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Cox Pair Bound for Morny

GSWs Supremacy (Ire) (Mehmas {Ire}) and Nando Parrado (GB) (Kodiac {GB}), both trained by Clive Cox, will clash in the G1 Prix Morny at Deauville on Aug. 23, all being well. The former won the G2 Richmond S. at the Qatar Goodwood Festival on July 30 and claims two wins from three starts, while the latter broke his maiden at second asking in the G2 Coventry S. at Royal Ascot back in June. Cox is relishing the match up between two group-class colts.

“We’re very pleased with the way he’s come out of the race this week,” Cox said of his Richmond S. winner. “That was the first step and he will have an entry in the Prix Morny–we very much think that six furlongs will continue to be his trip. The G1 Middle Park S. at the end of the year is our plan at this stage and we couldn’t be more pleased with what he’s done.”

A minor injury scuppered plans for Nando Parrado to step forward in the G2 Prix Robert Papin, but the son of Kodiac is now in fine fettle 21 days out from the Morny.

Added Cox of Nando Parrado, “He worked yesterday and we were very pleased that he’s come through that work really well. I am very pleased that we’re talking about the race [the Prix Morny] for two really high-class 2-year-olds–a Coventry winner and a Richmond winner. At the moment they would both be intended runners, we’ll just have to see how it pans out. It’s just a huge thrill to be talking in the same breath about two horses of that calibre.

“Nando Parrado would definitely cope with more ease in the ground, if that was the case, but we can’t really be sure at this time of year. Supremacy will very much be in charge of his own well being in the mean time, having only run last week, but first impressions are very favourable.”

“I would say he [Nando Parrado] could have the potential to go a little further. He’s given me that impression–he’s a very strong, athletic colt. I think six furlongs is clearly agreeable after winning the Coventry as he did, but I think he has the scope and potential to go a little bit further as well.”

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Kodiac’s Frenetic Too Fast In the First Flyer

The Curragh staged the first 2-year-old black-type event of 2020 on Saturday and it was the aptly-named filly Frenetic (Ire) (Kodiac {GB}) who burned off her rivals to land the spoils in the Listed GAIN First Flier S. and continue the purple patch for her sire. Sent off the 10-11 favourite having impressed on her winning debut in a June 10 Navan fillies’ maiden, SBA Racing Limited’s bay ploughed a lone furrow towards the stand’s side under Colin Keane and never looked likely to surrender her lead. At the line, her sire’s fourth black-type winner in eight days had a five-length margin to spare over another filly Mooneista (Ire) (Dandy Man {Ire}) who won the battle in the main group only to comprehensively lose the war.

“She’s a lovely filly with a lot of speed and had come forward from Navan,” the winning rider said. “We were drawn on our own and I stayed away from everyone on that virgin ground. I wanted to let her go forward, as she’s very uncomplicated and likes to get on with it and thankfully it worked out well.” Ger Lyons added, “She’s the fastest we have and was our Queen Mary horse if we had one. I said to Colin going out to be careful with the wind like that as she’s light and his biggest problem was going to be keeping her on the ground. The plan was to go to Naas [for the G3 Coolmore Stud Irish EBF Fillies’ Sprint S.] next week with her and we held an entry here just to see how the race panned out. I don’t want to abuse her, but she’s a two-year-old written all over her and if she’s fit and well will go to Naas next Saturday. Ultimately we will work back from the [G1] Cheveley Park. That will be my long-term plan.”

Frenetic is her dam’s last known foal, with her first being the Paradise Creek S. winner and GII National Museum of Racing Hall of Fame S. third Big Handsome (Street Boss). The second dam is the GIII Mint Julep H. winner Kiss the Devil (Kris S), whose daughter Kiss Moon (Malibu Moon) emulated her dam’s achievement in winning the Mint Julep H. herself. Kiss the Devil is kin to Stylish Manner (Touch Gold), who produced three stakes performers headed by the GIII Affirmed H. winner and GI Haskell Invitational S. runner-up Nonios (Pleasantly Perfect). This is also the family of the G2 Lowther S. and G3 Princess Margaret Juddmonte S. scorer and G1 Cheveley Park S. third Besharah (Ire) by the winner’s sire Kodiac.

Saturday, Curragh, Ireland
GAIN FIRST FLIER S.-Listed, €37,500, Curragh, 6-27, 2yo, 5fT, :59.05, gd.
1–FRENETIC (IRE), 126, f, 2, by Kodiac (GB)
1st Dam: Moojha, by Forest Wildcat
2nd Dam: Kiss the Devil, by Kris S.
3rd Dam: Devil’s Nell, by Devil’s Bag
1ST BLACK-TYPE WIN. (170,000gns Ylg ’19 TATOCT). O-SBA Racing Ltd; B-Rabbah Bloodstock Ltd (IRE); T-Ger Lyons; J-Colin Keane. €22,500. Lifetime Record: 2-2-0-0, $35,787. *1/2 to Big Handsome (Street Boss), SW & GSP-US, $271,762.
2–Mooneista (Ire), 126, f, 2, Dandy Man (Ire)–Moon Unit (Ire), by Intikhab. O-Mrs Paula Davison; B-Killarkin Stud (IRE); T-Jack Davison. €7,500.
3–Eastern Voice (Ire), 131, c, 2, Vocalised–Star Street (Ire), by Lawman (Fr). (€15,000 Ylg ’19 TIRSEP). O-Mrs J S Bolger; B/T-Jim Bolger (IRE). €3,750.
Margins: 5, HF, 1 1/4. Odds: 0.91, 11.00, 11.00.
Also Ran: Blue Cabochon (Ire), Chief Little Hawk, Hyde Park Barracks. Scratched: Twilight Heir (GB). Click for the Racing Post result.

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Highest Ground Returns at Haydock

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. Wednesday’s Insights features the return of two ‘TDN Rising Stars’.

1.10 Haydock, Novice, £5,400, 3yo/up, 10f 100yT
HIGHEST GROUND (IRE) (Frankel {GB}) makes his eagerly-awaited return, having earned TDN Rising Star status a long time ago when impressing on his winning debut at Leicester in September. The Niarchos Family’s relative of the sire King of Happiness (Spinning World) encounters another TDN Rising Star in Gestut Ammerland and Newsells Park Stud’s Waldkonig (GB) (Kingman {GB}), the John Gosden-trained half-brother to Waldgeist (GB) (Galileo {Ire}) who was third when odds-on for the Listed Newmarket S. earlier this month.

2.10 Haydock, Novice, £6,400, 2yo, 7f 37yT
CAIRN ISLAND (IRE) (Kodiac {GB}) cost trainer Kevin Ryan 525,000gns at the Tattersalls October Book 1 Sale and debuts for Sheikh Mohammed Obaid Al Maktoum in this intriguing affair. The half-brother to the useful Galileo (Ire) pair of Cameron Highland (Ire) and Field of Miracles (Ire) gets seven pounds from Russell Jones’s Tom Dascombe-trained Devious Company (Ire) (Fast Company {Ire}), who beat some rivals who fared well in last week’s Listed Chesham S. including March Law (Ire) (Lawman {Fr}) on his debut at Haydock earlier this month.

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