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Highest Ground Returns at Haydock

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 Insights features the return of two ‘TDN Rising Stars’.

1.10 Haydock, Novice, £5,400, 3yo/up, 10f 100yT
HIGHEST GROUND (IRE) (Frankel {GB}) makes his eagerly-awaited return, having earned TDN Rising Star status a long time ago when impressing on his winning debut at Leicester in September. The Niarchos Family’s relative of the sire King of Happiness (Spinning World) encounters another TDN Rising Star in Gestut Ammerland and Newsells Park Stud’s Waldkonig (GB) (Kingman {GB}), the John Gosden-trained half-brother to Waldgeist (GB) (Galileo {Ire}) who was third when odds-on for the Listed Newmarket S. earlier this month.

2.10 Haydock, Novice, £6,400, 2yo, 7f 37yT
CAIRN ISLAND (IRE) (Kodiac {GB}) cost trainer Kevin Ryan 525,000gns at the Tattersalls October Book 1 Sale and debuts for Sheikh Mohammed Obaid Al Maktoum in this intriguing affair. The half-brother to the useful Galileo (Ire) pair of Cameron Highland (Ire) and Field of Miracles (Ire) gets seven pounds from Russell Jones’s Tom Dascombe-trained Devious Company (Ire) (Fast Company {Ire}), who beat some rivals who fared well in last week’s Listed Chesham S. including March Law (Ire) (Lawman {Fr}) on his debut at Haydock earlier this month.

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Half to Nemoralia Debuts at Kempton

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 Insights features a half-sister to MG1SP Nemoralia (More Than Ready).

6.55 Kempton, Mdn, £5,400, 3yo/up, f/m, 8fT
AUREUM (Medaglia d’Oro) debuts for Godolphin and John Gosden, having cost $800,000 at the Keeneland September Yearling Sale in 2018. The half-sister to More Than Ready’s G3 City of York S. winner and triple group and grade one-placed Nemoralia and Ides of August, who was off the mark on his debut on Sunday, the April-foaled bay encounters another newcomer of note in Khalid Abdullah’s Sun Tide (GB) (Siyouni {Fr}), a Ralph Beckett-trained half-sister to the luminary Midday (GB) (Oasis Dream {GB}) and smart pair Hot Snap (GB) (Pivotal {GB}) and Sun Maiden (GB) (Frankel {GB}).

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Son of Treve Begins His Career at Chantilly

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 Insights features the first foal of dual Arc heroine Treve (Fr) (Motivator {GB}).

12.10 Chantilly, Cond, €27,000, 2yo, 6fT
Le Haras de La Gousserie’s €62,000 Arqana August bargain buy SEALIWAY (FR) (Galiway {Ire}) posted one of France’s leading freshman performances when impressing with a two-length debut success, defeating two subsequent wide-margin winners, over this distance at Saint-Cloud last month for the Frederic Rossi/Pierre-Charles Boudot axis. With the presence of Scuderia Micolo’s Giulio Cesare (Fr) (Dabirsim {Fr}) in this straight dash, turfistes will have an early opportunity to compare collateral form with juvenile benchmark Livachope (Fr) (Goken {Fr}). The homebred bay, himself the winner of a form-franked maiden on debut at this venue last month, was six-lengths adrift of that sensation in last Sunday’s Listed Prix La Fleche.

1.20 Chantilly, Debutantes, €20,000, 3yo, 10fT
QOUS (FR) (Dubawi {Ire}) is the first foal out of the remarkable dual G1 Prix de l’Arc de Triomphe heroine Treve (Fr) (Motivator {GB}). Andre Fabre is charged with the care of Al Shaqab’s February-foaled bay, whose opponents include His Highness The Aga Khan’s Ashim (Fr) (Stormy Atlantic), an Alain de Roye-Dupre-trained son of Ashiyla (Fr) (Rock of Gibraltar {Ire}) who was fourth in the 2010 G1 Prix Vermeille.

1.35 Tipperary, Mdn, €14,000, 2yo, c/g, 5fT
SWISS ACE (GB) (Kingman {GB}) cost 400,000gns at the Tattersalls October Book 1 Sale and is a half to the four black-type performers Swiss Diva (GB) (Pivotal {GB}), Swiss Spirit (GB) (Invincible Spirit {Ire}), Swiss Dream (GB) (Oasis Dream {GB}) and Swiss Franc (GB) (Mr. Greeley) out of the classy sprinter Swiss Lake (Indian Ridge {Ire}). Aidan O’Brien introduces the February-foaled bay against seven rivals.

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Godolphin Cadets on Parade at Headquarters

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. Thursday’s Insights features a full-sister to MG1SW Wild Illusion (GB) (Dubawi {Ire}).

1.30 Newmarket, Mdn, £6,400, 2yo, 7fT
YIBIR (GB) (Dubawi {Ire}), due postward in a first-time hood for this debut, is kin to three stakes performers headed by full-sister Wild Illusion (GB), who annexed the G1 Prix Marcel Boussac, G1 Nassau S. and G1 Prix de l’Opera for Charlie Appleby. Opening up for the same trainer here, he is joined by stablemate and fellow Godolphin homebred Master of the Seas (Ire) (Dubawi {Ire}), who is half to a quartet of black-type performers including the stakes-winning G1 St James’s Palace S. runner-up Latharnach (Iffraaj {GB}), another former Appleby trainee. Opposition also includes Teme Valley 2’s hitherto unraced Legion of Honour (GB) (Wootton Bassett {GB}), who is a Roger Varian-trained £280,000 Goffs UK Premier yearling from the family of G1 Prix Maurice de Gheest-winning millionaire Brando (GB) (Pivotal {GB}).

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