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Breeders’ Cup Still Under Consideration For Tarnawa

Last year's GI Breeders' Cup Turf heroine Tarnawa (Ire) (Shamardal) has exited Sunday's G1 Qatar Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe in good order after running second to Torquator Tasso (Ger) (Adlerflug {Ger}), and her connections are still considering at run at the Breeders' Cup at Del Mar in November. The Dermot Weld trainee opened her campaign with a 6 1/2-length win in the G3 Ballyroan S. at Leopardstown on Aug. 5 and was second to St Mark's Basilica (Fr) (Siyouni {Fr}) in the G1 Irish Champion S. there on Sept. 11.

“Tarnawa is tired, but you'd have to be so proud of the effort she has put in,” said Dermot Weld's son and assistant Kris of His Highness The Aga Khan's homebred. “She was in the form of her life, we knew that, and she represented us so well.

“Torquator Tasso's form was very good and was there for all to see. He wasn't running just because it was the Arc, and it was a very good renewal of the race. We'll see how she comes out of the race, and the Breeders' Cup is a distinct possibility, having won it last year. We'll take it one day at a time, and there is no talk about next year yet.”

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Straight Answer Supplemented to Dewhurst

Undefeated Juddmonte homebred Straight Answer (GB) (Kodiac {GB}) has been supplemented to the Oct. 9 Darley Dewhurst S. at Newmarket. His addition brings the potential field to 12, after winning at The Curragh when unveiled on Aug. 21 and the Listed Ballyhane Blenheim S. at Fairyhouse on Sept. 20. The Ger Lyons-trained colt will possibly face G1 Goffs Vincent O'Brien National S. hero Native Trail (GB) (Oasis Dream {GB}) for the Charlie Appleby/Godolphin axis, and Sunday's G1 Qatar Prix Jean-Luc Lagardere one-two Angel Bleu (Fr) (Dark Angel {Ire}) and Noble Truth (Fr) (Kingman {GB}) among others.

Juddmonte Racing Manager Barry Mahon said, “He's a big, scopey horse and took a bit of time to come to hand, but he's two from two and won nicely on his last start.

“While this is a very big ask, we just thought it was worth a go as it will further his education for next year to put him in Group 1 company.

“Part of the reason we supplemented was the weather forecast, it looks set fair and he's a horse that wants good ground. That would be our preference, so hopefully we don't get any nasty surprises with the weather.

“This is a big step from a listed at Fairyhouse to a Group 1 and it's his first try over seven furlongs, so there's a lot of variables, but we are excited to see if he can step up to that level.”

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Dubawi’s Space Blues Strikes For Belated Foret Success

Charlie Appleby had pencilled in ParisLongchamp's G1 Qatar Prix de la Foret as an end-of-season target for Godolphin's 'TDN Rising Star' Space Blues (Ire) (Dubawi {Ire}) since 2019, but met with one setback after another at a vital juncture in recent seasons and prior engagements were not fulfilled. Scroll forward to 2021 and the 5-year-old chestnut delivered a performance of sheer brilliance to make up for previous absences and won going away in style at the end of the seven-furlong test. Space Blues' 2020 season was brought to a premature close after winning Deauville's G1 Prix Maurice de Gheest and he continued in similar vein when annexing Riyadh's valuable Turf Sprint in his first start this year. Unplaced when contesting Meydan's Mar. 27 G1 Al Quoz Sprint and Goodwood's July 27 G2 Lennox S., he went postward as the crowd's 7-2 favourite for this date with destiny coming back off an impressive score in York's Aug. 21 G2 City of York. Rider William Buick employed patient tactics after an alert getaway and settled his mount into a smooth rhythm towards the back of a strung-out field. Inching ever closer in the straight, Space Blues was last to come off the bridle after the cutaway and quickened smartly inside the final furlong to easily outpoint the prominently ridden Pearls Galore (Fr) (Invincible Spirit {Ire}) by two lengths. Japan's Entscheiden (Jpn) (Deep Impact {Jpn}) fared best of the remainder and finished 3/4-of-a-length back in third.

“We saw how he was at York, he's definitely back to his best and I'm delighted,” said Charlie Appleby after bookending the weekend stakes extravaganza with winners. “We took it a bit easy with him in the Spring and he came out on soft ground at Goodwood. He needed that a little bit and then went to York where I thought he was fantastic. I have been trying to get him to this race for the past three years and we put him bubble wrap, so to speak, after York and protected him. He worked last week and electric so I was confident, apart from the ground being a bit testing, coming into today. I told William [Buick] to not get drawn too far back, but he's got all the confidence in the world and rode with oodles of it. William filled him up in the straight and, once he pressed the button, there's one thing this horse can do and that's produce an electrifying turn of foot. That's just what he did and he put the race to bed. It's been a great weekend and I'm delighted for the whole team.”

As a career in the breeding shed awaits, Appleby indicated a Stateside swansong at Del Mar might now be on the agenda for Space Blues. “This, potentially, is his last year in training and he deserves to take up stud duties when the time comes. We might just give him one more roll of the dice in the [GI] Breeders' Cup Mile. He'll travel around there [at Del Mar] and, with a half-decent draw and a bit of wind behind him, he might be alright.”

“He's just a machine and one of my favourite horses,” added Buick. “He's generous, easy to ride and has a lot of class. With him, you just have to sit back and wait for him to deliver his finishing kick. The Breeders' Cup Mile is a two-turn race and he's adaptable enough to do well there.”

Dual Group 3 winner Pearls Galore was narrowly denied in last month's G1 Matron S. at Leopardstown on Irish Champions weekend and another turn in the spotlight yielded another runner-up finish at the highest level, albeit in more clear-cut fashion this time around. “Pearls Galore put in a magnificent effort and the only one to beat her is a very good horse,” said Haras de Saint Pair's racing advisor Crispin de Moubray. “She deserves to win a Group 1 race one day and it's up to Monsieur [Andreas] Putsch to decide whether she stays in training next year. It's a great story as he placed his trust in Paddy Twomey, and the reward has been two Group wins and two Group 1 seconds. Paddy Twomey is a great trainer.”

Koji Maeda's Japanese stakes scorer Entscheiden took a useful sighter when fifth over course and distance in last month's G3 Prix du Pin and benefitted from that prior experience to claim third at odds of 45-1. “The horse had already run well on a soft track in Japan, he loved the ground here and gave his all,” said rider Ryusei Sakai. “I believed that the race was there for the taking at the first winning post and he really proved courageous in the run to the line.”

Space Blues, one of four winners produced by G2 Challenge S. victress Miss Lucifer (Fr) (Noverre), is a half-brother to MGSW G2 Al Maktoum Challenge and G3 UAE Oaks winner Shuruq (Elusive Quality), herself the dam of this year's GIII The Very One H. winner and GI Belmont Oaks Invitational runner-up Antoinette (Hard Spun). The homebred chestnut is also kin to the unraced 3-year-old filly Beautiful Future (Ire) (Night of Thunder {Ire}) and a yearling filly by Dark Angel (Ire). Miss Lucifer is the the leading performer out of a winning half-sister to G2 King Edward VII S.-winning sire Amfortas (Ire) (Caerleon) and fellow sires Chevalier (Ire) (Danehill) and Chief Lone Eagle (Giant's Causeway). She is also kin to G3 Prix de Royaumont victress Legend Maker (Ire) (Sadler's Wells), herself the dam of G1 1000 Guineas heroine Virginia Waters (Kingmambo), and to the dam of G1 Matron S. victress Chachamaidee (Ire) (Footstepsinthesand {GB}). Space Blues' third dam High Spirited (Ire) (Shirley Heights {GB}), whose descendants also include the Classic-placed duo Rain Goddess (Ire) (Galileo {Ire}) and Alexander of Hales (Danehill), is a full-sister to G1 Premio Roma heroine High Hawk (Ire), herself the dam of MG1SW sire In the Wings (GB) (Sadler's Wells).

Sunday, ParisLongchamp, France
QATAR PRIX DE LA FORET-G1, €350,000, ParisLongchamp, 10-3, 3yo/up, 7fT, 1:22.97, hy.
1–SPACE BLUES (IRE), 128, h, 5, by Dubawi (Ire)
1st Dam: Miss Lucifer (Fr) (GSW-Eng, $193,403), by Noverre
2nd Dam: Devil's Imp (Ire), by Cadeaux Genereux (GB)
3rd Dam: High Spirited (Ire), by Shirley Heights (GB)
O/B-Godolphin (IRE); T-Charlie Appleby; J-William Buick. €199,990. Lifetime Record: Hwt. Older Horse-Fr at 5-7f, 18-10-3-1, €1,305,608. *1/2 to Shuruq (Elusive Quality), Hwt. Older Mare-UAE at 7-9.5f, MGSW-UAE, GSW-Tur & GSP-Eng, $658,709. Werk Nick Rating: A. Click for the eNicks report & 5-cross pedigree.
2–Pearls Galore (Fr), 125, f, 4, Invincible Spirit (Ire)–Pearl Banks (GB), by Pivotal (GB). O/B-SCEA Haras de Saint Pair (FR); T-Paddy Twomey. €80,010.
3–Entscheiden (Jpn), 128, h, 6, Deep Impact (Jpn)–Le Sucre, by Sakura Bakushin O (Jpn). O-Koji Maeda; B-North Hills (Jpn); T-Yoshito Yahagi. €40,005.
Margins: 2, 3/4, 1 1/4. Odds: 3.50, 7.70, 45.00.
Also Ran: Kinross (GB), Sagamiyra (Fr), Speak Of The Devil (Fr), Current Option (Ire), Tropbeau (GB), Last Empire (GB), Duhail (Ire), Njord (Ire), Onassis (Ire), Rhythm Master (Ire), Erasmo (GB), Colosseo. Scratched: Thunder Moon (Ire). Click for the Racing Post result or the free Equineline.com catalogue-style pedigree. Video, sponsored by TVG.

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Abbaye Glory For Hot Streak’s A Case Of You

Fast-becoming renowned for his lethal finishing kick, Gary Devlin's A Case of You (Ire) (Hot Streak {Ire}) had just missed out in the G1 Flying Five but the line was there in time for him in Sunday's G1 Prix de l'Abbaye de Longchamp Longines, a “Win and You're In” for the GI Breeders' Cup Turf Sprint at Del Mar in November.

Having only his second start at this five-furlong trip, the 3-year-old who was supplemented following his Curragh flourish on Irish Champions Weekend needed every centimetre of it to break the heart of the runaway Air de Valse (Fr) (Mesnil Des Aigles {Fr}) and prevail by a short head. Kept in the hunt by Ronan Whelan racing amongst the pack early, the 10-1 shot matched his rider's tenacity in carving out enough space to begin his pursuit of Corine Barande-Barbe's ParisLongchamp specialist who had shrugged off Winter Power (Ire) (Bungle Inthejungle {GB}) on the front end passing two out. It was desperate stuff entering the closing stages, with the 48-1 looking set to cling on but the star of the Adrian McGuinness yard pointed his head out for the mirror and had it there marginally ahead for the judge. Nothing else was able to close out of the main bunch and there was a yawning five-length margin back to Glass Slippers (GB) (Dream Ahead), who had won this in 2019 and was second last year, while the 5-2 favourite Suesa (Ire) (Night of Thunder {Ire}) was a laboured fifth. “When he was second in the Flying Five he was my first ever runner in a group 1 and we supplemented him for this race last week because I knew he'd improve,” trainer “Ado” explained. “He was a three-grand yearling and a very cheap horse–I just can't believe it.”

Coming to the fore when taking The Curragh's re-arranged G3 Anglesey S. in October for trainer John McConnell, A Case of You the G3 Goffs Lacken S. showed he was no flash-in-the-pan on his seasonal return when comprehensively accounting for the subsequent black-type scorers Logo Hunter (Ire) (Brazen Beau {Aus}) and Mooneista (Ire) (Dandy Man {Ire}) in a six-furlong conditions event at Dundalk Mar. 19. Last of 12 trying an extra furlong in the Listed Ballylinch Stud 2000 Guineas Trial at Leopardstown Apr. 11, the bay had the eventual G1 Prix Jean Prat winner Laws of Indices (Ire) (Power {GB}) back in fourth reverting to six in the G3 Lacken S. at Naas May 16. Only 11th in the G1 Commonwealth Cup at Royal Ascot June 18, he was third after a break in The Curragh's G3 Phoenix Sprint S. Aug. 8 before his late show against Romantic Proposal (Ire) (Raven's Pass) in the Sept. 12 Flying Five.

“He's just got better and better and I think he'll be a very good horse next year,” McGuinness said. “He's thriving and I knew he was right today–he wasn't when he ran in the Commonwealth Cup. I have a good sprinter that won the other night and he can't lay up with this horse. Ronan's a world-class jockey and I told him not to panic, as I knew he'd stay really well. He'll be better on better ground and we'll definitely look at the Breeders' Cup. It's either that or we put him away and look at Dubai in the spring–he's definitely going to travel.”

Barande-Barbe had to suffer the dejection of losing out so late in the game, having looked certain to prevail with her homebred Air de Valse whose efforts over this strip include a win in the 2020 G3 Prix du Petit Couvert when she had beaten last year's Abbaye hero Wooded (Ire) (Wootton Bassett {GB}). “It is so frustrating to lose by so little, as to win a group 1 race changes the life of a trainer,” she said. “I'm so proud of my filly–Longchamp is her garden.”

A Case of You, who becomes the first group 1 winner for his Haras d'Annebault-based sire, is out of Karjera (Ire) (Key of Luck) who is a full-sister to the Listed Rochestown S. winner Akanti (Ire) and to Lock and Key (Ire) who was placed in the GIII Las Cienegas H., the G3 Brownstown S., G3 Round Tower S. and G3 International S. From the family of the GII Delaware H. winner Summer Wind Dancer (Siberian Summer) and the GIII All American H. and G3 Diomed S.-winning sire Bluegrass Prince (Ire), Karjera's unraced 2-year-old filly by Alhebayeb (Ire) is named Ali Babes (Ire).

Sunday, ParisLongchamp, France
PRIX DE L'ABBAYE DE LONGCHAMP LONGINES-G1, €350,000, ParisLongchamp, 10-3, 2yo/up, 5fT, :58.02, hy.
1–A CASE OF YOU (IRE), 131, c, 3, by Hot Streak (Ire)
1st Dam: Karjera (Ire), by Key of Luck
2nd Dam: Lock's Heath, by Topsider
3rd Dam: Lock's Dream, by Youth
1ST GROUP 1 WIN. (€3,000 RNA Ylg '19 GOFSPT). O-Gary Devlin; B-Limestone and Tara Studs (IRE); T-Adrian McGuinness; J-Ronan Whelan. €199,990. Lifetime Record: MGSW & G1SP-Ire, 10-5-1-2, $345,390. Werk Nick Rating: C+. Click for the eNicks report & 5-cross pedigree.
2–Air de Valse (Fr), 133, m, 5, Mesnil des Aigles (Fr)–Air Bag (Fr), by Poliglote (GB). O/B/T-Corine Barande-Barbe (FR). €80,010.
3–Glass Slippers (GB), 133, m, 5, Dream Ahead–Night Gypsy (GB), by Mind Games (GB). O/B-Bearstone Stud Ltd (GB); T-Kevin Ryan. €40,005.
Margins: SHD, 5, SHD. Odds: 10.80, 48.00, 5.60.
Also Ran: Mo Celita (Ire), Suesa (Ire), Ponntos (Ire), O Trasno (Fr), Winter Power (Ire), Lady In France (GB), Romantic Proposal (Ire), Pradaro (Fr), Wild Majesty (Ire), Dandalla (Ire), Berneuil (Ire). Scratched: Urban Beat (Ire). Click for the Racing Post result or the free Equineline.com catalogue-style pedigree. Video, sponsored by TVG.

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