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Sumbe to Sponsor Prix Morny

Sumbe will be the new sponsor of the Prix Morny meeting at Deauville as part of a five-year deal, it was announced on Tuesday.

The G1 Sumbe Prix Morny is the highlight of the day's racing on Sunday, August 20, with the supporting races on the card all carrying sponsorship by Nurlan Bizakov's operation.

“It is a real pleasure to announce that Sumbe is to sponsor the Prix Morny for the next five years, marking our first partnership with France Galop,” said Bizakov, whose horses in training are led by his homebred Group 1 winner Belbek (Fr) (Showcasing {GB}).

“It is my first venture into sponsorship, and I am delighted to start with a stallion-making race as important as the Prix Morny. It takes place during the Deauville Barriere meeting, which attracts plenty of international attention. That fits in perfectly with our projects at Sumbe and will give us an opportunity to bring together our clients, partners, and friends from all over the world.”

The Sumbe group is comprised of Haras de Monfort & Préaux and Haras du Mézeray, based over 350 hectares between the French regions of Orne and Calvados, and Hesmonds Stud in England. The farms are home to 50 Sumbe broodmares and boarders. In France, Sumbe stands the stallions Mishriff (Ire), Golden Horde (Ire), De Treville (GB) and Recorder (GB).

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Coolmore Fees: No Nay Never Up To 175k and Blackbeard To Start At 25k

Off the back of a star-studded season, No Nay Never will stand for €175,000 in 2023, which represents a €50,000 rise, while his dual Group 1-winning son Blackbeard (Ire) will join him on the Coolmore roster next year at a price of €25,000.

No Nay Never has had an exceptional year. Older filly Alcohol Free (Ire) landed the G1 July Cup at Newmarket, but it has been his Coolmore-owned and Aidan O'Brien-trained juveniles that have set tongues wagging this term.

Like his father, Blackbeard landed the G1 Prix Morny in Deauville before doubling his tally at the highest level in the G1 Middle Park S. at Newmarket.

While he was prematurely retired due to a training injury, Group 1 scorers Little Big Bear (Ire) and Meditate (Ire) sit at the head of the ante-post markets for the 2,000 and 1,000 Guineas respectively.

Coolmore's director of sales, David O'Loughlin said, “No Nay Never has had an unbelievable year. The quality of the mares he got off the back of his success has really been shining through and, to have three individual Group 1-winning two-year-olds in the one year, he has caught the attention of a lot of people.

“It has been another big week for him with Meditate winning the GI Breeders' Cup Juvenile Fillies Turf and she is now a leading fancy for the 1,000 Guineas. Little Big Bear is favourite for the 2,000 Guineas, so No Nay Never has a big chance for the first two Classics of the season. That means a lot for us because we are trying to win the Classics.”

Sioux Nation hails from the same sire line being a son of Scat Daddy, and enjoyed a terrific debut season at stud at Coolmore with 43 winners. He will have his fee increased from €10,000 to 17,500 next year. Blackbeard is being backed to make a similar splash in his debut season by O'Loughlin.

He said, “To get a horse like Blackbeard on the roster is hugely exciting as well. Breeders love fast horses and he proved himself of the highest quality this season and was reminiscent of his father when winning the G1 Prix Morny is some style before following up in the G1 Middle Park S. at Newmarket. That was the icing on the cake of another big season.

“Blackbeard is very like his father-the same colour, shape and he has the movement. Everything a breeder wants, he has. He's also out of a very fast mare who Eddie Lynam trained [Muirin (Ire) (Born To Sea {Ire})] so I think a lot of people will be keen to use him.”

O'Loughlin added, “Commercially, what is driving the market is international appeal. When the international market zones in on a particular sire line, it puts a lot of value on that, much more than the domestic market can. No Nay Never is a good example of that as he has international appeal.

“Take Justify as another example, he has had two Group winners in Europe and three stakes winners in America. It's obvious that he is working both sides of the Atlantic-he has the dirt horses and horses who can do it in Europe as well. For breeders, it will help when they use Arizona, Blackbeard and Sioux Nation because they all hail from that exceptional Scat Daddy line. It's all the one line.”

Like Sioux Nation, Coolmore's Saxon Warrior (Jpn) made a big impression with his first crop of runners. As well as having the highly-touted Auguste Rodin (Ire) to look forward to this season, Saxon Warrior came up trumps with Breeders' Cup Juvenile Turf winner Victoria Road (Ire), one of 21 international winners in his first season.

O'Loughlin said, “Saxon Warrior had an exceptional year. Again, he's a horse with international appeal being a son of Deep Impact (Jpn), who was the best horse to stand in Japan. Auguste Rodin is a very special horse and Victoria Road crowned a remarkable year with his victory in the Breeders Cup Juvenile Turf.

“It's remarkable because Saxon Warrior wasn't the most precocious of horses and, for him to be getting all of these top-class two-year-olds is a big statement. He has some very good two-year-olds and who's to say that Greenland (Ire) won't be the best of them all. I know that a lot of people think he is a high-class horse to look forward to next year. Some big breeders have latched on to him after his debut season and I even sold a nomination to him out here in Keeneland the other day. They think the horse is great value at €35,000.”

Wootton Bassett will stand for €150,000, St Mark's Basilica's 2023 fee is €65,000, and Camelot (GB) is at €60,000. Churchill (Ire), the sire of dual Group 1 winner Vadeni (Fr), has had his fee increased to €30,000, Starspangledbanner (Aus) will stand for €50,000, Australia (GB) and Sottsass (Fr) for €25,000 and Ten Sovereigns (Ire) and Gleneagles (Ire) for €17,500.

Footstepsinthesand, Circus Maximus, Calyx and US Navy Flag are set at €10,000, Arizona (Ire) is €5,000 and Gustav Klimt (Ire) will be available at €4,000.

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Perfect Power Gets First Group 1 Win, Second BC Berth In Prix Morny At Deauville

Sheikh Rashid Dalmook Al Maktoum's Perfect Power (IRE) showed an electric turn of foot to win the Group 1 Darley Prix Morny at Deauville on Sunday and captured his second Breeders' Cup Challenge race this year in the Juvenile Turf Sprint Division. In June at Royal Ascot, Perfect Power won the Group 2 Norfolk Stakes and secured an automatic starting position into this year's $1 million Grade 2 Breeders' Cup Juvenile Turf Sprint.

The Breeders' Cup Challenge Series is an international series of 84 stakes races whose winners receive automatic starting positions and fees paid into a corresponding race of the Breeders' Cup World Championships, which will be held at Del Mar Thoroughbred Club in Del Mar, California on Nov. 5-6.

Perfect Power scored his first Group 1 success when powering to victory in the six-furlong Darley Prix Morny at 3/1.

Settled near the rear of the 14-runner field under Christophe Soumillon, the 2-year-old son of Ardad (IRE) out of the Frozen Power (IRE) mare Sagely (IRE), showed all his class when battling past 14/1 Trident (FR) in the final stages of the race to win by 1 ¼ lengths. Third place went to trainer Alan King's Asymmetric (IRE) who returned at 4/1.

Perfect Power completed the race in 1:10.81 on a course rated as good to soft.

Winning trainer Richard Fahey said: “I'm just delighted, it looked a very solid race there today. Christophe gave him a very confident ride, and it got tight for two strides or so, but he came through it, which was great. It's been a frustrating enough year, but this is just what the doctor ordered. It's why we do it and why we're in the game.”

The Group 1 Juddmonte Middle Park Stakes at Newmarket on Sept. 25 is next on the agenda for Perfect Power. Fahey added: “He'll definitely go for the Middle Park next. It's not often you make a plan for a horse, but the two races myself and Sheikh Rashid mentioned were the Prix Morny and then the Middle Park, and it's very nice to have one in the bag already.”

As part of the benefits of the Challenge Series, Breeders' Cup will pay the entry fees for Perfect Power to start in the Breeders' Cup Juvenile Turf Sprint, which will be run over 5 furlongs on the turf course at Del Mar. Breeders' Cup will also provide a travel allowance of $40,000 for all starters based outside of North America to compete in the World Championships.

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Morny and Romanet Share Centre Stage On Sunday

Deauville offers a double act to savour on Sunday, with the G1 Darley Prix Morny and the G1 Darley Prix Jean Romanet the latest in the catalogue of top-level contests to be staged at the Normandy venue. In the former, Al Shaqab Racing are represented by another of their star 2-year-olds in Armor (GB) (No Nay Never) who moves up to this six-furlong trip for the first time following his emphatic win in the G3 Molecomb S. on soft ground at Goodwood July 28. “Armor is in great form and it looks like there is some rain on the way which will help him,” Hannon said. Eclipse Thoroughbred Partners' G2 Queen Mary S. winner Quick Suzy (Ire) (Profitable {Ire}) comes back off a break after that June 16 Royal Ascot contest in the race that favours fillies with three of the last six winners from that sex. “She's in good shape and we're happy with her,” trainer Gavin Cromwell said. “The ground is good-to-soft and potentially could be good ground come Sunday. Either way it's fine. Stepping her back up to six furlongs shouldn't be a problem–it's an easy six in Deauville as well.”

Also successful at the Royal meeting, Sheikh Rashid Dalmook Al Maktoum's Perfect Power (Ire) (Ardad {Ire}) produced a rattle in the five-furlong G2 Norfolk S. June 17 and everything that could go wrong did when he subsequently finished just over a length behind Asymmetric (Ire) (Showcasing {GB}) when fifth in the G2 Richmond S. at Goodwood July 29. Trainer Alan King said of the latter, “He's been very good since Goodwood and has arrived safely. He's obviously the quickest 2-year-old I've ever trained. The forecast looks quite encouraging–the better the ground, the better I think he'll be, so it's very exciting.”

Coolmore and Westerberg's recent acquisition Velocidad (GB) (Gleneagles {Ire}) looks to build on her success in the G2 Airlie Stud S. over this trip at The Curragh June 27, while those partners also have the Andre Fabre-trained Trident (Fr) (Wootton Bassett {GB}) who was third to Have a Good Day (Ire) (Adaay {Ire}) in the course-and-distance G3 Prix de Cabourg Aug. 3. Joseph O'Brien's crop of 2-year-old fillies include Saturday's G2 Debutante S. winner Agartha (Ire) (Caravaggio) and he said, “Velocidad has been a brilliant filly so far, making a winning debut at Fairyhouse prior to winning the Airlie Stud S. at The Curragh last time. This looks a far stronger contest, but she has earned her shot at it and it will be interesting to see how she stacks up against the colts. It would be hard to be confident, given the size of the step up she is taking but hopefully she'll represent us well.”

In the Romanet, Emma Banks's sensation Lady Bowthorpe (GB) (Nathaniel {Ire}) bids for back-to-back Group 1s having conquered Goodwood's G1 Nassau S. over just shy of this 10-furlong trip July 29. Her 1 1/2-length defeat of the 3-year-old Zeyaadah (Ire) (Tamayuz {GB}) there was undermined by the runner-up's performance in Saturday's G2 Prix de la Nonette, but that was too bad to be true. “Everything is going according to plan and I'm very much looking forward to her running,” trainer William Jarvis commented. “She seems to have come out of her Goodwood run very well. It's a pretty strong renewal of the Prix Jean Romanet, so we're taking nothing for granted, but we're hopeful. Ever since she won the Dahlia S. I was keen for her to go to 10 furlongs, but the races didn't really present themselves. She has shown she gets the 10 furlongs very well and depending on how she gets on at Deauville, we could look at the Prix de l'Opera at Longchamp on Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe day.”

Fifth and disappointing in the Nassau, Alison Swinburn's Audarya (Fr) (Wootton Bassett {GB}) who first sprang to prominence when causing a 48-1 upset in this 12 months ago needs to bounce back from that momentum-stopping effort. She was James Fanshawe's third winner of this race which was inaugurated in 2004 and he is the leading trainer as a result, which is a remarkable statistic given his general lack of firepower compared to the major racing establishments. On her win in the GI Breeders' Cup Filly & Mare Turf at Keeneland in November and return second in the G1 Prince of Wales's S. at Royal Ascot June 16, Audarya is at least on a par with Lady Bowthorpe and Fanshawe is expecting an improved display.

“She seems really well after Goodwood and nothing came to light after the race. I'm hopeful she can put that run behind her,” he said. “It's a tougher race than last year, but she seems in good form in herself.”

Shapoor Mistry's Thundering Nights (Ire) (Night of Thunder {Ire}) comes here on the back of a career-best success in The Curragh's G1 Pretty Polly S., where the subsequent GI Belmont Oaks and GI Beverly D. S. heroine Santa Barbara (Ire) (Camelot {GB}) and the re-opposing Cayenne Pepper (Ire) (Australia {GB}) and Insinuendo (Ire) (Gleneagles {Ire}) filled the next three places in that June 27 highlight. There is no mistaking that is strong form, with the latter going on to take the G2 Kilboy Estate S. also at The Curragh July 18. “Thundering Nights has been a brilliant filly for all of us and gave us a day to remember when winning the Pretty Polly S. at The Curragh last time,” trainer Joseph O'Brien said. “Getting the better of Santa Barbara as she did certainly reads well now, given her exploits in America since then. This is the race we've had in mind for her since then, as we wanted to give her a bit of time until her next run given her run at The Curragh had come quite quickly after her trip to America.”

Cayenne Pepper's trainer Jessica Harrington is aware of the task in hand. “It's the best race of the whole year for those fillies. It's an incredible race,” she said. “She's in good form and we've had it in mind all year this is the race we wanted to go for, but we didn't quite expect it to be quite as hot is it is.” Adding to the heady mix is The Aga Khan's May 2 G3 Prix Allez France and May 26 G2 Prix Corrida winner Ebaiyra (Distorted Humor), who drops back in trip having finished a length runner-up to Broome (Ire) (Australia {GB}) in the July 4 G1 Grand Prix de Saint-Cloud.

On the receiving end of beatings by Ebaiyra in both the Allez France and Corrida, Shadwell's Raabihah (Sea the Stars {Ire}) goes back up in trip for the 12 1/2-furlong G2 Darley Prix de Pomone on the card. Last year's G3 Prix de Psyche winner and G1 Prix Vermeille runner-up was also fifth in the G1 Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe, so it may be that this extra stamina test is what she needs as a 4-year-old. Standing in her way is another Aga Khan homebred in Valia (Fr) (Sea the Stars {Ire}), who had this card's G2 Darley Prix Kergorlay favourite Skazino (Fr) (Kendargent {Fr}) a head back in second in the 14-furlong G2 Prix Maurice de Nieuil at ParisLongchamp July 14. Runner-up to Wonderful Tonight (Fr) (Le Havre {Ire}) in the G3 Prix Minerve over this course and distance 12 months ago, Valia was eighth in the Vermeille before moving up to staying distances to win the G2 Prix Chaudenay and finish second in the G1 Prix Royal-Oak also at ParisLongchamp. Al Shaqab Racing's progressive still-unexposed Katara (Fr) (Deep Impact {Jpn}) is on the up after her success in the Listed Pontefract Castle Fillies' S. over a mile and a half June 20, while the duo of 3-year-olds are the June 4 G1 Epsom Oaks runner-up Mystery Angel (Ire) (Kodi Bear {Ire}) and Coolmore's Aug. 1 Listed Grand Prix de Clairefontaine winner Joie de Soir (Ire) (Fastnet Rock {Aus}).

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