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Arqana August Topper Debuts at ParisLongchamp

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. Thursday’s Insights features the 2019 Arqana August Yearling Sale topper.

1.20 Punchestown, Mdn, €15,500, 2yo, 7fT
MONDAY (Fastnet Rock {Aus}) is the first foal out of the G1 Prix Marcel Boussac winner and G1 1000 Guineas runner-up Ballydoyle (Ire) (Galileo {Ire}), who is in turn a full-sister to another Aidan O’Brien-trained luminary in Misty For Me (Ire). The February-foaled bay is up against 10 in the race that relaunches flat racing at this track for the first time in nearly 18 years.

1.55 Punchestown, Cond, €13,500, 3yo/up, 7fT
ELDAMA (IRE) (Siyouni {Fr}) earned ‘TDN Rising Star’ status on her winning debut at Leopardstown in June and reappears in this seven-runner conditions event. The Aga Khan’s relative of the G1 Ascot Gold Cup winners Enzeli (Ire) (Kahyasi {Ire}) and Estimate (Ire) (Monsun {Ger}) and the G1 Irish Oaks heroine Ebadiyla (Ire) (Sadler’s Wells) drops in trip, having won over a mile that day with Dermot Weld looking to restart her campaign.

2.25 Punchestown, Mdn, €11,000, 2yo, 8fT
LIFFEY RIVER (FR) (Lope de Vega {Ire}) was a short-head second to TDN Rising Star Wuqood (GB) (Dubawi {Ire}) over this trip on debut at Gowran Park last month and looks to get off the mark for owner Sun Bloodstock and trainer Joseph O’Brien. A full-brother to the group winners Lope Y Fernandez (Ire) and a half to Dark Vision (Ire) (Dream Ahead), the €380,000 Arqana Deauville August purchase encounters nine rivals on an informative card.

2.10 Salisbury, Novice, £6,900, 2yo, 8fT
MAHOMES (GB) (Dubawi {Ire}) was one of 11 seven-figure lots to sell at the Tattersalls October Yearling Sale Book 1, with David Redvers securing the son of The Fugue (GB) (Dansili {GB}) for Qatar Racing for 1million gns. Like the high-class dam, who was successful four times at the highest level including in the G1 Irish Champion S. and G1 Prince of Wales’s S., the January-foaled bay is in the hands of John Gosden as he faces nine here.

2.40 Salisbury, Mdn, £24,000, 2yo f, 6f 213yT
NOON STAR (GB) (Galileo {Ire}) is the sixth foal out of the prolific Group 1 winner Midday (GB) (Oasis Dream {GB}) and a full-sister to the dual Group 3 scorer Midterm (GB) and a half to the G2 Ribblesdale S. runner-up Mori (GB) by Galileo’s Frankel (GB). Both were trained by Sir Michael Stoute and the master of Freemason Lodge again has charge of this April-foaled bay as she debuts in this valuable “Quidhampton” Maiden Fillies’ S.

4.45 ParisLongchamp, Debutantes, €22,000, 2yo, f, 8fT
PHILOMENE (IRE) (Dubawi {Ire}) at €1.625 million was the 2019 Arqana Deauville August Yearling Sale topper, which was no surprise given that her dam Prudenzia (Ire) (Dansili {GB}) had produced the star distaffers Magic Wand (Ire) (Galileo {Ire}) and Chicquita (Ire) (Montjeu {Ire}). Andre Fabre introduces the May-foaled bay, who races for a partnership between her purchasers Godolphin and her breeders Ecurie des Monceaux and Ecurie Skymarc Farm. She faces eight rivals.

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Fillies Star in Thursday Action

Andrew Balding is looking forward to saddling Jeff Smith’s Newbury novice scorer Alcohol Free (Ire) (No Nay Never) in Thursday’s G3 Shadwell Dick Poole Fillies’ S. at Salisbury. One of 14 juvenile fillies set to line up for the six-furlong contest, for which she is due to break from the outside stall, the bay is held in high regard by her Kingsclere handler. “The filly has huge potential,” he said. “The draw could have been a little kinder. We’re stuck out on the wing again, but she’s a filly we think a lot of, so I’d hope she’d run very well.” Withdrawn from Goodwood’s G3 Prestige S. on Saturday, the McMurray Family’s Happy Romance (Ire) (Dandy Man {Ire}) stays at the six-furlong trip over which she captured York’s Goffs UK Premier Yearling S. Aug 20, having won the five-furlong Weatherbys Super Sprint at Newbury July 19, while Ralph Beckett puts forward Qatar Racing’s June 28 Listed Empress Fillies’ S. scorer Time Scale (GB) (Charm Spirit {Ire}).

At ParisLongchamp, the G3 Prix d’Arenberg over five furlongs sees Wesley Ward try to pull off a group-race double with another filly in Stonestreet Stables’ unbeaten Aug. 2 Colleen S. winner Wink (Midshipman). With the stable’s Campanelle (Ire) (Kodiac {GB}) having put Livachope (Fr) (Goken {Fr}) in his place in the G1 Prix Morny at Deauville Aug. 23, Ward has a line to Alain Jathiere, Alain Chopard and Guy Pariente’s bay who reverts to the trip over which he excelled when winning the June 14 Listed Prix la Fleche at Chantilly and July 2 G3 Prix du Bois here.

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Champers Elysees Takes the Fairy Bridge

Two progressive 3-year-old fillies fought out the finish of Wednesday’s rescheduled G3 Coolmore No Nay Never Fairy Bridge S., with Fitzwilliam Racing’s Champers Elysees (Ire) (Elzaam {Aus}) emerging on top of Haras de Saint Pair’s Pearls Galore (Fr) (Invincible Spirit {Ire}) in what could turn out to be a signpost to bigger things for both. Last seen winning by seven lengths in the Listed Corrib Fillies S. over seven furlongs at Galway July 28, Champers Elysees who traded as the 5-6 favourite going an extra half furlong here tracked the early leaders under Niall McCullagh trapped wide without cover. Sticking with Pearls Galore as that talented and unexposed rival headed stand’s side, she headed her approaching the furlong pole and asserted to score by half a length as they pulled five lengths clear of Parent’s Prayer (Ire) (Kingman {GB}) in third.

Champers Elysees had got off the mark at the fourth attempt over six furlongs on heavy ground at The Curragh in September prior to finishing runner-up in Naas’s “Birdcatcher” nursery over that trip the following month. Showing how much improvement she had made over the winter on her return when successful in a seven-furlong handicap back at The Curragh June 12, the bay not only proved up to listed class at the Galway festival but progressed markedly for that impressive first black-type success and underlined her quality with this performance in the race that was lost to the rain at its traditional home last week. “I was so sick last week when Tipperary was called off, but thankfully the race was rescheduled to here and I thought the track would suit her well,” trainer Johnny Murtagh said. “She really improved from Galway and had a better prep coming into this race. If everything is alright she’ll go for the [G1] Matron [at Leopardstown Sept. 12]. It’s a bit tight and if this race was on last week it would have given us two weeks, but she’s tough and hardy. I’m delighted for Niall that he was able to ride a group winner for us. He’s a big part of my life and of our team since we started. He’s been out injured a long time and has worked hard to get back. I’m delighted to be able to pay him back as he put in a lot of work early in the year and then missed out on a lot of winners.”

One of two leading ladies from the Murtagh stable alsongside the G3 Derrinstown Stud Fillies S. winner and G1 Prix Rothschild third Know It All (GB) (Lord Kanaloa {Jpn}), Champers Elysees hails from a family mainly made up of sprinters. Her second dam is the G3 Goldene Peitsche-winning German champion Premiere Cuvee (GB) (Formidable), who was also second in the G3 Prix du Gros Chene. That makes the dam La Cuvee (GB) (Mark of Esteem {Ire}) a half-sister to the G3 Premio Sergio Cumani winner She Bat (GB) (Batshoof {GB}), who is in turn responsible for four black-type performers including the G2 Premio Regina Elena (Italian 1000 Guineas) third She Basic (Ire) (Desert Prince {Ire}). The dam also has the unraced 2-year-old colt Performance Plus (Ire) (Alhebayeb {Ire}) and a yearling colt by Mehmas (Ire).

Wednesday, Gowran Park, Ireland
COOLMORE STUD NO NAY NEVER FAIRY BRIDGE S.-G3, €55,000, Gowran, 9-2, 3yo/up, f/m, 7f 110yT, 1:36.40, sf.
1–CHAMPERS ELYSEES (IRE), 128, f, 3, by Elzaam (Aus)
1st Dam: La Cuvee (GB), by Mark of Esteem (Ire)
2nd Dam: Premiere Cuvee (GB), by Formidable
3rd Dam: Clicquot (Ire), by Bold Lad (Ire)
1ST GROUP WIN. (€12,500 Wlg ’17 TATFBR; €28,000 Ylg ’18 TIRSEP; €95,000 RNA 2yo ’19 GOFHIT). O-Fitzwilliam Racing; B-Karl Bowen (IRE); T-Johnny Murtagh; J-Niall McCullagh. €33,000. Lifetime Record: 8-4-2-1, $128,072. Werk Nick Rating: C. Click for the eNicks report & 5-cross pedigree.
2–Pearls Galore (Fr), 128, f, 3, Invincible Spirit (Ire)–Pearl Banks (GB), by Pivotal (GB). O/B-SCEA Haras de Saint Pair (FR); T-Paddy Twomey. €11,000.
3–Parent’s Prayer (Ire), 128, f, 3, Kingman (GB)–Pure Excellence (GB), by Exceed and Excel (Aus). (€165,000 2yo ’19 TATGOR). O-Ecurie Ama.Zing Team; B-Sun Kingdom Pty Ltd (IRE); T-Archie Watson. €5,500.
Margins: HF, 5, 1 3/4. Odds: 0.83, 3.00, 22.00.
Also Ran: Rocket Science (Ire), Soul Search (Ire), Miss Myers (Ire), Auxilia (Ire), Faire Croire (Ire), Precious Moments (Ire), Eden Quay (Ire), Tango (Ire). Scratched: Lady Scathach (Ire), Romantic Proposal (Ire). Click for the Racing Post result or the free Equineline.com catalogue-style pedigree.

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Racing In Dubai Sale Set For Sept. 12

The Racing in Dubai September 2020 Sale is set for Sept. 12 at 6:45 p.m. in the Meydan saddling enclosure. With the start of the Dubai racing season approaching on Oct. 29, 52 horses will be auctioned, 12 of which meet the minimum rating requirement of 90 to run at the Dubai World Cup Carnival. The highest-rated horse in the catalogue is Nordic Lights (GB) (Intello {Ger}), who is rated 105 and won at the carnival in February 2019 for Godolphin and trainer Charlie Appleby.

Inspections will take place on Sept. 10 and 11 from 8 a.m. to 10 a.m. and 4 p.m. to 6 p.m. at Meydan Quarantine.

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