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Wootton Bassett’s Chindit Battles To Greenham Win

Michael Pescod's Chindit (Ire) (Wootton Bassett {GB}) arguably set the standard in Sunday's G3 Watership Down Stud Too Darn Hot Greenham S. at Newbury and while he had to work he was able to prevail in a tight finale to the seven-furlong Guineas trial. Successful in the G2 Champagne S. at Doncaster in September before finishing ninth in the G1 Dewhurst S. on a soft surface at Newmarket in October, the 7-4 favourite was on contrasting ground here and may have been feeling it racing in mid-division early under Pat Dobbs. Looking briefly to have been left behind as Hollie Doyle committed Mehmento (Ire) (Mehmas {Ire}) on the front end two out, he put his head down and duly got to that 18-1 shot near the line to earn a neck success, dragging The Lir Jet (Ire) (Prince of Lir {Ire}) with him in the process with that rival the same margin back in third. “He's been brought along nice and steady and hasn't been overworked at all, so there should be plenty left in the tank,” Dobbs said. “I was worried between the four and the three, normally he travels super but he was a little bit flat-footed.”
Chindit, who had taken Ascot's Listed Pat Eddery S. in July prior to his Champagne win, is on target for the May 1 G1 2000 Guineas according to Richard Hannon who said, “He was workmanlike, but I'd rather see that as he was very relaxed in his work so it suggest he wants a mile. That's changed, as in the winter he was working like a six-furlong horse. He will go for the Guineas, but I just worry if the undulations at Newmarket will let him build up that momentum in the same way he did today towards the finish. The French and Irish Guineas would be more convenient tracks, but the English Guineas are the ones you want to win.”

The winner is the first foal out of Always a Dream (GB) (Oasis Dream {GB}), a granddaughter of the Listed Conqueror S. winner Out West (Gone West) who achieved notoriety as the dam of the G1 Epsom Derby and G1 Racing Post Trophy hero and successful sire Motivator (GB) (Montjeu {Ire}) and his G2 Hardwicke S.-winning full-brother Macarthur (GB). The fourth dam Chellingoua (Sharpen Up {GB}) is kin to the GI Haskell Invitational H. and GI San Fernando S. hero and leading sire Wavering Monarch. Always a Dream's as-yet unnamed 2-year-old colt by Awtaad (Ire) was a 80,000gns purchase by Badgers Bloodstock at the Tattersalls October Yearling Sale Book 2.

Sunday, Newbury, Britain
WATERSHIP DOWN STUD TOO DARN HOT GREENHAM S.-G3, £55,000, Newbury, 4-18, 3yo, c/g, 7fT, 1:23.98, gd.
1–CHINDIT (IRE), 126, c, 3, by Wootton Bassett (GB)
1st Dam: Always A Dream (GB), by Oasis Dream (GB)
2nd Dam: Always Remembered (Ire), by Galileo (Ire)
3rd Dam: Out West, by Gone West
(65,000gns Ylg '19 TATOCT). O-Michael Pescod; B-JC Bloodstock & R Mahon (IRE); T-Richard Hannon; J-Pat Dobbs. £31,191. Lifetime Record: 5-4-0-0, $108,285. Werk Nick Rating: A. Click for the eNicks report & 5-cross pedigree.
2–Mehmento (Ire), 126, c, 3, Mehmas (Ire)–Invincible Me (Ire), by Invincible Spirit (Ire). (13,333gns 2yo '20 TTIGOR). O-Hambleton Racing XLVI & Partner; B-Tally-Ho Stud (IRE); T-Archie Watson. £11,825.
3–The Lir Jet (Ire), 126, c, 3, Prince of Lir (Ire)–Paper Dreams (Ire), by Green Desert. (€9,500 Wlg '18 TATFBR; £8,000 Ylg '19 GOFFPR). O-Qatar Racing Ltd & RacehorseClub.com; B-Donal Boylan (IRE); T-Michael Bell. £5,918.
Margins: NK, NK, 3 3/4. Odds: 1.75, 18.00, 12.00.
Also Ran: Nando Parrado (GB), Fundamental (GB), Rhythm Master (Ire), Alkumait (GB), Mujbar (GB), Insomnia (GB), Huddleton Mac (Ire). Scratched: Oo de Lally (Ire). Click for the Racing Post result or the free Equineline.com catalogue-style pedigree.

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Fred Darling Success For No Nay Never’s Alcohol Free

Trying a seventh furlong for the first time in Sunday's G3 Fred Darling S. at Newbury, Jeff Smith's G1 Cheveley Park S. heroine Alcohol Free (Ire) (No Nay Never) had just enough stamina to see it out and deny the dark horse Statement (Ire) (Lawman {Fr}) in a bobber. Held out wide halfway down the field under Oisin Murphy, the 9-4 favourite swooped to the front with 1 1/2 furlongs remaining and had to battle as the Martyn Meade trainee joined her soon after. Getting her nose down on the line, she had the call by a short head, with Vadream (GB) (Brazen Beau {Aus}) 2 1/4 lengths away in third. “She's going to give herself every chance of staying in the Guineas,” Murphy commented. “I was very happy with the way she relaxed, as she can be pretty full-on. Top marks, that was a lovely start.”

Trainer Andrew Balding was bullish about Alcohol Free seeing out the extra furlong in Newmarket's May 2 G1 1000 Guineas and said, “She was drawn slightly out on the wing, but I couldn't be happier and to be honest we weren't coming here expecting to win–just hoping she showed nicely. She's been slow to come into her coat and we haven't done an awful lot with her. She settled so well and I can't see a problem with the mile so she'll go to Newmarket. That is very much the plan and today is a bonus.”

Alcohol Free's dam Plying (Hard Spun), who also produced the Listed Prix le Fabuleux-winning miler Alexander James (Ire) (Camelot {GB}), is out of the listed-placed Nasaieb (Ire) (Fairy King) and therefore a half to the G2 Flying Childers S. and G3 Princess Margaret S. third Kissing Lights (Ire) Machiavellian). Nasaieb is kin to the G3 Solario S. scorer Raise a Grand (Ire) (Grand Lodge), while this is also the family of the champion juvenile filly Numbered Account (Buckpasser). Plying's 2-year-old filly Hooked On You (Ire) (Starspangledbanner {Aus}) was a 130,000gns purchase by Creighton Schwartz Bloodstock at the Tattersalls December Yearling Sale, while €80,000 was paid by Ballyhane for her yearling colt by Dandy Man (Ire) at the Goffs November Foal Sale.

Sunday, Newbury, Britain
DUBAI DUTY FREE S. (FRED DARLING S.)-G3, £45,000, Newbury, 4-18, 3yo, f, 7fT, 1:24.44, gd.
1–ALCOHOL FREE (IRE), 126, f, 3, by No Nay Never
1st Dam: Plying, by Hard Spun
2nd Dam: Nasaieb (Ire), by Fairy King
3rd Dam: Atyaaf, by Irish River (Fr)
(€40,000 Wlg '18 GOFNOV). O-J C Smith; B-Churchtown House Stud (IRE); T-Andrew Balding; J-Oisin Murphy. £25,520. Lifetime Record: G1SW-Eng, 4-3-1-0, $207,919. *1/2 to Alexander James (Ire) (Camelot {GB}), SW-Fr. Werk Nick Rating: A. Click for the eNicks report & 5-cross pedigree.
2–Statement (Ire), 126, f, 3, Lawman (Fr)–Fact Or Folklore (Ire), by Lope de Vega (Ire). (€100,000 Ylg '19 GOFOR). O-Ballylinch Stud 1; B-Ballylinch Stud (IRE); T-Martyn Meade. £9,675.
3–Vadream (GB), 126, f, 3, Brazen Beau (Aus)–Her Honour (Ire), by Shamardal. O-D R J King; B-Crispin Estates Ltd (GB); T-Charlie Fellowes. £4,842.
Margins: NO, 2 1/4, HD. Odds: 2.25, 18.00, 50.00.
Also Ran: Primo Bacio (Ire), Ville de Grace (GB), Isabella Giles (Ire), Dandalla (Ire), Umm Kulthum (Ire), Liberated Lady (Ire), Happy Romance (Ire), Miss Finland (Ire), Zaajirah (Ire), Illykato (GB), Wild Iris (Ire), Hello Me (Ire), Lucid Dreamer (GB), Aunty Bridy (Ire). Click for the Racing Post result or the free Equineline.com catalogue-style pedigree.

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Frankel’s Snow Lantern a New Rising Star

Newbury's card-opening Dubai Duty Free Tennis Championships Maiden S. saw a new TDN Rising Star emerge as Rockcliffe Stud's homebred Snow Lantern (GB) (Frankel {GB}) cut a dash in the country's best-contested race of its type so far this season. Entered in the May 2 G1 1000 Guineas that her illustrious dam Sky Lantern (Ire) (Red Clubs {Ire}) captured in 2013, the grey was second-best in the betting for the mile contest at 3-1 behind Juddmonte's Derab (GB) (Sea the Stars {Ire}), the John and Thady Gosden-trained half-brother to Enable (GB) (Nathaniel {Ire}). Always travelling with abundant enthusiasm tracking the leader under Sean Levey, the grey was allowed to take command with two furlongs remaining and galloped relentlessly and true to the line to beat that 11-8 market-leader by 1 3/4 lengths, with Fantastic Fox (GB) (Frankel {GB}) a short head behind in third. The three class acts drew upwards of nine lengths away from the rest, giving the form the solid underbelly required for the case for the winner to take the plunge in three weeks' time.

Trainer Richard Hannon was keen to plead the case to the owner-breeders to take a chance in the Newmarket Classic and said, “She's been working great and I always thought she was a very good filly. She's very highly-strung, but behaved lovely there and I haven't enjoyed watching a race like that for a long time. I was expecting her to be keen, but she did it beautifully and Sean said her stride pattern is not normal. Hopefully she's a little bit special and it is more relief that I feel today. I'm very tempted to go for the Guineas–there's only one and although the breeder had said they don't want to go into the deep end I'll discuss it with them next week. The mare won two group 1s on the Rowley Mile and she's a very clever filly who works things out for herself.”

Snow Lantern, who was second on debut to the subsequent G2 May Hill S. third Zabeel Queen (Ire) (Frankel {GB}) at Ascot in July, emerged as a live contender for the Guineas during a week where the established trials were in some part overshadowed by races outside of the Pattern. With the colt Mutasaabeq (GB) (Invincible Spirit {Ire}) impressing in a Newmarket novice on Tuesday and the 1000 Guineas betting currently dominated by a Ballydoyle filly who has only a 2-year-old maiden win to her name, this could be a year when those with the leading juvenile form play second-fiddle to the emerging forces. Hannon also saddled the proven Happy Romance (Ire) (Dandy Man {Ire}) in the card's G3 Fred Darling S., but his response when asked to compare the two was illuminating. “Happy Romance has won a group 3, but Snow Lantern is by Frankel out of Sky Lantern and has the lot,” he said. “How far she goes we'll see throughout the year, but if she goes to the top it wouldn't surprise me.”

Sky Lantern had considerably more experience by the time she went to post for her Guineas, having won the G1 Moyglare Stud S., and held her form into the autumn when adding the G1 Sun Chariot S. to her tally which also included the G1 Coronation S. She is a half to four pattern-race performers with the stayer Shanty Star (Ire) (Hector Protector) and sprinter Arctic (Ire) (Shamardal) successful in group 3 company. She is a granddaughter of Negligent (Ire) (Ahonoora {GB}), the champion 2-year-old filly in England in 1989 courtesy of her win in the G3 Rockfel S. who was later third in her 1000 Guineas. After Snow Lantern there is the 2-year-old colt First Emperor (GB) (Galileo {Ire}) and a yearling son of Kingman (GB).

1st-Newbury, £10,000, Mdn, 4-18, 3yo, 8fT, 1:38.49, gd.
SNOW LANTERN (GB), f, 3, by Frankel (GB)
1st Dam: Sky Lantern (Ire) (Hwt. 2yo Filly-Ire, G1SW-Ire, MG1SW-Eng, $1,252,123), by Red Clubs (Ire)
2nd Dam: Shawanni (GB), by Shareef Dancer
3rd Dam: Negligent (Ire), by Ahonoora (GB)
O/B-Rockcliffe Stud (GB); T-Richard Hannon; J-Sean Levey Lifetime Record: 2-1-1-0, $10,033. Click for the Racing Post result or the free Equineline.com catalogue-style pedigree.

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Classic Tilt In The Balance For Snow Lantern

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 daughter of a Classic winner who is herself on that path.

1.00 Newbury, Mdn, £10,000, 3yo, 8fT
SNOW LANTERN (GB) (Frankel {GB}) is out to book a potential place in the line-up for the G1 1000 Guineas in three weeks' time that her dam Sky Lantern (Ire) (Red Clubs {Ire}) captured in 2013. Rockcliffe Stud's Richard Hannon-trained homebred, who was second on debut to the subsequent G2 May Hill S. third Zabeel Queen (Ire) (Frankel {GB}) at Ascot in July, encounters Juddmonte's Derab (GB) (Sea the Stars {Ire}), a John and Thady Gosden-trained half-brother to Enable (GB) (Nathaniel {Ire}) who was also runner-up on his introduction to 'TDN Rising Star'. La Barrosa (Ire) (Lope de Vega {Ire}) at Ascot in September.

1.23 ParisLongchamp, Debutantes, €27,000, 3yo, c/g, 10 1/2fT
IN CROWD (GB) (Dubawi {Ire}) is the latest progeny out of George Strawbridge's star mare In Clover (GB) (Inchinor {GB}), who has already produced the trio of Group 1 winners Call the Wind (GB) (Frankel {GB}), With You (GB) and We Are (Ire) with the latter two by Dansili (GB). Freddy Head has charge of the April-foaled chestnut, whose nine peers include Like You (GB) (Kingman {GB}), Jean-Pierre-Joseph Dubois's half-brother to the G1 Prix Vermeille third Ligne D'Or (GB) (Dansili {GB}) from the Fabrice Vermeulen yard.

1.58 ParisLongchamp, Debutantes, €27,000, 3yo, f, 10 1/2fT
ALISOL (IRE) (Frankel {GB}) is another notable from the Freddy Head stable, being the Wertheimers' daughter of their G1 Prix Marcel Boussac and G1 Prix Saint-Alary heroine Silasol (Ire) (Monsun {Ger}). Taking on the February-foaled bay is Haras de la Perelle's Robbia (Fr) (Le Havre {Ire}), a Francis-Henri Graffard-trained daughter of the GI E. P. Taylor S. winner Reggane (GB) (Red Ransom).

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