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Weld the Focus on Sunday

The Curragh takes centre stage on Sunday, with the G3 Weld Park S. the feature as Angel Palm (GB) (Dark Angel {Ire}) bids to put her 2-year-old peers in the shade. Last seen winning by three lengths in a Leopardstown maiden over this seven-furlong trip Aug. 13, Khalid Abdullah’s relative of Showcasing (GB) and Camacho (GB) has the look of one of Ger Lyons’s burgeoning stars. She meets the Sept. 12 Listed Ingabelle S. No Speak Alexander (Ire) (Shalaa {Ire}), with Ballydoyle’s Ingabelle winner Monday (Fastnet Rock {Aus}) a late scratch just two days after a disappointing fourth in Newmarket’s G2 Rockfel S. The Sept. 11 Limerick maiden winner Thinking of You (American Pharoah) sports the Tabor silks and warrants maximum respect from the Joseph O’Brien stable which houses two of the best of this generation in Thunder Moon (Ire) (Zoffany {Ire}) and Pretty Gorgeous (Fr) (Lawman {Fr}).

Also on the card is the G3 Comer Group International Loughbrown S., where The Aga Khan’s smart stayer Kastasa (Ire) (Rock of Gibraltar {Ire}) is fitted with a visor following her third placing in Naas’s G3 Stanerra S. Aug. 23. Successful by seven lengths in this 12 months ago, the Dermot Weld-trained homebred encounters Ballydoyle’s June 27 G1 Irish Derby third Dawn Patrol (Ire) (Galileo {Ire}) who was sixth in the G1 St Leger at Doncaster Sept. 12.

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Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Fillies Turf Berth On The Line In Friday’s Shadwell Rockfel Stakes

Ms. Susan Lynas' Santosha (IRE) will bid to get her season back on track in Friday's Shadwell Rockfel Stakes (G2) at Newmarket. She is one of five 2-year-old fillies in the 7-furlong contest, which offers a guaranteed fees-paid berth into the US$1 million Breeders' Cup Juvenile Fillies Turf (G1) as part of the ”Win and You're In” international Breeders' Cup Challenge Series.

The Breeders' Cup Challenge is a series of stakes races whose winners receive automatic starting positions and fees paid into corresponding races of the Breeders' Cup World Championships, which is scheduled to be held at Keeneland Race Course in Lexington, Kentucky, on Nov. 6-7.

Santosha provided young trainer David Loughnane with the biggest win of his career when landing the Princess Margaret Stakes (G3) at Ascot in July and Loughnane believes her latest run, an eighth-place finish in the Sky Bet Lowther Stakes (G2) on Aug. 20, can be ignored.

Loughnane said: “The Lowther was just one race too many for her. She got very wound up in the paddock before and then fell asleep a bit in the stalls and missed the kick. She has had a nice break since York. We feel that she has every right to be here and hopefully we can get her season back on track.”

When asked whether Santosha could head to Keeneland for the Breeders' Cup Juvenile Fillies Turf, Loughnane said: “Every race is on the table for her but we'll take it one race at a time. We certainly wouldn't turn our noses up at the Breeders' Cup if it was the right option for her.”

Aidan O'Brien has won the Shadwell Rockfel Stakes three times in his career, most recently with Just Wonderful, who won the 2018 renewal before going on to finish fourth in the Breeders' Cup Juvenile Fillies Turf at Churchill Downs. He relies on Ballylynch Stud/Irish EBF Ingabelle Stakes listed winner Monday, bred in Kentucky by Chelston, Orpendale & Wynatt, in Friday's contest. Monday is the first foal out of Group 1-winning juvenile Ballydoyle (IRE). She will be ridden by Ryan Moore.

Isabella Giles (IRE), a 7-length winner of the Ladbrokes Prestige Stakes (G3) at Goodwood last time, has won three of her four career starts, with her only defeat coming at the hands of Santosha in the Princess Margaret Stakes. She is trained by Clive Cox and will be ridden by Adam Kirby.

Last year's Rockfel winner, Daahyeh (GB), went on to finish second in the Breeders' Cup Juvenile Fillies Turf at Santa Anita. Her trainer Roger Varian, saddles Nazuna (IRE), a Kodiac (GB) filly who was second on her latest start at Doncaster.

The field is completed by Alba Rose (GB), a decisive winner of a novice stakes race over 7-furlongs at Thirsk. Mark Johnston trains the daughter of Muhaarar (GB), who will once again be ridden by Joe Fanning.

As part of the benefits of the Challenge Series, the Breeders' Cup will pay the entry fees for the winner of the Shadwell Rockfel Stakes to start in the Breeders' Cup Juvenile Fillies Turf, which will be run at 1-mile over the Keeneland turf course. Breeders' Cup also will provide a travel allowance of $40,000 for all starters based outside of North America to compete in the World Championships. The Challenge winner must already be nominated to the Breeders' Cup program by the Championships' pre-entry deadline of Oct. 26 to receive the rewards.

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Fastnet Rock’s Monday Makes All in the Ingabelle

Coolmore’s once-raced Monday (Fastnet Rock {Aus}), who posted a Sept. 3 debut fourth over this seven-furlong trip at Punchestown in her only prior start, stepped forward to shed maiden status in Saturday’s Listed Ballylinch Stud Irish EBF Ingabelle S. at Leopardstown. She was smartly away from an inside gate and dictated at a modest tempo along the fence after the initial strides of this black-type bow. Unflustered until scrubbed along off the home turn, the 12-1 chance refused to buckle and kept on strongly under a final-furlong drive to hold No Speak Alexander (Ire) (Shalaa {Ire}) by 3/4-of-a-length with A Taad Moody (Ire) (Awtaad {Ire}) 1 1/2 lengths back in third.

“She’s the first foal out of Ballydoyle and we thought she was very nice the first day, but she just found Punchestown a bit unusual around those bends,” explained winning trainer Aidan O’Brien. “She probably learned a lot the first day, the ground is lovely and she learned a good bit more today. I’d say she won’t have any problem stepping up quick to a Group race. The [G1 Prix Marcel] Boussac at ParisLongchamp], the [G1] Fillies’ Mile [at Newmarket] and all those races will be open to her.”

Monday, half-sister to a yearling colt by War Front and a weanling filly by Justify, is the first of three foals out of G1 Prix Marcel Boussac heroine Ballydoyle (Ire) (Galileo {Ire}), herself a full-sister to MG1SW distaffer Misty For Me (Ire) and MGSP Listed Hurry Harriet S. victress Twirl (Ire). Misty For Me produced three pattern-race winners, most notably MG1SW sire U S Navy Flag (War Front) and three-time Group 1 winner Roly Poly (War Front), and her unraced dam Butterfly Cove (Storm Cat) is a full-sister to G3 Leopardstown 1000 Guineas Trial S. winner Kamarinskaya and a half to MG1SW sire Fasliyev (Nureyev).

Saturday, Leopardstown, Ireland
BALLYLINCH STUD IRISH EBF INGABELLE S.-Listed, €100,000, Leopardstown, 9-12, 2yo, f, 7fT, 1:28.27, gd.
1–MONDAY, 128, f, 2, by Fastnet Rock (Aus)
1st Dam: Ballydoyle (Ire) (Hwt. 2yo Filly-Fr, G1SW-Fr, GSW & G1SP-Ire, G1SP-Eng, $538,223), by Galileo (Ire)
2nd Dam: Butterfly Cove, by Storm Cat
3rd Dam: Mr. P’s Princess, by Mr. Prospector
1ST BLACK-TYPE WIN. O-Michael Tabor, Derrick Smith & Susan Magnier; B-Chelston, Orpendale & Wynatt (KY); T-Aidan O’Brien; J-Seamus Heffernan. €60,000. Lifetime Record: 2-1-0-0, $71,992.
2–No Speak Alexander (Ire), 128, f, 2, Shalaa (Ire)–Rapacity Alexander (Ire), by Dandy Man (Ire). (€190,000 RNA Ylg ’19 GOFOR). O-Charles O’Callaghan, Noel O’Callaghan & Paul O’Callaghan; B-Mount Armstrong Stud. (IRE); T-Jessica Harrington. €20,000.
3–A Taad Moody (Ire), 128, f, 2, Awtaad (Ire)–Princess Mood (Ger), by Muhtarram. (58,000gns RNA Wlg ’18 TATFOA). O-Mrs Lynne Lyons & Louise Lyons; B-Joann Lyons (IRE); T-Ger Lyons. €10,000.
Margins: 3/4, 1HF, HF. Odds: 12.00, 5.50, 8.50.
Also Ran: Vario (GB), More Beautiful, Sister Rosetta (Ire), Earth Strike (Ire), Allagar (Ire), New Emerald Bay (Ire), Sweet Gardenia (GB), Keeper of Time (Ire). Scratched: Miramis (Ire), Star Image (GB). Click for the Racing Post result.

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