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Lyons Hoping Siskin and Keane Partnership Continues in Sussex

Ger Lyons is increasingly hopeful Colin Keane will opt to maintain his partnership with Siskin (First Defence) in the G1 Qatar Sussex S. at Goodwood on Wednesday week–with Frankie Dettori “waiting in the wings” should he opt to stay in Ireland. Former Irish champion Keane has ridden the unbeaten G1 Tattersalls Irish 2000 Guineas hero in all his career starts, but current rules in Ireland surrounding the COVID-19 pandemic mean he would have to spend 14 days in quarantine on his return home, should he travel to Goodwood.

Lyons, who teamed up with Keane for a second Classic success of the season on Saturday night with Even So in the Juddmonte Irish Oaks, told Racing TV’s Luck on Sunday programme: “I’m looking forward to it–the negative is the isolation that we have here in Ireland, but it became very apparent to me last night that these races matter, and matter hugely.

“So I’d be dubious to think Colin won’t partner him. I think, subject to discussing it with Colin and without putting pressure on him, I’d like to think he’ll stay with him and we’ll go to Goodwood together, take a two-week holiday together somewhere green and sunny in Ireland and concentrate on the big races for the rest of the season.

“You’ve got to understand Colin is a young man and is being led by an old trainer with a young head, who hasn’t been here. We’ve to do the right thing, but it’s become apparent, and we’ve a lot of good people advising us, that Siskin is the horse of a lifetime.

“That’s not to say he’ll win the Sussex . by any stretch, he has to beat at least three horses to finish in the three that are rated above him. He’s a long way to go to beat the horses that are lining up in the race, but I wouldn’t swap him.”

On the high-profile substitute if Keane does not ride, Lyons said, “I think they need to stick together, but there’s a very good replacement waiting in the wings if something else happens. It would have to be Frankie [Dettori]. He has a huge association with that outfit [Juddmonte] and he’s the best in the world. He’s there in the wings if we needed him and that would be fantastic too.”

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Raven’s Pass’s Lemista Takes the Kilboy Estate

Ger Lyons had suffered a rare downturn at The Curragh’s weekend meeting when Frenetic (Ire) (Kodiac {GB}) was overturned in the G2 Airlie Stud S., but the Irish Oaks-winning trainer was straight back in the game with Peter Brant’s Lemista (Ire) (Raven’s Pass) in Sunday’s G2 Kilboy Estate S. Causing an upset when upstaging Saturday’s Classic heroine Even So (Ire) (Camelot {GB}) in the G3 Park Express S. over a mile at Naas Mar. 23, the bay had confirmed her class when adding the Listed Victor McCalmont Memorial S. to her tally over an extended nine furlongs at Gowran Park June 19 and fortunately knew nothing of the new expectations racing in these colours for the first time. If Colin Keane was aware of the pressure, he gave little away as he reserved the 3-1 second favourite towards the back before launching her to take control 150 yards from the post. At the line, she had 3/4 of a length to spare over Lovelier (Ire) (Galileo {Ire}), with Kiss For a Jewel (Ire) (Kingman {GB}) half a length behind in third.

“There is no question she’s a good filly and she proved that Naas wasn’t a fluke,” Lyons said.”At home she doesn’t show this and nor does the filly yesterday. She wants soft ground and has been doing it on conditions which don’t suit her. I always thought at this stage she’d be running over 12 furlongs and it’s testament to her ability that she is winning this over nine. She has oodles of class and the same sort of profile as Even So and Yaxeni. They are three fillies I’m looking forward to as 4-year-olds. We took the view there was no point in having three in the Oaks yesterday when she had a nice chance today.”
Lyons is looking at Champions Day for his star duo and added, “My advice to her new owners would be that she should stay here and enjoy the fillies’ programme until at least the end of next year, as she will get her conditions here. Even So will probably have a prep after a break and then go for the Ascot race [the G1 QIPCO British Champions Fillies & Mares S.] and this filly could go for the same race. At that time of the year the ground could be heavy and this one will handle it as will Yaxeni.”

Lemista’s dam Shortmile Lady (Ire) (Arcano {Ire}) is a half to the G3 Prix de Meautry winner Indian Maiden (Ire) (Indian Ridge {Ire}), in turn responsible for the G3 World Trophy winner Maid In India (Ire) (Bated Breath {GB}) and the dual listed scorer and G3 Prix de Ris-Orangis runner-up Love Spirit (GB) (Elusive City). From the family of the Listed Surrey S. winner and G3 Sirenia S.-placed Lake Volta (Ire) also by Raven’s Pass, Lemista descends from All Rainbows (Bold Hour) who produced the GI Kentucky Derby heroine Winning Colors (Caro {Ire}) and is a half-sister to the US Fillies’ Triple Crown-winning champion Chris Evert (Swoon Son). She in turn is the ancestress of the eight-times grade I-winning champion sire Chief’s Crown and the GI Kentucky Oaks heroine Hometown Queen (Pleasant Colony). Shortmile Lady also has the unraced Richard Hannon-trained 2-year-old filly Mummy Bear (Ire) (Kodi Bear {Ire}), a yearling colt by Australia (GB) purchased by JC Bloodstock for 58,000gns at the Tattersalls December Foal Sale and a colt foal by Zoffany (Ire).

Sunday, Curragh, Ireland
KILBOY ESTATE S.-G2, €94,400, Curragh, 7-19, 3yo/up, f, 9fT, 1:58.76, gd.
1–LEMISTA (IRE), 128, f, 3, by Raven’s Pass
1st Dam: Shortmile Lady (Ire), by Arcano (Ire)
2nd Dam: Jinsiyah, by Housebuster
3rd Dam: Minifah, by Nureyev
(€16,000 Wlg ’17 GOFNOV). O-Peter M Brant; B-Drumlin Bloodstock (IRE); T-Ger Lyons; J-Colin Keane. €48,000. Lifetime Record: 6-4-0-0, $144,740. Werk Nick Rating: A++. Click for the eNicks report & 5-cross pedigree.
2–Lovelier (Ire), 128, f, 3, Galileo (Ire)–Laddies Poker Two (Ire), by Choisir (Aus). O-Derrick Smith, Susan Magnier & Michael Tabor; B-Coolmore (IRE); T-Aidan O’Brien. €16,000.
3–Kiss For A Jewel (Ire), 137, f, 4, Kingman (GB)–Sapphire (Ire), by Medicean (GB). O/B-Moyglare Stud Farm Ltd (IRE); T-Dermot Weld. €8,000.
Margins: 3/4, HF, HF. Odds: 3.00, 4.00, 22.00.
Also Ran: Crotchet (GB), One Voice (Ire), Snapraeceps (Ire), Cerro Bayo (Ire), Ridenza (Ire). Click for the Racing Post result or the free Equineline.com catalogue-style pedigree.

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A’Ali Bags the Sapphire

Forced to race on his own in Sunday’s G2 Holden Plant Rentals Sapphire S. at The Curragh, Shaikh Duaij Al Khalifa’s burgeoning sprinting star A’Ali (Ire) (Society Rock {Ire}) was admirably uncomplicated as he secured a fifth pattern-race success. Coming here on the back of a first 3-year-old success in a competitive renewal of the July 5 G3 Sandown Sprint S., the even-money favourite was detached from the main field early and out on a limb but was fortunately able to benefit from the guile and confidence of Colin Keane. Ploughing a lone furrow as Make a Challenge (Ire) (Invincible Spirit {Ire}) dominated the majority of the runners on the far side, he stayed straight and true to reel in that rival in the last 75 yards for a length success, with the outsider Rapid Reaction (Ire) (Shamardal) clinging on for a valuable placing 1 3/4 lengths behind. “He’s a very speedy horse,” Keane commented. “I thought at one stage that I was in trouble. It wasn’t by design that I was away from the main group and it would have been better to get a tow into the race, but I felt I was on a fresh strip of ground. He’s very straightforward and feels like a group 1 horse.”

A’Ali, who has now won this and the G2 Norfolk S., G2 Prix Robert Papin and G2 Flying Childers S. as well as the G3 Sprint S., was like the juvenile Frenetic (Ire) (Kodiac {GB}) emerging from the day as a likely thorn in the side of the established speed monarch Battaash (Ire) (Dark Angel {Ire}) in the G1 Nunthorpe S. His dam Motion Lass (GB) (Motivator {GB}) is a half-sister to the G3 Darley S. winner and G1 Coronation Cup-placed Enforcer (GB) (Efisio {GB}). The third dam is the GIII Tempted S. scorer Willowy Mood (Will Win), who is related to the triple grade III winner OK By Me (With Approval) and the GIII Royal Palm H. winner D J’s Rainbow (Tom Rolfe) and the triple grade I hero Sea Cadet (Bolger). Motion Lass’s yearling filly is by Cotai Glory (GB).

Sunday, Curragh, Ireland
HOLDEN PLANT RENTALS SAPPHIRE S.-G2, €80,000, Curragh, 7-19, 3yo/up, 5fT, :59.85, g/y.
1–A’ALI (IRE), 131, c, 3, by Society Rock (Ire)
1st Dam: Motion Lass (GB), by Motivator (GB)
2nd Dam: Tarneem, by Zilzal
3rd Dam: Willowy Mood, by Will Win
(£35,000 Ylg ’18 GOUKPR; £135,000 2yo ’19 GOFBRE). O-Shaikh Duaij Al Khalifa; B-Tally-Ho Stud (IRE); T-Simon & Ed Crisford; J-Colin Keane. €48,000. Lifetime Record: MGSW-Eng & GSW-Fr, 9-5-1-0, $300,367. Werk Nick Rating: A+. Click for the eNicks report & 5-cross pedigree.
2–Make A Challenge (Ire), 135, g, 5, Invincible Spirit (Ire)–Crinoline, by Street Cry (Ire). (£6,500 2yo ’17 GOYHIT). O-M G Hogan, Walter O’Connor & James Joseph Reilly; B-Godolphin (IRE); T-Denis Hogan. €16,000.
3–Rapid Reaction (Ire), 132, m, 5, Shamardal–Bratislava (GB), by Dr Fong. O/B/T-John Grogan (IRE). €8,000.
Margins: 1, 1 3/4, 3 1/4. Odds: 1.00, 1.50, 33.00.
Also Ran: Punita Arora (Ire), American Lady (Ire), Southern Hills (Ire), Wheels On Fire (Fr). Click for the Racing Post result or the free Equineline.com catalogue-style pedigree.

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Kingman’s Persian King Dominates At Chantilly

Despite his achievements to date, there is still a sense that TDN Rising Star Persian King (Ire) (Kingman {GB}) is a case of still waters running deep. Looking for another win at the highest level to complement his G1 Poule d’Essai des Poulains success of 2019, he found it coming to him relatively easy in Sunday’s G1 Prix d’Ispahan at Chantilly. Shadowing the vastly-improved British raider Pogo (Ire) (Zebedee {GB}) straining Pierre-Charles Boudot’s reins initially, the 9-10 favourite was allowed to stride to the front approaching the two-furlong pole to put paid to any remaining stamina concerns. From there Godolphin and Ballymore Thoroughbred Ltd’s bay saw out the nine furlongs as strongly as it looked he would when finishing with a flourish last time in the G2 Prix du Muguet over a mile. There was a two-length winning margin and a gulf in class to the game veteran Stormy Antarctic (GB) (Stormy Atlantic) at the line, as Pogo clung on to third 1 3/4 lengths away. Anthony Stroud, representing connections, paid tribute to the trainer afterwards. “There is no need to say that Andre Fabre has done a marvellous job to bring him back to where he is now,” he said in reference to the winner’s substantial lay-off. “It’s been step-by-step and it will continue that way. He was a very good 2-year-old and has a lot of talent.”

Much water has passed under the bridge since Persian King beat Magna Grecia (Ire) (Invincible Spirit {Ire}) and Circus Maximus (Ire) (Galileo {Ire}) in what has become a portent of things to follow in Newmarket’s G3 Autumn S. in October 2018. His Poulains victory in testing ground was followed by a reversal and an injury sustained in the G1 Prix du Jockey Club here last June and it was only June 10 when he was eventually able to return to active duty. In all likelihood shy of a peak, he had the misfortune to come up against a progressive talent from his own yard and was turned over by Magny Cours (Medaglia d’Oro) in the Listed Prix de Montretout over a mile back at this venue. The subsequent exploits of that stablemate when winning a competitive renewal of Sandown’s Listed Gala S. shed more favourable light on that effort and Persian King was able to build as he dispatched the two considerable compatriots Pretreville (Fr) (Acclamation {GB}) and Skalleti (Fr) (Kendargent {Fr}) in the Muguet at Saint-Cloud June 28.

Stroud was not ruling out a potential tilt at the G1 Prix de l’Arc de Triomphe and added, “It is a distinct possibility, but obviously it depends on Andre and the owners. In the French Derby, he was drawn wide on the outside and got injured in the race, so you can’t categorically say he doesn’t stay. The jury is still out and his family suggests he could stay a mile and a half.” Fabre seemed set on reverting to a mile afterwards as he said, “At one stage, the [G1] Juddmonte International was an option, but now I think that I will run him in the [G1 Prix] Jacques le Marois [at Deauville Aug. 16].”

Persian King’s dam Pretty Please (Ire) (Dylan Thomas {Ire}) is a three-parts sister to the G1 Prix Ganay hero Planteur (Ire) (Danehill Dancer {Ire}) and a half to the dual listed winner Pilote d’Essai (GB) (Oasis Dream {GB}). The third dam Palmeraie (Lear Fan) is kin to three black-type winners, most notably the GII Long Island H. heroine Peinture Bleue (Alydar) who later produced the G1 Prix de l’Arc de Triomphe and G1 Prix du Jockey Club hero and leading sire Peintre Celebre.

Sunday, Chantilly, France
PRIX D’ISPAHAN-G1, €150,000, Chantilly, 7-19, 3yo/up, 9fT, 1:47.21, g/s.
1–PERSIAN KING (IRE), 131, c, 4, by Kingman (GB)
1st Dam: Pretty Please (Ire), by Dylan Thomas (Ire)
2nd Dam: Plante Rare (Ire), by Giant’s Causeway
3rd Dam: Palmeraie, by Lear Fan
O-Ballymore Thoroughbred Ltd & Godolphin; B-Dayton Investments (Breeding) Ltd (IRE); T-Andre Fabre; J-Pierre-Charles Boudot. €85,710. Lifetime Record: GSW-Eng, 10-7-3-0, €949,202. Werk Nick Rating: A. Click for the eNicks report & 5-cross pedigree.
2–Stormy Antarctic (GB), 131, g, 7, Stormy Atlantic–Bea Remembered (GB), by Doyen (Ire). (68,000gns Wlg ’13 TATFOA; 200,000gns 2yo ’15 TATBRE). O-Pak Kwan Siu; B-East Bloodstock Ltd (GB); T-Ed Walker. €11,200.
3–Pogo (Ire), 131, c, 4, Zebedee (GB)–Cute (GB), by Diktat (GB). (€10,500 Wlg ’16 GOFNOV; £32,000 Ylg ’17 GOUKPR). O-Gary & Linnet Woodward; B-Thomas Foy (IRE); T-Charles Hills. €8,400.
Margins: 2, 1 3/4, 1HF. Odds: 0.80, 37.00, 39.00.
Also Ran: Motamarris (Ire), Century Dream (Ire), Positive (GB), Roseman (Ire), Shaman (Ire). Click for the Racing Post result or the free Equineline.com catalogue-style pedigree. Video, sponsored by Fasig-Tipton.

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