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Lancaster House In Gladness Procession

Winless in three outings since registering a career high in last term's G3 Gladness S. at The Curragh, Gay Smith's Lancaster House (Ire) (Galileo {Ire}) went postward as the 9-4 favourite for this year's TRI Equestrian-sponsored renewal and became the first back-to-back winner of the seven-furlong event with an impressive 2 1/2-length victory from Current Option (Ire) (Camelot {GB}). The 5-year-old bay followed up last year's triumph with a second over course and distance in the G2 Minstrel S., but was off the radar and failed to beat a single rival in both G2 Solonaway S. at Leopardstown and G1 Queen Elizabeth II S. at Ascot. Finding a modicum of cover in a midfield sixth for the most part, he loomed large out wide passing the quarter-mile marker and kept on powerfully once seizing control soon after to easily assert superiority.

“He's a very solid horse and it's a nice bit of ground which he likes,” commented trainer Aidan O'Brien. “Ryan [Moore] was very impressed with him and felt he had loads of horse. He made the running in this race last year and it was nice that he was able to drop in and get a lead today. He's very versatile and has won over nine furlongs in soft ground at Listowel and finished very well here. Ryan said we could look at the [G1] Queen Anne at Royal Ascot] and Lope Y Fernandez could go for the [G1] Lockinge [at Newbury].”

Pedigree Notes

Lancaster House is the first of five foals, all by Galileo (Ire), and the lone performer out of MGSW GI Gamely S. runner-up Quiet Oasis (Ire) (Oasis Dream {GB}), herself a full-sister to G3 Prix La Rochette victor Young Pretender (Fr). His younger siblings include unraced 3-year-old filly Drummer Girl (Ire), unraced 2-year-old filly Yamato Nadeshiko (Ire) and a yearling filly. His fourth dam is G1 Irish Champion S.-winning matriarch Park Express (Ire) (Ahonoora {GB}), whose descendants include MG1SW sire New Approach (Ire) (Galileo {Ire}), GSW G1 Champion S. runner-up Dazzling Park (Ire) (Warning {GB}), G1 Phoenix S. scorer Alfred Nobel (Ire) (Danehill Dancer {Ire}) and G1 Epsom Oaks heroine Was (Ire) (Galileo {Ire}).

Saturday, Curragh, Ireland
TRI EQUESTRIAN GLADNESS S.-G3, €50,000, Curragh, 4-17, 3yo/up, 7fT, 1:25.36, gd.
1–LANCASTER HOUSE (IRE), 140, h, 5, by Galileo (Ire)
1st Dam: Quiet Oasis (Ire) (MGSW & GISP-US,
$282,379), by Oasis Dream (GB)
2nd Dam: Silent Heir (Aus), by Sunday Silence
3rd Dam: Park Heiress (Ire), by Sadler's Wells
O-Mrs Gay Smith; B-Barronstown Stud (IRE); T-Aidan O'Brien;
J-Ryan Moore. €30,000. Lifetime Record: 9-5-1-0, $140,377.
Click for the eNicks report & 5-cross pedigree. Werk Nick
Rating: A+.
2–Current Option (Ire), 140, g, 5, Camelot (GB)–Coppertop
(Ire), by Exceed and Excel (Aus). (62,000gns Ylg '17 TAOCT;
85,000gns 3yo '19 TATJUL). O-Dooley Thoroughbreds, Bart
O'Sullivan & Shamrock Thoroughbreds; B-Grange Con Holdings
Ltd (IRE); T-Adrian McGuinness. €10,000.
3–Know It All (GB), 137, f, 4, Lord Kanaloa (Jpn)–Common
Knowledge (GB), by Rainbow Quest. O-Qatar Racing Ltd;
B-Qatar Bloodstock Ltd (GB); T-Johnny Murtagh. €5,000.
Margins: 2HF, 1 3/4, HF. Odds: 2.25, 7.50, 4.00.
Also Ran: Wonder Elzaam (Ire), Speak In Colours (GB), Gustavus Weston (Ire), Comfort Line (Ire), Fiscal Rules (Ire), Free Solo (Ire), Brad The Brief (GB), Lustown Baba (Ire). Scratched: Surrounding (Ire). Click for the Racing Post result or the free Equineline.com catalogue-style pedigree.

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Love Targeting Mooresbridge

Last year's champion 3-year-old filly and dual Classic winner Love (Ire) (Galileo {Ire}) is among the entries for Saturday's G3 Alleged S. at The Curragh, but trainer Aidan O'Brien has indicated that the chestnut is likely to wait for the G2 Mooresbridge S. at the same venue on May 3. Love's stablemate Broome (Ire) (Australia {GB}), a multiple Group 3-winning 5-year-old, is likely to deputize in the Alleged.

“Broome is likely to run in the Alleged at The Curragh on Saturday,” O'Brien said. “He's already had a run, and Love might wait for the Mooresbridge. It's a long year, and we might wait a bit longer with her.”

Love made seven starts at two in 2019, the highlight being a win in the G1 Moyglare Stud S. She stepped out just three times last year but won on each occasion at Group 1 level: the 1000 Guineas, Oaks and Yorkshire Oaks. Love was withdrawn from the G1 Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe in October on account of the testing ground just prior to Ballydoyle's remaining runners defecting after a feed contamination.

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GAIN to Sponsor New Curragh Race Series

GAIN Equine Nutrition will sponsor a series of three 2-year-old races at The Curragh billed as the “Champion Collection”, the racecourse announced on Tuesday. The company initially sponsored the G1 Irish St Leger in 2012, switched to sponsoring the G2 Railway S. in 2014 and added the Listed First Flier S. in 2020. The G3 Marble Hill S. will be added to GAIN's sponsorship portfolio for the first time this term. In addition, the winning horse from the GAIN Railway S. will receive a free entry into the G1 Keeneland Phoenix S.

Joanne Hurley, Irish Country Manager, GAIN Equine Nutrition noted, “We are delighted to strengthen our support of The Curragh racecourse this year by launching the Champion Collection series. This partnership has grown over the years and truly reinforces GAIN's commitment to both the racing and bloodstock industries. We have enjoyed an excellent long-standing relationship with The Curragh and look forward to three very keenly-contested races.”

Evan Arkwright, Racing and Sponsorship Manager, commented, “We are excited to extend our very valued partnership with GAIN this year. There is already a natural synergy between all three races consistently attracting some of the best juveniles in Europe, so we are delighted to be able to officially link them through their generous sponsorship.”

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What’s In A Name: Joan of Arc

Racing success makes the name of a horse just right in most cases, and this is likely to happen with very promising 3-year-old filly JOAN OF ARC, a winner at The Curragh Mar. 21, the first day of spring. Still, this beautiful name seems so appropriate even now, because of the underlying historical connection between the French heroine Joan of Arc and the great scientist Galileo Galilei. In fact, both Joan of Arc and Galileo got in trouble with the Inquisition–to put it mildly. It was, and it was not, the very same Catholic Inquisition. There is a time difference of almost exactly two centuries. Joan, prisoner of the English, had to face the Church court of the Bishop of Beauvais (1431), while Galileo was summoned and tried by an inquisitory tribunal in Rome, with the Pope almost looking on (1633). Both were accused of heresy and of contradicting the Scriptures. Joan was charged because of her testimony of hearing the voices of Saints and wearing men soldiers' clothes, while Galileo's crime was to have declared that the earth moves around the sun, and not the other way around. Both had moments of weakness in the face of unfair clerical persecution, and retreated for a while, but not for long. They were found guilty. Joan, at 19 years of age, faced the harsher fate and was burned at the stake, while Galileo was put to house arrests until his death. They were colossal figures. Joan practically won the 100 Years' War for the French and liberated her country. Galileo is the father of modern physics and astronomy. The very last words of “Saint Joan,” George Bernard Shaw's play about Joan of Arc, seem a fitting tribute to both: “O God that made this beautiful earth, when will it be ready to accept thy saints? How long, O lord, how long?”

3rd-Curragh, €12,000, Mdn, 3-21, 3yo/up, f, 7fT, 1:33.26, s/h. JOAN OF ARC (IRE) (f, 3, Galileo {Ire}–You'resothrilling {GSW-Eng, GSW-Ire, $219,415}, by Storm Cat) Lifetime Record: 2-1-1-0, $11,747. O-Derrick Smith, Mrs John Magnier & Michael Tabor; B-Coolmore (IRE); T-Aidan O'Brien.

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