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British Prizemoney To Rise In September

The British Horseracing Authority has published its fixture list from Sept. 1 through the remainder of the year, with minimum prizemoney levels set to rise.

From Sept. 1, minimum prizemoney at the middle and grassroots levels of British racing will be restored to their pre-COVID levels, while for Class 1 races and heritage handicaps minimum purses will be at 75% of their pre-COVID levels. In addition to levy funding, all racecourses will make executive contributions to prizemoney of every race. The appearance money scheme, which pays out to horses out of the money in middle and lower tier races, will be reintroduced.

A maximum of five fixtures will be staged each day from Sept. 1. Fixtures will generally consist of seven races with one race eligible to divide during daytime fixtures and two during evening fixtures. A programme of five floodlit fixtures has been added to the six days in November that was initially scheduled to be dark for the flat. The fixture list between Christmas and New Year, including the eight fixtures provisionally scheduled to take place on Boxing Day, will be reviewed nearer the time. All participants will continue to be restricted to attending one meeting per day.

“As we enter the autumn and racehorse owners begin to make their plans for 2021, this increase in minimum prizemoney levels across all levels from September is a critical part of the sport’s recovery plans,” said Richard Wayman, chief operating officer of the BHA. “Owners have displayed great patience in recent months and it is crucial that prizemoney grows at all levels as quickly as possible. Whilst there is a long way to go, the increase in minimum values together with the re-introduction of the appearance money scheme are clearly steps in the right direction.

“We have learnt a lot from a number of the fixture innovations that were put in place as part of the emergency fixture list, some of which will continue for the remainder of the year. Others may return in the future but it is evident that the return to a more familiar fixture list, at least for now, will provide a boost to industry revenues, particularly as we look forward to crowds returning to racecourses later in the year. This has only been possible due to the Levy Board significantly increasing its support of prizemoney compared with its original plans and we would like to express our gratitude for their approach as we seek to plot a long term course for our sport to recover from its current challenges.”

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Fancy Blue Battles To Nassau Success

Fancy Blue (Ire) (Deep Impact {Jpn}), fresh from a thrilling victory in Chantilly’s G1 Prix de Diane earlier this month, doubled up in battling fashion and continued to lead the way for the freshman stable of Donnacha O’Brien with a second Group 1 success in Thursday’s G1 Qatar Nassau S. at Goodwood. Accepting a tow from Aidan O’Brien trainee and G1 Mackinnon S. victress Magic Wand (Ire) (Galileo {Ire}) into the straight, the 11-4 chance inched closer to launch her challenge at the quarter-mile marker and was driven out once taking control soon after to withstand the late charge of last month’s G3 Blue Wind S. victress One Voice (Ire) (Poet’s Voice {GB}) by a neck, providing Ryan Moore with a 50th Goodwood festival success. Nazeef (GB) (Invincible Spirit {Ire}) finished a further 2 3/4 lengths adrift in third. “That was a lovely performance from Fancy Blue, she is unbelievable and it is massive as you never believe you will get one like her in your first year of training,” said conditioner Donnacha O’Brien. “When you have the pedigrees that Coolmore have, you always have a chance and I am very lucky. I was given Fancy Blue as a yearling and you don’t really expect these kind of things, but when they come along it is more unlikely that the majority will be up to this sort of Group 1 class. You do right by them so that they will fulfil their full potential and thankfully she has reached that class. It is unbelievable that I get a filly like her in my first year. People go a lifetime without getting a filly like her and I am no under no illusions as to how lucky I am, and I just need to do the best I can with her. I was looking after her as a yearling and I was responsible for her, but I didn’t have my licence so she was not under my name.”

The homebred bay was unbeaten in two juvenile outings for Aidan O’Brien, backing up a Naas debut success with victory in The Curragh’s Listed Staffordstown Stud S., and her first official start for O’Brien junior was a runner-up finish to Peaceful (Ire) (Galileo {Ire}) in the G1 Irish 1000 Guineas on seasonal debut before turning the tables on that former stablemate at Chantilly last time. “I was hopeful of a good performance due to the weight she was getting [from the older fillies], and this race fitted in well after her win in the French Oaks,” O’Brien commented. “Every race she has won she has had to battle for and work for it. Jessie [Harrington]’s filly [One Voice] came at her today and if she had got into a proper battle with her, I think she would have found more. She is a very tough, high-class filly who has shown how good she is today. We came here today unsure as to what she would think of the ground. I was speaking to Dad during the race that she was swapping and changing her lead leg coming down the hill. She didn’t look particularly comfortable and I think a little bit of juice in the ground won’t be any harm for her in the future.”

Looking ahead to targets over a variety of distances, the rookie trainer revealed an extensive agenda. “We will give her a little break now as she has had a busy start to the year,” he announced. “We might look at Irish Champions Weekend to bring her back and that could be in the [G1] Matron [over one mile at Leopardstown], which I know is back down in trip, or in the [G1] Irish Champion [over 10 furlongs]. She’ll then go to Arc weekend where she has the option of the [G1] Prix de l’Opera [over 10 furlongs] or the Arc itself. After that, it will probably be the Breeders’ Cup or a trip to Japan for the Queen Elizabeth, where there is big money on offer over a mile-and-three and a bonus for winning the Prix de Diane. We’re not really sure what is going on with America at the minute, but they are the options. All the people in Japan are massive supporters of racing and I know myself from riding Saxon Warrior, and him being by Deep Impact, that we got a good following from the Japanese fans. It is always somewhere I have wanted to go and, whilst it is not set in stone, she could go there. Arc weekend fits nicely so whether it is the Opera or the Arc, we will sit down and speak with the owners. Taking in the [G1 Prix] Vermeille [over 12 furlongs] could maybe be a possibility, but we will have to see. There are a lot of good races around and I think she would be competitive anywhere from a mile to a mile-and-a-half. With her allowance in the Arc, I wouldn’t be writing her off either so we’ll have to see how strong the Opera is. Coolmore could have Love for the Arc too so nothing is set in stone.”

Fancy Blue is one of six winners produced by Chenchikova (Ire) (Sadler’s Wells), herself a winning full-sister to MG1SW sire High Chaparral (Ire) (Sadler’s Wells) and G2 Dante S. victor and GI Secretariat S. runner-up Black Bear Island (Ire) (Sadler’s Wells). She is a kin to stakes-winning G1 Dewhurst S. third Smuggler’s Cove (Ire) (Fastnet Rock {Aus}) and stakes-winning G3 Prix de Lutece placegetter Casterton (Ire) (Fastnet Rock {Aus}). Fancy Blue is also a half-sister to the placed 2-year-old filly Miss Chess (Ire) (Zoffany {Ire}), a yearling filly by Caravaggio and a 2020 filly by Saxon Warrior (Jpn). Chenchikova, kin to the dam of MGSW GI Belmont Derby Invitational third Hunting Horn (Ire) (Camelot {GB}) and MGSW G1 Dewhurst S. placegetter David Livingston (Ire) (Galileo {Ire}), is also a granddaughter of MGSW French champion and G1 Prix de l’Arc de Triomphe and G1 Prix du Moulin placegetter Kozana (GB) (Kris {GB}). The latter produced a quartet of stakes performers which includes G1 Premio Parioli (Italian 2000 Guineas) and GI Oak Tree Turf Championship runner-up Khoraz (The Minstrel).

Thursday, Goodwood, Britain
QATAR NASSAU S.-G1, £250,000, Goodwood, 7-30, 3yo/up, f/m, 9f 197yT, 2:04.99, gd.
1–FANCY BLUE (IRE), 124, f, 3, by Deep Impact (Jpn)
1st Dam: Chenchikova (Ire), by Sadler’s Wells
2nd Dam: Kasora (Ire), by Darshaan (GB)
3rd Dam: Kozana (GB), by Kris (GB)
O-Michael Tabor, Derrick Smith & Susan Magnier; B-Coolmore (IRE); T-Donnacha O’Brien; J-Ryan Moore. £141,775. Lifetime Record: G1SW-Fr, SW & G1SP-Ire, 5-4-1-0, $666,724. *1/2 to Smuggler’s Cove (Ire) (Fastnet Rock {Aus}), SW-Ire & G1SP-Eng, $137,682; and to Casterton (Ire) (Fastnet Rock {Aus}), MSW & GSP-Fr, $163,024. Werk Nick Rating: C+. Click for the eNicks report & 5-cross pedigree.
2–One Voice (Ire), 124, f, 3, Poet’s Voice (GB)–Zaaqya (GB), by Nayef. (€55,000 Ylg ’18 GOFSPT). O-Craig Bernick; B-J Lenihan (IRE); T-Jessica Harrington. £53,750.
3–Nazeef (GB), 133, f, 4, Invincible Spirit (Ire)–Handassa (GB), by Dubawi (Ire). O-Sheikh Hamdan bin Rashid Al Maktoum; B-Shadwell Estate Company Limited (GB); T-John Gosden. £26,900.
Margins: NK, 2 3/4, HF. Odds: 2.75, 20.00, 3.30.
Also Ran: Queen Power (Ire), Magic Wand (Ire), Lavender’s Blue (Ire), Deirdre (Jpn). Click for the Racing Post result or the free Equineline.com catalogue-style pedigree.

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Mogul Swoops For Gordon Triumph

Off the board in three starts since claiming last term’s G2 Champions Juvenile S. at Leopardstown, Coolmore’s Mogul (GB) (Galileo {Ire}) was one of the main closers when sixth in last month’s G1 Epsom Derby and stepped back up to the plate to gain compensation in Thursday’s G3 John Pearce Racing Gordon S. at Goodwood. Steadied off the clear leader in fourth after an alert getaway, the 9-2 chance was coaxed forward once leaving the three-furlong marker behind and swooped late under a power drive to provide a third success for Aidan O’Brien in this renowned stepping stone to elite-level glory. The April-foaled bay’s late surge carried him 3/4-of-a-length beyond Highland Chief (Ire) (Gleneagles {Ire}) with the same margin back to the game pacesetter Subjectivity (GB) (Teofilo {Ire}) in third. “These horses are in good form, he was tough there and Aidan always said he’d be just right for his third run,” said winning rider Ryan Moore, whose win left Frankie Dettori behind on four as he moved to within one of Sir Gordon Richards and Willie Carson’s joint-record haul of six in the contest. “We’ve always thought a lot of him and I’m very happy with what he’s done today. He’s still a bit babyish and can only progress further,” the rider added.

“We always thought that Mogul was going to take two runs and we were hoping to get that into him before the Derby, but obviously the Derby was only his second run and this was his third today,” explained Aidan O’Brien, who saddled Yellowstone (Ire) (Rock of Gibraltar {Ire}) to win this in 2007 and Highland Reel (Ire) (Galileo {Ire}) in 2015. “We said this race would suit him, we’re delighted with him and think there is more to come. We were thinking of going to the [Sept. 13 G1] Grand Prix de Paris [at ParisLongchamp] with him next, maybe, and that was the plan if everything went well today. We always thought he was a lovely horse and a horse that was going to suit the Derby, but we thought it would take a couple of runs to get him there. When you look at him he’s built like a miler. He’s a big, strong, powerful horse and carries a lot of muscle and weight so he was always going to take racing to get him tuned up. We weren’t really sure about this horse at a mile-and-a-half, but he toughed it out and it looks like he got it today.”

Fitri Hay’s homebred Golden Gates H. winner Highland Chief (Ire) (Gleneagles {Ire}) was a never-threatening 10th in the G1 Epsom Derby and bounced back from that disappointment with a career-best effort here. “We are very, very pleased with the horse,” said trainer Oliver Cole. “I would have to see the race again, but [rider] David Probert thought Mogul came up and he went again. Ryan has obviously ridden a peach and we are very happy to know that we have a very good horse. The advantage we had today was that there weren’t many runners so there wasn’t much hustle and bustle. He could relax and enjoy it without being cramped, which played to his advantage. Maybe the [G2 Great] Voltigeur [at York] next, although it might come a little bit quick.” Bjorn Nielsen’s G1 Epsom Derby fifth English King (Fr) (Camelot {GB}) went off for this retrieval mission as the 5-4 favourite, but was the first to come under pressure in the straight before staying on without troubling the leaders to finish fourth. “He came off the bridle too early and he was staying on at the end,” said Frankie Dettori. “We are toying with the idea of the [G1] St Leger [at Doncaster].”

Mogul, who was the second-highest priced transaction at Tattersalls’ 2018 October Book 1 yearling sale when knocked down to M V Magnier for 3.4-million guineas, is one of six winners out of Listed Pontefract Castle S. second Shastye (Ire) (Danehill), herself half to G1SW sires Sagamix (Fr) (Linamix {Fr}) and Sagacity (Fr) (Highest Honor {Fr}). He is thus a full-brother to G1 Grand Prix de Paris and G1 Juddmonte International hero Japan (GB), GSW G1 Epsom Oaks and G1 German Oaks runner-up Secret Gesture (GB), G3 International S. victor Sir Isaac Newton (GB) and a yearling filly. From a family also featuring G1 Prix d’Ispahan-winning sire Sageburg (Ire) (Johannesburg), Mogul is also a half to MGSP Listed Ipswich Cup winner Maurus (GB) (Medicean {GB}) and to the unraced dam of Listed Height of Fashion S. runner-up Shaherezada (Ire) (Dutch Art {GB}).

Thursday, Goodwood, Britain
JOHN PEARCE RACING GORDON S.-G3, £75,000, Goodwood, 7-30, 3yo, 11f 218yT, 2:34.89, gd.
1–MOGUL (GB), 127, c, 3, by Galileo (Ire)
1st Dam: Shastye (Ire) (SP-Eng), by Danehill
2nd Dam: Saganeca, by Sagace (Fr)
3rd Dam: Haglette, by Hagley
(3,400,000gns Ylg ’18 TATOCT). O-Michael Tabor, Derrick Smith & Susan Magnier; B-Newsells Park Stud (GB); T-Aidan O’Brien; J-Ryan Moore. £42,533. Lifetime Record: GSW-Ire, 7-3-1-0, $198,290. *Full to Japan (GB), Hwt. 3yo-Eng at 9 1/2-11f, Hwt. 3yo-Ire at 11-14f, Hwt. 3yo-Ire at 9 1/2-11f, Hwt. 3yo-Eng at 11-14f, Hwt. 3yo-Eur at 9 1/2-11f, G1SW-Fr, G1SW-Eng, GSW-Ire, $2,021,465; Full to Secret Gesture (GB), GSW & MG1SP-Eng, G1SP-Fr, G1SP-Ger, GISP-US, $746,427; Full to Sir Isaac Newton (GB), GSW-Ire, SW-Eng, GSP-Aus, $405,120; 1/2 to Maurus (GB) (Medicean {GB}), SW & MGSP-Aus, $472,335. Werk Nick Rating: A+++ *Triple Plus*. Click for the eNicks report & 5-cross pedigree.
2–Highland Chief (Ire), 127, c, 3, Gleneagles (Ire)–Pink Symphony (GB), by Montjeu (Ire). O/B-Fitri Hay (IRE); T-Paul Cole. £16,125.
3–Subjectivist (GB), 127, c, 3, Teofilo (Ire)–Reckoning (Ire), by Danehill Dancer (Ire). (62,000gns Ylg ’18 TAOCT). O-Dr J. Walker; B-Mascalls Stud (GB); T-Mark Johnston. £8,070.
Margins: 3/4, 3/4, 1 3/4. Odds: 4.50, 22.00, 8.50.
Also Ran: English King (Fr), Khalifa Sat (Ire), Al Aasy (Ire). Click for the Racing Post result or the free Equineline.com catalogue-style pedigree.

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Mehmas’s Supremacy Lives Up To the Title In the Richmond

With an impressive listed winner already in the bag in Method (Ire), Tally Ho Stud’s Mehmas (Ire) put more distance between himself and his fellow first-season sires on Thursday as the aptly-named Supremacy (Ire) registered a similarly commanding four-length success in Goodwood’s G2 Qatar Richmond S. Off the mark in dynamic fashion in a six-furlong Windsor maiden July 6, the 11-2 shot was placed quickly at the head of affairs by Adam Kirby and found generously in the final furlong to draw away from the 13-8 favourite Yazaman (Ire) (Kodiac {GB}), with Lauded (GB) (Acclamation {GB}) a neck away in third. “He’s quite tall and scopey with a long stride and he can quicken,” Kirby commented. “He ran through the line, so it was a very smart performance. Coming into the race, I really liked him and his maiden win was very good. He is all speed, very, very quick. It almost feels as though you have it easy on him–he has an exceptional cruising speed. I didn’t go out there with all guns blazing and the intention of grabbing the rail, it has just kind of happened at that way and as most people would know on a baby if you have got the rail, it can just help.”

This looked a decent renewal, with two TDN Rising Stars Qaader (Ire) (Night of Thunder {Ire}) and Admiral Nelson (GB) (Kingman {GB}) in attendance as well as the G2 July S. runner-up Yazaman, but Supremacy had matters in hand passing the furlong pole. Clive Cox, who took this race 12 months ago with Golden Horde (Ire) (Lethal Force {Ire}) and also has the G2 Coventry S. winner Nando Parrado (GB) (Kodiac {GB}), said, “Its fabulous we have two top-class horses and you pinch yourself when things go as well as they have done. He was impressive and one of the comments that Adam made coming back down the chute was he is one for next year too. He’s got a wonderful mind and he won in a very fast time at Windsor, so this was soon enough. In a perfect world, I would have liked another week or two but he has done that so well and has taken a big step forward.”

Another inspired purchase by Clive Cox at £65,000 at the 2019 Goffs UK Premier Yearling Sale, Supremacy looked a long way from being this type of animal when a well-beaten sixth on his racecourse bow at Windsor June 16. That was four days before Nando Parrado took his own leap forward from an unplaced effort on debut at the Royal meeting and it is clear that the Cox juveniles are needing their first outings badly in 2020. He had made a huge jump to Windsor and another here to promise more sprinting heydays for this trainer-jockey combination.

The dam Triggers Broom (Ire) (Arcano {Ire}) is a half-sister to Xtension (Ire) (Xaar {GB}), who brought Cox and Kirby to prominence at this meeting in 2009 when taking the G2 Vintage S. Also third in the G1 Dewhurst S. and G1 Prix Jean Prat before joining John Moore, he went on to win two renewals of the G1 Champions Mile in Hong Kong. Xtension’s half-sister Beatrix Potter (Ire) (Cadeaux Genereux {GB}) went on to produce Cox’s best yet in the G1 July Cup and G1 Haydock Sprint Cup hero Harry Angel (Ire) (Dark Angel {Ire}) and also last year’s G2 Mill Reef S. winner Pierre Lapin (Ire) (Cappella Sansevero {GB}). Another of his half-siblings A Huge Dream (Ire) (Refuse To Bend {Ire}) was listed-placed and was later responsible for Mrs Gallagher (GB) (Oasis Dream {GB}) who captured the Listed Polonia S. and Listed Lansdown S. The dam’s yearling colt is by Cotai Glory (GB).

Thursday, Goodwood, Britain
QATAR RICHMOND S.-G2, £50,000, Goodwood, 7-30, 2yo, c/g, 6fT, 1:10.13, gd.
1–SUPREMACY (IRE), 126, c, 2, by Mehmas (Ire)
1st Dam: Triggers Broom (Ire), by Arcano (Ire)
2nd Dam: Great Joy (Ire), by Grand Lodge
3rd Dam: Cheese Soup, by Spectacular Bid
1ST BLACK-TYPE WIN; 1ST GROUP WIN. (£65,000 Ylg ’19 GOFFPR). O-J Goddard; B-Kangyu International Racing (IRE); T-Clive Cox; J-Adam Kirby. £28,355. Lifetime Record: 3-2-0-0, $42,012. Werk Nick Rating: A++. Click for the eNicks report & 5-cross pedigree.
2–Yazaman (Ire), 126, c, 2, Kodiac (GB)–Online Alexander (Ire), by Acclamation (GB). (185,000gns Ylg ’19 TATOCT). O-Sheikh Ahmed Al Maktoum; B-Mountarmstrong Stud. (IRE); T-William Haggas. £10,750.
3–Lauded (GB), 126, c, 2, Acclamation (GB)–Thatsallimsaying (Ire), by Dandy Man (Ire). (24,000gns Wlg ’18 TATFOA; €46,000 Ylg ’19 TIRSEP). O-Al Shaqab Racing & Manor House Racing; B-Whitsbury Manor Stud (GB); T-Tom Dascombe. £5,380.
Margins: 4, NK, 1HF. Odds: 5.50, 1.63, 10.00.
Also Ran: Admiral Nelson (GB), Qaader (Ire), Gussy Mac (Ire), Talbot (Ire). Click for the Racing Post result or the free Equineline.com catalogue-style pedigree.

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