), with this filly.

In yard B, an elegant grey daughter of Galileo (Ire) drew plenty of admirers, and it was not just for the fact that she is one of four yearlings by the late champion sire. Lot 120, offered by her breeder Haras de Montaigu, is also a half-sister to the 2017 Derby winner Wings Of Eagles (Ire), and she is not the only sibling to a Classic winner catalogued for this weekend. Haras du Logis St Germain presents lot 111, a Ribchester (Ire) half-sister to the farm's 2020 G1 Poule d'Essai des Pouliches winner Dream And Do (Ire) (Siyouni {Fr}), who is now among the broodmare band at Japan's Northern Farm and is also from the immediate family of treble Group 1-winning miler Charm Spirit (Ire).

Just a few doors down from the Ribchester filly in T yard is a Kingman (GB) filly (lot 62) bred by Jose Delmotte's Haras d'Haspel who boasts one of the best updates in the book. The statuesque filly is the third foal of the Observatory (GB) mare Needleleaf (GB), a sister to Juddmonte's G1 Haycock Sprint Cup winner African Rose (GB), and is a half-sister to Godolphin's recent G2 Superlative S winner Native Trail (GB) (Oasis Dream {GB}).

Among a slightly larger and well presented draft from Ballylinch Stud is one of the sale's rarities, a filly by Shadai Stud's Lord Kanaloa (JPN), whose offspring include the outstanding dual G1 Japan Cup and G1 Tenno Sho victrix Almond Eye (JPN). In early as lot 19, the Merry Fox Stud-bred filly is the second foal of the GIII Robert G Dick Memorial S winner Guilty Twelve (Giant's Causeway), whose first foal is a filly by Deep Impact (JPN).

Arqana's Freddy Powell, who flew back in with the American clients from Saratoga on Wednesday, pointed to the diversity of this year's catalogue. He said, “Our advertising campaign says 'More than just business as usual', and we really feel we have a very strong band of horses. There are a lot of new families in the catalogue–pedigrees that we are not usually selling in Deauville–and I think that is a wonderful advertisement for the investment of the French breeders over the last few years.”

He added, “Of course there are the big names like Etreham and Monceaux but there are a number of other farms who have invested to buy mares and fillies and they are sending them to good stallions around Europe. We are all quite excited about it.

We had about 55 people on the plane, including around 25 American agents or owners. Travelling has not been fun in the last year and we wanted to make it easy for everyone, to create some positive dynamism and make it easier for people to invest.”

Free Robert!

Following Hubie de Burgh's tale in yesterday's TDN of the prominent bloodstock agent who was thrown in the clink overnight some years ago for flicking the vees at the flics, Robert Nataf decided to out himself as the agent in question and provided a clarification of the story.

“I actually did it twice, each time the police drove past, and then I hid under the table,” he recalled of the incident which took place 21 years ago. “Then Paul Webber told them where I was hiding and they took me away.”

Nataf even has a fond memento of his run in with the law framed in his office after Webber launched a 'Free Robert' campaign and got his colleagues to sign up to the cause.

Listening in to the account, Charlie Gordon-Watson promised an even more lurid story for tomorrow's TDN. Watch this space.

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Oasis Dream’s Native Trail Adds To Appleby’s Superlative Tally

It was a case of another G2 Superlative S., another win for Godolphin and Charlie Appleby as Native Trail (GB) (Oasis Dream {GB}) managed to overhaul Dhabab (Ire) (No Nay Never) and hold on from Masekela (Ire) (El Kabeir) in a pulsating renewal of the seven-furlong Newmarket juvenile staging post on Saturday. Looking more of a stayer than the stable's prior three winners of this since 2016 when scoring by four lengths on debut over this trip at Sandown June 11, the 210,000gns Tattersalls Craven Breeze-Up purchase needed excess stamina as he was left adrift of the action when the crunch came. Along with Masekela, the 11-4 second favourite had to come from the group racing up the centre to chase the likely winner Dhabab, who had cut loose under Frankie Dettori towards the far rail inside the final two furlongs. Organising himself on the start of the climb to the line, the bay eventually overhauled that 9-5 favourite close home and got to the post a short head before the surging Masekela. Dhabab, who looked a non-stayer in the final yards, was 1 1/2 lengths behind in third. “I was very impressed. He's a very imposing horse and I loved him the first time I saw him,” winning jockey William Buick commented. “He's a very raw horse, but when he had something to race against he kept finding more. The guys at the yard would know a lot better than me, but what I do know is that he's very good with all his work and you can't throw enough at him. He's just a lovely horse.”

Appleby went to the G1 Goffs Vincent O'Brien National S. with his last two winners of this, the Dubawi (Ire) pair of Quorto (Ire) and Master of the Seas (Ire), and it could be that The Curragh's Sept. 12 juvenile highlight is the target for Native Trail. “It's a bit of a trodden path now that I like to go to Ireland and have a go over there and the ground will suit him,” he said. “We'll look towards the National Stakes and I think potentially onto something like the [G1] Futurity Trophy [at Doncaster Oct. 23] or the [Oct. 3 G1] Prix Jean-Luc Lagardere [at ParisLongchamp] after that.”

“He was strong at the line and I think we saw that at Sandown really,” he added. “He's obviously a nice horse to ride through a race, because he goes through his gears smoothly and we saw that on his first start and I feel we've seen that again today. I won't go as far to say I was confident that we'd win, but the way the race was developing I knew he'd be doing things the right way round and hit the line strong. He was a breeze-up horse, so he will have a bit of experience put to him early doors. He's a very laid-back character though and this was a good achievement today, but I feel when he steps up in trip in time we will see a good bit of improvement again. My only concern coming into today was the quick ground–we know that Oasis Dreams are better on a sounder surface, but he's a big unit and has some big feet on him so a little bit of ease in the ground won't do him any harm. One of the first things William said when he jumped off him is that he will be a lovely three year old next year.”

Masekela was denied a clear run and therefore could be described as an unlucky loser, but trainer Andrew Balding was happy that he had put his fifth in the June 19 Listed Chesham S. behind him. “That was good to see,” he said. “I thought he would run a big race in the Chesham when we stepped him up to seven furlongs for the first time, but he just couldn't handle that deep ground. Today was much more like it and he looks an exciting horse. It was nice to see him come back to form like that and hit the line well. He will stay further in the future, but I think we stick at seven for the time being. He is a big, fine horse that I don't want to over-race this year. We will just take a deep breath now and work out a plan.”

Native Trail is the second live foal and first runner out of the unraced Juddmonte cast-off Needleleaf (GB) (Observatory), a full-sister to the G1 Haydock Sprint Cup heroine African Rose (GB) and the G3 Prix d'Aumale winner and G1 Prix Marcel Boussac runner-up Helleborine (GB) who cost the MAB Agency just 60,000gns at the 2015 Tattersalls December Mares Sale. African Rose produced the G3 Princess Margaret S. winner Fair Eva (GB) (Frankel {GB}), while Helleborine was responsible for the G2 Coventry S. winner and exciting young sire Calyx (GB) (Kingman {GB}) so this was very much a case of keeping up the family tradition where the dam is concerned.

The second dam New Orchid (Quest For Fame {GB}) was third in the G3 Lancashire Oaks and is a daughter of Musicanti (Nijinsky II), who also produced the G1 Dewhurst S. hero and sire Distant Music from a mating with Observatory's sire Distant View. Musicanti is kin to the GI Jockey Club Gold Cup, GI Washington D.C. International and GI Suburban H.-winning champion Vanlandingham (Cox's Ridge) and to the dams of the GII Keeneland Turf Mile and G2 Prix Eugene Adam-winning sire Kirkwall (GB) (Selkirk) and to the GI American Oaks heroine Funny Moon (Malibu Moon). From the family of the GI Belmont S. hero and sire Temperence Hill, Needleleaf's yearling filly is by Kingman (GB) while she also has a filly foal by Siyouni (Fr).

Saturday, Newmarket, Britain
BET365 SUPERLATIVE S.-G2, £90,000, Newmarket, 7-10, 2yo, 7fT, 1:25.37, g/f.
1–NATIVE TRAIL (GB), 127, c, 2, by Oasis Dream (GB)
1st Dam: Needleleaf (GB), by Observatory
2nd Dam: New Orchid, by Quest for Fame (GB)
3rd Dam: Musicanti, by Nijinsky II
1ST BLACK-TYPE WIN; 1ST GROUP WIN. (€50,000 Wlg '19 ARQDE; 67,000gns Ylg '20 TATOCT; 210,000gns 2yo '21 TATBRE). O-Godolphin; B-Le Haras d'Haspel (GB); T-Charlie Appleby; J-William Buick. £51,039. Lifetime Record: 2-2-0-0, $76,998. Werk Nick Rating: C+. Click for the eNicks report & 5-cross pedigree.
2–Masekela (Ire), 127, c, 2, El Kabeir–Lady's Purse (GB), by Doyen (Ire). (€35,000 Wlg '19 GOFNOV; 30,000gns Ylg '20 TATOCT). O-Mick & Janice Mariscotti; B-Coolawn Stud (IRE); T-Andrew Balding. £19,350.
3–Dhabab (Ire), 127, c, 2, No Nay Never–Habbat Reeh (Ire), by Mastercraftsman (Ire). (£200,000 2yo '21 GOFTY). O-Poseidon Thoroughbred Racing; B-Al Shira'aa Farms SARL (IRE); T-John & Thady Gosden. £9,684.
Margins: NO, 1HF, 3/4. Odds: 2.75, 12.00, 1.80.
Also Ran: Mr McCann (Ire), Great Max (Ire), Austrian Theory (Ire), Mot And The Messer (Ire), Papa Cocktail (Ire), Private Signal (GB). Click for the Racing Post result or the free Equineline.com catalogue-style pedigree.

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