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Terzetto Claims Trophy at Nakayama

Deep Impact (Jpn)'s Terzetto (Jpn) closed from off the pace to win the G3 Lord Derby Challenge Trophy at Nakayama on Saturday. The 4-year-old filly brought her record to five-for-six with the score.

Third choice at 5-1, Terzetto raced well off the pace set by My Style (Jpn) (Heart's Cry {Jpn}). The field was well strung out due to a demanding pace, with the first half-mile covered in :45.60. She began to edge closer nearing the far turn and swung out four deep to challenge with a quarter mile remaining. Rallying widest of all, Terzetto sped past My Style inside the final 100 metres to win by a length. Catedral (Jpn) (Heart's Cry {Jpn}) was second, a neck to the good of Bom Servico (Jpn) (Daiwa Major {Jpn}). My Style held fourth another three-quarters of a length back.

A Nakayama debut winner in December of 2019, Terzetto was third there last March stepped up to 2000 metres, but returned to winning ways cut back to a mile at Niigata in August of 2020. Two more victories at that trip in Tokyo followed-on Nov. 1 and on Jan. 31. The Lord Derby Challenge Trophy was her first time trying black-type.

Pedigree Notes

After Terzetto's victory, the late Deep Impact is now the sire of 172 black-type winners, 138 at group level. The 4-year-old filly is the first instance of a stakes winner by the former Shadai resident out of a Danehill Dancer mare. That past Coolmore Stud sire is responsible for 73 group winners and 133 black-type winners overall.

A winner of an 1200-metre sloppy dirt affair as a 3-year-old, Raddolcendo has three winners from four to race, with the Lord Derby Challenge Trophy heroine her best to date. She has a 2-year-old colt by Orfevre (Jpn), a yearling colt by Daiwa Major (Jpn) and was bred to Duramente (Jpn) last spring.

Raddolcendo, purchased by Katsumi Yoshida in utero for $900,000 at the 2009 Keeneland November Breeding Stock Sale, is a half-sister to UAE highweight and G1 Dubai Turf hero Real Steel (Jpn) (Deep Impact {Jpn}), as well as G1 Japanese Oaks victress Loves Only You (Jpn) (Deep Impact {Jpn}), the SW & MGSP Prodigal Son (Jpn) (Deep Impact {Jpn}) and the SP Langley (Jpn) (Deep Impact {Jpn}). Third dam Monevassia (Mr. Prospector) was a full-sister to French Classic hero and influential sire Kingmambo (Mr. Prospector), the duo just to of a bevy of top runners out of stellar racemare and blue hen producer Miesque (Nureyev).

Saturday, Nakayama, Japan
LORD DERBY CHALLENGE TROPHY-G3, ¥75,420,000, Nakayama, 4-3, 4yo/up, 1600mT, 1:32.60, fm.
1–TERZETTO (JPN), 117, f, 4, Deep Impact (Jpn)
                1st Dam: Raddolcendo (Jpn), by Danehill Dancer (Ire)
                2nd Dam: Loves Only Me, by Storm Cat
                3rd Dam: Monevassia, by Mr. Prospector
1ST BLACK-TYPE WIN. 1ST GROUP WIN. (¥50,000,000 Ylg '18
JRHAJUL). O-Silk Racing; B-Northern Farm (Jpn); T-Shoichiro
Wada; J-Mirco Demuro. ¥39,574,000. Lifetime Record: 6-5-0-1.
Click for the eNicks report & 5-cross pedigree. Werk Nick
   Rating: B.
2–Catedral (Jpn), 123, h, 5, Heart's Cry (Jpn)–Abyla (GB), by
Rock of Gibraltar (Ire). O-Carrot Farm; B-Northern Farm (Jpn);
¥16,164,000.
3–Bom Servico (Jpn), 121, h, 7, Daiwa Major (Jpn)–Baimoyuri
(Jpn), by Sakura Laurel (Jpn). O-Nagoya Yuho; B-Shirai Farm
(Jpn); ¥9,882,000.
Margins: 1, NK, 3/4. Odds: 5.30, 6.80, 7.40.
Also Ran: My Style (Jpn), Atomic Force (Jpn), Taurus Gemini (Jpn), Black Moon (Jpn), Meisho Titan (Jpn), Shonan Rise (Jpn), Besten Dank (Jpn), Emeral Fight (Jpn), So Glittering (Jpn), Luftstrom (Jpn), Smile Kana (Jpn), Leyenda (Jpn). DNF: Win Carnelian (Jpn).
Click for the JRA chart or video or the free Equineline.com catalogue-style pedigree.

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What’s In A Name: Joan of Arc

Racing success makes the name of a horse just right in most cases, and this is likely to happen with very promising 3-year-old filly JOAN OF ARC, a winner at The Curragh Mar. 21, the first day of spring. Still, this beautiful name seems so appropriate even now, because of the underlying historical connection between the French heroine Joan of Arc and the great scientist Galileo Galilei. In fact, both Joan of Arc and Galileo got in trouble with the Inquisition–to put it mildly. It was, and it was not, the very same Catholic Inquisition. There is a time difference of almost exactly two centuries. Joan, prisoner of the English, had to face the Church court of the Bishop of Beauvais (1431), while Galileo was summoned and tried by an inquisitory tribunal in Rome, with the Pope almost looking on (1633). Both were accused of heresy and of contradicting the Scriptures. Joan was charged because of her testimony of hearing the voices of Saints and wearing men soldiers' clothes, while Galileo's crime was to have declared that the earth moves around the sun, and not the other way around. Both had moments of weakness in the face of unfair clerical persecution, and retreated for a while, but not for long. They were found guilty. Joan, at 19 years of age, faced the harsher fate and was burned at the stake, while Galileo was put to house arrests until his death. They were colossal figures. Joan practically won the 100 Years' War for the French and liberated her country. Galileo is the father of modern physics and astronomy. The very last words of “Saint Joan,” George Bernard Shaw's play about Joan of Arc, seem a fitting tribute to both: “O God that made this beautiful earth, when will it be ready to accept thy saints? How long, O lord, how long?”

3rd-Curragh, €12,000, Mdn, 3-21, 3yo/up, f, 7fT, 1:33.26, s/h. JOAN OF ARC (IRE) (f, 3, Galileo {Ire}–You'resothrilling {GSW-Eng, GSW-Ire, $219,415}, by Storm Cat) Lifetime Record: 2-1-1-0, $11,747. O-Derrick Smith, Mrs John Magnier & Michael Tabor; B-Coolmore (IRE); T-Aidan O'Brien.

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The Revenant Returns In Prix Edmond Blanc

While Britain's flat turf season remains low-key compared to its immediate neighbours, with no black-type action at the sole meeting at Musselburgh on Saturday, France takes up the mantle with the G3 Prix Edmond Blanc the feature at Saint-Cloud. Staging an early comeback in the mile contest is Al Asayl France's The Revenant (GB) (Dubawi {Ire}), who races under a six-pound penalty as a result of his exploits when winning the G1 Queen Elizabeth II S. on Ascot's Champions Day card. That came just a fortnight after the chestnut had made an exaggeratedly belated seasonal debut in ParisLongchamp's G2 Prix Daniel Wildenstein, so connections will be hoping he can fit more into his calendar this time around.

Interestingly, Andre Fabre saddles a quartet in opposition headed by Lady Bamford's Tropbeau (GB) (Showcasing {GB}), who took the G3 Prix de la Grotte on her 2020 bow at ParisLongchamp May 11 and steps back up to this trip having finished a close-up fourth in the seven-furlong G1 Prix de la Foret at that venue on Arc day.

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Princess Zoe Kicks Off Ambitious Campaign

Princess Zoe (Ger) (Jukebox Jury {Ire}) captured the imagination of many with her meteoric rise from 64-rated German handicapper to Irish listed winner and French Group 1 scorer last season, and the Tony Mullins charge gets her 6-year-old campaign underway in Saturday's Listed Noblesse S. going 12 furlongs at Cork.

Princess Zoe was second on her first start for Mullins at Navan last June before winning five straight. She earned her first black-type victory under Joey Sheridan in Galway's mile and a half Listed Oyster S. before stepping up to 2 1/2 miles for success in ParisLongchamp's G1 Prix du Cadran. The grey rounded out her season with a fourth in the G1 Prix Royal-Oak.

Mullins made it no secret in the interim that his key goal for Princess Zoe in 2021 is the G1 Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe, but he said on Friday that for now he is focusing on the first half of the year.

“The plan is to get two runs into her in April while there's a cut in the ground, and then we'll plan the rest of the season after that,” he said. “I'm keen to go back over a mile and a half with her. People have it in their heads that she's a dour stayer, but from the work I'm seeing, I think she'll be as effective or if not more over that trip. She's won over a mile and a half twice at Galway. Slow horses tend not to be able to do that.”

Princess Zoe's form was franked last weekend when Subjectivist, who she finished adrift of in the Prix Royal-Oak, emphatically won the G2 Dubai Gold Cup.

“Subjectivist was impressive in Dubai, and I thought her run behind him was equally as good as her first in my opinion,” Mullins said. “She'd had two trips to France–I thought that was very good. Hopefully she's as good this year. If she is, the world is our oyster.”

“Her work seems to be as good,” Mullins added. “She wouldn't be 100%, but we're not far off it. She's a strange filly, because she loves hard work. We gave her a break after Longchamp, but she was very unhappy, and we had to put her back in light training all winter because she was very upset. She's not like us, craving a break–she loves her work. So while she's fit, she might not just be as razor-sharp as she would be after a run or two.

As for what could come after Princess Zoe sharpens up, Mullins said, “We've half an idea of running at Royal Ascot–then after that, I can't see her running again until September. We have put her in the [G2] Yorkshire Cup, but we have a plan to go to the [G3] Vintage Crop at Navan at the end of April–if it came up firm we have the York option.

“It might mean meeting Stradivarius at York, but I can say if we can't beat him then we haven't got an Arc filly–we're thinking big.”

Returning to the immediacy of Saturday's race, Mullins said, “There are no easy races in Ireland now–they are so competitive. Having had a quick look, I thought Jessie Harrington's [Flor De La Luna] and Ger Lyons's [Yaxeni] would be the biggest dangers–but if we under-perform there would be others.”

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