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El Kabeir Colt Best in G2 Premio Gran Criterium

Already a listed winner after taking Milan's Premio Giuseppe de Montel on June 30, El Kabeir colt Don Chicco (GB) bounced back from a second versus heavy 2-5 favourite Some Respect (Ire) (Gleneagles {Ire}) in the Oct. 3 Listed Premio Vittorio Riva with a 1 1/4-length victory in the Premio Gran Criterium in Rome on Sunday.

Second in a local debutante heat over 1000 metres on May 1, the bay graduated by three lengths switched to the all-weather here just eight days later and was making his fifth start in the Gran Criterium. The 7-1 shot was widest of all in a battling fourth through the early stages as Il Sindacalista (Ire) (Bungle Inthejungle {GB}) set the pace with ears pricked. Full of run at the half-way point, Don Chicco had to adjust slightly as Some Respect veered into his lane, and although erratic in the stretch, forged past that foe to win. Some Respect was 2 1/4 lengths ahead of Baghed (GB) (Twilight Son {GB}) at the line, three-quarters of a length in advance of Vincere Insieme (Ire) (Exceed And Excel {Aus}). Il Sindacalista faded to last of five.

Pedigree Notes
Don Chicco is one of three black-type winners for young sire El Kabeir (Scat Daddy) and the first at group level. The Yeomanstown Stud-based stallion's Masekela (Ire) was second in the G2 Superlative S.

The fifth foal and second winner out of the unraced Otrooha, Don Chicco is followed by a yearling filly and a weanling colt both by Massaat (Ire). This is the extended family of dual G2 Hardwicke S. hero Maraahel (Ire) (Alzao), who was also runner-up in the G1 Juddmonte International S., as well as G1 Lockinge S. victor Mustashry (GB) (Tamayuz {GB}).

Sunday, Rome, Italy
PREMIO GRAN CRITERIUM-G2, €244,200, Rome, 10-24, 2yo, c/f, 1600mT, 1:38.50, sf.
1–DON CHICCO (GB), c, 2, 123, by El Kabeir
                1st Dam: Otrooha (Ire), by Oasis Dream (GB)
                2nd Dam: Mumayeza (GB), by Indian Ridge (Ire)
                3rd Dam: Nasanice (Ire), by Nashwan
1ST GROUP WIN. (10,000gns RNA Wlg '19 TATNOV; £8,500 Ylg
'20 GOFSEP). O-Luigi Colasanti. B-Mickley, Harc Syndicate & K
Whitehouse (GB). T-Agostino Affe'. J-Claudio Colombi.
€94,350. Lifetime Record: 5-3-1-0, €128,410. *1st Group Winner
for his sire (by Scat Daddy). Werk Nick
   Rating: A+. Click for the eNicks report & 5-cross pedigree.
2–Some Respect (Ire), 123, c, 2, Gleneagles (Ire)–Sciolina (Ire),
by Oratorio (Ire). (€50,000 Ylg '20 SGASEP). O-Scuderia
Cocktail. B-Allevamento Poggio San Giorgio (Ire). T-Grizzeti
Galoppo SRL. €41,514.
3–Baghed (GB), 123, c, 2, Twilight Son (GB)–Dealer's Choice
(Ire), by Exchange Rate. (7,500gns Ylg '20 TATOCT). O-Manila
Illuminati. B-J Shack & G Barnard (GB). T-Vincenzo Fazio.
€22,644.
Margins: 1 1/4, 2 1/4, 3/4. Odds: 8.89, 0.41, 3.36.
Also Ran: Vincere Insieme (Ire), Il Sindacalista (Ire). Scratched: The King's Horses (GB).
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First Stakes Winner For Highland Reel, as Atamisque Takes G2 Premio Dormello

Atamisque (Ire) (Highland Reel {Ire}), who was a course-and-distance winner when unveiled on Oct. 3, gave her sire his first black-type winner and group scorer in one fell swoop with a 3 1/2-length success in the G2 Premio Dormello in Rome on Sunday.

The 6-5 crowd's pick tracked the pace in sixth through the early going as Terra Del Sole (Ire) (Footstepsinthesand {GB}) showed the way. That rival hugged the rail into the home straight as the rest of the field shifted away from the inside and was still clinging to the lead with 400 metres remaining. Asked for her bid out in the centre of the course, the bay drew level with new leader Jacinda at the furlong grounds, dismissed that rival handily and quickened well to win going away. Jacinda was 1 3/4 lengths to the good of a stubborn Terra Del Sole in third.

Pedigree Notes

Atamisque is the first foal out of Aury Touch, who won a pair of Italian listed stakes and was second in another six. After foaling the winner, the daughter of Pounced has since produced a yearling filly named French Fries (Ire) (Exceed And Excel {Aus}) and a weaning colt by Gleneagles (Ire). The dam is a half-sister to the group-placed Amyntas (Ity) (Desert Prince {Ire}), while Atamisque's third dam is three-time U.S. graded winner Nasty Storm (Gulch), who was also second in the GI Spinaway S. The last-named is the dam of dual Group 3 winner and G1 Phoenix S. third Actress (Ire) (Declaration of War).

Sunday, Rome, Italy
PREMIO DORMELLO-G2, €244,200, Rome, 10-24, 2yo, f, 1600mT, 1:38.30, sf.
1–ATAMISQUE (IRE), 123, f, 2, by Highland Reel (Ire)
                1st Dam: Aury Touch (Ity) (MSW-Ity, $206,398),
                                by Pounced
                2nd Dam: A Touch Wild, by Touch Gold
                3rd Dam: Nasty Storm, by Gulch
O-Scuderia Ste Ma SRL. B-Stefano Botti (Ire). T-A. Botti. J-Mario
Sanna. €94,350. Lifetime Record: 2-2-0-0, €100,350. *1st
SW & Group Winner for her sire (by Galileo {Ire}). Werk Nick
   Rating: C+. Click for the eNicks report & 5-cross pedigree.
2–Jacinda (GB), 123, f, 2, Aclaim (Ire)–Beraymi (Ire), by
Manduro (Ger). O/B-Jocelyn Targett (GB). T-Jerome Reynier.
€41,514.
3–Terra Del Sole (Ire), 123, f, 2, Footstepsinthesand (GB)–Valen
(Ire), by Acclamation (GB). (£9,000 Ylg '20 TATSEP). O-Scuderia
Milano SNC. B-Cloneymore Farm Ltd. (Ire). T-A. Botti. €22,644.
Margins: 3HF, 1 3/4, 3/4. Odds: 1.38, 5.49, 8.09.
Also Ran: Queen Rouge (Ity), Spring Love (Ire), Calithea (GB), Tower of Silence (Ity), Terry de l'Alguer (Ire), Star of Carina (Ire).
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Royal-Oak Glory For Teofilo’s Scope

Unsurprisingly, 3-year-olds have come to assume dominance of late in ParisLongchamp's G1 Prix Royal-Oak and it was a case of more of the same on Sunday as Julian Richmond-Watson's Scope (Ire) (Teofilo {Ire}) made the eight-pound weight-for-age pull count in the testing conditions he loves. Following a staying-on sixth in the G1 St Leger at Doncaster Sept. 11 with a powerful 7 1/2-length success in Ascot's Listed Noel Murless S. also over a mile and a quarter at the start of the month, the 15-2 shot was sent up to race in third early by Rob Hornby with stamina for the 15 1/2-furlong trip guaranteed. While his acceleration was not as instant as the closer Skazino (Fr) (Kendargent {Fr}) once straightened for home, the Ralph Beckett-trained homebred was able to get to that older rival passing the furlong pole and outstay him for a length success, with Glycon (Fr) (Le Havre {Ire}) 3 1/2 lengths away in third. “He's done nothing wrong all year and stamina is the key to him,” Hornby said after steering his first group 1 winner. “I was conscious to keep tabs on the leading two so I could take it up when I wanted to, as stamina was going to be important in this ground. He powered to the line and he's a real trier. He was a touch unlucky in the Leger–he didn't get to run his race that day and maybe that was one that got left behind, so he deserved this and can go on to better things now.”

Rolling back to Newbury exactly one year and one day prior to his biggest day, Scope was getting the better of what was to become the most famous maiden in training in Mojo Star (Ire) (Sea the Stars {Ire}) on their debuts in a mile novice on heavy ground. Back in action in a 10-furlong novice on good-to-firm at Newmarket Apr. 15, the chestnut was runner-up to Godolphin's unbeaten and subsequently unsighted Al Waqidi (GB) (Dubawi {Ire}) before chasing home Third Realm (GB) (Sea the Stars {Ire}) and Adayar (Ire) (Frankel {GB}) in a renewal of the Listed Lingfield Derby Trial which was soon to take on greater significance May 8. Far from disgraced when fifth in the 12-furlong G2 Great Voltigeur at York Aug. 18, he was caught for speed and racing room at one stage in the straight but finished off strongly in the Leger before everything fell into place for a timely confidence boost in the Noel Murless.

This was again perfectly set up for the unexposed stayer whose career is not dissimilar to last year's winner and fellow son of Teofilo in Subjectivist (GB), with proven marathon man Alkuin (Ire) (Maxios {GB}) providing the target and most of the market-leaders reserved behind. It was the 4-1 favourite Skazino who threw the first punch in early straight and for a 100 metres it looked as if the G3 Prix de Barbeville, G2 Prix Vicomtesse Vigier and G2 Prix Kergorlay winner was going to write another chapter in Le Haras de la Gousserie's recent success story. Ultimately, he had reckoned without Scope's endless staying power and the British raider began to pull away as the line neared. There was to be no fairytale end to the remarkable career of Alain de Royer-Dupre, as last year's runner-up Valia (Fr) (Sea the Stars {Ire}) failed to fire after blowing the start and finished a remote sixth.

“I wasn't expecting any of this,” commented Beckett, whose Angel Bleu (Fr) (Dark Angel {Ire}) had taken the G1 Criterium International 24 hours earlier. “I thought the horse yesterday would win, but I wasn't sure about today. He has improved since Ascot and improved with racing as many of his family do. I thought today beforehand he looked terrific. I was delighted with how well he travelled and how it panned out today. He's not an exuberant horse at home and in his races and only does enough and his mother and sisters were the same. At the start of the year, I said I thought he might be more of a Leger horse rather than a Derby horse, but I didn't expect it to be the French Leger but that'll do. He was very backward throughout his 2-year-old career and is still quite a raw immature individual, so he should develop from three to four and continue to improve.”

Scope is a son of Richmond-Watson's four-times winner Look So (GB) (Efisio {GB}), who was campaigned over seven furlongs and a mile and who also produced three other black-type performers in the Listed Hoppings S. winner and G3 Musidora S.-placed Regardez (GB) (Champs Elysees {GB}), the Listed Prix Petite Etoile winner and G2 Prix de Sandringham-placed Glance (GB) (Dansili {GB}) and the Listed Ripon Two-Year-Old Trophy-placed Compton (GB) (Compton Place {GB}). Look So is kin to Look Here (GB) (Hernando {Fr), who captured the G1 Epsom Oaks for these connections as well as finishing third in the St Leger, the G1 Coronation Cup and G1 Pretty Polly S. She is responsible for another Noel Murless winner in Hereby (Ire) (Pivotal {GB}), who was also third in the G2 Lancashire Oaks while the family also features the Listed Lingfield Oaks Trial winner Kayah (GB) (Kahyasi {Ire}) and the G2 Prix Maurice de Gheest-winning sire Pursuit of Love (GB) (Groom Dancer). Look So's filly foal is by Night of Thunder (Ire).

Sunday, ParisLongchamp, France
PRIX ROYAL-OAK-G1, €350,000, ParisLongchamp, 10-24, 3yo/up, 15 1/2fT, 3:27.35, vs.
1–SCOPE (IRE), 122, c, 3, by Teofilo (Ire)
1st Dam: Look So (GB), by Efisio (GB)
2nd Dam: Last Look (GB), by Rainbow Quest
3rd Dam: Derniere Danse (GB), by Gay Mecene
1ST GROUP WIN; 1ST GROUP 1 WIN. O-Mr J H Richmond-Watson; B-Lawn Stud (IRE); T-Ralph Beckett; J-Rob Hornby. €199,990. Lifetime Record: SW-Eng, 7-3-1-1, $298,796. *1/2 to Glance (GB) (Dansili {GB}), SW & GSP-Fr, MSP-Eng; 1/2 to Regardez (GB) (Champs Elysees {GB}), SW & GSP-Eng, GSP-Ire, GSP-US, $181,176. Werk Nick Rating: B+. Click for the eNicks report & 5-cross pedigree.
2–Skazino (Fr), 130, g, 5, Kendargent (Fr)–Skallet (Fr), by Muhaymin. (€22,000 Ylg '17 AROCT; €150,000 RNA HRA '19 ARQARC). O-Le Haras de la Gousserie; B-Guy Pariente Holding (FR); T-Cedric Rossi. €80,010.
3–Glycon (Fr), 130, g, 5, Le Havre (Ire)–Glorious Sight (Ire), by Singspiel (Ire). O/B-SCEA Haras de Saint Pair (FR); T-Jean-Claude Rouget. €40,005.
Margins: 1, 3HF, 1HF. Odds: 7.60, 4.10, 9.00.
Also Ran: Search For a Song (Ire), Zero Ten (Ire), Valia (Fr), Call the Wind (GB), Kemari (GB), Quickthorn (GB), Bel Aristo (Fr), Lord Achilles (Fr), Alkuin (Ire). Click for the Racing Post result or the free Equineline.com catalogue-style pedigree. Video, sponsored by TVG.

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Titleholder Takes Kikuka Sho in Wire-to-Wire Fashion

The Japanese Classics came to a close on Sunday at Hanshin with the G1 Kikuka Sho (Japanese St. Leger), and it was Titleholder (Jpn) (Duramente {Jpn})'s time to shine as he led at every call to win going away by five lengths as the 7-1 fourth choice. He is the first winner to lead from start to finish in the Kikuka Sho since Seiun Sky (Jpn) (Sheriff's Star {GB}) in 1998.

Allowed to bowl along as soon as the gates sprung, the Hiroshi Yamada colourbearer soon established an easy rhythm while several lengths in front of the chasing pack. Very relaxed throughout, he covered the first half-mile in :47.20 and the mile in 1:39.70. His pursuers closed the gap approaching the final bend through2000 metres in 2:05.40, but the dark bay skipped away again and had built up enough of a cushion to successfully hold off the closing trio of 4-1 third choice Orthoclase (Jpn) (Epiphaneia {Jpn}), Divine Love (Jpn) (Epiphaneia {Jpn}), and 2-1 second pick Stella Veloce (Jpn) (Bago {Fr}). At the line, only a head separated Orthoclase from Divine Love. It was a nose back to Japanese Derby third Stella Veloce in fourth. Favoured Red Genesis (Jpn) (Deep Impact {Jpn}) failed to land a blow and finished 13th after racing near the tail of the field throughout.

“We had a terrible race last time out so I was determined to win it this time and I'm glad it panned out,” said jockey Takeshi Yokoyama. “I personally thought that the distance was maybe too much to ask from this colt, but he showed otherwise and performed well above my expectations, so I'm ashamed for doubting him in anyway. As far as the race, I concentrated in keeping him comfortable in a long race like this—he's an honest horse, in a way too honest and always gives his full effort—so knowing that once in front he would settle, I let him go as he liked and didn't try to hold him back too much. He has a lot to look forward to in the future but it would require a little skill as a rider to conserve his energy depending on the situations.”

A winner at first asking over 1800 metres at Nakayama last October, Titleholder ran second in the G3 Tokyo Sports Hai Nisai S. that November prior to a fourth upped to 2000 metres in the Dec. 26 G1 Hopeful S. He resumed with a win over that distance in the G2 Hochi Hai Yayoi Sho Deep Impact Kinen on Mar. 7 and was second to Efforia (Jpn) (Epiphaneia {Jpn}) in the G1 Satsuki Sho (Japanese 2000 Guineas) on Apr. 18. Only sixth in the G1 Tokyo Yushun (Japanese Derby) on May 30, the colt was given a lengthy break and returned to run 13th in the 2200-metre G2 Asahi Hai St. Lite Kinen on Sept. 20.

Pedigree Notes

A son of the late Duramente, who won the first two legs of the Japanese Triple Crown, Titleholder is one of two black-type winners for the 9-year-old and the first top-level winner. He is also the first Group 1 winner for Motivator (GB) as a broodmare sire and one of 10 black-type winners overall.

Although she never earned black-type, millionaire Mowen did run fifth in the G3 Daily Hai Queen Cup at three and fourth at listed level later that year. She also had the versatility to win over 1200 metres on the dirt that year and up to 2600 metres on the turf as a 4-year-old before being retired for broodmare duties. Her first foal is the winning Melody Lane (Jpn) (Orfevre {Jpn}) and, after producing a dead foal in 2017, Titleholder is her last known offspring, as she has missed to the covers of Gold Ship (Jpn), Victoire Pisa (Jpn), and Duramente (Jpn) in 2018, 2019 and 2020, respectively. Under the winner's fourth dam is G1 1000 Guineas heroine On The House (Fr) (Be My Guest), who also won the G1 Sussex S.

Sunday, Hanshin, Japan
KIKUKA SHO (JAPANESE ST. LEGER)-G1, ¥270,970,000, Hanshin, 10-24, 3yo, c/f, 3000mT, 3:04.60, fm.
1–TITLEHOLDER(JPN), 126, c, 3, Duramente (Jpn)
                1st Dam: Mowen (GB), by Motivator (GB)
                2nd Dam: Top Table (GB), by Shirley Heights (GB)
                3rd Dam: Lora's Guest (Ire), by Be My Guest
1ST GROUP 1 WIN. (¥20,000,000 Wlg '18 JRHAJUL). O-Hiroshi
Yamada; B-Okada Stud (Jpn); T-Toru Kurita; J-Takeshi
Yokoyama. ¥150,079,000. Lifetime Record: 8-3-2-0. Werk
   Nick Rating: A. Click for the eNicks report & 5-cross pedigree.
2–Orthoclase (Jpn), 126, c, 3, Epiphaneia (Jpn)–Marialite (Jpn),
by Deep Impact (Jpn). O-Carrot Farm; B-Northern Farm (Jpn);
¥56,594,000.
3–Divine Love (Jpn), 121, f, 3, Epiphaneia (Jpn)–Deep Love
(Jpn), by Deep Impact (Jpn). O-Yoshiro Kubota; B-Northern
Farm (Jpn); ¥34,297,000.
Margins: 5, HD, NO. Odds: 7.00, 4.40, 16.30.
Also Ran: Stella Veloce (Jpn), Deep Monster (Jpn), Veloce Oro (Jpn), Arrivo (Jpn), Air Sage, Asamano Itazura (Jpn), Victipharus (Jpn), Sefer Rasiel (Jpn), Road to Fame (Jpn), Red Genesis (Jpn), Monte Dio (Jpn), Gratias (Jpn), Weiss Meteor (Jpn), North the World (Jpn), World Revival (Jpn).
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