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Malton Open Day Set For Sept. 11

ARC Malton Open Day, the opening act for National Racehorse Week, will be celebrated on Sunday, Sept. 11. Organised by Racing Welfare, it honours both racehorses and the staff responsible for their care. This year, 14 local racehorse trainers will open their doors to the public and give behind-the-scenes access to some of the most prominent and history racing yards in North Yorkshire. After yard tours in the morning, there will be various activities at Highfield Gallops in the afternoon, including a Retraining of Racehorses show. Tickets are priced at £12.50 for adults in advance. Children under 16 are welcome to attend for free. Go to the ARC Malton Open Day website to find out more or to purchase tickets.

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Siyouni’s Al Hakeem Annexes The Guillaume d’Ornano

Bouncing back off a fourth in June's G1 Prix du Jockey Club at Chantilly, Al Shaqab's homebred 3-year-old colt Al Hakeem (GB) (Siyouni {Fr}–Jadhaba {Ire}, by Galileo {Ire}) was all heart and regained the winning thread in Monday's G2 Prix Guillaume d'Ornano at Deauville. The January-foaled bay closed his two-race juvenile campaign with a breakthrough success at Chantilly and doubled his win tally back there on seasonal return before earning his black-type stripes contesting the May 3 Listed Prix de Suresnes at Chantilly in his penultimate start. The even-money favourite was a shade keen through the initial strides and settled into a smooth rhythm tracking the leaders in fourth for the most part. Looming large on the bridle turning for home, he seized a narrow advantage passing the quarter-mile marker and was driven out, despite drifting towards the far-side rail, to subdue the persistent G2 Prix Noailles victor Junko (GB) (Intello {Ger}) by a half length in game fashion. Lady Bamford's homebred G3 Prix de Conde runner-up True Testament (Ire) (Siyouni {Fr}) kept on well in the closing stages to finish 3/4-of-a-length adrift in third.

“He ran a very good race in the [G1 Prix du] Jockey Club, he's definitely a Group 1 horse and he will win a Group 1 one day,” insisted trainer Jean-Claude Rouget. “It could be this year or next year, so I hope he stays in training as a 4-year-old. This was a good race for him and he won easily in the end. He's a backward horse, but he's strong and I think the best is yet to come. I think he will stay a mile-and-a-half, but we'll see. I'll discuss plans with the Al Shaqab team and maybe the [G1 Prix de l'] Arc [de Triomphe is a possibility. He could go straight there, but I won't be alone in coming to that decision.”

Al Hakeem is the second of three foals and one of two scorers produced by G3 Prix Penelope placegetter Jadhaba (Ire) (Galileo {Ire}), who is one of six winners and the leading representative of GI E.P. Taylor S. third Naissance Royale (Ire) (Giant's Causeway), herself a half-sister to G2 Sun Chariot S. and G3 Musidora S. placegetter Spinnette (Ire) (Spinning World). Descendants of Spinette include stakes-winning GII Beverly Hills H. third Green Lyons (Ire) (Green Desert) and dual Grade III placegetter Tarrip (Green Desert). The January-foaled homebred bay is half to a 2-year-old filly by Kingman (GB).

Monday, Deauville, France
PRIX GUILLAUME D'ORNANO-G2, €400,000, Deauville, 8-15, 3yo, 10fT, 2:07.58, g/s.
1–AL HAKEEM (GB), 128, c, 3, by Siyouni (Fr)
1st Dam: Jadhaba (Ire) (GSP-Fr), by Galileo (Ire)
2nd Dam: Naissance Royale (Ire), by Giant's Causeway
3rd Dam: Net Worth, by Forty Niner
1ST GROUP WIN. O/B-Al Shaqab Racing (GB); T-Jean-Claude Rouget; J-Cristian Demuro. €228,000. Lifetime Record: 6-4-0-0, €371,350. Werk Nick Rating: A+++ *Triple Plus*. Click for the eNicks report & 5-cross pedigree.
2–Junko (GB), 128, g, 3, Intello (Ger)–Lady Zuzu (MGSP-US, $112,615), by Dynaformer. O/B-Wertheimer & Frere (GB); T-Andre Fabre. €88,000.
3–True Testament (Ire), 128, c, 3, Siyouni (Fr)–To Eternity (GB), by Galileo (Ire). O/B-Lady Bamford (IRE); T-Andre Fabre. €42,000.
Margins: HF, 3/4, HF. Odds: 1.00, 6.40, 10.00.
Also Ran: Vagalame (Ire), Missed The Cut, Hauran (Fr). Click for the free Equineline.com catalogue-style pedigree. Video, sponsored by TVG.

 

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Onesto Set For Irish Champion Stakes

Fabrice Chappet is set to have his first runner in Ireland and will send the G1 Grand Prix de Paris winner Onesto (Ire) (Frankel {GB}) to the G1 Royal Bahrain Irish Champion S. on September 10.

The first running of the race in 1976 was won by the Francois Boutin-trained Malacate, and the Irish Champion S last went to a French runner when Almanzor (Fr) won in 2016 en route to becoming European champion three-year-old. 

Onesto, also three, landed the G2 Prix Greffuhle in May before running fifth behind Vadeni (Fr) from a difficult draw in the G1 Prix du Jockey Club.

“He has won over a mile and a half but he showed in the Prix du Jockey Club that he has enough speed to be going against the best horses over a mile and a quarter,” Fabrice Chappet told TDN in Deauville. “He stays, but not only that, he has a great turn of foot and I am sure he's as good over a mile and a quarter as he is over a mile and a half.”

Later in the season, the G1 Qatar Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe remains on the agenda for Onesto, who now runs in the colours of Almanzor's part-owner Gerard Augustin-Normand.

“It is three weeks to the Arc [after the Irish Champion] and that's perfect,” Chappet noted. “I've never raced in Ireland and this is a prestigious race to be going for.”

Chappet is enjoying a decent season, with stable star Onesto backed up by the likes of Listed winner and Group 3-placed Machete (Fr) (Myboycharlie {Ire}) and dual juvenile winner Gain It (Fr) (De Treville {GB}), who, like Onesto, was awarded a TDN Rising Star. He is currently in seventh position in the French trainers' ranks having sent out significantly fewer runners than those above him in the table.

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Seven Declared For York’s Juddmonte International

Seven contenders will go forward for Wednesday's G1 Juddmonte International S. at York after final declarations were confirmed Monday morning. Shadwell's all-conquering Baaeed (GB) (Sea The Stars {Ire}), undefeated through nine starts to date, will seek to take his record to a perfect ten in the £1,000,000 10-furlong feature and will break from stall six. Guaranteed to start as the odds-on favourite for his first attempt at beyond the one-mile trip, his rivals are headed by Prince Faisal's globetrotting Mishriff (Ire) (Make Believe {GB}), who has not tasted success in four starts since administering a six-length beating to Baaeed's stablemate Alenquer (Fr) (Adlerflug {Ger}) in last year's renewal. Mishriff will exit from the five hole while Alenquer has drawn gate two. William Haggas is confident Baaeed will take the increased distance in his stride and said, “We've always felt he'd be better over further, but we've got a few people emailing us and casting doubt on whether we should be doing it. I'm looking forward to it, Sheikha Hissa is up for the challenge and I think it would be remiss of us not to give it a go. There's nothing I can do about the competition on the day and if the Mishriff of last year comes to York in the same form he'll be incredibly difficult to beat. He was unbelievably impressive that day. Mishriff ran a very, very good race in the Eclipse and a little bit of a lacklustre race in the King George, so who knows which one will turn up. He'll be a danger as will the others.” Haggas has also declared last year's G1 Champion S. runner-up Dubai Honour (Ire) (Pride Of Dubai {Aus}), who was beaten a nose by Sir Busker (Ire) (Sir Prancealot {Ire}) in last month's G2 York S. over course and distance. They have drawn stalls three and one. Godolphin's G1 Irish 2000 Guineas hero Native Trail (GB) (Oasis Dream {GB}), who finished a head behind Mishriff in Sandown's G1 Coral-Eclipse last month, is the Classic generation's lone representative in the field and will bid to register a fourth win at the highest level in his second try at the distance. He has been allocated stall four. The field is completed by Ballydoyle's G1 Tattersalls Gold Cup and G1 Coronation Cup placegetter High Definition (Ire) (Galileo {Ire}), who will start at long odds from the outside berth.

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