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Observations: Half To Cursory Glance Debuts at Wolves

5.50 Wolverhampton, Novice, £6,800, 2yo, 9f 104y (AWT)
SWEET MEMORIES (IRE) (Sea The Stars {Ire}) is one of two blue-blooded newcomers from the John and Thady Gosden academy, with Lordship Stud responsible for this 680,000gns Book 1 purchase who is a half-sister to the G1 Moyglare Stud S. winner Cursory Glance (Distorted Humor). The other Clarehaven runner is George Strawbridge's filly Cloud Angel (GB) (Frankel {GB}) whose dam is a half to Order Of St George (Ire) (Galileo {Ire}).

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Al Sagar Bullish On Nashwa, Who Will Return Next Year

Veteran owner/breeder Imad Al Sagar is hoping for a positive run from his dual Group 1 winner Nashwa (GB) (Frankel {GB}) in the GI Maker's Mark Breeders' Cup Filly & Mare Turf at Keeneland on Saturday. They bay, who was third in the G1 Cazoo Oaks prior to taking the G1 Prix de Diane in June and the G1 Nassau S. in July, enters the 1 3/16-mile race on the back of a good second-place run in the G1 Prix de l'Opera in October. She will leave from stall three with regular rider Hollie Doyle in the irons.

“I think the distance at the Breeders' Cup will suit her very much,” Al Sagar said. “Nashwa has a very strong cruising speed and a good turn of foot. She demonstrated her speed at Haydock over 1-mile in April, so this trip will suit her and so will the track at Keeneland. I have had two runners previously at the Breeders' Cup. Araafa (Ire) at Churchill Downs in 2006 and Decorated Knight (GB) at Del Mar in 2017. I would go through the roof if Nashwa were to win at the Breeders' Cup. It would make me very happy.”

Of his retained rider Hollie Doyle, who won her first Classic aboard Nashwa in the Diane, he said, “It is a dream for any jockey to win a Classic, so for Hollie to achieve that at 25 made me very happy and proud. Her discipline and love for her job is what makes her so good. Hollie is a very dedicated jockey, and she is very disciplined from all angles, and she loves her job. She is a very positive person. She looks at the positive side of everything and is always looking forward to her next ride. That eagerness for success has paid off.”

The John and Thady Gosden trainee has made all bar one of her seven starts this season, and she will remain in training in 2023.

He added, “I have decided to keep Nashwa in training as a 4-year-old. I think she will be a better filly at four. The whole family thrive with age, and I think she will be stronger next year. We are excited that Blue Diamond Stud will soon have a full sister to Nashwa, with Nashwa's dam Princess Loulou (Ire) currently in foal to Frankel with a filly.”

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Mishriff And Nashwa Primed For Breeders’ Cup Bids

Multiple Group 1-winning duo Mishriff (Ire) (Make Believe {GB}) and Nashwa (GB) (Frankel {Ire}) pleased co-trainers John and Thady Gosden in their final gallops on Friday ahead of the Breeders' Cup at Keeneland. Racing in the colours of Prince Faisal and Imad Al Sagar, respectively, the pair are part of a 23-strong British contingent that is making the trip to Kentucky on Saturday for the two-day meeting on Nov. 4 and 5.

The 5-year-old entire, who will stand under the Sumbe banner at Haras de Montfort et Preaux in France after his GI Breeders' Cup Turf bid, has won Group 1s is France, the UAE and the UK, as well as the first edition of the $20-million Saudi Cup. From six runs this season, he's placed in the G1 Eclipse S., G1 King George VI And Queen Elizabeth S., and G1 Juddmonte International S. Fourth in the G1 Irish Champion S. at Leopardstown in September, Mishriff was unplaced in very soft ground in the G1 Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe.

“You have to have the horse that can travel, that has the mind and the strength for it, and that versatility of distance and surface, and he's certainly managed to do that,” Gosden reflected. “When you have a horse who can handle those variations, it's fine.”

After several tardy breaks this season, the Clarehaven team had worked with Mishriff on the issue and Gosden said, “He broke well in his last start, he was very good, and the one before, the Juddmonte International. So he has been much better at that and we actually jumped him out yesterday and he was very much on the ball and broke well, so hopefully he's put that well behind him.”

Nashwa has yet to be off the board in seven starts under Hollie Doyle, and sports victories in the G1 Prix de Diane and G1 Nassau S. after running third in the G1 Oaks this term. She was a narrow second in the G1 Prix de l'Opera at ParisLongchamp on Oct. 2 when last seen. She holds an entry for the GI Breeders' Cup Filly & Mare Turf.

John Gosden said, “She's a very strong filly for a 3-year-old. Three-years'-old often is early enough to be going to a Breeders' Cup, but as you saw today, she's up for it, she's strong, a very purposeful filly.

“We've planned since the Nassau S. at Goodwood to go for the Opera and then the Breeders' Cup Filly & Mare Turf. It's a mile and three sixteenths this year, we would prefer it if it were a mile and a quarter but that's the layout of the track. If she breaks well and gets a nice position, she'll run a big race.”

If either of the Gosdens' pair prevail, it would be the elder's fifth Breeders' Cup victory, and his son's first.

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Siyouni’s Intinso Strikes For TDN Rising Star At Newcastle

Newcastle's Monday card featured the It's Time To Turn To Talksport Novice S., a juvenile novices' heat annexed in 2020 by Godolphin's subsequent dual Group 1 winner Rebel's Romance (Ire) (Dubawi {Ire}), and this year's renewal has yielded another capable of striking at a higher level after Imad Al Sagar's 2-year-old colt Intinso (GB) (Siyouni {Fr}–Rose Of Miracles {GB}, by Dalakhani {Ire}), a homebred John and Thady Gosden trainee, powered to an impressive 3 1/4-length debut victory and a 'TDN Rising Star' rosette.

The well-backed 1-2 favourite settled under cover behind the leaders in third through sedate early fractions. Tanking forward when angled into the open approaching the quarter-mile marker, he quickened clear in taking fashion once shaken up for control entering the final furlong to easily outclass Alumnus (GB) (Kendargent {Ire}) by daylight.

Intinso, a March-foaled half-brother to a yearling colt by Decorated Knight (GB), is the third foal and winner produced by an unraced daughter of Neartica (Fr) (Sadler's Wells), herself a winning half-sister to eight black-type performers headed by the storied multiple champion Goldikova (Ire) (Anabaa), G1 Prix Vermeille heroine Galikova (Fr) (Galileo {Ire}) and multiple Group 1-placed sire Anodin (Ire) (Anabaa).

4th-Newcastle, £6,800, Nov, 10-24, 2yo, 8f 5y (AWT), 1:44.92, st/sl.
INTINSO (GB), c, 2, by Siyouni (Fr)
1st Dam: Rose Of Miracles (GB), by Dalakhani (Ire)
2nd Dam: Neartica (Fr), by Sadler's Wells
3rd Dam: Born Gold, by Blushing Groom (Fr)
O-Imad Al Sagar; B-Blue Diamond Stud Farm (UK) Ltd (GB); T-John & Thady Gosden. Lifetime Record: 1-1-0-0, £3,672. Click for the free Equineline.com catalogue-style pedigree.

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