Tag: Lope de Vega (Ire)

Appleby Duo Ones To Watch At Newbury

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 Observations features a well-bred Godolphin duo trained by Charlie Appleby.

1.00 Newbury, Novice, £9,999, 2yo, 7fT
LENORMAND (GB) (Dubawi {Ire}) is a half-brother to the G1 Kennedy Mile winner Best Of Days (GB) (Azamour {Ire}) who starts out for Godolphin and Charlie Appleby in the maiden won 12  months ago in its two divisions by Bayside Boy (Ire) (New Bay {GB}) and Reach For The Moon (GB) (Sea The Stars {Ire}). The second-highest-priced lot at the 2020 Tattersalls December Foals Sale when fetching 600,000gns, the February-foaled bay encounters Julie Wood's fellow newcomer Classic (GB) (Dubawi {Ire}), a Richard Hannon-trained son of George Washington's Date With Destiny (Ire).

 

1.30 Newbury, Novice, £9,999, 2yo, 7fT
SILVER KNOTT (GB) (Lope De Vega {Ire}) is another Godolphin-Charlie Appleby newcomer in action on the card, with the likely division two favourite a 725,000gns Book 1 purchase who is the first foal out of the G1 Premio Lydia Tesio and G2 Park Hill S. scorer God Given (GB) (Nathaniel {Ire}). Related to Postponed (Ire) (Dubawi {Ire}), the March-foaled bay meets a clutch of regally-bred individuals including Patricia Burns's homebred colt Classic Speed (Ire) (Kodiac {GB}), a Clive Cox-trained half-brother to the Oaks heroine Was (Ire) (Galileo {Ire}).

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Observations: Easy Pickings for Golden Lyra at Kempton

6.15 Kempton, Novice, £16,000, 3yo, 11f 219y (AWT)

GOLDEN LYRA (GB) (Lope De Vega {Ire}) has been found a golden opportunity for a confidence boost by William Haggas following her second on her seasonal bow in the Listed Abingdon S. last month. Sunderland Holding's homebred, whose dam is an unraced full-sister to Sea The Moon (Ger), should be able to pick off her opponents with ease unless Kirsten Rausing's Ralph Beckett-trained Allemande (GB), a debutante half-sister to the group 1-placed Albaflora (GB) (Muhaarar {GB}) by Sea The Moon himself, is out of the ordinary.

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Arqana August Catalogue Online

The catalogue for the Aug. 13-15 Arqana August Yearling Sale is online and can be viewed at www.arqana.com. Having already produced the likes of Angel Bleu, Hello You, Mangoustine, Rougir, Sealiway, Noble Truth, Meditate and Skalleti, the 2022 renewal is comprised of 313 yearlings which will be sold over three days, a departure from the two-day format previously. The sales times are as follows:

  • Saturday, Aug. 13: 2p.m. – lot 1 to 145
  • Sunday, Aug. 14: 5.30p.m. – lot 146 to 230
  • Monday, Aug. 15: 5.30p.m. – lot 231 to 313

 

Stallions represented this year include Adlerflug, Arrogate, Camelot, Churchill, Dark Angel, Dubawi, Frankel, Galileo, Galiway, Justify, Kingman, Kodiac, Lope De Vega, New Bay, Night Of Thunder, No Nay Never, Sea The Stars, Shamardal, Siyouni, War Front, Wootton Bassett and Zarak.

The catalogue, which features 17 siblings to Group 1 winners, includes:

 

  • lot 10: a brother to Sealiway, Champion S. and G1 Prix Jean-Luc Lagardère winner, offered from Haras de Colleville
  • lot 21: the second foal by Shamardal out of group winner Lady Frankel, a 3/4 brother to Lope De Vega, from Gestüt Ammerland
  • lot 62: a half-sister by Siyouni to the champion Native Trail, last year's Champion 2-Year-Old and the winner of the G1 Irish 2,000 Guineas this season, from Haras d'Haspel
  • lot 66: a daughter of Too Darn Hot out of dual group Winner Night Music, from the family of Classic winner Night Magic, from Haras du Cadran
  • lot 93: a half-sister by Decorated Knight to Nashwa, winner of the G1 Prix de Diane Longines, from the first ever consignment from Blue Diamond Stud at Deauville;
  • lot 154: a brother to Sottsass (Siyouni), also a half-brother to Sistercharlie and My Sister Nat, from Ecurie des Monceaux
  • lot 171: a half-brother by Intello to dual Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe heroine TREVE, from Haras du Quesnay
  • lot 220: a half-brother by Too Darn Hot to Classic Winner Beauty Parlour, from the close family of MIGHT AND POWER, from Baroda Stud
  • lot 234: a daughter of Sea The Stars, the first foal out of Channel, the Prix de Diane Longines winner, from La Motteraye Consignment
  • lot 276: a brother to G1 Prix de l'Abbaye de Longchamp scorer WOODED (Wootton Bassett), from Haras d'Etreham.

For more information, visit www.arqana.com.

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What’s In a Name: Queen of the Skies

Whoever named Chelmsford 3-year-old winner Queen of the Skies (GB) (Lope de Vega (Ire) is well up on both early aviation and historic achievements. “West With The Night” was the title of a famous memoir by Beryl Markham (1902-1986), an aviator of incredible distinction. Markham grew up in Kenya and started to fly there as a “bush pilot,” but her historic feat was a transatlantic crossing in 1936, when she flew westward from Abingdon (England) and against the prevailing ocean winds, eventually running out of fuel and crashlanding in Nova Scotia. She was the very first person to complete a flight across the Atlantic Ocean from east to west, going solo and non-stop. Markham had time for a busy personal life too: she was married three times and counted fellow pilots Denys Finch-Hatton (of “Out of Africa” fame, think Robert Redford) and Antoine de Saint-Exupery (the author of “The Little Prince”) among her lovers.

 

 

Last but not least–and please do not hold this against her–the original Queen Of The Skies was also a racehorse trainer. Best of luck to her also courageous equine namesake, who “made all of the running” in her Chelmsford victory: that is the spirit.

7th-Chelmsford City, €12,950, Novice, 6-2, 3yo/up, f, 10f (AWT), 2:05.24, st.
QUEEN OF THE SKIES (GB) (f, 3, Lope de Vega {Ire}– Westwiththenight {Ire}, by Cape Cross {Ire})
O-Mr A E Oppenheimer; B-Hascombe & Valiant Stud Ltd (GB); T-John & Thady Gosden.

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