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Teofilo’s Wexford Native A New Rising Star At Navan

One of only two unraced 3-year-old colts still holding a 2000 Guineas entry, Jim Bolger's homebred Wexford Native (Ire) (Teofilo {Ire}) demonstrated why with a taking success at Navan on Tuesday to earn TDN Rising Star status. Drawn widest in 21, the 5-1 shot was keen for Kevin Manning tracking over to eventually shadow Ballydoyle's forward-ridden Sun King (Ire) (Galileo {Ire}). As that 7-4 favourite turned the screw in the straight, Wexford Native kept tabs and after edging ahead two out strode out impressively to beat that rival by 2 1/2 lengths. In a maiden with smart formlines, there was another 2 3/4-length margin back to Ceallach (Ire) (Lope de Vega {Ire}) in third.

Manning was taken by Bolger's first winner of the new season. “It was a tough call to overcome being drawn 21 and get across. I think he has got a big future,” he said. “He was always travelling and getting a tow. When I went to the front, he was just having a look and when I joined Ryan he was just running away a bit from him. He was just very, very green. He has been showing us some nice work at home and he was last year as well, but he was just a big backward horse. I think a mile to a mile and a quarter, he's pretty versatile because he showed plenty of pace to get across from 21.”

Wexford Native's unraced dam Yes Oh Yes (Gone West), who was a $250,000 purchase at the 2008 Keeneland September Sale, is a half to the G3 Derrinstown Stud 1000 Guineas Trial runner-up and stakes producer Aaroness (Distorted Humor) and to the GIII Boiling Springs S. runner-up Sumba Sunset (Street Cry {Ire}). Under the similarly unraced third dam Lady Lady (Little Current) are a clutch of stakes winners including Grace and Power (More Than Ready), who was runner-up in the GI Hollywood Starlet S. She in turn produced the G1 Darley Classic hero Delectation (Aus) (Shamardal) and is also the second dam of last year's G1 Blue Diamond S. hero Artorius (Aus) (Flying Artie {Aus}) who is bound for Royal Ascot in June. Yes Oh Yes also has a yearling colt by Dawn Approach (Ire).

7th-Navan, €12,000, Mdn, 3-29, 3yo/up, c/g, 8fT, 1:42.66, gd.
WEXFORD NATIVE (IRE), c, 3, by Teofilo (Ire)
     1st Dam: Yes Oh Yes, by Gone West
     2nd Dam: Diamonds for Lil, by Summer Squall
     3rd Dam: Lady Lady, by Little Current
Lifetime Record: 1-1-0-0, $7,910. O-Mrs J S Bolger; B/T-Jim Bolger (IRE). Click for the free Equineline.com catalogue-style pedigree. VIDEO.

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Erevann Returns at Saint-Cloud

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. Tuesday's Observations features a 'TDN Rising Star'.

2.25 Saint-Cloud, Cond, €28,000, 3yo, c/g, 8fT
EREVANN (FR) (Dubawi {Ire}) makes his eagerly-awaited return to action, having earned TDN Rising Star status on his sole start at Deauville in October. The Aga Khan's son of the G1 Poule d'Essai des Pouliches, G1 Coronation S. and G1 Prix du Moulin heroine Ervedya (Fr) (Siyouni {Fr}) has been entered in the G1 Poule d'Essai des Poulains and G1 Prix du Jockey Club by Jean-Claude Rouget and he will have his mettle tested here by Juddmonte's Blue Boat (GB) (Frankel {GB}). A member of the family of Fantasia (GB) (Sadler's Wells), the Francis-Henri Graffard-trained homebred has Classic pretensions himself having beaten the subsequent G3 Prix Thomas Bryon winner Dreamflight (GB) (Frankel {GB}) over this course and distance in September. Also in the mix for this intriguing Prix Comrade is the Wertheimers' Chantilly debut scorer Moneyman (GB) (Kingman {GB}), an Andre Fabre-trained son of Mizz Money (Mizzen Mast), the dual graded-stakes scorer who was bought for 500,000gns at the 2018 Tattersalls December Mares Sale.

 

4.35 Navan, Mdn, €12,000, 3yo, 10fT
STONE AGE (IRE) (Galileo {Ire}) returns as one of the highest-rated maidens in training, having finished second in the G1 Criterium de Saint-Cloud and the G2 Champions Juvenile S. Peter Brant, Susan Magnier and Michael Tabor's relative of the G1 Prix de Diane heroine Bright Sky (Ire) (Wolfhound) holds Derby entries and should have what it takes to get off the mark and join the Ballydoyle ranks for the mile-and-a-half Classics.

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Half to Tiggy Wiggy Set For Navan Debut

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. Wednesday's Observations features a half-sister to Group 1 winner Tiggy Wiggy (Ire) (Kodiac {GB}).
15.30 Navan, Mdn, €12,000, 2yo, 8fT
Masaaki Matsushima and Coolmore's NINJA (IRE) (Galileo {Ire}) is an unraced half-brother to G1 Cheveley Park S. heroine Tiggy Wiggy (Ire) (Kodiac {GB}), herself the dam of G1 Futurity Trophy third Year of the Tiger (Ire) (Galileo {Ire}). He is accompanied by Aidan O'Brien stablemate Temple of Artemis (Ire) (Galileo {Ire}), who is a once-raced full-brother to three black-type performers headed by G1 Irish Derby and G1 Gold Cup runner-up Kingfisher (Ire); and White Birch Farm's Porto Ercole (Ire) (Caravaggio), a Ger Lyons-conditioned daughter of G1 Tattersalls Gold Cup third Euphrasia (Ire) (Windsor Knot {Ire}), who returns off a fourth at Naas last month.

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Daughter of Alice Springs Starts at Navan

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. Sunday's Insights features the first foal out of MG1SW Alice Springs.

1.15 Navan, Mdn, €15,500, 2yo, f, 5f 162yT
PRETTIEST (Dubawi {Ire}) is the first foal out of the G1 Falmouth S., G1 Matron S. and G1 Sun Chariot S. winner Alice Springs (Ire) (Galileo {Ire}) who is such a prized asset at Coolmore. Seamie Heffernan has the mount on the February-foaled chestnut, who faces eight rivals and three experienced ones in a tough introduction.

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