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Australia’s Point Lonsdale Takes The Chesham

'TDN Rising Star' Point Lonsdale (Ire) (Australia {GB}) entered Saturday's Listed Chesham S. with a substantial reputation from Ballydoyle and while it was hard work in Ascot's slow ground he duly delivered as the 10-11 favourite. Held on to this time unlike when successful by 5 1/2 lengths over this seven-furlong trip on yielding ground at The Curragh June 2, the full-brother to Broome (Ire) edged ahead with 1 1/2 furlongs remaining and despite veering left denied The Queen's Reach For the Moon (GB) (Sea the Stars {Ire}) by half a length in a thrilling finale. Amo Racing's Great Max (Ire) (Wootton Bassett {GB}) was third, 3 1/4 lengths away. “He's from a good family and is still green and learning,” Ryan Moore said. “They are very attritional conditions and he's doing this on pure class at the moment. He handles that ground, but he doesn't need it.”

This was a fascinating renewal with some well-regarded colts in attendance and with Reach For the Moon taken towards the far side along with Masekela (Ire) (El Kabeir), it was the Charlie Appleby trainee New Science (GB) (Lope de Vega {Ire}) and the Archie Watson-trained Sweeping (GB) (Siyouni {Fr}) who Moore opted to track on the favourite. Keen under restraint for the first time, the blaze-faced bay travelled into contention smoothly approaching the final two furlongs but the Royal runner was not stopping under Frankie Dettori and it was soon clear that Point Lonsdale would have to graft to subdue him. While Reach For the Moon lugged right, the winner was going the other way but he was notably game in the closing stages to cling on. This seven-furlong contest is unique, being restricted to sons and daughters of either a sire or dam who won over at least 10 furlongs, and Aidan O'Brien was keen to stress the uniqueness of the winner afterwards.

Of his previous five Chesham scorers, Churchill (Ire) was the most notable in 2016 and the master of Ballydoyle who was registering a 76th Royal winner is thinking of the same route for Point Lonsdale. “He can go back for races like the [G3] Tyros [at Leopardstown July 22], the [G2] Futurity [at The Curragh Aug. 21], the [G1 Goffs Vincent O'Brien] National Stakes [at The Curragh Sept. 12] and the [G1] Dewhurst [at Newmarket Oct. 9] and all those sort of races like Churchill,” he said. “He's very brave and is full of that Galileo in that his head goes down and out. He didn't learn too much the first time and so it was nice he got a little bit of a lead today. The first and second pulled clear, so I'd day they are two good colts.”

“He's very smart and it's unusual for a horse bred to be a middle-distance horse to be out so early and be so forward,” O'Brien added. “For an Australia, he always had a lot of speed and was very natural from early on. He's still a bit of a baby, but everyone always thought a lot of him and he's really genuine. When you ask him, he digs very deep and we'd hope he'll be a classy horse, a Guineas and Derby-type horse. We were worried about the ground a little. Broome bends his knee a little bit, but this horse doesn't and is a low, slick mover. None of those horses in that race would have encountered ground like that before.”

Thady Gosden said of Reach For the Moon, who had a special audience on Saturday with his owner-breeder present. “It was a great run and we're really happy with him. That was only his second career run, he is still very inexperienced. I think Reach For the Moon and the winner Point Lonsdale got lonely in front, but they both ran on well and look two nice prospects. Obviously our lad handled the ground, but he would also prefer better ground in the future–he is one to look forward to.”

Point Lonsdale's aforementioned full-brother was unable to provide the dam Sweepstake (Ire) (Acclamation {GB}) with a black-type double in the G2 Hardwicke S., but he has done plenty for her already by winning four times in pattern company–including this year's G2 Mooresbridge S.–and finishing runner-up in the G1 Tattersalls Gold Cup. Sweepstake, who took the Listed National S. and was runner-up in the GIII Appalachian S., is a daughter of Dust Flicker (GB) (Suave Dancer) who is a full-sister to the G3 Prix de la Nonette winner Dust Dancer (GB). She is in turn the second dam of the G1 Phoenix S.-winning sire Zoffany (Ire) and the G3 Bengough S. winner Projection (GB), who shares Acclamation (GB) as a sire with Sweepstake.

Dust Flicker is also kin to the G3 Fred Darling S. winner Bulaxie (GB) (Bustino {GB}), dam of the G2 Premio Lydia Tesio winner Claxon (GB) (Caerleon) whose daughter Cassydora (GB) (Darshaan {GB}) took the GIII Hillsborough S. and was runner-up in the G1 Nassau S. Her three black-type winners include this stable's triple group 3 scorer Ernest Hemingway (Ire) by Australia's sire Galileo and the G3 Prix d'Aumale winner Toulifaut (Ire) (Frankel {GB}). Sweepstake also has a yearling filly by Lope de Vega (Ire).

Saturday, Royal Ascot, Britain
CHESHAM S.-Listed, £65,000, Ascot, 6-19, 2yo, 7fT, 1:30.46, sf.
1–POINT LONSDALE (IRE), 129, c, 2, by Australia (GB)
1st Dam: Sweepstake (Ire) (SW & GSP-Eng & US, $114,162), by Acclamation (GB)
2nd Dam: Dust Flicker (GB), by Suave Dancer
3rd Dam: Galaxie Dust, by Blushing Groom (Fr)
1ST BLACK-TYPE WIN. (575,000gns Ylg '20 TATOCT). O-Derrick Smith, Susan Magnier, Michael Tabor, Westerberg; B-Epona Bloodstock Ltd (IRE); T-Aidan O'Brien; J-Ryan Moore. £38,480. Lifetime Record: 2-2-0-0, $64,991. *Full to Broome (Ire), MGSW & G1SP-Ire, G1SP-Fr, $595,734.
2–Reach For The Moon (GB), 129, c, 2, Sea the Stars (Ire)–Golden Stream (Ire), by Sadler's Wells. O/B-The Queen (GB); T-John & Thady Gosden. £14,554.
3–Great Max (Ire), 129, c, 2, Wootton Bassett (GB)–Teeslemee (Fr), by Youmzain (Ire). (€72,000 Wlg '19 GOFNOV; 260,000gns Ylg '20 TATOCT). O-Amo Racing Ltd; B-Ennistown Stud (IRE); T-Michael Bell. £7,274.
Margins: HF, 3 1/4, HD. Odds: 0.91, 11.00, 7.50.
Also Ran: Sweeping (GB), Masekela (Ire), Withering (GB), New Science (GB), Out In Yorkshire (GB), Radio Caroline (GB), Sharp Combo (Ire). Click for the Racing Post result. Video, sponsored by TVG.

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Book 1 Debut For Haras d’Ombreville

It is not an easy year to be making a Book 1 debut but it is an occasion that Matthieu and Solenn Gouesnard of Haras d’Ombreville have been looking forward to, despite the extra complications of the coronavirus situation.

The couple launched their farm in the Pays d’Auge region of France in 2012 after Mathieu had completed stints in Ireland with Ballylinch Stud and as manager of Haras de Meautry. The following year saw their first draft at Arqana and it wasn’t long before Ombreville was associated with a top-class name as, in 2014, they sold subsequent Hong Kong dual Group 1 winner Pakistan Star (Ger) (Shamardal) to the Hong Kong Jockey Club for €180,000 at the August Sale.

“We have been thinking about coming to Newmarket for a couple of years and this year we had a really good crop of yearlings bred on the farm,” says Matthieu Gouesnard. “Regarding the Covid situation, I felt it was important to split the drafts, so we had some in Arqana September, we have some here in Book 1 and Book 2, and we have kept a few nice yearlings for Part I in October at Arqana.”

He adds, “We are going to Book 1 with four yearlings who are well bred and by proven sires—we have one Sea The Stars (Ire) filly, a Lope De Vega (Ire) colt and two Siyouni (Fr) fillies.”

The prowess of Siyouni was given an extra boost on Sunday in the Prix de l’Arc de Triomphe by his high-flying son Sottsass (Fr), while Siyouni’s top daughters include the Classic winners Laurens (Fr) and Ervedya (Fr).

The first of the Ombreville draft to be offered on Tuesday is lot 140, bred by Raschit Shaykhutdinov, the Siyouni filly from the deep German family of Elle Danzig (Ger)

“She’s out of one of the best German families,” says Gouesnard. “Elle Danzig was a brilliant racehorse first but she became a really good producer and 12 of her foals are winners and seven of those have black type, including the dam of this filly, Elle Same (GB). I know this family well because Elle Danzig was bred by Gestut Wittekindshof and we have had a few of her daughters at the stud. German clients make up about 70-80% of our client list.”

The Newmarket consigning venture follows on from Ombreville testing the water for the first time last year in Baden-Baden, a move which was a natural step in order to cater for the high number of German breeders on their books.

“We opened the farm in 2012 and since the beginning we had very few French clients. We focused on German breeders who were keen to breed in France for the premiums and it really started with Gestut Wittenkindshof. The former manager Karl Jorg gave us support from when we first opened the doors and we sold Pakistan Star for them in Arqana. Karl is well respected by other German breeders and we got some clients because they knew Karl was working with us. So he was a fantastic advert for us in Germany and afterwards we were sent mares by Ammerland, Fahrhof, Schlenderhan, Brummerhof—most of the big German breeders.”

Ombreville’s second Siyouni filly, offered on behalf of the same breeder, comes up early on the second day of Book 1 (lot 181) and also has German roots. Her listed-placed dam Global Magic (Ger) is a daughter of the Japan Cup winner Lando (Ger) and is a half-sister to seven black-type performers from a family which includes multiple Group 1 winners Fame And Glory (GB) and Farhh (GB).

Following her as lot 252 is the Sea The Stars filly out of the listed winner Komische (Ire) (Fastnet Rock {Aus}) from the family of Classic winners Brian Boru (Ire) (Sadler’s Wells) and Workforce (GB) (King’s Best), and completing the draft is the sole colt, lot 301, who is the first foal of listed winner Megera (Fr) (Motivator {GB}).

Next week, Ombreville will also offer two fillies at Book 2, including a first for Tattersalls—a yearling by Kentucky Derby winner Nyquist (lot 745).

Gouesnard says, “The mare was in America and our client decided to bring her back to Europe so she came back in foal to Nyquist. We thought this would be the perfect place to sell her in Tattersalls.”

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Tattersalls Unveils Star-Studded Book 1 Catalogue

A daughter of Newsells Park Stud’s star producer Shastye (Ire) (Danehill) is among the 19 yearlings by Galileo (Ire) set to be offered at Book 1 of the Tattersalls October Yearling Sale from Oct. 6 to 8, for which the catalogue was unveiled on Wednesday. The bay filly (lot 436)-a full-sister to dual Group 1 winner Japan (GB) and group winners Mogul (GB) and Sir Isaac Newton (GB) and a half to G2 Middleton S. victress Secret Gesture (GB) and Australian listed winner Maurus (GB)-is the first filly out of Shastye to be offered as a yearling since 2016, when another daughter of Galileo fetched 1.35-million gns.

Other offerings by the perennial champion sire set for the sale include a full-sister to dual Classic winner Capri (Ire) (lot 122); a half-brother to dual Group 1-winning juvenile and promising young sire Shalaa (Ire) (lot 178); a colt out of Classic winner Sky Lantern (Ire) (Red Clubs {Ire}) (lot 444) and a filly out of stakes producer Wannabe Better (Ire) (Duke of Marmalade {Ire}) (lot 520), whose fillies the last two years have made 1.2-million gns and 500,000gns. Young stakes-winning mares with their first foals by Galileo include G3 Prix Imprudence winner and multiple Group 1-placed sprinter/miler Spectre (Fr), who has a colt (lot 454); multiple American graded stakes winner Prize Exhibit (GB), who has a filly (lot 374); and Australian Group 3 winner Dawn Wall (Aus), who also has a filly (lot 117).

Dubawi (Ire) has provided the sale-topping yearlings here the last two years and on paper he has every chance to maintain that reign. His 20 catalogued include a colt out of champion and King George and Arc winner Danedream (Ger) (Lomitas {GB}) (lot 112); a colt out of the Classic-placed Jacqueline Quest (Ire) who is a full-brother to this year’s Royal Ascot winner Onassis (Ire) and a half to GI Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Turf victor Line Of Duty (Ire) (Galileo {Ire}) (lot 229); a half-brother to G1 Investec Oaks victress Qualify (Ire) (Fastnet Rock {Aus}) (lot 356); a filly out of Group 1 winner and young stakes producer Seal Of Approval (GB) (lot 422); a half-sister to G1 Deutsches Derby winners Windstoss (Ger) (Shirocco {Ger}) and Weltstar (Ger) (Soldier Hollow {GB}) (lot 524) and the first foal, a colt, out of G1 Moyglare Stud S. winner Intricately (Ire) (lot 225).

Frankel (GB)’s blueblooded lineup of 32 includes a full-brother to his dual group winner Elarqam (GB) (lot 41); a filly out of the G1 Moyglare Stud S. winner Cursory Glance (Distorted Humor) (lot 108); a half-sister to champion Golden Horn (GB) (Cape Cross {Ire}) and the stakes-winning Eastern Belle (GB) (Champs Elysees {GB}) (lot 162); a half-brother to dual Group 1-winning sprinter Marsha (Ire) (Acclamation {GB}) and dual Group 3 winner Judicial (Ire) (Iffraaj {GB}) (lot 295) and a half-sister to this year’s G1 Irish Derby and G2 Queen’s Vase scorer Santiago (Ire) (Authorized {Ire}) (lot 516).

Frankel’s Banstead Manor studmate Kingman (GB) is coming off a stellar weekend in Europe and the U.S. and his 21 on offer include a half-brother to G1 2000 Guineas and G1 St James’s Palace S. winner Galileo Gold (GB) (Paco Boy {Ire}) (lot 174) and a plethora of others out of young, stakes-winning mares.

The Tattersalls October Book 1 catalogue boasts the siblings to 53 Classic and Group 1 winners. Those include a half-brother to last weekend’s G1 Prix Jacques le Marois winner and leading European 3-year-old Palace Pier (GB) from the first crop of Highland Reel (Ire) (lot 55); a Dark Angel (Ire) half-brother to G1 Poule d’Essai des Pouliches scorer Beauty Parlour (GB) (lot 52); a Muhaarar (GB) colt out of G1 Prix de l’Opera victress Zee Zee Top (GB), and therefore a half-brother to dual Group 1 winner Izzi Top (GB) (lot 5); a Siyouni (Fr) half-brother to last year’s G1 2000 Guineas winner Magna Grecia (Ire) and a full-brother to a colt that made 1.3-million gns last year (lot 74); a Camelot (GB) half-brother to champion stayer Order Of St George (Ire) (lot 28) and a Zoffany (Ire) half-sister to this year’s G1 Commonwealth Cup winner Golden Horde (Ire) (lot 148). G1 Investec Oaks winner Talent (GB) has a colt by Sea The Stars (Ire) (lot 480), while the Waddesdon Stud dispersal continues with the likes of an Almanzor (Fr) filly out of dual Grade I winner Angara (GB) (lot 24) and a daughter of Le Havre (Ire) out of Group 1 winner and dual stakes producer Spinning Queen (GB) (lot 455).

First-crop sires with progeny on offer, in addition to the aforementioned Highland Reel and Almanzor, will include Aclaim (GB), Caravaggio (Ire), Churchill (Ire), Decorated Knight (GB), Galileo Gold (Ire), Postponed (Ire), Profitable (Ire), Ribchester (Ire) and Ulysses (Ire). Proven American sires represented include American Pharoah, Constitution, Curlin, Distorted Humor, Kitten’s Joy, More Than Ready and War Front. The catalogue also includes the only yearling from the first crop of the late American Horse of the Year Arrogate to be offered in Europe this year.

“Graduates of Book 1 of the October Yearling Sale have enjoyed another stellar year with the likes of this year’s dual Group 1 winner Palace Pier and outstanding global stars Newspaperofrecord and Russian Camelot flying the flag throughout the world,” said Tattersalls Chairman Edmond Mahony. “The international achievements of Book 1 purchases at the highest level have yet again demonstrated the uniquely global appeal of Europe’s premier yearling sale and this year’s catalogue is yet another in a long sequence of truly exceptional Book 1 catalogues. We have an extraordinary number of yearlings by the very best of an outstanding cast of European sires and, crucially for buyers at every level of Book 1, all 547 Book 1 yearlings can reward owners with the lucrative prize money offered through the £20,000 Tattersalls October Book 1 Bonus scheme. While the prize money for the hugely popular Book 1 Bonus Scheme has been slightly reduced in these uncertain times, it still remains uniquely rewarding and a significant number of the fillies in October Book 1 will also be eligible for the recently introduced Great British Bonus scheme.”

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