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Speightstown Son of Perfect Shirl Super Sharp in Rising Star-Worthy Unveiling

Shirl’s Speight (Speightstown)’s dam Perfect Shirl (Perfect Soul {Ire}) may have rallied from far back when she upended the 2011 GI Breeders’ Cup F/M Turf at 27-1, but Shirl’s Speight showed off impressive speed from the first jump Saturday at Woodbine to garner the ‘TDN Rising Star’ distinction. Sporting a mostly unassuming worktab over the local Tapeta, the Chuck Fipke homebred quickly assumed command and doled out splits of :23.02 and :45.38 while traveling well within himself. Rafael Hernandez still hadn’t moved a muscle on the 3-1 shot as they spun for home, and he continued motionless all the way to the wire as Shirl’s Speight powered away a head-turning eight-length victor. Just Like Larry (Langhfuhr) was best of the rest.

Shirl’s Speight is his dam’s fourth foal, and has a year-older full-brother who also won first out while showing speed on the turf–that runner, Perfect Speighty, is now two-for-four. Perfect Shirl, out of the GISW Lady Shirl (That’s Nice), is a half to MGISW Shakespeare (Theatrical {Ire}), MGSW Lady Shakespeare (Theatrical {Ire}) and SW/MGSP and useful producer Fantastic Shirl (Fantastic Light). Perfect Shirl has a 2-year-old full-sister to Shirl’s Speight named Speightstown Shirl who was posted two works recently at Woodbine.

10th-Woodbine, C$83,137, Msw, 7-4, 3yo/up, 7fT, 1:19.97, fm.
SHIRL’S SPEIGHT, c, 3, Speightstown
1st Dam: Perfect Shirl (GISW-USA, GSP-Can, $1,390,729), by Perfect Soul {Ire})
2nd Dam: Lady Shirl, by That’s Nice
3rd Dam: Canonization, by Native Heritage
Lifetime Record: 1-1-0-0, $30,997. Click for the Equibase.com chart or VIDEO, sponsored by Fasig-Tipton. Free Equineline.com catalogue-style pedigree.
O/B-Charles Fipke (KY); T-Roger L. Attfield.

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Kingman’s Summer Romance Makes All In the Princess Elizabeth

Saturday’s G3 Princess Elizabeth S. at Epsom turned into an extremely tactical affair, with William Buick on the money dictating on Godolphin’s TDN Rising Star Summer Romance (Ire) (Kingman {GB}) to make all. Always comfortable setting a moderate pace shadowed by the G1 1000 Guineas runner-up Cloak of Spirits (Ire) (Invincible Spirit {Ire}), the one-time exciting Listed Empress S. winner who had threatened to disappear into the wilderness was always holding that rival in the sprint up the straight. Hitting the line with 3/4 of a length to spare, the 9-1 shot was announcing a return to form as Rose of Kildare (Ire) (Make Believe {GB}) snatched third, 3 3/4 lengths away.

“She ran in the Guineas, but I wasn’t in a good position–I had a wall of bad horses in front of me,” Buick explained. “It was hard to notice it with the naked eye, but she did a lot of good work in the Guineas. She was staying on past horses. Last year she was obviously very speedy, very sharp, but Charlie was adamant a mile was within her compass. Obviously I got a soft lead today and it definitely suited her. She really deserved that. She’s always been perceived as a nice filly in the stable. I’m just so glad she’s got a group win next to her name and she’s a filly that should go through the grades nicely.”

Summer Romance was two-for-two after her six-length success in the six-furlong Empress at Newmarket in June, but the wheels came off when sixth in Ascot’s G3 Princess Margaret S. the following month. Charlie Appleby felt there were unmitigating circumstances for that flop and she was put away after a subsequent underwhelming third in the G3 Dick Poole Fillies’ S. also over six at Salisbury in September. Returning with an eighth in the June 7 G1 1000 Guineas, where she was almost six lengths adrift of Cloak of Spirits, the grey cut a different figure here even allowing for her rider’s guile on a day where closers were finding it tough.

Charlie Appleby said, “It was a great ride by William and we are very pleased to see Summer Romance win a group three race. She won on debut last year before scoring impressively in the Empress Stakes, but lost her way a little bit afterwards. We felt that she would come forward for her first run of the season in the 1000 Guineas and she has done it well in the end. It is nice to see her get her head in front and, while we have no immediate plans, we can think about looking for some more nice races.”

Summer Romance is out of Serena’s Storm (Ire) (Statue of Liberty), who also produced the G1 Coronation S. and G1 Moyglare Stud S. heroine Rizeena (Ire) (Iffraaj {GB}). Serena’s Storm is kin to three stakes winners, most notably the G1 Prix d’Ispahan hero Zabeel Prince (Ire) (Lope de Vega {Ire}) and the G2 Blamey S. winner Puissance de Lune (Ire) and the Listed Haras de Bouquetot Fillies’ Trial scorer Queen Power (Ire) both by Lope de Vega’s sire Shamardal. The third dam Serena’s Sister (Rahy) is a full-sibling of the remarkable champion Serena’s Song, whose six individual stakes winners are headed by the G1 Coronation S. heroine and stakes-producing Sophisticat (Storm Cat). Serena’s Storm also has an as-yet unraced 2-year-old filly by Iffraaj (GB) named Serena’s Queen (Ire), and a yearling filly by Dark Angel (Ire).

Saturday, Epsom, Britain
PRINCESS ELIZABETH S. (SPONSORED BY INVESTEC)-G3, £40,700, Epsom, 7-4, 3yo, f, 8f 113yT, 1:44.71, gd.
1–SUMMER ROMANCE (IRE), 126, f, 3, by Kingman (GB)
1st Dam: Serena’s Storm (Ire), by Statue of Liberty
2nd Dam: Princess Serena, by Unbridled’s Song
3rd Dam: Serena’s Sister, by Rahy
1ST GROUP WIN. (300,000gns Ylg ’18 TATOCT; €800,000 2yo ’19 ARQMA). O-Godolphin; B-Round Hill Stud (IRE); T-Charlie Appleby; J-William Buick. £23,081. Lifetime Record: 6-3-0-1, $61,942. *1/2 to Rizeena (Ire) (Iffraaj (GB)), Hwt. 2yo Filly-Ire, G1SW-Eng & Ire, G1SP-Fr, $1,035,044. Werk Nick Rating: A. Click for the eNicks report & 5-cross pedigree.
2–Cloak of Spirits (Ire), 126, f, 3, Invincible Spirit (Ire)–Pivotique (GB), by Pivotal (GB). O/B-Sheikh Mohammed Obaid Al Maktoum (IRE); T-Richard Hannon. £8,751.
3–Rose of Kildare (Ire), 126, f, 3, Make Believe (GB)–Cruck Realta (GB), by Sixties Icon (GB). (€3,000 Ylg ’18 TIRSEP). O-Kingsley Park 14; B-Wansdyke Farms Ltd (IRE); T-Mark Johnston. £4,379.
Margins: 3/4, 3 3/4, HF. Odds: 9.00, 3.33, 14.00.
Also Ran: Onassis (Ire), Fooraat (Ire), Love and Thunder (Ire). Click for the Racing Post result or the free Equineline.com catalogue-style pedigree.

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Lawman’s Pretty Gorgeous a New Rising Star At Bellewstown

It is not often that Bellewstown witnesses a performance with Classic potential, but on Thursday the tricky Co. Meath circuit played host to an exciting 2-year-old filly as John Oxley’s Pretty Gorgeous (Fr) (Lawman {Fr}) earned TDN Rising Star status in the Irish EBF Median Sires Fillies Maiden over just short of a mile. Always travelling with ease tracking the leading pair against the rail, the 525,000gns Tattersalls October Book 1 purchase who is a relative of the G1 Coronation S. winner Qemah (Ire) (Danehill Dancer {Ire}) was left in front as the leader Chummie (Ire) (Equiano {Fr}) ran off the bend approaching the three-furlong marker. Soon clear, the 2-1 second favourite was being eased as she recorded a five-length defeat of Juddmonte’s Talacre (Flintshire {GB}), the half-sister to Siskin (First Defence). Jessie Harrington’s Anna Strada (GB) (Havana Gold {Ire}) was another 1 3/4 lengths away in third.

Trainer Joseph O’Brien’s assistant Brendan Powell said of the G1 Moyglare Stud S. entry. “She’s a big filly. Shane [Crosse] said she jumped well out of the gates and travelled lovely. She wasn’t worried about the other horse running out in front of her, he said it left her there but she was lovely and balanced and did it easily in the end. You don’t know how good the race is. but you couldn’t have asked for any more than she’s done. A big galloping track would be more to her liking but she’d coped with that well and please God she has a good future. For a filly first time out to be in front a long way out like that there is a lot to look at. She’ll be pretty useful hopefully.”

Pretty Gorgeous is the fourth foal out of the Listed Surrey S. third Lady Gorgeous (GB) (Compton Place {GB}), who raced in the Jaber Abdullah silks and was purchased by Margaret O’Toole for just €40,000 at the 2018 Arqana December Sale. At the same auction, she also bought this filly as a foal for €55,000 and those investments looked unerring astute after Lady Gorgeous’s Andre Fabre-trained colt Alwaab (Fr) (Toronado {Ire}) took last year’s Listed Prix Nureyev. Pretty Gorgeous was offered at Book 1 and her price shot up to 525,000gns with Joseph O’Brien her biggest fan.

The second dam Cayman Sunset (Ire) (Night Shift) was successful in the Listed Dahlia S. in England and placed in the GII Canadian H. and GIII All Along Breeders’ Cup S. Her daughter Kartica (GB) (Rainbow Quest) was third in the G3 Prix Fille de l’Air prior to producing the aforementioned Qemah who also captured the G1 Prix Rothschild and G2 Duke of Cambridge S. as well as enjoying her finest hour in the Coronation. Lady Gorgeous’s yearling colt by Shalaa (Ire) was snapped up by Peter and Ross Doyle Bloodstock for 90,000gns at last year’s Tattersalls December Foal Sale.

1st-Bellewstown, €25,000, Mdn, 7-2, 2yo, f, 7f 196yT, 1:42.37, yl.
PRETTY GORGEOUS (FR), f, 2, by Lawman (Fr)
1st Dam: Lady Gorgeous (GB) (SP-Eng), by Compton Place (GB)
2nd Dam: Cayman Sunset (Ire), by Night Shift
3rd Dam: Robinia, by Roberto
Sales history: €55,000 Wlg ’18 ARQDE; 525,000gns Ylg ’19 TATOCT. Lifetime Record: 1-1-0-0, $16,877. O-John C Oxley; B-E.A.R.L. Ecurie Haras du Cadran, Enrico Ciampi & S.A.S.I.E.I. (FR); T-Joseph O’Brien. Click for the Racing Post result or the free Equineline.com catalogue-style pedigree.

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Galileo’s Son of Mecca’s Angel a New Rising Star

The Curragh played host to another TDN Rising Star on Sunday as Ballydoyle’s newcomer Hudson River (Ire) (Galileo {Ire}) made all to take the Irish Stallion Farms EBF Maiden with the promise of much to come. Showing dash from the break to gain the lead and rail advantage under Seamie Heffernan, the first foal out of the dual G1 Nunthorpe S. heroine Mecca’s Angel (Ire) (Dark Angel {Ire}) who was the 3-1 joint-favourite was always doing enough in front and at the line had a comfortable 1 1/2-length margin to spare over Ace Aussie (Ire) (Australia {GB}), with the winner’s stablemate Wembley (Ire) (Galileo {Ire}) a nose away in third. “He’s a lovely colt and was just ready to start,” Aidan O’Brien said. “He could go to the [Newmarket] July meeting. He’ll probably end up a miler and it was a nice race to start him in.”

Mecca’s Angel was a useful juvenile, but it was not until she matured that she truly developed into a leading light in the sprinting brigade. Building on wins in the G3 World Trophy and G3 Prix de Saint-Georges to deny Acapulco (Scat Daddy) in the 2015 G1 Nunthorpe S., she returned to the York the following season to bring up a famous brace. She is a full-sister to Shadwell’s Markaz (Ire), who was successful in the G3 Criterion S. and G3 Chipchase S. and who had got off the mark with his first crop a week earlier. A granddaughter of another speedy individual in the G3 Prix d’Arenberg scorer and G3 Norfolk S. runner-up Desert Dawn (GB) (Belfort {Fr}), Mecca’s Angel has produced two daughters of Galileo in 2019 and 2020.

2nd-Curragh, €16,500, Mdn, 6-28, 2yo, c/g, 7fT, 1:25.89, yl.
HUDSON RIVER (IRE), c, 2, by Galileo (Ire)
1st Dam: Mecca’s Angel (Ire) (Hwt. Older Horse-Eur at 5-7f, 2x Hwt. Older Mare-Eur at 5-7f, MG1SW-Eng, GSW-Fr & Ire, $999,035), by Dark Angel (Ire)
2nd Dam: Folga (GB), by Atraf (GB)
3rd Dam: Desert Dawn (GB), by Belfort (Fr)
1ST-TIME STARTER. Lifetime Record: 1-1-0-0, $11,106. O-Derrick Smith, Susan Magnier & Michael Tabor; B-Coolmore (IRE); T-Aidan O’Brien. Click for the Racing Post result or the free Equineline.com catalogue-style pedigree.

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