National Defense To Miss Breeding Season

National Defense (GB), who sired a first-crop Breeders' Cup winner when Twilight Gleaming (Ire) won the GII Juvenile Turf Sprint at Del Mar on Nov. 5, will miss the 2022 Northern Hemisphere breeding season after suffering an injury while on covering duty at Widden Stud's Victorian satellite in Australia. The 2016 G1 Prix Jean Luc Lagardere winner will remain at Widden rather than traveling back to the Irish National Stud, where he was due to stand for €8,000.

“Unfortunately National Defense sustained an injury while on covering duties in Australia,” said Irish National Stud Chief Executive Officer Cathal Beale. “He is recuperating well but on veterinary advice and in the interest of the welfare of the horse we have decided it would be prudent not to travel him at this moment in time. It is an unfortunate setback with his first crop having performed with such distinction but we look forward to welcoming him to the Irish National Stud to resume Northern Hemisphere duties in 2023.”

National Defense has sired five winners from a crop of 21 this year.

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Lucky Vega To Stand For €15,000

Lucky Vega (Ire) (Lope De Vega {Ire}), who stands his first Northern Hemisphere season next year at the Irish National Stud, will debut at €15,000. Raced by Yulong Investments, Lucky Vega won the G1 Phoenix S. at two and placed in this year's G1 2000 Guineas and G1 St James's Palace S. before retiring to stand at Yulong's Australian headquarters.

Also new at the Irish National Stud for 2022 is last year's G2 Coventry S. winner and G1 Prix Morny and G1 Prix Jean-Luc Lagardere runner-up Nando Parrado (GB) (Kodiac {GB}). He will stand for €6,000.

Invincible Spirit (Ire) once again leads the Irish National Stud roster, and his standout performers in 2021 included Group 3 winner and Group 1 performer Pearls Galore (Fr) and G2 Rockfel S. scorer Hello You (Ire). Invincible Spirit, at the age of 24, is available for €60,000 next year, down from €80,000 in 2021.

G1 Irish 2000 Guineas winner Phoenix Of Spain (Ire), whose first foals were born this year, will stand for €12,000 in 2022. National Defense (Ire), whose first-crop runners this year were highlighted by the GII Breeders' Cup Juvenile Turf Sprint scorer Twilight Gleaming (Ire), will stand for €8,000.

The later-developing triple Group 1 winner Decorated Knight (GB) has supplied 10 first-crop winners this season, and he will stand for €7,500 in 2022. Free Eagle (Ire), whose high-class Dancing King (Ire) was one of the highlights of the Tattersalls Autumn Horses-In-Training Sale at 380,000gns, is available for €5,000.

Equiano (Fr), Elusive Pimpernel (Ire) and Dragon Pulse (Ire) will all stand for €2,000.

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‘Gleaming’ Sparkles in Third-Straight Juvenile Turf Sprint for Ward & Ortiz

Stonestreet Stables LLC's 'TDN Rising Star' Twilight Gleaming (Ire) (National Defense {GB}), less fancied than her unbeaten stablemate Averly Jane (Midshipman), out-footed them all early and held the cavalry charge off late to provide both trainer Wesley Ward and Irad Ortiz, Jr. with their third-straight renewal of the GII Breeders' Cup Juvenile Turf Sprint in its four-year history. European colt Go Bears Go (Ire) (Kodi Bear {Ire}) was a half-length back in second, with another Ward-trained filly Kaufymaker (Jimmy Creed) spicing up the trifecta. Derrynane (Quality Road) came from far back to be fourth, with Averly Jane settling for fifth but giving fillies four of the top five spots.

A debut second at 3-5 when unveiled on the Keeneland dirt in early April, £75,000 Goffs Orby yearling buy Twilight Gleaming took to the Belmont turf next out in May, airing by an emphatic 7 1/2 lengths over another Ward runner in next-out winner and subsequently MSP Poppy Flower (Lea). Twilight Gleaming checked in second to Monday defection Quick Suzy (Ire) (Profitable {Ire}) when favored for Royal Ascot's G2 Queen Mary S. June 16, and had been unseen since narrowly annexing the listed Prix de la Vallee d'Auge over soft Deauville ground Aug. 7.

Carrying the colors of recently named Breeders' Cup Chairwoman Barbara Banke, Twilight Gleaming out-broke the field by about a length before being joined to her outside by Speakeasy S. winner One Timer (Trappe Shot). She doled out an opening quarter of :21.61, and starter to leave her nearest pursuer under confident handling into a :44.03 half. The closers got going in the final furlong, but were left with too much to do, and too tough a target.

“I think the way my filly broke over there… we won the race right there,” Ortiz said. “I didn't have to use much, I just got her on the rail and she did the rest, really. She's a nice filly.”

“I was really confident in this filly,” Ward said of the winner. “I feel bad for the other two owners because we are all trying to win, but this filly, she had good spacing from her win in France and every work at Keeneland just kept getting better and better. She was coming into it just fresh and fit and ready to go and she did it.”

Ward continued, “And, I'm not just saying this because she's Barbara Banke, but Barbara has been a loyal supporter of ours and she really got the itch to go over to England. We got some good horses and Ben McElroy got this filly for her and we bought some others for next year to go to Ascot with and I'm excited to see those. She's just such a great lady and she loves the sport. We are really excited.”

Ward has trained fellow female turf sprinting phenoms Campanelle (Ire) (Kodiac {GB})–also a McElroy buy–and Lady Aurelia (Scat Daddy) for Stonestreet. He took the 2019 running of this race with Four Wheel Drive (American Pharoah) and last year's renewal with Golden Pal (Uncle Mo).

“She's been training really, really and she just looked terrific and she's really smart,” Banke said of Twilight Gleaming. “And you could tell she was just figuring it out. She wasn't hot or bothered or, but she was ready to rumble and she did.”

As for the beaten favorite, rider Tyler Gaffalione said, “She broke sharp, but she just didn't really get it going. I looked to my inside and outside and I was already getting outrun. She wasn't grabbing the bit on me so I dropped my hands to see if she will take me a little bit. She did, but she just didn't have it today.”

Friday, Del Mar
BREEDERS' CUP JUVENILE TURF SPRINT-GII, $920,000, Del Mar, 11-5, 2yo, 5fT, :56.24, fm.
1–TWILIGHT GLEAMING (IRE), 119, f, 2, by National Defense (GB)
                1st Dam: Thames Pageant (GB), by Dansili (GB)
                2nd Dam: Golden Stream (Ire), by Sadler's Wells
                3rd Dam: Phantom Gold (GB), by Machiavellian
1ST GRADED STAKES WIN. 'TDN Rising Star'. (£75,000 Ylg '20
GOFOR). O-Stonestreet Stables LLC; B-Pier House Stud (IRE);
T-Wesley A. Ward; J-Irad Ortiz, Jr. $520,000. Lifetime Record:
SW-Fr, GSP-Eng, 5-3-2-0, $637,251. Werk Nick Rating: A. Click
   for the eNicks report & 5-cross pedigree.
2–Go Bears Go (Ire), 122, c, 2, Kodi Bear (Ire)–In Dubai, by
Giant's Causeway. (£50,000 Ylg '20 TATIRY; 150,000gns 2yo '21
TATBRE). O-AMO Racing USA, LLC, Lessee & Peter Waney;
B-Micheal D. Ryan (IRE); T-David Loughnane. $170,000.
3–Kaufymaker, 119, f, 2, Jimmy Creed–Heaven's Touch, by
Montbrook. O/B-Gregory Kaufman (KY); T-Wesley A. Ward.
$90,000.
Margins: HF, HF, HD. Odds: 5.20, 12.30, 24.50.
Also Ran: Derrynane, Averly Jane, Hierarchy (Ire), Vertiginous (Ire), Armor (GB), One Timer, Twilight Jet (Ire), Time to Party, Run Curtis Run. Scratched: Sumter, Thunder Love (GB).
Click for the Equibase.com chart, the TJCIS.com PPs or the free Equineline.com catalogue-style pedigree. VIDEO, sponsored by TVG.

Pedigree Notes:
A stakes winner in both Europe and America, Twilight Gleaming is the only black-type winner and now the only graded winner so far from the small first crop of National Defense, a son of Invincible Spirit (Ire) who took the G1 Prix Jean Luc Lagardere over a mile at two before taking up stud duties at Irish National Stud (he also shuttles to Australia).
Twilight Gleaming is the 59th graded scorer and one of 95 black-type winners out of a daughter of Dansili. Her dam Thames Pageant is a daughter of SW & MGSP Golden Stream, who is also the dam of GSW Reach For The Moon (GB) (Sea the Stars {Ire}). Her third dam is MGSW Phantom Gold (GB) (Machiavellian). Thames Pageant produced a Sioux Nation colt in 2020 and a Phoenix of Spain (Ire) filly in 2021.

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Twilight Gleaming A Stakes First For National Defense at Deauville

Stonestreet Stables LLC's 2-year-old filly Twilight Gleaming (Ire) (National Defense {GB}) gained recompense for a defeat in Royal Ascot's G2 Queen Mary S. with a first black-type success in Saturday's Listed Prix de la Vallee d'Auge at Deauville, becoming the first black-type winner for her freshman sire (by Invincible Spirit {Ire}).

Saturday, Deauville, France
PRIX DE LA VALLEE D'AUGE-Listed, €60,000, Deauville, 8-7, 2yo, 5fT, :58.86, vsf.
1–TWILIGHT GLEAMING (IRE), 123, f, 2, by National Defense (GB)
1st Dam: Thames Pageant (GB), by Dansili (GB)
2nd Dam: Golden Stream (Ire), by Sadler's Wells
3rd Dam: Phantom Gold (GB), by Machiavellian
1ST BLACK-TYPE WIN. (£75,000 Ylg '20 GOFOR). O-Stonestreet Stables LLC; B-Pier House Stud (IRE); T-Wesley Ward; J-Lanfranco Dettori. €30,000. Lifetime Record: GSP-Eng, 4-2-2-0, €96,163.
2–Delmona (Ire), 123, f, 2, Dandy Man (Ire)–Imelda Mayhem (GB), by Byron (GB). (£44,000 Ylg '20 TATIRY). O-H H Shaikh Nasser Al Khalifa & Fawzi Nass; B-Ballyhane Stud (IRE); T-Tom Dascombe. €12,000.
3–Royal Ashirah (Ire), 127, f, 2, Hot Streak (Ire)–Royal Visit (Ire), by King's Best. (£13,000 Ylg '20 TATSEP). O-Antonino Caracciolo; B-Michael Downey & Roalso Ltd (Ire); T-Gianluca Bietolini. €9,000.
Margins: NK, 3HF, 4. Odds: 0.70, 4.10, 9.00.
Also Ran: Papa Don't Preach (Ire), Help (Fr), Faster (Fr), Filly of Malta (Ire). Click for the Racing Post result. Video, sponsored by TVG.

Twilight Gleaming bettered an Apr. 8 debut second over 4 1/2 furlongs at Keeneland with a 'TDN Rising Star' performance in a May 9 maiden special weight when upped to five furlongs at Belmont and went postward for this retrieval mission coming back off a runner-up finish in the June 16 G2 Queen Mary S. at Royal Ascot. In command throughout this straight dash, the 7-10 favourite was shaken up with 350 metres remaining and ridden out inside the final furlong to withstand the late threat of G3 Princess Margaret S. third Delmona by a neck for a first black-type triumph.

Twilight Gleaming becomes the first black-type scorer for her freshman sire (by Invincible Spirit {Ire}) and for her dam Thames Pageant (GB) (Dansili {GB}). Thames Pageant, who has a yearling colt by Sioux Nation to come, is a full-sister to G1 Winx S. second  Mainstream (GB) out of Listed Eternal S. and Listed October S. winner Golden Stream (Ire) (Sadler's Wells). Golden Stream, who also threw this year's Listed Chesham S. runner-up Reach For The Moon (GB) (Sea the Stars {Ire}), is the leading performer out of MGSW G2 Ribblesdale S. heroine Phantom Gold (GB) (Machiavellian), herself a full-sister to G1 Epsom Oaks runner-up Flight of Fancy (GB). Flight of Fancy is the dam of dual G3 Winter Hill S. victor Fabricate (GB) (Makfi {GB}) while Phantom Gold's other descendants include Listed Fillies' Trial S. victrix Momentary (GB) (Nayef) and Listed Stand Cup victor Sextant (GB) (Sea The Stars {Ire}).

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