Tag: Pride of Dubai (Aus)

Just Beautiful To Skip Royal Ascot, As Breeders’ Cup Mile In Play

Group 2 winner Just Beautiful (GB) (Pride Of Dubai {Aus}) will not participate at Royal Ascot, and will instead point toward targets later in the summer with a trip to the Breeders' Cup also a possibility, trainer Paddy Twomey revealed on Friday.

The 5-year-old Moyglare Stud colourbearer ran fifth in the G3 Athasi S. at the Curragh in early May, before taking the G2 Lanwades Stud S. later in the month. The G1 Falmouth S., as well as the G1 Prix Rothschild–both in July–and the G1 Prix Maurice de Gheest in August are potential targets for the progressive bay.

Twomey said, “She's not going [to Ascot]. I would say she will go to Deauville maybe. We may look at the Falmouth, but she might go to France for the Prix Maurice De Gheest or Prix Rothschild.”

The trainer added, “The long-term aim would be the [GI] Breeders' Cup Mile at Santa Anita [in November].”

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Dubai Honour Takes Queen Elizabeth, As Haggas Mulls Australian Satellite Yard

Mohamed Obaida's Dubai Honour (Ire) (Pride Of Dubai {Aus}) defeated dual Group 1 scorer Mo'unga (NZ) (Savabeel {Aus}) and nine-time Group 1 winner Anamoe (Aus) (Street Boss) to win the G1 Queen Elizabeth S. at Randwick during the second weekend of The Championships on Saturday.

The William Haggas trainee claimed the G1 Ranvet S. at Rosehill in March, and his two top-level victories have his trainer feeling “pretty keen” to add an Australian satellite yard to his operation.

Haggas, who would likely share the base with Andrew Balding according to Australian reports, told Sky Racing World, “[Balding] He's very keen and I'm pretty keen so we'll see what happens.

“Anamoe is a great horse, take nothing away from him. But this horse has come forward for being here and he's won well today. Don't underestimate him. He's a pretty good horse and he was never quite right last year and he was boxing against some good horses–top, top horses.”

The 5-year-old gelding, who won a brace of Group 2s in 2021, was reunited with regular pilot Tom Marquand, who pulled off the Ranvet/Queen Elizabeth double with the Haggas-trained Addeybb (Ire) (Pivotal {GB}) in 2020. That gelding would repeat in the latter in 2021, again with Marquand in the irons.

Marquand said, “For the boss to target the Queen Elizabeth with another horse and pull it off, it's just insane.

“Genuinely, I've jumped aboard this horse on the right day at the right time and it's everyone else behind it that got the job done. All I had to do was point and shoot.”

Another international race, the G1 Queen Elizabeth II Cup at Sha Tin in Hong Kong, is one of the probable targets for Dubai Honour on Apr. 30.

 

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Dubai Honour Surges To Dollar Success

Mohamed Obaida's Dubai Honour (Ire) (Pride of Dubai {Aus}) stepped out of handicap company to garner Deauville's Aug. 14 G2 Prix Guillaume d'Ornano in his most recent outing and produced a telling burst at the end of Saturday's G2 Qatar Prix Dollar to double his pattern-race tally in impressive fashion. Settled off a steady tempo in ninth after the initial exchanges, the 5-2 favourite made eyecatching headway out wide in the straight to launch his challenge passing the furlong marker and kept on powerfully under a continued drive in the closing stages to win going away by 1 1/2 lengths from Magny Cours (Medaglia d'Oro), completing a clean sweep of the card's stakes races for British raiders.

“It's turning into quite a good day and, beforehand, all my rides looked to have good chances on paper,” explained James Doyle after claiming his third winner of the afternoon. “I was quietly confident, but I've had other days like that at Longchamp where you think you could ride a few winners and nothing happens. It was difficult to assess Dubai Honour's chances as he'd won a strong handicap at Newmarket on quicker ground and the race kind of set up for closers in Deauville last time, but you couldn't knock that performance today. I was in two minds what to do from a tricky draw. I could have pushed him forward to get a position, but I decided we'd be brave and hang on. It's a long straight down to the second winning post and there was never really a moment's worry.”

“He is an exciting prospect and is probably even better on good ground,” added the owner's representative and former jockey Philip Robinson. “There's a possibility he might go to Hong Kong for the International meeting in December. He could also run in between, but nothing is certain at this moment. If he doesn't go to Hong Kong, we'll see him again next year instead.”

Dubai Honour is the first foal bred from the unraced Mondelice (GB) (Montjeu {Ire}), herself a half-sister to G3 Prix Daphnis victor Last Kingdom (Frankel {GB}). Dubai Honour's G1 Phoenix S.-winning third dam Damson (Ire) (Entrepreneur {GB}), who also landed the G2 Queen Mary S. at two, is the dam of G2 Flying Childers S. and G3 Molecomb S.-winning sire Requinto (Ire) (Dansili {GB}) and the second dam of G3 Eulogy S. winner Lilikoi (NZ) (Charm Spirit {Ire}). The next dam Tadkiyra (Ire) (Darshaan {GB}) produced G3 Prestige S. victrix Geminiani (Ire) (King of Kings {Ire}) and is kin to four stakes winners including G3 Prix Messidor victor Tassmoun (Kalamoun {GB}) and Listed Chester S. victrix Tarikhana (Ire) (Mouktar {Ire}), herself responsible for G1 Prix Royal-Oak hero Tiraaz (Lear Fan). Tadkiyra is also a half-sister to G3 Princess Royal S. victrix Tashtiya (Ire) (Shergar {GB}), herself the fourth dam of the card's G2 Prix de Chaudenay victor Manobo (Ire) (Sea the Stars {Ire}). Mondelice has the unraced 2-year-old filly Shishito (Ire) (Wootton Bassett {GB}), a yearling colt by Cracksman (GB) and a weanling colt by Invincible Spirit (Ire) to come.

Saturday, ParisLongchamp, France
QATAR PRIX DOLLAR-G2, €200,000, ParisLongchamp, 10-2, 3yo/up, 9 3/4fT, 2:08.14, vsf.
1–DUBAI HONOUR (IRE), 127, g, 3, by Pride of Dubai (Aus)
1st Dam: Mondelice (GB), by Montjeu (Ire)
2nd Dam: Compelling (Ire), by Kingmambo
3rd Dam: Damson (Ire), by Entrepreneur (GB)
(110,000 gns Ylg '19 TAOCT). O-Mohamed Obaida; B-Macha Bloodstock & Meridian International SARL (IRE); T-William Haggas; J-James Doyle. €114,000. Lifetime Record: 8-4-1-0, €399,578. Werk Nick Rating: A++. Click for the eNicks report & 5-cross pedigree.
2–Magny Cours, 128, g, 6, Medaglia d'Oro–Indy Five Hundred, by A.P. Indy. O/B-Godolphin (KY); T-Andre Fabre. €44,000.
3–Dawn Intello (Fr), 128, c, 4, Intello (Ger)–Gadalka, by Giant's Causeway. (€57,000 Ylg '18 AROCT). O-AB Racing & Ecurie Ades Hazan; B-Viktor Tymoshenko (FR); T-Andreas Schutz. €21,000.
Margins: 1HF, NK, HD. Odds: 2.50, 3.30, 27.00.
Also Ran: Third Realm (GB), Megallan (GB), Cadillac (Ire), Saiydabad, Adhamo (Ire), Patrick Sarsfield (Fr), Kenway (Fr). Click for the Racing Post result or the free Equineline.com catalogue-style pedigree. Video, sponsored by TVG.

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Pride of Dubai’s Dubai Honour Takes The Guillaume d’Ornano

There was a surprise in store at Deauville on Saturday, with the feature G2 Prix Guillaume d'Ornano Haras du Logis Saint-Germain going to one of the lesser-fancied of the British raiders in Dubai Honour (Ire) (Pride of Dubai {Aus}) from the red-hot William Haggas stable. Last seen beating the subsequent G3 Rose of Lancaster S. winner Foxes Tales (Ire) (Zoffany {Ire}) by a head in receipt of nine pounds in a heritage handicap over this 10-furlong trip at Newmarket July 9, the gelding who sports the Mohamed Obaida silks raced in rear early as Maxime Guyon waited off the strong pace. Coming alive in the straight, the 11-1 shot was able to reel in the leaders with relative ease passing the furlong pole and draw away for a comfortable 1 3/4-length defeat of Pretty Tiger (Ire) (Sea the Moon {Ger}). In doing so, he completed a group-race treble for his yard after the wins of Cloudy Dawn (Ire) (Kodiac {GB}) in this track's G3 Prix de Lieurey and Sacred (GB) (Exceed and Excel {Aus}) in the G2 Hungerford S. “The trainer showed some confidence, but he did say that I'd do well not being too far from the pace,” Guyon commented. “That was not easy from his eight draw and with the pace strong I had to travel at the back. When I moved between horses, he really changed gears and that was something that the trainer wasn't certain he could do. I tell you, this horse knows how to quicken!”

Dubai Honour, who was off the mark at the third attempt trying a mile for the first time at Haydock in September, had been gelded after a subsequent fourth in a nursery at that trip at York the following month. Making his reappearance in Royal Ascot's always-competitive Britannia H. staying at a mile June 17, he performed with credit in that tough re-entry to lead home all on the far side only to finish fourth overall before moving up to this trip to outstay the classy Foxes Tales in a strong handicap at the July meeting. Despite TDN Rising Star Derab (GB) (Sea the Stars {Ire}) and the G1 Prix de Diane runner-up Philomene (Ire) (Dubawi {Ire}) failing to meet expactations here, the form has a solid look and there was no hint of fluke in the winner's dominant performance.

Dubai Honour is the first foal out of the unraced Mondelice (GB) (Montjeu {Ire}) who is a half-sister to the G3 Prix Daphnis winner Last Kingdom (Frankel {GB}) and the GIII Sweetest Chant S. third Ivyetsu (Tapit). She is a granddaughter of the G1 Phoenix S. heroine Damson (Ire) (Entrepreneur {GB}), who is also the dam of the G2 Flying Childers S. and G3 Molecomb S.-winning sire Requinto (Ire) (Dansili {GB}) and the second dam of the G3 Eulogy S. winner Lilikoi (NZ) (Charm Spirit {Ire}). BBA Ireland had the foresight to invest 160,000gns in her 2-year-old daughter of Wootton Bassett (GB) at the Tattersalls October Yearling Sale Book 2, while her yearling colt is by Cracksman (GB) and she has a colt foal by Invincible Spirit (Ire).

Saturday, Deauville, France
PRIX GUILLAUME D'ORNANO – HARAS DU LOGIS SAINT-GERMAIN-G2, €400,000, Deauville, 8-14, 3yo, 10fT, 2:04.83, g/s.
1–DUBAI HONOUR (IRE), 128, g, 3, by Pride of Dubai (Aus)
1st Dam: Mondelice (GB), by Montjeu (Ire)
2nd Dam: Compelling (Ire), by Kingmambo
3rd Dam: Damson (Ire), by Entrepreneur (GB)
1ST BLACK-TYPE WIN; 1ST GROUP WIN. (110,000 gns Ylg '19 TAOCT). O-Mohamed Obaida; B-Macha Bloodstock & Meridian International SARL (IRE); T-William Haggas; J-Maxime Guyon. €228,000. Lifetime Record: 7-3-1-0, €285,578. Werk Nick Rating: A+. Click for the eNicks report & 5-cross pedigree.
2–Pretty Tiger (Ire), 128, c, 3, Sea the Moon (Ger)–Fast and Pretty (Ire), by Zamindar. (€105,000 Ylg '19 ARAUG). O-Bernard Giraudon & Ecuries Serge Stempniak; B-Chevotel de la Hauquerie (IRE); T-Fabrice Vermeulen. €88,000.
3–Tasman Bay (Fr), 128, c, 3, Le Havre (Ire)–Purely Priceless (Ire), by Galileo (Ire). (€220,000 Ylg '19 ARAUG). O-Sir Peter Vela; B-SARL de Chambure, Haras d'Etreham & SARL Ecurie des Charmes (FR); T-Sir Mark Todd. €42,000.
Margins: 1 3/4, NK, NK. Odds: 11.30, 6.10, 24.00.
Also Ran: Highland Avenue (Ire), Philomene (Ire), Caprice des Dieux (Fr), Millebosc (Fr), Derab (GB). Click for the Racing Post result or the free Equineline.com catalogue-style pedigree. Video, sponsored by TVG.

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