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Back-To-Back Minstrels For Holy Roman Emperor’s Romanised

Enjoying the perfect warm-up for a repeat bid in the G1 Prix Jacques le Marois, Robert Ng’s Romanised (Ire) (Holy Roman Emperor {Ire}) was at or very near his best to register back-to-back wins in Saturday’s G2 Paddy Power Minstrel S. at The Curragh. Tracking the 10-11 market-leader Lancaster House (Ire) (Galileo {Ire}) in third against the rail, the 9-4 second favourite was angled out of a pocket by Billy Lee to swamp that rival at the furlong pole. Asserting on the run to the line, the 2018 G1 Irish 2000 Guineas hero who was last seen finishing runner-up in the G1 Prix du Moulin had 1 3/4 lengths to spare over the Ballydoyle runner there, with Surrounding (Ire) (Lilbourne Lad {Ire}) 2 1/4 lengths behind in third.

“We were keen to start his season locally at a track he’s won at before and I’m delighted with that,” trainer Ken Condon commented. “He’s a little bit heavier and a year older and he’d been working nicely without any fireworks–all the signs were very good, but bearing in mind he has needed his comeback runs over the last two seasons I’m very pleased with that. He was not too fresh and real professional and his work had been like that, nice and relaxed. It’s lovely that he showed that on ground as dead and slow as he’d want it and the Jacques le Marois is the primary target. We had a super day there last year and it’s his big aim. Hopefully, he takes this race well and I’m sure he’ll get something from it as he would have been ring-rusty. Deauville’s straight track suits his way of running best and we’ll discuss the rest of his campaign with his owner Robert and racing manager Rupert [Pritchard-Gordon]. He might go to Longchamp again for the Moulin and might end up in Hong Kong later after three runs. He’d still be a fresh horse then, hopefully.”

Romanised, whose Curragh efforts now read three wins from four starts, is a half to the dual listed scorer Fictional Account (Ire) (Stravinsky) and the G3 St Leger Italiano winner Rock of Romance (Ire) (Rock of Gibraltar {Ire}). The dam Romantic Venture (Ire) (Indian Ridge {Ire}) hails from a Moyglare Stud family and is a full-sister to the G3 Brigadier Gerard S. and G3 Arc Trial S. scorer Sights On Gold (Ire) and a half to the four-times group 1-wining Hong Kong Horse of the Year Designs On Rome (Ire) by Romanised’s sire Holy Roman Emperor, as well as to the GII American Derby winner Simple Exchange (Ire) (Danehill). The third dam Seasonal Pickup (The Minstrel), a full-sister to the dam of the G1 Irish Derby hero Grey Swallow (Ire) (Daylami {Ire}), is the second dam of the G2 Feehan S. winner and G1 George Ryder S. runner-up Rekindled Interest (Aus) (Redoute’s Choice {Aus}).

Saturday, Curragh, Ireland
PADDY POWER MINSTREL S.-G2, €80,000, Curragh, 7-18, 3yo/up, 7fT, 1:25.88, yl.
1–ROMANISED (IRE), 136, h, 5, by Holy Roman Emperor (Ire)
1st Dam: Romantic Venture (Ire), by Indian Ridge (Ire)
2nd Dam: Summer Trysting, by Alleged
3rd Dam: Seasonal Pickup, by The Minstrel
O-Robert Ng; B-Mrs Monica Aherne (IRE); T-Ken Condon; J-Billy Lee. €48,000. Lifetime Record: Hwt. Older Horse-Ire at 7.5-9f, G1SW-Fr & Ire, GSP-Eng, 16-5-2-0, $1,284,357. *1/2 to Rock of Romance (Ire) (Rock of Gibraltar {Ire}), GSW-Ity, SW & MGSP-Ger, $125,944; and Fictional Account (IRE) (Stravinsky), Hwt. Older Mare-Ire at 14f+, SW-Eng & Ire, SP-Aus, $178,094. Werk Nick Rating: A. Click for the eNicks report & 5-cross pedigree.
2–Lancaster House (Ire), 136, c, 4, Galileo (Ire)–Quiet Oasis (Ire), by Oasis Dream (GB). O-Michael Tabor Derrick Smith & Susan Magnier; B-Barronstown Stud (IRE); T-Aidan O’Brien. €16,000.
3–Surrounding (Ire), 133, m, 7, Lilbourne Lad (Ire)–Roundabout Girl (Ire), by Doubletour. O/B-P E I Newell (IRE); T-Michael Halford. €8,000.
Margins: 1 3/4, 2 1/4, 1 3/4. Odds: 2.25, 0.91, 10.00.
Also Ran: Love Locket (Ire), Buffer Zone (GB), Precious Moments (Ire). Scratched: Gustavus Weston (Ire). Click for the Racing Post result or the free Equineline.com catalogue-style pedigree.

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Mehmas Gets His First Black-Type Winner As Method Excites

Manton Park Racing’s Method (Ire) (Mehmas {Ire}) was one of the hot topics among the current crop of juveniles after his striking debut at Doncaster June 26, having beaten the subsequent G2 Duchess of Cambridge S. runner-up Fev Rover (Ire) (Gutaifan {Ire}) there by 4 1/4 lengths. Entering Saturday’s six-furlong Listed bet365 Rose Bowl S. at Newbury as the deserved 5-6 favourite, the bay read the script perfectly to exit with reputation enhanced. Anchored behind the pace by Oisin Murphy early, he was delivered to cut down Mighty Gurkha (Ire) (Sepoy {Aus}) approaching the furlong marker en route to a commanding 2 1/4-length success, with Imperial Yellow (Ire) (New Bay {GB}) 3 1/4 lengths away in third. In doing so, Method was providing his first-season sire (by Acclamation {GB}) with his first black-type winner. The G2 July S. and G2 Richmond S.-winning Tally-Ho Stud resident has the largest representation of any of his fellow freshmen this year and the earliest from his 146 2-year-olds include the Listed Windsor Castle S. third Muker (Ire) and smart recent winner Supremacy (Ire).

“He’s a gorgeous physical specimen and has done well with his racing,” Murphy commented. “At Doncaster I rode him and liked him and the team at home have done a good job at managing him. He’s a sprinter. He travelled with a lot of zest today and there are some quick horses in that field and I think he can go to a higher level. Martyn [Meade] has had a lot of good ones in recent years in the likes of Advertise and Acclaim and it would be lovely if they’ve found another one.”

Meade added, “I think he is very good on that showing–it was a hand-and-heels ride, the horses finished in the right order and he lived up to every expectation. I think a mile will be no problem and I expect him to progress to that. He has a few options, with the obvious one being the [G2] Richmond [at Goodwood], but that’s a touch early and he could go to France for the [G1 Prix] Morny. We have to take it one race at a time and we’ll see how he is after today.”

Method’s dam Darsan, who was a stayer albeit in modest company, is kin to the Listed Montrose Fillies’ S. winner and G3 Prix Saint-Roman runner-up La Vita E Bella (Ire) (Definite Article {GB}). Her descendants include the G2 Lennox S.-winning seven-furlong specialist Dutch Connection (GB) (Dutch Art {GB}), who was also runner-up in the G1 Prix Jean Prat, and the listed scorer and G2 Criterium de Maisons-Laffitte-placed Bella Tusa (Ire) (Sri Pekan). The dam also has a yearling colt by Belardo (Ire).

Saturday, Newbury, Britain
BET365 ROSE BOWL S.-Listed, £17,500, Newbury, 7-18, 2yo, 6fT, 1:11.36, gd.
1–METHOD (IRE), 126, c, 2, by Mehmas (Ire)
1st Dam: Darsan (Ire), by Iffraaj (GB)
2nd Dam: Coolrain Lady (Ire), by Common Grounds (GB)
3rd Dam: Moneycashen, by Hook Money
1ST BLACK-TYPE WIN. (€16,000 Wlg ’18 GOFNOV; £20,000 Ylg ’19 GOFFPR). O-Manton Park Racing; B-M Phelan (IRE); T-Martyn Meade; J-Oisin Murphy. £9,924. Lifetime Record: 2-2-0-0, $16,809.
2–Mighty Gurkha (Ire), 126, c, 2, Sepoy (Aus)–Royal Debt (GB), by Royal Applause (GB). (14,000gns RNA Ylg ’19 TAOCT). O-Mohammed Rashid; B-Rabbah Bloodstock Ltd (IRE); T-Archie Watson. £3,763.
3–Imperial Yellow (Ire), 126, c, 2, New Bay (GB)–Soteria (Ire), by Acclamation (GB). (€60,000 Wlg ’18 TATFBR; £40,000 Ylg ’19 GOFFPR). O-Varian Racing III; B-China Horse Club International Ltd (IRE); T-Roger Varian. £1,883.
Margins: 2 1/4, 3 1/4, HF. Odds: 0.83, 6.00, 5.00.
Also Ran: Fountain Cross (GB), Mere Green (Ire), Kraken Power (Ire), Tanfantic (GB), Bowman (Ire). Click for the Racing Post result.

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Kingman’s Guru a New Rising Star On Debut At Newbury

Newbury’s bet365 EBF Novice S. at Saturday looked the type of race to throw up something special beforehand and the feast of fancy pedigrees duly delivered as Lady Bamford’s newcomer Guru (GB) (Kingman {GB}) denied Juddmonte’s Maximal (GB) (Galileo {Ire}) in a photo. Settled off the pace as Adam Kirby found a lead throughout the early stages of this seven-furlong contest, the 8-1 shot had to surrender first run to the eventual runner-up inside the final two furlongs but picked up in style to reel in that rival in the final stride. At the line, the homebred son of the high-class Dream Peace (Ire) (Dansili {GB}) had prevailed by a nose from the son of Joyeuse (GB) (Oasis Dream {GB}), with three lengths separating them and Legend of Dubai (GB) (Dubawi {Ire}). That first foal out of the G1 Prix Jean Romanet and G1 Prix de l’Opera heroine Speedy Boarding (GB) (Shamardal) was making it a one-two-three for the blueblooded newcomers in a race that could be talked about for some time to come.

John Gosden’s son Thady was on hand to discuss the winner and said, “He did everything right in the race and is a pretty laid-back horse at home. He was taking everything in today on this first day at school and he may be one to treat gently and take in a novice rather than going straight into a group race. Sir Michael Stoute’s horse [Maximal] looked a lovely horse in the paddock, so we were pleased to be there with him at the end.”

Guru looks as if he could be the best progeny so far out of Dream Peace, who was bought for 2.7million gns at the 2013 Tattersalls December Mares Sale. Initially with Robert Collet, the Kilfrush Stud-bred mare captured the G2 Prix de la Nonette and was third in the GI E.P. Taylor S. and runner-up in the GI Diana S. before joining Chad Brown and placing in the GI Flower Bowl Invitational and the E.P. Taylor and Diana again. The second dam is Truly a Dream (Ire) (Darshaan {GB}) who captured the E.P. Taylor when it was staged as a grade II and also the G3 Prix de Royaumont before producing the G1 Poule d’Essai des Poulains runner-up Catcher In the Rye (Ire) (Danehill). Also connected to the top-class trio of L’Ancresse (Ire) (Darshaan {GB}), Moonstone (GB) (Dalakhani {Ire}) and Cerulean Sky (Ire) (Darshaan {GB}), Dream Peace’s yearling colt is by Frankel (GB).

2nd-Newbury, £6,400, Novice, 7-18, 2yo, 7fT, 1:26.93, gd.
GURU (GB) (c, 2, by Kingman (GB)
1st Dam: Dream Peace (Ire) (GSW-Fr, MGISP-Can, MGISP-US, $815,242), by Dansili (GB)
2nd Dam: Truly a Dream (Ire), by Darshaan (GB)
3rd Dam: Truly Special (Ire), by Caerleon
Lifetime Record: 1-1-0-0, $5,203. O/B-Lady Bamford (GB); T-John Gosden. Click for the Racing Post result or the free Equineline.com catalogue-style pedigree.

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Irish Oaks Headlines Saturday Action

Aidan O’Brien will be looking to bring down more barricades on Saturday as he chases the record of Sir Michael Stoute in The Curragh’s G1 Juddmonte Irish Oaks. With five wins in the mile-and-a-half Classic, he sits one shy of the tally wracked up over the decades by the Newmarket-based legend and it will be no surprise were he to join him in 2020. Four fillies contest the latest renewal from Rosegreen, with Evie Stockwell’s G1 Epsom Oaks and G2 Ribblesdale S. runner-up Ennistymon (Ire) (Galileo {Ire}) the current standard-bearer on that form. Normally, being beaten nine lengths in the Epsom monument would be no commendation coming into this equivalent, but to be that distance from her exalted stablemate Love (Ire) (Galileo {Ire}) is probably creditable. “We’ve been very happy with Ennistymon since her last run in Epsom. She ran a great race, so we’re looking forward to this,” O’Brien said.

Ennistymon’s rider Wayne Lordan was on Snow (Ire) (Galileo {Ire}) when she beat her elders in the G3 Munster Oaks at Cork July 5, which was her first try at this trip. Previously runner-up in the June 21 G3 Blue Wind S. over 10 furlongs June 21, the full-sister to Kew Gardens (Ire) is charting the kind of progress that makes one from her stable with her pedigree impossible to discount in this company. That also applies to Laburnum (Ire) (Galileo {Ire}), who came off second-best in a tussle with the Ger Lyons-trained Even So (Ire) (Camelot {GB}) in the Listed Naas Oaks Trial over a mile and a quarter last time July 4.

“We were delighted with Laburnum the last day, she was very inexperienced going into it–a baby, really,” O’Brien said of the full-sister to Roderic O’Connor (Ire). “When she won her maiden she didn’t know much, so we felt that she had to run again to learn. She seems to be in good form and is stepping up to a mile and a half. It will be very interesting to see what happens with her, but there is every chance she is going to move up plenty. She is a very straightforward filly.”

Earlier on the Curragh card, the O’Brien-Lordan combination is in evidence in the G2 Paddy Power Minstrel S. on the exciting Lancaster House (Ire) (Galileo {Ire}), who beat the high-class Speak In Colours (GB) (Excelebration {Ire}) with authority in the G3 Gladness S. over this seven-furlong trip June 13. He has to contend with last year’s winner Romanised (Ire) (Holy Roman Emperor {Ire}), who stages his return to action for Robert Ng and Ken Condon. Already successful in the 2018 G1 Irish 2000 Guineas, he proved himself a genuine top-class performer on his latest two outings when winning the G1 Prix Jacques le Marois and finishing runner-up in the G1 Prix du Moulin.

Aidan O’Brien’s record in the G2 GAIN Railway S. is remarkable, with his tally of 13 successes just one short of the late great Vincent O’Brien. Wayne Lordan is on the June 26 course-and-distance maiden winner Merchants Quay (Fr) (No Nay Never), leaving Michael Hussey to partner the July 3 Navan maiden scorer Forest of Dreams (Ire) (No Nay Never). Jessie Harrington saddles Zhang Yuesheng’s June 8 Naas maiden winner Lucky Vega (Ire) (Lope de Vega {Ire}), while Ger Lyons relies on To Glory (GB) (Toronado {Ire}) who was off the mark over another 150 yards on debut at Limerick June 29. The fixture’s other pattern race is the G2 Comer Group International Curragh Cup, in which Lordan is on Ballydoyle’s unexposed June 18 Fairyhouse maiden-winning 3-year-old Memorabilis (Ire) (Galileo {Ire}) as he takes on Lloyd Williams’ veteran Twilight Payment (Ire) (Teofilo {Ire}) who scored over course and distance last time in the June 27 G3 Vintage Crop S.

Earlier in the afternoon, Newbury host the G3 bet365 Hackwood S. for the sprinters, with Sheikh Mohammed Obaid Al Maktoum’s TDN Rising Star Repartee (Ire) (Invincible Spirit {Ire}) looking to step up on his winning return in Windsor’s Listed Carnarvon S. over this six-furlong trip June Jun 28. Among the unexposed 3-year-old’s opponents is last year’s G2 City of York S. winner Shine So Bright (GB) (Oasis Dream {GB}), who was third when attempting to force the issue in the seven-furlong Listed Surrey S. at Epsom July 4. “As long as the ground is on the quick side, I would hope he’ll run very well. I think they’re calling the ground good at the moment and as long as it stays that way, I’m sure he’ll be fine,” trainer Andrew Balding said. “He’s a very useful horse on his day and I was happy with his last run at Epsom.”

Also on the card is the Listed bet365 Rose Bowl S. over six furlongs, where Manton Park Racing’s Method (Ire) (Mehmas {Ire}) bids to uphold the form of his Doncaster debut June 26. Having beaten the subsequent G2 Duchess of Cambridge S. runner-up Fev Rover (Ire) (Gutaifan {Ire}) there by 4 1/4 lengths, there is an understandable air of excitement surrounding the latest Martyn Meade project. “He was quite impressive at Doncaster, but this is a totally different ball game,” he said with a dash of humility. “He’s come out the race really well and I’m expecting him to progress and make a good showing of himself. It’s a natural stepping-stone. It’s just the right sort of race for him. I think he learnt a lot the other day.”

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