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Tyros Number 14 For Aidan As War Front’s Military Style Makes All

Thursday’s G3 Japan Racing Association Tyros S. lost a potential major player after Jessie Harrington deemed the ground too fast for the likely favourite Cadillac (Ire) (Lope de Vega {Ire}) and with the surface slick at Leopardstown it was a front-runner who prevailed in Military Style (War Front). This year more than any other it seems that the Foxrock venue is favouring those on the front end when the going is riding as it was here, but such is the blueblooded nature of the winner it is dangerous to argue that he will not turn out ultimately the best. As he clung on by a neck from his deeply promising stablemate Van Gogh (American Pharoah), the son of the 2014 G1 Fillies’ Mile heroine Together Forever (Ire) (Galileo {Ire}) who is in turn a full-sister to the G1 Epsom Oaks heroine Forever Together (Ire) brought up a 14th edition for Aidan O’Brien. Not given an easy time under Emmet McNamara, the 7-1 shot saw off all-comers for a game score as the 4-1 favourite Masen (GB) (Kingman {GB}) made it a tight finale just half a length away.

Military Style, who had beaten the subsequently listed-placed Eastern Voice (Ire) (Vocalised) on debut over six furlongs at Naas June 20 before looking in need of this extra furlong when third in the G3 Marble Hill S. at Cork July 5, was not surprising those closest to him. “It was a very good run first time and they usually improve plenty for their first start, then he was beaten only a length in the Marble Hill so he was entitled to have a chance,” McNamara said. “He’s improved for the step up to seven and it’s beautiful fast racing ground which suited him. The plan was to go forward and if I found him in front to go on, as he had the experience and we went a good even pace. He toughed it out well and is very genuine. He’s not short of pace, but a mile shouldn’t be a problem as he relaxes.”

Together Forever is making a fast impact at Coolmore, with this breakthrough second foal following the Listed Leopardstown 2000 Guineas Trial runner-up King of Athens also by War Front. Sent back to him again to produce another colt in 2019, she has since visited Justify twice and has thrown a colt this year. The aforementioned Forever Together captured the Oaks two years ago and her and the dam are half-sisters to the sire Lord Shanakill (Speightstown) who captured the G1 Prix Jean Prat, G2 Lennox S. and G2 Mill Reef S., and full-sisters to the listed-placed €3.2million 2018 Goffs Orby-topping Do You Love Me (Ire). The third dam is the infuential Chain Fern (Blushing Groom {Fr}), an unraced full-sister to the G1 Irish 1000 Guineas heroine and broodmare supreme Al Bahathri. With his pedigree, Military Style could be one to reap dividends across the Atlantic as a relative of the GI Yellow Ribbon S. winner Spanish Fern (El Gran Senor) and GI Santa Anita H. hero Heatseeker (Ire) (Giant’s Causeway).

Thursday, Leopardstown, Ireland
TYROS S.-G3, €59,000, Leopardstown, 8-6, 2yo, 7f 20yT, 1:28.07, gd.
1–MILITARY STYLE, 131, c, 2, by War Front
1st Dam: Together Forever (Ire) (G1SW-Eng, SW-Ire, $318,729), by Galileo (Ire)
2nd Dam: Green Room, by Theatrical (Ire)
3rd Dam: Chain Fern, by Blushing Groom (Fr)
1ST BLACK TYPE WIN, 1ST GROUP WIN. O-Mrs John Magnier & Michael Tabor & Derrick Smith; B-Orpendale/Chelston/Wynatt (KY); T-Aidan O’Brien; J-Emmet McNamara. €30,000. Lifetime Record: 3-2-0-1, $50,877. Werk Nick Rating: A+++ *Triple Plus*. Click for the eNicks report & 5-cross pedigree.
2–Van Gogh, 131, c, 2, American Pharoah–Imagine (Ire), by Sadler’s Wells. O-Michael Tabor & Derrick Smith & Mrs John Magnier & Mrs David Nagle; B-Barronstown Stud (KY); T-Aidan O’Brien. €10,000.
3–Masen (GB), 131, c, 2, Kingman (GB)–Continental Drift, by Smart Strike. O-Khalid Abdullah; B-Juddmonte Farms Ltd (GB); T-Ger Lyons. €5,000.
Margins: NK, HF, 3/4. Odds: 7.00, 6.00, 4.00.
Also Ran: Charterhouse (GB), State of Rest (Ire), Vafortino (Ire), Southern Cape (Ire), Reve de Vol (Ire), Mac Swiney (Ire), Swiss Ace (GB). Scratched: Cadillac (Ire). Click for the Racing Post result or the free Equineline.com catalogue-style pedigree.

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Silver Flash Success For Galileo’s Shale

Donnacha O’Brien’s instant momentum showed no sign of stopping on Thursday as the sole Galileo (Ire) in the G3 Frank Conroy Silver Flash S. line-up Shale (Ire) flew the flag for the newest of the family’s prodigies at Leopardstown. Having won a mile maiden on slow ground at Gowran Park July 8, the daughter of the runaway G1 1000 Guineas heroine Homecoming Queen (Ire) (Holy Roman Emperor {Ire}) was positioned in a clear second early by under up-and-coming riding star Gavin Ryan. Sent past the weakening race animator Finest (Ire) (The Gurkha {Ire}) approaching the furlong pole, the generously-priced 14-1 shot had first run on TDN Rising Star Pretty Gorgeous (Fr) (Lawman {Fr}) and with stamina assured galloped relentlessly to record a 1 1/2-length success. That 2-1 favourite was completing a forecast for the O’Brien brothers Donnacha and Joseph, with A Ma Chere (Ire) (Kodiac {GB}) finishing well adrift 3 1/2 lengths back in third.

“She’s a lovely filly and I’m very grateful that connections let me keep the ride,” commented Ryan, the Co. Tipperary-born five-pound claimer. “She had won her maiden nicely on slow ground and our only worry was the quicker ground today, but she’s a very versatile filly with a lot of class. She travelled into the race well and stayed on gamely. Donnacha said to make sure we were up and forward, as she has a wicked high cruising speed and she’s probably a miler ideally. I think that was a good race and I know Joseph thinks his is a classy filly.”

Shale, who was sixth on debut in the course-and-distance maiden in which the subsequent G3 Marble Hill S. winner Minaun (Ire) (Zoffany {Ire}) was second June 21, had taken her Gowran maiden by 3 1/4 lengths last time and is a filly with limitless potential given her outstanding pedigree. Donnacha was on hand to say, “She had improved plenty from her maiden and her work was good–the race worked out nicely, as they went a good gallop and she got a nice tow into it. To look at her, you would say she wants quick ground so I was a bit surprised how well she handled it the last day. Joseph likes his filly a lot and obviously it’s quick enough out there and not easy to make up ground, So I’d say they are two smart fillies. We’ll look at the [G2] Debutante and the [G1] Moyglare. It would be the obvious path with those two-year-old fillies.”

In the pre-Serpentine era, Homecoming Queen was one of the first examples of what her trainer could do with slow learners as she took eight starts to break her maiden before going to Newmarket and winning the 2012 renewal of the mile Classic by nine lengths. Bred solely to Galileo, Shale is her third black-type performer and her best after the stakes-placed First of Spring (Ire) and G2 Futurity S. third Berkeley Square (Ire). She is a daughter of Lagrion (Diesis {GB}), which makes her a half-sister to the former Ballydoyle great Dylan Thomas (Ire), the juvenile champion Queen’s Logic (Ire) (Grand Lodge) and Remember When (Ire) (Danehill Dancer {Ire}) who was promoted to second in the 2010 G1 Epsom Oaks.

Remember When has produced five black-type winners all by Galileo headed by the aforementioned G1 Epsom Derby hero Serpentine (Ire) and Wedding Vow (Ire) who captured the G2 Kilboy Estate S. and was runner-up in the G1 Nassau S. Queen’s Logic, whose unbeaten career was cut short by injury, has produced the G2 Diadem S. and G2 Lowther S. winner and G1 Prix de l’Abbaye de Longchamp and G1 Haydock Sprint Cup runner-up Lady of the Desert (Rahy) who is in turn the dam of Queen Kindly (GB) (Frankel {GB}) who also took the Lowther. Homecoming Queen’s 2019 Galileo offering is a colt.

Thursday, Leopardstown, Ireland
SILVER FLASH S.-G3, €59,000, Leopardstown, 8-6, 2yo, f, 7f 20yT, 1:27.69, gd.
1–SHALE (IRE), 128, f, 2, by Galileo (Ire)
1st Dam: Homecoming Queen (Ire) (Hwt. 3yo Filly-Eng at 7-9 1/2f, G1SW-Eng, GSW-Ire, $458,335), by Holy Roman Emperor (Ire)
2nd Dam: Lagrion, by Diesis (GB)
3rd Dam: Wrap It Up (Ire), by Mount Hagen (Fr)
1ST BLACK TYPE WIN, 1ST GROUP WIN. O-Derrick Smith, Mrs John Magnier & Michael Tabor; B-Coolmore (IRE); T-Donnacha O’Brien; J-Gavin Ryan. €30,000. Lifetime Record: 3-2-0-0, $46,087. Werk Nick Rating: A+++ *Triple Plus*. Click for the eNicks report & 5-cross pedigree.
2–Pretty Gorgeous (Fr), 128, f, 2, Lawman (Fr)–Lady Gorgeous (GB), by Compton Place (GB). (€55,000 Wlg ’18 ARQDE; 525,000gns Ylg ’19 TATOCT). O-John C Oxley; B-E.A.R.L. Ecurie Haras du Cadran, Enrico Ciampi & S.A.S.I.E.I. (FR); T-Joseph O’Brien. €10,000.
3–A Ma Chere (Ire), 128, f, 2, Kodiac (GB)–Mad About You (Ire), by Indian Ridge (Ire). O/B-Moyglare Stud Farm (IRE); T-Dermot Weld. €5,000.
Margins: 1HF, 3HF, NO. Odds: 14.00, 2.00, 10.00.
Also Ran: Snowfall (Jpn), Oodnadatta (Ire), Hazel (Ire), Finest (Ire), Takeko (Ire). Scratched: Meala (Ire), No Speak Alexander (Ire). Click for the Racing Post result or the free Equineline.com catalogue-style pedigree.

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Harrington to Test Promising Juveniles at Leopardstown

Jessie Harrington is keen to put some of her most promising juveniles to the test in an intriguing card at Leopardstown on Thursday which features the G3 Japan Racing Association Tyros S. and G3 Frank Conroy Silver Flash S. In the former, which has played host to the likes of Teofilo (Ire), New Approach (Ire), Rip Van Winkle (Ire) and Churchill (Ire) in recent times, she saddles Alpha Racing 2020’s impressive July 1 nine-length course-and-distance maiden winner Cadillac (Ire) (Lope de Vega {Ire}), while Robert Scarborough and Susan Magnier’s Oodnadatta (Ire) (Australia {GB}) and the O’Callaghans’ No Speak Alexander (Ire) (Shalaa {Ire}) are currently scheduled to go in the Silver Flash.

“Cadillac seems in good form. We’ve an awful wet morning here, so the ground might end up turning soft, but I don’t think that will bother him–I think he’d be fine on any ground.”

Easy conditions may not suit Oodnadatta, however, who beat the subsequent G3 Marble Hill S. winner Minaun (Ire) (Zoffany {Ire}) and the July 28 11-length Galway maiden scorer Meala (Ire) (Epaulette {Aus) in a maiden also over this track and trip June 21. She may instead head for Saturday’s G3 Sweet Solera S., leaving the 6 1/2-length July 7 Roscommon maiden winner No Speak Alexander as the sole representative. “Oodnadatta is in good form, but it is a wet morning here today, so we might take her to Newmarket if the ground goes soft and just run the other filly at Leopardstown,” Harrington added. “No Speak Alexander is in good order. She improved from her first run to her second and I hope there’s more improvement to come.”

Aidan O’Brien has won nine of the last 10 renewals of the Tyros and 13 winners overall, while his tally is seven of the last 11 Silver Flash scorers and 11 in total. He has three colts in the Tyros, with Wayne Lordan booked for the maiden Van Gogh (American Pharoah) who was fourth on debut over this track and trip behind the re-opposing Masen (GB) (Kingman {GB}) and Charterhouse (GB) (Charming Thought {GB}). The latter was 66-1 when just denied by the Juddmonte rival there and trainer John Joseph Murphy sees him as a live outsider again in a year when the lesser-celebrated Irish stables are coming to the fore in the important juvenile staging posts. “He’s in tremendous form and I think he’s come on a lot from his first run,” he said. “You’ve got the horse that beat him there again and it does look a very hot renewal. We haven’t got a great draw and I hope they don’t get any more rain, as he definitely prefers quicker ground.”

Others to note in the Tyros are the Donnacha O’Brien-trained July 8 Gowran Park maiden scorer Southern Cape (Ire) (Galileo {Ire}) and July 11 course-and-distance maiden winner Vafortino (Ire) (New Bay {GB}) who hails from brother Joseph’s stable. Coolmore are well-represented in the Silver Flash by Ballydoyle’s July 19 Curragh maiden winner Snowfall (Jpn) (Deep Impact {Jpn}) and Donnacha’s July 8 Gowran Park mile maiden scorer Shale (Ire) (Galileo {Ire}), while Jim Bolger saddles the aforementioned Meala, Dermot Weld runs Moyglare Stud’s June 26 six-furlong Curragh maiden winner A Ma Chere (Ire) (Kodiac {GB}) and Joseph O’Brien pitches in John Oxley’s TDN Rising Star Pretty Gorgeous (Fr) (Lawman {Fr}). She impressed over a mile at Bellewstown on the July 2 card which has already thrown up a subsequent luminary in the recent G2 Airlie Stud S. scorer Aloha Star (Ire) (Starspangledbanner {Aus}).

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Half to Tepin Steps Out at Leopardstown

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. Friday’s Insights features a half to MGISW Tepin (Bernstein).

1.05 Leopardstown, Debutantes, €16,500, 2yo, 7fT
HARVARD (IRE) (Galileo {Ire}) is introduced by Aidan O’Brien away from the Goodwood fayre and is a fascinating runner as a half-brother to the six-times top-level scorer and GI Breeders’ Cup Mile and G1 Queen Anne S. heroine Tepin (Bernstein) and multiple graded-stakes scorer Vyjack (Into Mischief). He is joined by fellow Ballydoyle representative High Definition (Ire) (Galileo {Ire}), a May-foaled full-brother to last year’s G2 Beresford S. winner and G1 Vertem Futurity Trophy runner-up Innisfree (Ire).

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