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Son Of Kingman Stands Out 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. Today's Observations features a sale-topping son of Kingman.

1.30 Chantilly, Debutantes, €27,000, 2yo, c/g, 5 1/2fT

MONARCHIC (IRE) (Kingman {GB}) is an early 2-year-old starter for Godolphin's French operation and a significant one, having been the joint-second highest-priced lot at the Tattersalls October Yearling Sale Book 2 at 400,000gns. Andre Fabre introduces the March-foaled bay, who may need further than this given that his dam was a 12-furlong winner out of L'Ancresse (Ire) (Darshaan {GB}).

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Prix Du Jockey Club In The Limelight

Europe's Derby circuit heads from Epsom to Chantilly in the space of 24 hours, with Sunday's G1 Qatar Prix du Jockey Club offering a different type of test to its English counterpart without compromising on the degree of challenge. Run right-handed over 10 1/2 furlongs, with the draw all-important heading straight to the first turn, the €1.5 million prize is on its own as a unique “Derby” experience. Since the distance was shortened–controversially to some–from the traditional mile and a half in 2005, a trio of colts have completed a Classic double having also conquered the G1 Poule d'Essai des Poulains in Shamardal, Lope de Vega (Ire) and Brametot (Ire) (Rajsaman {Fr}). Fortunately, the Coolmore-Ballydoyle axis have long been committed to trying for that feat with the current ParisLongchamp mile Classic hero St Mark's Basilica (Fr) (Siyouni {Fr}). This race will be staged on a similarly testing surface to that which he relished in the May 16 feature and his draw in two is a significant aid especially as some of his key rivals are out wide.

Despite having won the G1 Dewhurst S. and the Poulains, there is a sense that St Mark's Basilica remains an unknown quantity and Aidan O'Brien was giving nothing away on Saturday. “He's been lovely since the Guineas and it was always the plan to go back to France for the French Derby, so that's where he is,” he said. “We're very happy with him since and looking forward to seeing him run. He hasn't run over that trip, but we're looking forward to seeing it.” The Ballydoyle handler also saddles a live second-string in the impressive G1 Criterium International winner and G1 Irish 2000 Guineas third Van Gogh (American Pharoah) as he looks for a first renewal of the Classic.

“Van Gogh is a quality horse that had a very good run in the Irish 2000 Guineas,” he added. “For him to run that well, as we took our time on him in not a strongly-run race, we were very happy with him. He always works like a horse with plenty of class and with that type of horse you can never be sure until they go there. You would think there is a really good chance he will get a mile and a quarter. I don't think he needs soft ground, as he had some very nice runs here on nice ground.”

This is a fascinating renewal and almost certainly stronger competition than the Poulains, with all the main trial winners engaged. Pascal Bary won this race in its former guise on five occasions and over its new trip with Study of Man (Ire) (Deep Impact {Jpn}) in 2018. Half of his tally came with the Jean-Louis Bouchard runners Celtic Arms (Fr), Ragmar (Fr) and Blue Canari (Fr) and it is that owner who supplies the stable's contender this year in Baby Rider (Fr) (Gleneagles {Ire}). Successful in three of his four starts, including the G2 Prix Greffulhe over this trip at Saint-Cloud May 1, he is re-opposed by Haras de la Gousserie's runner-up Smile Makers (Fr) (Kendargent {Fr}) and while he has to improve on that form his trainer is renowned at priming one for this race.

Haras de la Gousserie are also represented by last year's impressive G1 Prix Jean-Luc Lagardere winner Sealiway (Fr) (Galiway {GB}), who was eighth but not beaten far in the bunch behind St Mark's Basilica in the Poulains. Pauline Chehboub said of the Frederic Rossi-trained duo, “Sealiway is doing very well. Franck Blondel will be riding him, he rides him every morning and we thought that if Mickael Barzalona was unavailable then Franck would ride him. Contrary to what people say, Sealiway is not just a soft-ground type, he doesn't mind a soft track but he can also act on good ground. The Poule d'Essai is a race to forget–he needs to be bowling along and isn't a colt that can be held up off a four-wide trip. He struggled the whole race. In any case, he is in good order after his Paris-Longchamp exertions and we think he will stay the trip. Smile Makers has every chance. He's a relatively straightforward ride, easy to handle and he has never been out of the first three in his eight races to date. At Saint-Cloud, in the Prix Greffulhe, he raced from the front and battled throughout the straight. Physically speaking, he's a lump and needs to get into racing rhythm that suits him to a tee.”

From Britain, Sheikh Mohammed Obaid Al Maktoum's El Drama (Ire) (Lope de Vega {Ire}) takes part having beaten the subsequent G3 Gallinule S. winner Earlswood (GB) (Pivotal {GB}) in the Listed Dee S. at Chester May 6, while John Gosden who won his first Jockey Club last year with Mishriff (Ire) (Make Believe {GB}) saddles two live contenders. They are Anthony Oppenheimer's May 13 G2 Dante S. runner-up Megallan (GB) (Kingman {GB}) and Juddmonte's 'TDN Rising Star' Derab (GB) (Sea the Stars {Ire}), with the draw doing neither a favour in 15 and 14 respectively. This is Derab's first run over middle distances, having produced a scintillating performance when breaking his maiden over a mile at Newmarket May 14 and the half-brother to Enable (GB) (Nathaniel {Ire}) is again ridden by Martin Harley.

“Both horses cantered on Friday morning and seem in good form,” Thady Gosden said. “Derab has taken his Newmarket race well and Megallan ran very well in the Dante and has been in good form since. Chantilly is a hard enough track to ride without being drawn out on a wing, but it could have been worse. Martin Harley has ridden there a couple of times and Olivier Peslier [who rides Megallan] could go round there in his sleep, I'd imagine. They're forecast quite a bit of rain. Hopefully the ground doesn't get too soft.”

Stitching the various threads of the trials together is not an easy task, with Wertheimer et Frere's Adhamo (Ire) (Intello {Ger}) winning ParisLongchamp's G3 Prix la Force over nine furlongs Apr. 11 before disappointing when only fourth as favourite for the G3 Prix de Guiche over that trip here a month later. Behind Makaloun (Fr) (Bated Breath {GB}), Millebosc (Fr) (Le Havre {Ire}) and Fort Payne (Fr) (Rio de la Plata) there, the homebred son of the 2013 Jockey Club hero needs to bounce back. “In terms of ratings, Adhamo is one of the highest in the race. The colt is doing very well and I'm very happy with him,” trainer Freddy Head said. “The trip is not a problem and, if it rains, it won't be a problem either.”

Gerard Augustin-Normand's Millebosc joins Gerard Ryan's G3 Prix Thomas Bryon winner and Criterium International runner-up Normandy Bridge (Fr) (Le Havre {Ire}) as part of a two-pronged attack from the Stephanie Nigge stable. She said of them, “Millebosc is doing very well. There is a lot of speed in his pedigree, but he ran well over 1800 metres at Chantilly last time. It's not the first time in the history of this race that a colt goes into the race with doubts about his stamina. In Australia, horses run and win over a wide variety of distances. So it's important to give it a try, knowing that horses evolve over time. We're going to ride him in the way which suits him best, namely from the back of the field.”

“Strangely enough, his attempt [when seventh] in the Poule d'Essai des Poulains probably did Normandy Bridge some good,” the trainer added. “Physically, he has improved in condition. He didn't have a hard race and effectively only really raced for 200 metres. After getting going in the final 200 metres, he wasn't blowing afterwards. Gerald Mosse rode him with the future in mind and without being hard on him. Normandy Bridge will have no problem in staying the trip. He is a big colt, with a raking action and is one that needs to race. As he matures and settles better in his races, he will, for sure, be eventually tried over 2400 metres.”

Fort Payne hails from the Nicolas Caullery stable and he said, “This is my first runner in the Jockey Club and we have ambitions. There's no one outstanding colt in the field and we all have a chance of winning. There's no pressure, as they say! I have confidence in my colt and my jockey. I'm hoping that I will have no regrets and that the colt has a clean race. We have done everything right, all his preparation has gone well and there is no adverse weather forecast before the race so we will have no excuses at first glance. Thomas Trullier will ride him and he retains all my confidence as he knows the horse inside out and even better than me, because he has a rider's feel.”

The Aga Khan has seven renewals to his name and alongside Makaloun he also has the unbeaten May 4 Listed Prix de Suresnes winner Saiydabad (Blame), while their trainer Jean-Claude Rouget also supplies White Birch Farm's similarly unbeaten Cheshire Academy (Fr) (Flintshire {GB}). He was handed the Apr. 11 G3 Prix Noailles over this trip at ParisLongchamp upon the disqualification of the Mar. 21 Listed Prix Francois Mathet scorer Pretty Tiger (Ire) (Sea the Moon {Ger}) and they re-oppose. Adding further spice from the Czech Republic is Valentin Bukhtoyarov's Royal Word (Fr) (Wootton Bassett {GB}). Jean-Pierre Deroubaix, representing the owner, said, “Royal Word is coming off two easy wins. Unbeaten this year, he has just won the Czech Guineas. The distance is a question mark, as he has never raced beyond 1800 metres. He was bred at the Haras du Quesnay on behalf of his owner, Valentin Bukhtoyarov, and he wishes to test his horse in a prestige race. An owner whose interests span Western Europe, Russia, the Czech Republic and the US, Valentin Bukhtoyarov likes to have runners at the big international meetings and to share his passion with his friends. For example, he has won the UAE Oaks and is a supporter of racing in Russia, where he sponsors a whole meeting. Valentin Bukhtoyarov also breeds English Thoroughbreds and his mares board at the Haras du Berlais. However, he races mainly in Russia with this breed.”

Sunday's rich card begins with the G2 Grand Prix de Chantilly, with last year's G1 Deutsches Derby hero and G1 Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe runner-up In Swoop (Ire) (Adlerflug {Ger}) bidding to build on his cozy win in the G3 Prix d'Hedouville at ParisLongchamp May 13. He meets Abdullah Fahad Ah Al-Attiyah and Gerard Augustin-Normand's 2020 G2 Prix de Malleret winner Vaucelles (Fr) (Le Havre {Ire}), who drops back to a mile and a half having been runner-up over an extra quarter mile in the Listed Prix Gold River on the same card.

The G2 Prix de Sandringham sees Derek Ronald Lodge and Nicolas Campos's May 16 G1 Poule d'Essai des Pouliches third Kennella (Fr) (Kendargent {Fr}) take on Ecurie Jean-Louis Bouchard and Gerard Augustin-Normand's exciting Tahlie (Fr) (Rio de la Plata). Trained by Pascal Bary, Tahlie had the subsequent Pouliches heroine Coeursamba (Fr) (The Wow Signal {Ire}) back in third when winning a conditions event over this mile trip at ParisLongchamp Apr. 22 before coming to this course and distance to add the May 11 Listed Prix des Lilas to her tally. Also in the mix is Sean and Bernardine Mulryan, Linda Shanahan and Susan Magnier's 2020 G3 Prix Six Perfections scorer See the Rose (Ire) (Kendargent {Fr}) who is taking time to find her feet so far this season but who shaped encouragingly when fifth in the Pouliches. Also for the fillies is the 12-furlong G3 Prix de Royaumont, where another Bary trainee Harcanville (Fr) (Le Havre {Ire}) has unexposed potential coming off a success in a 10 1/2-furlong debutantes contest at Saint-Cloud May 10.

Sprinters get their chance in the G2 Prix du Gros-Chene, with Godolphin's 3-year-old filly Ideal Beauty (Ire) (Invincible Spirit {Ire}) renews rivalry with Antoine Gilibert's Berneuil (Ire) (Lope de Vega {Ire}) who she had 3/4 of a length back in second in the G3 Prix de Saint-Georges over this five-furlong trip at ParisLongchamp May 16. Lisa-Jane Graffard said of the former, “Ideal Beauty came out of the Prix de Saint-Georges in good form and is really favoured in the weights again this time. She has a fantastic attitude and we have been delighted with everything she has achieved so far. She is not the biggest, so we are not sure how much physical progress is still to come, but is a very brave filly. It's not the best draw in stall nine, but we are hoping that she can run another good race.”

Classic action also takes place in Italy, with the G2 Oaks d'Italia highlighting Milan's card. Leonardo Ciampoli's Sopran Basilea (Ire) (Night Of Thunder {Ire}) cuts an imposing figure, having won the Listed Premio Mario Incisa Della Rochetta by two lengths over a furlong shorter on May 22, and the second there, Zelandia (Fr) (Olympic Glory {Ire}), reopposes. Sopran Basilea looks to provide her sire with his second straight win in this Classic, following Auyantepui (Ity), who won the same prep en route, in 2020.

Among those Sopran Basilea will have to contend with from the local ranks include her stablemate Cima Star (Ire) (Sea The Stars {Ire}), a last-out conditions race winner, and Memo De L'Alguer (Ire) (Mehmas {Ire}), a last-out third in the G3 Italian 1000 Guineas on Apr. 25. Team Valor's Invite (Ire) (The Gurkha {Ire}) ships in for Marco Botti off a 10-length win in a 2000-metre Doncaster handicap three weeks ago. She has never been worse than second in four tries.

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A Horseman’s Derby

EPSOM, UK—”I'm not really a person to get over-excited about things,” said Adam Kirby as he stooped over the podium after winning his first Classic, the most important one of them all.

For the tall, gaunt jockey, so admired by his peers but with nothing like the rock star profile of Frankie Dettori, even riding at nine stone is a struggle. Slow to face the press for the post-race conference, he admitted he'd taken his time in the weighing-room so he could have a bottle of juice while gathering his thoughts.

He added, “I'm not very good at interviews, am I?” That's not a statement you'd ever hear from Dettori either, but it is Kirby all over. Just 15 minutes earlier, however, as he'd been led in to that hallowed circle at Epsom aboard Adayar (Ire) (Frankel {GB}) in the Godolphin third colours with the red cap, there was no mistaking his elation in the crowning moment of his career.

Dettori hadn't needed the sun to shine for him at Epsom on Friday as he steered Snowfall (Ire) (Deep Impact {Jpn}) to her 16-length Oaks romp; his own theatrics were enough to lift the mood following a relentlessly wet day. Being back at the same track on Saturday was like being in a different country. The sun beat down, the Red Devils parachuted onto the track before racing as usual, and the National Anthem rung out. Only The Queen, the double-decker buses and about 50,000 racegoers were missing.

As Kirby agreed, he doesn't exactly have a mega-watt personality but he is a horseman with sublime skills, and that was what shone out across the Downs on Saturday. At the beginning of the week, he was expecting to be aboard John Leeper (Ire) (Frankel {GB}) in the Cazoo Derby. As Aidan O'Brien declared only Bolshoi Ballet (Ire) (Galileo {Ire}) on Thursday and Dettori was no longer required for a Ballydoyle runner, the Italian jockey who had been original first choice for John Leeper was confirmed for the ride. Kirby was stood down.

“You wouldn't have wanted to be around me for the first hour that night, but then I got over it,” he admitted. But before long Charlie Appleby had called on Kirby to book him for Adayar. His gain was in turn Oisin Murphy's loss.

“Mad, crazy, what goes around, comes around,” said Kirby. A mantra all jockeys must live by.

Though not one of the outfit's retained riders, he has enjoyed plenty of success for Godolphin. And with his partner Megan Evans at their Vicarage Farm just outside Newmarket Kirby now plays an arguably even more crucial role for the royal blue team as breaker and pre-trainer of many of their young horses. Appleby stated that Kirby had broken in the horse who would become his Derby winner. Kirby couldn't remember, though he won't be forgetting Adayar now, or anytime soon.

“I broke in One Ruler,” he said with certainty of the Derby sixth-place finisher. “I do a lot of horses for Charlie. I love every minute of that as well. Charlie is a great supporter of us at Vicarage Farm.”

Through his winning Derby ride it's easy to see why he would be such a good pair of hands to have aboard a young colt as he surrenders to the early training process. His was a performance that was as simple as it was skilful: break well, get a good position, get your horse to switch off just behind the leaders and then strike when a gap opens up on the rail. Easy.

Except it rarely is that easy at Epsom, with its notoriously tricky camber. The modest Kirby might argue that everything simply went right for him and Adayar, but it was a ride that showed exactly why Appleby was happy to put his faith in Kirby, ahead of the reigning champion jockey, as soon as he heard he had been left without a Derby ride.

“Adam is a natural horseman. He can settle horses, he can send horses,” said Appleby, and that is exactly what he did to win the Derby, making up Adayar's mind for him, sending him on in only the fifth race of his life, as the early leader Gear Up (Ire) (Teofilo {Ire}) weakened and rolled off the rail.

Frankel is yet to sire a Guineas winner but he had already had the Oaks winner Anapurna (GB) and St Leger winner Logician (GB) before Adayar became his first Derby winner in a field which featured two other colts by him, and another son Mohaafeth (Ire) as a late withdrawal. As brilliant as Frankel was it always rankled that he never tackled the Derby himself. There are two sides to every pedigree, of course, but Frankel's increasingly impressive record with middle-distance runners only increases that regret.

Similarly, it had been a shame to see Adayar's dam, the obviously talented Anna Salai (Dubawi {Ire}) move from Andre Fabre to Mahmood Al Zarooni and never really build on her early promise. A descendant of Anna Paola (Ger), from the same family as the 1000 Guineas winner of 2018, Billesdon Brook (GB) (Champs Elysees {GB}), the Irish 1000 Guineas runner-up Anna Salai now claws back some deserved recognition with a Classic winner of her own in Godolphin's second homebred Derby winner in three years.

It was Appleby's retained jockey William Buick aboard Masar (Ire) (New Approach {Ire}) back in 2018, and this time around Buick looked equally thrilled as he returned to the third-place spot aboard supposed first string Hurricane Lane (Ire), another son of Frankel. He's a team player, and first and third in the Derby is some result for the team. But Buick would have been all too aware of what the result would mean to his winning colleague.

With the build more akin to a National Hunt jockey, Kirby makes daily sacrifices to keep his weight in check, and his list of achievements, which now runs to nine Group 1 wins, is all the greater given the number of rides for which his size makes him ineligible. During the covid pandemic he has at least benefited from the rise in the weights.

“It's been an absolute privilege to have the extra couple of pounds for the allowance due to there being no sauna,” he said. “It has made my life a lot easier and a lot less stressful.”

While thanking Appleby for his “unbelievable loyalty”, Kirby also remembered his former boss, the late Walter Swinburn, who wrote his name in the Derby history books on three occasions, most memorably with Shergar (Ire) 40 years ago.

“He was a top man and a very sad loss,” Kirby said. “He was great to ride for and he taught me always to be very cool and calm and relaxed about things, but I wouldn't say that's come out in me today.”

Those who watched the race may beg to differ. Similarly, those who have followed Kirby's career, from grafting away on the all-weather in midwinter to dazzling on racing's biggest day, will draw satisfaction from the fact that sometimes it's enough for innate horsemanship to do the talking.

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Adayar Gives Frankel His First Derby

He was the third-string of Godolphin, the outsider of all the colts by Frankel (GB), was drawn in the hoodoo one stall and ridden by the jockey who was banished from one of the more-fancied horses, but in the final reckoning on Saturday Godolphin's Adayar (Ire) was utterly dominant in Epsom's G1 Cazoo Derby. Highly encouraging when runner-up in the Apr. 23 G3 Sandown Classic Trial, the powerful bay was less so when in the same spot in the May 8 Lingfield Derby Trial and had subsequently gone into the background behind Charlie Appleby's other duo. Tellingly, late money was to come for him and he started at only 16-1 having been much bigger this week when trading as a rank outsider. Sent up to race in fourth against the rail early, he travelled strongly for Adam Kirby who just days before had been on John Leeper (Ire) (Frankel {GB}) and whose availability meant that champion jockey Oisin Murphy was missing out on what would have been his own Derby breakthrough. Making his move up a slim gap on the inner to grab the lead with over two furlongs remaining, the homebred who sported the red cap was soon gone beyond recall and issued a 4 1/2-length beating to the Richard Hannon-trained maiden and 50-1 outsider Mojo Star (Ire) (Sea the Stars {Ire}). The winner's stablemate Hurricane Lane (Ire) (Frankel {GB}) was a further 3 1/4 lengths away in third to cap a memorable outcome for Appleby, while Ballydoyle's Bolshoi Ballet (Ire) (Galileo {Ire}) never looked like justifying 11-8 favouritism in seventh. “I went a bit weak on him the last half a furlong–I couldn't believe it and all I could think of is that my mother would be watching and she would have been happy,” an emotional Kirby said. “There's been ups and downs and swings and roundabouts, but it's racing and when it comes to Charlie Appleby, he's a top man and I can't thank him enough. He's a true gentleman and a great trainer and his team is second to none.”

Adayar had shown what he could do on rain-softened ground when scoring by nine lengths in the “Golden Horn” Maiden S. over an extended mile at Nottingham in late October, just a fortnight after a debut fourth over the same course and distance. A real eye-catcher when running against the bias and staying on from rear to be second to Alenquer (Fr) (Adlerflug {Ger}) in the Sandown Classic Trial, he had chased home Third Realm (GB) (Sea the Stars {Ire}) with no obvious excuses in Lingfield's Derby Trial and was understandably pigeon-holed as a St Leger type as a result. Brought here nevertheless, he was part of the jockey merry-go-round which had dominated so much of the week's Derby news but the fates conspired to bring him and the man who played such a big part in his formative days together in a perfect arrangement. Brought along at Kirby's pre-training centre at Vicarage Farm outside of Newmarket, this was a sub-plot that had been ignored as the hype was focused elsewhere.

Having first lost what can now only be seen as a genuine contender in Alenquer due to a setback, William Haggas had to deal with a double blow as the unexpected 11 millimetres of rain that fell on the Downs on Friday effectively ruled out Mohaafeth (Ire) (Frankel {GB}) as well. That significant easing in the going, which was generally described as “hard work” by jockeys riding earlier on the card, meant that while Frankel had one less contender in the ranks after the Shadwell dynamo was pulled out at least two of his other trio were coming into the mix. From the start, as Kirby sent Adayar forward from the lowest draw Bolshoi Ballet was markedly sluggish with Ryan Moore having to niggle to get him in a prominent position. Hurricane Lane's rider William Buick was also unhappy after the first half a mile as Gear Up (Ire) (Teofilo {Ire}) and Youth Spirit (Ire) (Camelot {GB}) led the way, but Kirby was always sitting on a lot of horse in the pocket in behind.

Penned in tight to the rail heading down the hill to Tattenham Corner, Adayar was in the right spot heading towards the strip of preserved fresh ground in the straight while Hurricane Lane kept working out wide to forge ahead of the fading Bolshoi Ballet and one-paced Mac Swiney (Ire) (New Approach {Ire}). When the eventual winner was pointed at the tight alley of light between Gear Up and the fence passing three out, he answered with an enthusiastic surge and from there it was a case of horse and jockey in perfect unison as the powerful galloper drew clear. The race's remarkable story Mojo Star, who had looked the only colt to be out of place in the line-up beforehand, excelled to champion Richard Hannon's judgement as he stayed on to separate himself from the rest.

Charlie Appleby was typically humble in his appraisal of the victory afterwards. “Firstly, all the credit goes to Sheikh Mohammed and Team Godolphin,” he commented. “I'll be honest with you, we spoke on Wednesday night after the horses did their breezes in the morning and I said to His Highness 'I couldn't be happier with them all, but I did feel this horse was more of a Leger horse', and he said 'Charlie, run him, there's only one Derby' and as always he was right. From the team's point of view, it's fantastic, they all work so hard. I'm delighted for Adam, we saw all the trials and tribulations in the build-up to the Derby and it was a fantastic ride. He was hungry for it and he knew this horse better than most as he broke him in. It's great for all the team at Vicarage Farm, where the dam is one of the homebred mares and it's a huge team effort. I can't thank everybody enough to be in this position standing here again in this hallowed ground. It's all about His Highness and Godolphin and the whole team behind it. They bring these magical days. We'll just let the dust settle, but we always felt the Leger was going to be his target and if he hadn't run here he was going to go to the [G2 Queen's] Vase [at Royal Ascot]. He's a great big, scopey horse by Frankel and time will benefit him still. To win the way he has done, he's stamped his authority there among the three-year-old middle-distance horses.”

Aidan O'Brien was bemused by the performance of Bolshoi Ballet and said, “He just ran a bit lifeless. What the reason was, I'm not sure. It doesn't work every day. That's the way life is. I don't want to make excuses, because I don't want to take away from the other horses. He was in the perfect position. He wants nice ground and maybe that was the reason.”

Adayar is the third live foal out of the G3 Prix de la Grotte winner and G1 Irish 1000 Guineas runner-up Anna Salai (Dubawi {Ire}), who took four goes to successfully deliver for the operation. She is a daughter of the G3 Prix d'Aumale winner Anna Palariva (Ire) (Caerleon), who produced the four-times listed-winning and group 3-placed Advice (GB) (Seeking the Gold) and the useful Iguazu Falls (Pivotal {GB}) who took the Listed Surrey S. at this meeting. Anna Palariva, who is also the second dam of the G1 Prix Jean-Luc Lagardere-winning sire National Defense (GB) (Invincible Spirit {Ire}), is the leading performer out of the G3 Park Hill S. winner Anna of Saxony (GB) (Ela-Mana-Mou {Ire}) whose other descendants are headed by the GI Flower Bowl Invitational heroine Ave (GB) (Danehill Dancer {Ire}).

Anna of Saxony, who descends from the G2 Preis der Diana-winning champion and blue hen Anna Paola (Ger) (Prince Ippi {Ger}), is also connected to this year's G2 Diana-Trial winner Amazing Grace (Ger) (Protectionist {Ger}) and is a half-sister to the dams of the Australian group 1-winning sires Epaulette (Aus) and Helmet (Aus) and the G1 Premio Vittorio di Capua and G2 German 1000 Guineas heroine Anna Monda (Ger) (Monsun {Ger}). Anna Salai's unraced 2-year-old filly by Teofilo (Ire) is named Bedouin Queen (GB), while she also has a yearling full-brother to Adayar.

Saturday, Epsom Downs, Britain
CAZOO DERBY-G1, £1,125,000, Epsom, 6-5, 3yo, 12f 6yT, 2:36.85, g/s.
1–ADAYAR (IRE), 126, c, 3, by Frankel (GB)
1st Dam: Anna Salai (GSW-Fr, G1SP-Ire & SP-Eng, $158,818), by Dubawi (Ire)
2nd Dam: Anna Palariva (Ire), by Caerleon
3rd Dam: Anna of Saxony (GB), by Ela-Mana-Mou (Ire)
1ST BLACK-TYPE WIN; 1ST GROUP WIN; 1ST GROUP 1 WIN. O/B-Godolphin (IRE); T-Charlie Appleby; J-Adam Kirby. £637,988. Lifetime Record: 5-2-2-0, $945,547. Werk Nick Rating: A++. Click for the eNicks report & 5-cross pedigree.
2–Mojo Star (Ire), 126, c, 3, Sea The Stars (Ire)–Galley (GB), by Zamindar. (130,000gns Wlg '18 TATFOA; 220,000gns Ylg '19 TATOCT). O-Amo Racing Ltd; B-Barbara Prendergast (IRE); T-Richard Hannon. £241,875.
3–Hurricane Lane (Ire), 126, c, 3, Frankel (GB)–Gale Force (GB), by Shirocco (Ger). (200,000gns Ylg '19 TATOCT). O-Godolphin; B-Normandie Stud Ltd (IRE); T-Charlie Appleby. £121,050.
Margins: 4HF, 3 1/4, 3 1/4. Odds: 16.00, 50.00, 6.00.
Also Ran: Mac Swiney (Ire), Third Realm (GB), One Ruler (Ire), Bolshoi Ballet (Ire), Youth Spirit (Ire), John Leeper (Ire), Gear Up (Ire), Southern Lights (Ire). Scratched: Mohaafeth (Ire). Click for the Racing Post result or the free Equineline.com catalogue-style pedigree.

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