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Half To Coroebus Debuts At Yarmouth

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. Monday's Observations features a Shamardal half-brother to Coroebus (Ire) (Dubawi {Ire}).

1.20 Killarney, Mdn, €18,000, 2yo, 8f 60yT
WATER NYMPH (IRE) (Saxon Warrior {Jpn}), one of two Ballydoyle representatives in the line-up, is a half-sister to the G1 Prix de Diane and G1 Nassau S. heroine Fancy Blue (Ire) (Deep Impact {Jpn}) and the stable's G1 Dewhurst S.-placed Smuggler's Cove (Ire) (Fastnet Rock {Aus}). She is joined by Wednesday's Navan fourth Londoner (Ire) (Saxon Warrior {Jpn}), the €270,000 Goffs Orby graduate whose dam is the G1 Prix de l'Abbaye heroine Gilt Edge Girl (GB) (Monsieur Bond {Ire}).

 

1.55 Yarmouth, Novice, £9,950, 2yo, 7f 3yT
PHERENIKOS (IRE) (Shamardal) is a half-brother to this year's 2000 Guineas and St James's Palace S. hero Coroebus (Ire) (Dubawi {Ire}) who was such a big loss to Godolphin, Charlie Appleby and to racing in general when suffering his life-ending injury last month. One of the last of the Shamardals, the relative of another high-class Godolphin stalwart in Thunder Snow (Ire) (Helmet {Aus}) faces a tough task on debut opposed by the Gosdens' well-regarded Alzahir (Fr) (Sea The Stars {Ire}), not seen since disappointing when too free in the Listed Chesham S. at Royal Ascot.

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Heart’s Cry’s Salios Lands Mainichi Okan

Winless since taking the 2020 edition of the G2 Mainichi Okan, Silk Racing's Salios (Jpn) (Heart's Cry {Jpn}) rebounded with a new course record of 1:44.10 in the 1800-metre Tokyo Group 2 on Sunday.

Favoured at 2-1 despite his lengthy winless drought, the 5-year-old entire was content to stalk in fourth as a rank Red Belle Aube (Jpn) (Deep Impact {Jpn}) cut out the running while tossing his head. That foe eventually settled down to business while shaded by Lei Papale (Jpn) (Deep Impact {Jpn}) and covered the first 1000 metres in a sparkling :57.90.

Facing a wall of horses to traverse after dropping to sixth on the bend, Salios still had is work cut out for him, but a gap opened around the 300-metre mark and he bulled his way through. The story was much the same within the final furlong, and once again the chestnut found a path between foes, pinned his ears and surged to the lead. His winning margin was a half-length over Justin Café (Jpn) (Epiphaneia {Jpn}), who'd made an encouraging run along the outside. The 2020 Japanese Champion 2-Year-Old Colt Danon The Kid (Jpn) (Just A Way {Jpn}), winner of that term's G1 Hopeful S., was another length back in third.

A winner of his first three starts, culminating in the G1 Asahi Hai Futurity S. in 2019, Salios placed in the first two legs of the Japanese Triple Crown as a sophomore and was also a winner of the G2 Mainichi Okan that October. Winless in 2021, his best showing was a third in the G1 Hong Kong Mile at Sha Tin that December. Unplaced in the Mar. 27 G1 Takamatsunomiya Kinen, the 5-year-old was third in the G1 Yasuda Kinen at Tokyo on Jun 5, before being shelved until the Mainichi Okan on Sunday.

 

Pedigree Notes

The second stakes winner out of G1 German Oaks victress Salomina (Ger) (Lomitas {GB}), Salios's older half-sister Salacia (Jpn) (Deep Impact {Jpn}) claimed the G2 Fuchu Himba S. and was second in both the G1 Arima Kinen Grand Prix and the G1 Queen Elizabeth II Cup. All six of Salomina's foals to race are winners, including the 3-year-old Deep Impact filly Saliera (Jpn), second in the G2 Rose S. Salomina's juvenile colt and yearling filly are both full-siblings to the winner, while her most recent foal is a filly by Duramente (Jpn).

Tracing to one of Germany's premiere families, Salios's second dam is Saldentigerin (Ger) (Tiger Hill {Ire}), a Group 3 winner in her native land and also placed in both the German Oaks and G1 Preis von Europa, who threw the stakes winner Salut (Ger) to the cover of Lomitas, as well as the group-placed Skyful Sea (Fr) (Sea The Stars {Ire}). His great granddam Salde (Ger) (Alkalde {Ger}) foaled a quartet of German stakes winners, of which Saldentigerin was her best, as well as the multiple Group 1-placed Saltas (Ger) (Lomitas {GB}). Another of Salde's black-type placed daughters, the Highest Honor (Fr) mare Saldenehre (Ger), is the dam of German Oaks winner Serienholde (Ger) (Soldier Hollow {GB}), who foaled, in turn, the G1 NHK Mile Cup hero Schnell Meister (Ger) (Kingman {GB}), second in both the G1 Yasuda Kinen and G1 Mile Championship.

 

Sunday, Tokyo, Japan
MAINICHI OKAN-G2, ¥128,700,000, Tokyo, 10-9, 3yo/up, 1800mT, *1:44.10 (NCR), fm.
1–SALIOS (JPN), 123, h, 5, by Heart's Cry (Jpn)
                1st Dam: Salomina (Ger) (G1SW-Ger, $332,689),
                                by Lomitas (GB)
                2nd Dam: Saldentigerin (Ger), by Tiger Hill (Ire)
                3rd Dam: Salde (Ger), by Alkalde (Ger)
O-Silk Racing; B-Northern Farm (Jpn); T-Noriyuki Hori; J-Kohei
Matsuyama. ¥67,700,000. Lifetime Record: G1SW-Jpn,
14-5-2-2. Click for the
   free Equineline.com catalogue-style pedigree. Werk Nick
   Rating: C+. Click for the eNicks report & 5-cross pedigree.
2–Justin Café (Jpn), 123, c, 4, Epiphaneia (Jpn)–Casino Boogie
(Jpn), by Workforce (GB). 1ST BLACK-TYPE. 1ST GROUP BLACK
   TYPE. O-Masahiro Miki; B-Shadai Farm (Jpn); ¥27,200,000.
3–Danon the Kid (Jpn), 123, c, 4, Just a Way (Jpn)–Epic Love
(Ire), by Dansili (GB). (¥100,000,000 Wlg '18 JRHAJUL). O-Danox Inc.; B-Northern Farm (Jpn); ¥17,100,000.
Margins: HF, 3/4, 1. Odds: 2.00, 4.90, 5.70.
Also Ran: Lei Papale (Jpn), North Bridge (Jpn), Potager (Jpn), Kingston Boy (Jpn), King Of Koji (Jpn), Happy Hour (Jpn), Red Belle Aube (Jpn). Click for the JRA chart & video.

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Tattersalls Braced for More Bumper Trade as Graduates Shine

NEWMARKET, UK–There has been no respite for the hardy consignors and their staff since last week's heady renewal of Book 1 of the Tattersalls October Yearling Sale. No sooner had the hammer fallen on lot 549 than the next batch of yearlings came prancing onto the sales ground, ready for three days of inspections ahead of Book 2, which begins its three-day run from 10am on Monday.

This is the week that really requires stamina from all participants: three new books to complete the October sale by Saturday, with the numbers running on from last week, though to lot 2097, who should just make it through the ring before the gates fly back for the start of QIPCO British Champions Day.

With prices at an extraordinary high last week–a factor which will almost certainly mean that Book 2 is also stronger than usual–it is worth bearing in mind, for those on the search for juveniles for next year, that two years ago a first-crop daughter of Galileo Gold (GB) was plucked from Book 4 for just 4,000gns.

Bought from Kilpatrick Farm by Michael Aguiar, she found her way to George Boughey's stable and, given the name Oscula (Ire), she went on to race with huge success for the Nick Bradley Racing syndicate. And boy, hasn't she danced every dance? A winner in May, then a Group 3 winner by June, Oscula waltzed from the helter-skelters of Brighton and Epsom, to Royal Ascot, Newmarket, Deauville, Longchamp and Saint-Cloud. And that was just her 2-year-old season. This year she has added two more group wins, at Glorious Goodwood and Deauville, as well as notching umpteen stakes places here and there, not to mention a trip to Saudi Arabia in February. It is safe to say that Oscula is the type of filly we would all love to own–and all the better if we could find one just like her for 4,000gns.

Buyers will have to dig deeper than that through the next three days of Book 2, which by any standards is an elite sale in its own right. It owns the best bragging rights of all this year, having produced the Derby winner Desert Crown (GB) (Nathaniel {Ire}), not to mention the four-time Group 1 winner State Of Rest (Ire) (Starspangledbanner {Aus}). Breeder Gary Robinson of Strawberry Fields Stud withdrew Desert Crown's half-brother by Study Of Man (Ire) from Book 1 last week, but he will be offering another relative in Book 2 in lot 817, an Expert Eye (GB) colt out of the Derby winner's half-sister, the six-time winner Rose Berry (GB) (Archipenko).

The winning graduates have kept pouring in over the weekend for Tattersalls. Charyn (Ire) (Dark Angel {Ire}) continued an excellent run for her owner Nurlan Bizakov in the G2 Criterium de Maisons-Laffitte just six days after Belbek (Fr) (Showcasing {GB}) won the G1 Prix Jean-Luc Lagardere. Though Bizakov traditionally races homebreds, he bought Charyn from breeder Guy O'Callaghan's Grangemore Stud at Book 2 last year for 250,000gns. Her dam Futoon (Ire) (Kodiac {GB}) has no yearling in the sale this year, but Grangemore's draft of five in Book 2 contains another Dark Angel filly [lot 919] who is the first foal of Listed Two-Year-Old Trophy winner Summer Daydream (Ire) (Footstepsinthesand {GB}).

At Newmarket, Fitri Hay's Book 2 graduate Royal Scotsman (Ire) (Gleneagles {Ire}) came within a head of landing the G1 Darley Dewhurst S. when finishing second to Chaldean (GB) (Frankel {GB}). Over at the Curragh on Saturday, Joseph O'Brien's Lumiere Rock (Ire) (Saxon Warrior {Jpn}) continued her smart progression. She too was sold in Book 2 last year, for 55,000gns to Rockfield Farm, and she has provided a timely update for consignor Castletown Stud, which offers her half-sister by Zoffany (Ire) as lot 1711 in Book 3. When the catalogue went to press, Lumiere Rock was still unraced. 

These are just the tip of the equine iceberg, of course, and an honourable mention must go to one of this season's most exciting juveniles, Lezoo (GB) (Zoustar {Aus}), who was plucked from the Chasemore Farm draft at last year's Book 3 for 77,000gns by Hamish Macauley.

In short, those labelled the 'cream of the crop' helped to provide Tattersalls with an historic rendition of Book 1 but, as ever, the classy runners of the next few seasons will emanate from all levels of the market. Bargain-hunters shouldn't be deterred; they may just have to wait a little longer than normal to strike this week.

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Sea The Moon’s Fantastic Moon Wins The Winterfavoriten

Off the mark on debut over seven furlongs at Munich Sept. 12, Liberty Racing 2021's Fantastic Moon (Ger) (Sea The Moon {Ger}–Frangipani {Ger}, by Jukebox Jury {Ire}) pitched his case as one of Germany's leading Classic contenders for 2023 in Sunday's G3 Preis des Winterfavoriten at Cologne. Settled in mid-division early by Rene Piechulek, the Sarah Steinberg-trained 14-5 shot stayed in his group of three racing away from the remainder.

Drifting left in the straight to join the others towards the stand's rail, the bay had the lead approaching the furlong pole and was driven out to ward off the G3 Zukunfts-Rennen runner-up See Paris (Ger) (Counterattack {Aus}) by half a length, with 2 3/4 lengths back to Arcandi (Ger) (Zarak {Fr}) in third. “He's a cool guy,” Piechulek told galopponline.de., while his partner Steinberg added, “He was growing for a long time, but after his success he made another real leap.”

Pedigree Notes
Fantastic Moon is the second foal out of Frangipani, a half-sister to the G3 Sveat Minnelop winner Fearless Hunter (Ger) (Alhaarth {Ire}) from the family of the G3 Rockfel S. winner Germane (GB) (Distant Relative [Ire}). She in turn produced the GI Hollywood Derby and GII Virginia Derby-placed Lucky Chappy (Ire) (High Chaparral {Ire}), while others featuring are the G3 Prestige S. winner Kilmah (GB) (Sepoy {Aus}), one of the current stars of racing in the States, Jack Christopher (Munnings), and the dual top-level-winning sire Street Boss. Frangipani also has a yearling filly by Starspangledbanner (Aus) named Fang Mich (Ger) and a filly foal by Masar (Ire).

Saturday, Cologne, Germany
PREIS DES WINTERFAVORITEN-G3, €155,000, Cologne, 10-9, 2yo, 8fT, 1:38.38, g/s.
1–FANTASTIC MOON (GER), 128, c, 2, by Sea The Moon (Ger)
     1st Dam: Frangipani (Ger), by Jukebox Jury (Ire)
     2nd Dam: Firedance (Ger), by Lomitas (GB)
     3rd Dam: Fraulein Tobin, by J. O. Tobin
1ST BLACK-TYPE WIN; 1ST GROUP WIN. (€49,000 Ylg '21 BBASEP). O-Liberty Racing 2021; B-Graf & Grafin von Stauffenberg (GER); T-Sarah Steinberg; J-Rene Piechulek. €85,000. Lifetime Record: 2-2-0-0, €88,600. Werk Nick Rating: A. Click for the eNicks report & 5-cross pedigree, or click for the free Equineline.com catalogue-style pedigree.
2–See Paris (Ger), 128, c, 2, Counterattack (Aus)–Scouting (Ire), by New Approach (Ire). (€32,000 Ylg '21 BBASEP). O-Cometica AG; B-Gestut Karlshof (GER); T-Henk Grewe. €31,000.
3–Arcandi (Ger), 128, c, 2, Zarak (Fr)–Santanna (Fr), by Country Reel.
1ST BLACK-TYPE; 1ST GROUP BLACK-TYPE. O/B-Gestut Ebbesloh (GER); T-Peter Schiergen. €20,500.
Margins: HF, 2 3/4, SHD. Odds: 2.80, 2.60, 2.50.
Also Ran: Garpur (Fr), Sirjan (Ger), Merkur (Fr), Senador (Ger).

 

 

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