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Lumiere Rock Lights Up The Curragh With Deserved Group 2 Success

It was always going to take something special to luminate the Curragh against the backdrop of that dark grey sky, but the Joseph O'Brien-trained Lumiere Rock (Ire) (Saxon Warrior {Jpn}) had just the answer in the G2 Moyglare-sponsored Blandford S. under a razor-sharp Dylan Browne McMonagle. 

Lumiere Rock has danced every dance this season. Her big moment at the Irish Champions Festival was richly deserved but it was achieved in far more tenacious fashion than the three-length winning margin would suggest. 

Having gone out on her sword behind the fantastically-talented French filly Jannah Rose (Ire) (Frankel {GB}) in her own backyard at Deauville last month, Lumiere Rock's ability was clear for everyone to see, and she confirmed herself a smart sort in her own right in grabbing the Blandford by the scruff of the neck in first-time cheekpieces. 

The race-winning move came over two furlongs out when Browne McMonagle, rightly considered one of the hottest riding prospects in Europe, sent the 6-1 shot to the front. From there, Lumiere Rock was not for catching, with Aidan O'Brien's Jackie Oh (Ire) (Galileo {Ire}) coming through to finish a never-nearer second while the sponsor's Trevaunance (Ire) (Muhaarar {GB}) finished a credible third. 

“She has been keeping really good company all season,” O'Brien said afterwards. “She was just beaten at Ascot and narrowly beaten again in France the last day. She really did deserve her win at Group 2 level today and won in the style of a filly who will hold her own in Group 1 company as she gets older.”

Lumiere Rock carried the colours of Michael O'Flynn, the property developer who is synonymous for owning top-class jumpers with Mouse Morris, including Grade 1-winning chaser China Rock and one-time exciting novice hurdler Venalmar. 

However, the striking red and yellow silks have been spotted more frequently on the Flat in recent years, through O'Flynn's association with the stables of O'Brien and Johnny Murtagh, and the owner explained how he enjoys the balance between the two codes. 

“I am enjoying it,” the owner said. “I am having more of an involvement on the Flat, which I am really enjoying, but I love the National Hunt. I must say, with Joseph and Johnny Murtagh on the Flat, I have had some really interesting runners and winners. I am favouring a little bit more towards the Flat but I still love the National Hunt.”

O'Brien confirmed that Lumiere Rock could take in a Group 1 contest on her next start.

He said, “I suppose the obvious targets could be Arc day at Longchamp or Ascot for Champions Day. We'll see how she comes out of this and she'll tell us.”

 

Pedigree Notes

One of seven stakes winners for her Coolmore sire, Lumiere Rock is out of the placed Last Gold (Fr) (Gold Away {Ire}). She is a half-sister to the 2-year-old filly Forthright (Ire) (Zoffany {Ire}), a yearling filly by Starspangledbanner (Aus) bound for Book 2 of the Tattersalls October Sale as lot 1237, and a colt foal by Kodi Bear (Ire).

Second dam Baahama (Ire) (Anabaa) won the Listed Prix Charles Laffitte and was runner-up in the G3 Prix d'Aumale. At stud she foaled a pair of Deep Impact (Jpn) French Group 3 winners–Akihiro (Jpn) and Bartaba (Fr).

 

Sunday, Curragh, Ireland
MOYGLARE “JEWELS” BLANDFORD S.-G2, €200,000, Curragh, 9-10, 3yo/up, f/m, 10fT, 2:07.89, g/y.
1–LUMIERE ROCK (IRE), 128, f, 3, by Saxon Warrior (Jpn)
1st Dam: Last Gold (Fr), by Gold Away (Ire)
2nd Dam: Baahama (Ire), by Anabaa
3rd Dam: Silver Rain (Fr), by Rainbow Quest
(55,000gns Ylg '21 TATOCT). O-Michael O'Flynn; B-The Last
Partnership (IRE); T-Joseph O'Brien; J-Dylan Browne
McMonagle. €120,000. Lifetime Record: GSP-Eng & Fr,
10-2-5-0, $302,830. Werk Nick Rating: A++. Click for the
   eNicks report & 5-cross pedigree, or the
   free Equineline.com catalogue-style pedigree.
2–Jackie Oh (Ire), 128, f, 3, Galileo (Ire)–Jacqueline Quest (Ire),
by Rock Of Gibraltar (Ire). O-Triermore Stud, Mrs J Magnier &
M Tabor; B-C O P Hanbury (IRE); T-Aidan O'Brien. €40,000.
3–Trevaunance (Ire), 134, f, 4, Muhaarar (GB)–Liber Nauticus
(Ire), by Azamour (Ire). O/B-Moyglare Stud Farm (IRE);
T-Jessica Harrington. €20,000.
Margins: 3, HF, 3/4. Odds: 6.00, 3.20, 8.00.
Also Ran: Araminta (Ire), Red Riding Hood (Ire), Unless, Insinuendo (Ire), Never Ending Story (Ire), Caroline Street, Alanya (Fr), Mashia (Ire). VIDEO.

 

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Tattersalls Braced for More Bumper Trade as Graduates Shine

NEWMARKET, UK–There has been no respite for the hardy consignors and their staff since last week's heady renewal of Book 1 of the Tattersalls October Yearling Sale. No sooner had the hammer fallen on lot 549 than the next batch of yearlings came prancing onto the sales ground, ready for three days of inspections ahead of Book 2, which begins its three-day run from 10am on Monday.

This is the week that really requires stamina from all participants: three new books to complete the October sale by Saturday, with the numbers running on from last week, though to lot 2097, who should just make it through the ring before the gates fly back for the start of QIPCO British Champions Day.

With prices at an extraordinary high last week–a factor which will almost certainly mean that Book 2 is also stronger than usual–it is worth bearing in mind, for those on the search for juveniles for next year, that two years ago a first-crop daughter of Galileo Gold (GB) was plucked from Book 4 for just 4,000gns.

Bought from Kilpatrick Farm by Michael Aguiar, she found her way to George Boughey's stable and, given the name Oscula (Ire), she went on to race with huge success for the Nick Bradley Racing syndicate. And boy, hasn't she danced every dance? A winner in May, then a Group 3 winner by June, Oscula waltzed from the helter-skelters of Brighton and Epsom, to Royal Ascot, Newmarket, Deauville, Longchamp and Saint-Cloud. And that was just her 2-year-old season. This year she has added two more group wins, at Glorious Goodwood and Deauville, as well as notching umpteen stakes places here and there, not to mention a trip to Saudi Arabia in February. It is safe to say that Oscula is the type of filly we would all love to own–and all the better if we could find one just like her for 4,000gns.

Buyers will have to dig deeper than that through the next three days of Book 2, which by any standards is an elite sale in its own right. It owns the best bragging rights of all this year, having produced the Derby winner Desert Crown (GB) (Nathaniel {Ire}), not to mention the four-time Group 1 winner State Of Rest (Ire) (Starspangledbanner {Aus}). Breeder Gary Robinson of Strawberry Fields Stud withdrew Desert Crown's half-brother by Study Of Man (Ire) from Book 1 last week, but he will be offering another relative in Book 2 in lot 817, an Expert Eye (GB) colt out of the Derby winner's half-sister, the six-time winner Rose Berry (GB) (Archipenko).

The winning graduates have kept pouring in over the weekend for Tattersalls. Charyn (Ire) (Dark Angel {Ire}) continued an excellent run for her owner Nurlan Bizakov in the G2 Criterium de Maisons-Laffitte just six days after Belbek (Fr) (Showcasing {GB}) won the G1 Prix Jean-Luc Lagardere. Though Bizakov traditionally races homebreds, he bought Charyn from breeder Guy O'Callaghan's Grangemore Stud at Book 2 last year for 250,000gns. Her dam Futoon (Ire) (Kodiac {GB}) has no yearling in the sale this year, but Grangemore's draft of five in Book 2 contains another Dark Angel filly [lot 919] who is the first foal of Listed Two-Year-Old Trophy winner Summer Daydream (Ire) (Footstepsinthesand {GB}).

At Newmarket, Fitri Hay's Book 2 graduate Royal Scotsman (Ire) (Gleneagles {Ire}) came within a head of landing the G1 Darley Dewhurst S. when finishing second to Chaldean (GB) (Frankel {GB}). Over at the Curragh on Saturday, Joseph O'Brien's Lumiere Rock (Ire) (Saxon Warrior {Jpn}) continued her smart progression. She too was sold in Book 2 last year, for 55,000gns to Rockfield Farm, and she has provided a timely update for consignor Castletown Stud, which offers her half-sister by Zoffany (Ire) as lot 1711 in Book 3. When the catalogue went to press, Lumiere Rock was still unraced. 

These are just the tip of the equine iceberg, of course, and an honourable mention must go to one of this season's most exciting juveniles, Lezoo (GB) (Zoustar {Aus}), who was plucked from the Chasemore Farm draft at last year's Book 3 for 77,000gns by Hamish Macauley.

In short, those labelled the 'cream of the crop' helped to provide Tattersalls with an historic rendition of Book 1 but, as ever, the classy runners of the next few seasons will emanate from all levels of the market. Bargain-hunters shouldn't be deterred; they may just have to wait a little longer than normal to strike this week.

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