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Frankel’s Inspiral Dominates Sandown Feature

Cheveley Park Stud's homebred 2-year-old filly Inspiral (GB) (Frankel {GB}), a daughter of G1 1000 Guineas and G1 Coronation S. runner-up Starscope (GB) (Selkirk), overcame a slow start to prevail in a June 26 maiden going seven furlongs at Newmarket on debut last time and laid down a marker with an impressive 3 1/2-length win in Thursday's Listed British Stallion Studs EBF Star S. over the same trip at Sandown. Anchored at the tail of the field after a deliberate break, the even-money favourite made rapid headway on the bridle in the straight and powered clear once gaining the upper hand approaching the final furlong to outclass her eight rivals in taking fashion. At the line, she was clear of Godolphin's dual winner Wild Beauty (GB) (Frankel {GB}) with a neck back to her stablemate Sunstrike (Ire) (Dark Angel {Ire}) in third.

“She's always been a classy filly and has just done normal work on the bridle at home,” explained winning trainer John Gosden after claiming a first win in the contest. “Her mother was with us, and she had a lot of ability, and we know all about the father. We thought this was the race to come for, they went pretty strong up front and she won very nicely. Frankie [Dettori] was out the back before coming around them and said he hit the front far too soon. I think it was a pretty hot event and she's not been in front like that before so she did well. She'll have no problem getting a mile and we'll go one step at a time. The [G2] May Hill S. at Doncaster would be an obvious place to go and gives her five or six weeks between races.”

Inspiral is one of four winners from as many runners produced by G1 1000 Guineas and G1 Coronation S. runner-up Starscope (GB) (Selkirk), herself a half-sister to Listed Rosemary S. victrix Solar Magic (GB) (Pivotal {GB}). Starscope, who is out of a half-sister to MG1SW sire Medicean (GB) (Machiavellian), has also produced last term's Listed Cocked Hat S. third Celestran (GB) (Dansili {GB}) and a weanling colt by Siyouni (Fr). Inspiral's MGSP third dam Mystic Goddess (Storm Bird), who annexed the Listed Sweet Solera S., is a half-sister to G1 Gran Criterium-winning sire Sanam (Golden Act) and MG1SP dual Group 2 winner Shaybani (Al Nasr {Fr}).

Thursday, Sandown, Britain
BRITISH STALLION STUDS EBF STAR S.-Listed, £43,000, Sandown, 7-22, 2yo, f, 7fT, 1:28.17, g/f.
1–INSPIRAL (GB), 126, f, 2, by Frankel (GB)
1st Dam: Starscope (GB) (MG1SP-Eng, $251,626), by Selkirk
2nd Dam: Moon Goddess (GB), by Rainbow Quest
3rd Dam: Mystic Goddess, by Storm Bird
1ST BLACK-TYPE WIN. O/B-Cheveley Park Stud Ltd (GB); T-John & Thady Gosden; J-Lanfranco Dettori. £24,385. Lifetime Record: 2-2-0-0, $38,687. *1/2 to Celestran (GB) (Dansili {GB}), SP-Eng.
2–Wild Beauty (GB), 126, f, 2, Frankel (GB)–Tulips (Ire), by Pivotal (GB). O/B-Godolphin (GB); T-Charlie Appleby. £9,245.
3–Sunstrike (Ire), 126, f, 2, Dark Angel (Ire)–Extricate (Ire), by Exceed and Excel (Aus). (390,000gns Ylg '20 TATOCT). O-Qatar Racing Ltd; B-Yeomanstown Stud (IRE); T-John & Thady Gosden. £4,627.
Margins: 3HF, NK, 3 3/4. Odds: 1.00, 2.75, 14.00.
Also Ran: Qipao (GB), Almohandesah (GB), Profound Alexander (Ire), Fabiosa (GB), Allayaali (Ire), Safra. Click for the Racing Post result.

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Mandaloun ‘Sound, Happy’ After Eventful Haskell Win

SARATOGA SPRINGS, NY–Shortly after GI TVG.com Haskell S. winner Mandaloun (Into Mischief) arrived at his barn at 10 a.m. Sunday morning following his trip north from Monmouth Park, trainer Brad Cox said it was too early to say what will be the next test for the Juddmonte homebred.

Mandaloun reached the wire second in a Haskell, beaten a nose by Hot Rod Charlie (Oxbow). Within minutes, though, the stewards awarded him the victory by disqualifying Hot Rod Charlie for causing Midnight Bourbon (Tiznow) to stumble in the stretch, unseating jockey Paco Lopez. Midnight Bourbon clipped heels with Hot Rod Charlie, who had drifted into his path under jockey Flavien Prat.

Technically, the Haskell is Mandaloun's first Grade I victory. However, it is quite possible that he may be placed first in the GI Kentucky Derby. Mandaloun finished second in the Derby to Medina Spirit, who could be disqualified for testing positive for a medication that must be out of a horse's system on race day. The Kentucky Horse Racing Commission has yet to hold a hearing on Medina Spirit's Derby post-race positive for the corticosteroid betamethasone.

Cox said he liked what he saw of Mandaloun following his approximately four-hour van ride from the Jersey Shore to upstate New York.

“He looks good. Looks happy. Sound, so far,” Cox said.

Cox has Godolphin's GI Belmont S. winner Essential Quality (Tapit) pointed to Saratoga's marquee race, the $1.25-million GI Runhappy Travers S. Aug. 28. Essential Quality is scheduled run in the GII Jim Dandy S., the local Travers prep, on July 31. While Cox said that it is possible that Mandaloun could be in the Travers, too, the colt's schedule will be shaped in discussions with Garrett O'Rourke, manager of Juddmonte's U.S. division. The GI Pennsylvania Derby Sept. 25 at Parx is another option.

“We already decided that we were going to ship him up here,” Cox said. “Let him kind of catch his breath. Let us catch our breath. More importantly, him, and just kind of watch him over the next few weeks and then come up with a plan. Moving forward, I think we've just kind of decided the two logical spots would be the Travers and the PA Derby.”

Mandaloun will follow Cox's typical pattern for horses between races. His first work back will be easy, regardless of what race is next. Meanwhile, Cox and O'Rourke will monitor what is taking place in the 3-year-old male division.

“We'll see how he trains and if he moves forward off this Haskell and what unfolds in the Jim Dandy. How that plays out. How that race looks,” Cox said. “They have the Curlin that weekend, as well. That could play a role in what happens in the Travers. We'll watch what everyone else is doing and what Essential Quality is doing, how each horse is training and make a decision down the road.”

Under Florent Geroux, Mandaloun sat an inside trip a bit off the pace in the Haskell and moved into contention on the second turn. In the stretch, Geroux took Mandaloun between tiring pacesetter Following Sea (Runhappy) on the rail and Midnight Bourbon. Hot Rod Charlie and Flavien Prat came wide to get to the lead before drifting in front of Midnight Bourbon. Lopez and the colt escaped serious injury.

Mandaloun battled on through the stretch with Hot Rod Charlie, who managed to prevail by inches at the wire.

“Watching the race live, I thought he ran a fantastic race. He got a great trip,” Cox said. “I thought he got a very similar trip to what he got into Kentucky Derby. We talked about that. We thought that might be the trip we need in order to win the race. Once again, two horses came to the wire together. Both of them ran winning races. I thought, turning for home, we had a big shot. Hot Rod Charlie got away from us a little bit. Then we were battling back.”

Cox acknowledged that he was a bit frustrated that Mandaloun's victory in the Haskell and, perhaps a Derby win, will be via the disqualification of another horse.

“This was a little better, obviously, than the Derby thing, because it's not been resolved yet,” Cox said. “You'd like to cross the wire first, but yesterday he was right there, so it was a little different story.”

Cox reiterated the point that Mandaloun turned in a strong performance in the Haskell.

“It's an odd way to win a race, but he ran a winning race,” Cox said. “It wasn't as if he was fading. It wasn't as if he was well-beaten. He ran a big race and we're proud of the effort.”

The victory in the 'Win and You're In' Haskell provided Mandaloun with a guaranteed berth in the GI Longines Breeders' Cup Classic as well as all-important Grade I victory. Cox said that success at Monmouth will allow the colt's connections the opportunity to try to pick the best route to Del Mar and the Breeders' Cup.

“Hot Rod Charlie is one of the top contenders in the division. It would be nice to run in a Grade I before the Breeders' Cup and maybe not have to tackle him again,” Cox said. “You just want to put them in where they could possibly have a nice race prior to the Breeders' Cup, without it being extremely taxing on them. I'm not saying give them a race, but where they're not really laying it down.”

Midnight Bourbon Escapes Major Injury From Spill

Trainer Steve Asmussen reported that Midnight Bourbon appears to have sustained only minor injuries from his near fall.

“Everything X-rayed well on Midnight Bourbon today,” Asmussen said. “Hoping all is superficial.”

“They did X-rays rays on him and jogged him this morning,” added David Fiske, the stable's longtime general manager. “The X-rays were no different than what they showed before the race and he seems to be jogging better today than he was yesterday. Everybody's got their fingers crossed that nothing pops up in the next few days or so. We'll watch him and wait and see. It's a little early to make any kind of plans for him.”

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Brown Runners Tune Up for Diana

A pair of runners from the barn of trainer Chad Brown tuned up for expected starts in the July 17 GI Diana S. with works over the inner turf course at Belmont Park Sunday morning. Lemista (Ire) (Raven's Pass) went five furlongs in a bullet 1:01.80 (1/10) outside of stablemate Pocket Square (GB) (Night of Thunder {Ire}), who completed the drill in 1:01.89 (3/10).

Peter Brant's Lemista, a two-time group winner in Ireland last year, opened her stateside campaign with a late-closing runner-up effort in the GIII Beaugay S. last time out May 8.

Pocket Square, a Juddmonte homebred, was a group winner in France in 2019. After winning a Keeneland allowance in her U.S. bow in April, the 4-year-old is coming off a fifth-place effort in the June 5 GI Just a Game S.

“They both worked well with one another and are going to the Diana,” Brown said. “Lemista has relished the time in between her races. With Pocket Square, I'm drawing a line through the Just a Game. She was lined up so well going into that race and there were things I was hopeful she would be able to overcome, but it didn't quite work out.”

Brown has won the Diana six times, including the past five editions with talented turf distaffers Dacita (2016), Lady Eli (2017), Sistercharlie (2018-19) and Rushing Fall (2020).

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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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