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Park Glory For No Nay Never’s Wichita

Rebounding from a rare below-par effort when eighth in the 6 1/2-furlong G1 Prix Maurice de Gheest at Deauville Aug. 9, Ballydoyle’s Wichita (Ire) (No Nay Never) was in battling mood on Saturday as he edged out One Master (GB) (Fastnet Rock {Aus}) in Doncaster’s G2 bet365 Park S. Well-supported into 11-4 favouritism, the bay who was so close to winning the G1 2000 Guineas was in front of two others racing far side under Frankie Dettori throughout the early stages. Gaining the advantage passing the furlong pole, he had to dig deep as One Master thrusted late and was behind a stride before the line but had his nose down where it mattered to score by a short head. Molatham (GB) (Night of Thunder {Ire}) was two lengths away in third in a strong renewal which puts the winner back in the winner’s spot for the first time since the G3 Somerville Tattersall S. a year ago. “He was a bit lazy after getting rid of the two on either side, but Tom [Marquand] came very quick at me. It was hard to tell if we’d won, but he’s a lovely horse who deserved it.”

Coming back to the track at which he was second to Molatham in the Listed Flying Scotsman S. 12 months earlier, Wichita was gaining compensation for a neck defeat by Kameko (Kitten’s Joy) in the June 6 Newmarket Classic. Also third in Royal Ascot’s G1 St James’s Palace S. June 20 and fifth in the G1 Sussex S. at Goodwood July 29 before his below-par Maurice de Gheest effort, he has become a regular mount for Dettori who added, “He was a bit flat at Deauville last time, but he was fresh today. He’s been a model of consistency and I’m pleased that he put his head in front today. I think seven furlongs is spot-on for him.”

Wichita is the last known foal out of the listed scorer Lumiere Noire (Fr) (Dashing Blade {GB}), who is a half-sister to the GI Manhattan H. hero Desert Blanc (GB) (Desert Style {Ire}). Their dam Lumiere Rouge (Fr) (Indian Ridge {Ire}) is a half-sister to the G2 Criterium de Maisons-Laffitte winner and G1 Grand Criterium and G1 Premio Vittorio di Capua runner-up Signe Divin (Bering {GB}), while the family also features the G1 Prix de l’Opera heroine Satwa Queen (Fr) (Muhtathir {GB}). She is the second dam of this year’s G1 Phoenix S. hero Lucky Vega (Ire) (Lope de Vega {Ire}) who could bring up a notable double for the family in Sunday’s G1 Goffs Vincent O’Brien National S. This is also the family of the G1 Criterium de Saint-Cloud-winning sire Spadoun (Fr) (Kaldoun {Fr}) and this year’s Listed Dragon S. winner Gussy Mac (Ire) (Dark Angel {Ire}).

Saturday, Doncaster, Britain
BET365 PARK S.-G2, £80,000, Doncaster, 9-12, 3yo/up, 7f 6yT, 1:25.12, gd.
1–WICHITA (IRE), 126, c, 3, by No Nay Never
1st Dam: Lumiere Noire (Fr) (SW-Ger, $107,446), by Dashing Blade (GB)
2nd Dam: Lumiere Rouge (Fr), by Indian Ridge (Ire)
3rd Dam: Lumen Dei, by Raise a Native
(140,000gns Ylg ’18 TAOCT). O-Derrick Smith, Susan Magnier & Michael Tabor; B-W Maxwell Ervine (IRE); T-Aidan O’Brien; J-Lanfranco Dettori. £45,368. Lifetime Record: MG1SP-Eng, 9-3-2-2, $297,342. Werk Nick Rating: A++. Click for the eNicks report & 5-cross pedigree.
2–One Master (GB), 127, m, 6, Fastnet Rock (Aus)–Enticing (Ire), by Pivotal (GB). O-Lael Stable; B-Lael Stables (GB); T-William Haggas. £17,200.
3–Molatham (GB), 126, c, 3, Night of Thunder (Ire)–Cantal (GB), by Pivotal (GB). (160,000gns Ylg ’18 TAOCT). O-Sheikh Hamdan bin Rashid Al Maktoum; B-Cheveley Park Stud Ltd (GB); T-Roger Varian. £8,608.
Margins: NO, 2, NK. Odds: 2.75, 3.50, 3.00.
Also Ran: Urban Icon (GB), Limato (Ire), Shine So Bright (GB), Breathtaking Look (GB), Marie’s Diamond (Ire). Click for the Racing Post result or the free Equineline.com catalogue-style pedigree. Video, sponsored by Fasig-Tipton.

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PR Special Keeneland September: What Equine Lending Can Tell Us About The State Of The Marketplace

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In a whirlwind month for the auction season, the industry's attention now turns to Keeneland for the marathon September Yearling Sale, and the Paulick Report has what you need to read in the preview edition of the PR Special.

In this edition, bloodstock editor Joe Nevills examines equine financial lending, how it has changed since the last boom of the mid-2000s and the subsequent market crash, and what the activity that lenders have seen in the midst of COVID-19 uncertainties can tell us about the current direction of the Thoroughbred economy.

Walker Hancock of Claiborne Farm answers questions about veteran sire First Samurai in the latest Stallion Spotlight, then Bryce Burton of Muirfield Insurance discusses what to do and what to know if your Thoroughbred is being transported to the veterinary clinic for an emergency.

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Fastnet Rock’s Monday Makes All in the Ingabelle

Coolmore’s once-raced Monday (Fastnet Rock {Aus}), who posted a Sept. 3 debut fourth over this seven-furlong trip at Punchestown in her only prior start, stepped forward to shed maiden status in Saturday’s Listed Ballylinch Stud Irish EBF Ingabelle S. at Leopardstown. She was smartly away from an inside gate and dictated at a modest tempo along the fence after the initial strides of this black-type bow. Unflustered until scrubbed along off the home turn, the 12-1 chance refused to buckle and kept on strongly under a final-furlong drive to hold No Speak Alexander (Ire) (Shalaa {Ire}) by 3/4-of-a-length with A Taad Moody (Ire) (Awtaad {Ire}) 1 1/2 lengths back in third.

“She’s the first foal out of Ballydoyle and we thought she was very nice the first day, but she just found Punchestown a bit unusual around those bends,” explained winning trainer Aidan O’Brien. “She probably learned a lot the first day, the ground is lovely and she learned a good bit more today. I’d say she won’t have any problem stepping up quick to a Group race. The [G1 Prix Marcel] Boussac at ParisLongchamp], the [G1] Fillies’ Mile [at Newmarket] and all those races will be open to her.”

Monday, half-sister to a yearling colt by War Front and a weanling filly by Justify, is the first of three foals out of G1 Prix Marcel Boussac heroine Ballydoyle (Ire) (Galileo {Ire}), herself a full-sister to MG1SW distaffer Misty For Me (Ire) and MGSP Listed Hurry Harriet S. victress Twirl (Ire). Misty For Me produced three pattern-race winners, most notably MG1SW sire U S Navy Flag (War Front) and three-time Group 1 winner Roly Poly (War Front), and her unraced dam Butterfly Cove (Storm Cat) is a full-sister to G3 Leopardstown 1000 Guineas Trial S. winner Kamarinskaya and a half to MG1SW sire Fasliyev (Nureyev).

Saturday, Leopardstown, Ireland
BALLYLINCH STUD IRISH EBF INGABELLE S.-Listed, €100,000, Leopardstown, 9-12, 2yo, f, 7fT, 1:28.27, gd.
1–MONDAY, 128, f, 2, by Fastnet Rock (Aus)
1st Dam: Ballydoyle (Ire) (Hwt. 2yo Filly-Fr, G1SW-Fr, GSW & G1SP-Ire, G1SP-Eng, $538,223), by Galileo (Ire)
2nd Dam: Butterfly Cove, by Storm Cat
3rd Dam: Mr. P’s Princess, by Mr. Prospector
1ST BLACK-TYPE WIN. O-Michael Tabor, Derrick Smith & Susan Magnier; B-Chelston, Orpendale & Wynatt (KY); T-Aidan O’Brien; J-Seamus Heffernan. €60,000. Lifetime Record: 2-1-0-0, $71,992.
2–No Speak Alexander (Ire), 128, f, 2, Shalaa (Ire)–Rapacity Alexander (Ire), by Dandy Man (Ire). (€190,000 RNA Ylg ’19 GOFOR). O-Charles O’Callaghan, Noel O’Callaghan & Paul O’Callaghan; B-Mount Armstrong Stud. (IRE); T-Jessica Harrington. €20,000.
3–A Taad Moody (Ire), 128, f, 2, Awtaad (Ire)–Princess Mood (Ger), by Muhtarram. (58,000gns RNA Wlg ’18 TATFOA). O-Mrs Lynne Lyons & Louise Lyons; B-Joann Lyons (IRE); T-Ger Lyons. €10,000.
Margins: 3/4, 1HF, HF. Odds: 12.00, 5.50, 8.50.
Also Ran: Vario (GB), More Beautiful, Sister Rosetta (Ire), Earth Strike (Ire), Allagar (Ire), New Emerald Bay (Ire), Sweet Gardenia (GB), Keeper of Time (Ire). Scratched: Miramis (Ire), Star Image (GB). Click for the Racing Post result.

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Wootton Bassett’s Chindit Strikes In the Champagne

Michael Pescod’s Chindit (Ire) (Wootton Bassett {GB}) was two-for-two and the pick on form entering Saturday’s G2 bet365 Champagne S. at Doncaster and he emerged with that tally extended after ousting TDN Rising Star Albasheer (Ire) (Shamardal) for the prize. Successful in a strong renewal of the Listed Pat Eddery S. over this seven-furlong trip at Ascot last time July 25, the Richard Hannon trainee was anchored in rear early by a confident Pat Dobbs with the pace ahead searching and honest. Always travelling best looming down the outside of the pack towards the stands, the 15-8 second favourite had to accelerate to challenge Shadwell’s 7-4 market-leader at the furlong pole and outstay that rival to score by a length. Albasheer clung on to second from State of Rest (Ire) (Starspangledbanner {Aus}) by a short head as they pulled 7 1/2 lengths clear of the impressive Newmarket novice scorer Mujbar (GB) (Muhaarar {GB}). “We always felt that this horse was tip-top and Pat [Dobbs] rides him at home and was in no doubt how good he thinks he is,” commented the trainer, who was capturing a third renewal since 2014. “He had to come over to find the race today, to where the other two were and he got there quite easily. I thought the first two travelled well and the first three were a long way clear of the fourth.”

Chindit had beaten Alablaq (Ire) (Lope de Vega {Ire}) by 1 3/4 lengths on debut over this course and distance July 5 and there was a direct line to Albasheer as a result, with that runner-up also finishing 6 1/2 lengths adrift of Shadwell’s exciting prospect on the day of the Pat Eddery. In that contest, Chindit took a leap forward when beating the subsequent Listed Stonehenge S. winner Cobh (Ire) (Kodi Bear {Ire}), the Convivial Maiden winner and G3 Prix la Rochette third Naval Crown (GB) (Dubawi {Ire}) and the Listed Washington Singer S. scorer Saint Lawrence (Ire) (Al Kazeem {GB}). Albasheer did not appear to have any excuse in defeat here and this confirmed the upward trajectory of the winner. “That’s probably the best two-year-old race of the season so far. The second is a very good horse and the third obviously is,” Hannon added. “To find a very good horse like him with a good temperament is something you don’t get every year. This is another step up and it’s on to the [G1] Dewhurst, hopefully. That’s the plan at the moment. That’s the big race of the year and that is where we’re heading, along with [the G3 Solario S. winner] Etonian (Ire) (Olympic Glory {Ire}). His attitude and the way he behaves gives him every chance of being a horse for the 2000 Guineas–he does look a miler.”

Chindit is the first foal out of Always a Dream (GB) (Oasis Dream {GB}), a granddaughter of the listed-winning Out West (Gone West) whose claim to form was producing the G1 Epsom Derby and G1 Racing Post Trophy hero and successful sire Motivator (GB) and his G2 Hardwicke S.-winning full-brother Macarthur (GB) who was also third in the G1 Coronation Cup. Out West is kin to the GI Haskell Invitational H. and GI San Fernando S.-winning sire Wavering Monarch (Majestic Light). Always a Dream’s yearling colt by Awtaad (Ire) is due to sell at next month’s Tattersalls October Yearling Sale Book 2.

Saturday, Doncaster, Britain
BET365 CHAMPAGNE S.-G2, £60,000, Doncaster, 9-12, 2yo, c/g, 7f 6yT, 1:24.21, gd.
1–CHINDIT (IRE), 126, c, 2, by Wootton Bassett (GB)
1st Dam: Always A Dream (GB), by Oasis Dream (GB)
2nd Dam: Always Remembered (Ire), by Galileo (Ire)
3rd Dam: Out West, by Gone West
1ST GROUP WIN. (65,000gns Ylg ’19 TATOCT). O-Michael Pescod; B-JC Bloodstock & R Mahon (IRE); T-Richard Hannon; J-Pat Dobbs. £35,520. Lifetime Record: 3-3-0-0, $65,129. Werk Nick Rating: A. Click for the eNicks report & 5-cross pedigree.
2–Albasheer (Ire), 126, c, 2, Shamardal–Mutebah (Ire), by Marju (Ire). O-Sheikh Hamdan bin Rashid Al Maktoum; B-Shadwell Estate Company Ltd (IRE); T-Owen Burrows. £13,434.
3–State of Rest (Ire), 126, c, 2, Starspangledbanner (Aus)–Repose, by Quiet American. (45,000gns Wlg ’18 TATFOA; 60,000gns Ylg ’19 TATOCT). O-Long Wait Two Partnership; B-Tinnakill Bloodstock Ltd (IRE); T-Joseph O’Brien. £6,714.
Margins: 1, NO, 7HF. Odds: 1.88, 1.75, 6.50.
Also Ran: Mujbar (GB), Devious Company (Ire), Saint Lawrence (Ire), Broxi (Ire). Click for the Racing Post result or the free Equineline.com catalogue-style pedigree. Video, sponsored by Fasig-Tipton.

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