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United Nations Prevails in Lingfield’s Derby Trial

Team Ballydoyle had registered five prior wins in Lingfield's Listed SBK Derby Trial, including with subsequent G1 Epsom Derby hero Anthony Van Dyck (Ire) (Galileo {Ire}) in 2019, and Aidan O'Brien and Ryan Moore teamed up once again with United Nations (Ire) (Galileo {Ire}–Christmas Kid, by Lemon Drop Kid) to continue their banner week with a hard-fought victory in this year's edition. For sire Galileo, it was a fourth new stakes winner of the week and extended the Coolmore icon's world-record tally to 351. United Nations graduated over seven furlongs in his Sept. 16 debut at Naas, following up with a seventh behind subsequent G1 2000 Guineas hero Coroebus (Ire) (Dubawi {Ire}) in Newmarket's one-mile Oct. 9 G3 Autumn S., and lined up for this test coming back off a fourth tackling 10 furlongs in Epsom's Apr. 19 Listed Blue Riband Trial. Moore was content to accept a tow in second as last month's Newbury maiden winner Natural World (Ire) (Frankel {GB}) set the tempo until well beyond halfway. Scrubbed along with three furlongs remaining, the 9-4 second favourite gained an edge approaching the final furlong and was driven out to deny Godolphin number one Walk of Stars (GB) (Dubawi {Ire}), who had flattered to deceive in the closing stages, by 3/4-of-a-length.

“United Nations has been round Epsom and has clearly come out of his race there well,” said Coolmore's Kevin Buckley. “He ticks the boxes, Aidan hoped he would put his experience into practice today and we thought he'd improve with the extra step up in distance. It was a steep learning curve at Epsom [last time], we were happy with that performance and now he as done that here. Having a large team for Epsom is a nice problem to have.” Paul Smith added, “It's a great learning curve going from trial to championship and we've been delighted with the way the respective horses have run at Chester and now Lingfield. We hope it will continue at York.”

United Nations becomes the third black-type winner and fifth stakes performer for GI Ashland S. heroine Christmas Kid (Lemon Drop Kid), who also had the Listed Caravaggio S. victor and G1 Vincent O'Brien S. placegetter Christmas (Ire) (Galileo {Ire}) and the Listed Leopardstown 2000 Guineas Trial scorer Black Sea (Ire) (Galileo {Ire}). Christmas Kid is also the dam of G3 Killavullan S. runner-up Michaelmas (Elusive Quality) and G2 King Edward VII S. third Father Christmas (Ire) (Bernadini). The next dam is dual Grade III victrix Christmas Gift (Green Desert), who produced the stakes-winning Elusive Gift (Elusive Quality) and is the ancestress of the GIII Eddie D S. victor Holy Lute (Midnight Lute). United Nations' third dam, Christmas Bonus (Key To The Mint), has three stakes winners to her credit including stakes-winning GI Santa Anita Oaks second Bright Candles (El Gran Senor), whose own progeny list is headed by MGISW sire Grand Slam (Gone West). Christmas Kid also has a 2-year-old full-sister to United Nations to come.

Saturday, Lingfield, Britain
SBK DERBY TRIAL S.-Listed, £67,500, Lingfield, 5-7, 3yo, c/g, 11f 133yT, 2:26.68, g/f.
1–UNITED NATIONS (IRE), 128, c, 3, by Galileo (Ire)
1st Dam: Christmas Kid (GISW, $596,877), by Lemon Drop Kid
2nd Dam: Christmas Gift, by Green Desert
3rd Dam: Christmas Bonus, by Key to the Mint
1ST BLACK-TYPE WIN. O-Susan Magnier, Michael Tabor, Derrick Smith & Westerberg; B-Coolmore (IRE); T-Aidan O'Brien; J-Ryan Moore. £38,799. Lifetime Record: 4-2-0-0, $62,884. *Full to Christmas (IRE), SW & G1SP-Ire, GSP-Swe & MSP-Den, $159,477; Black Sea (Ire), SW & GSP-Ire; and 1/2 to Father Christmas (Ire) (Bernardini), GSP-Eng, $153,484; and Michaelmas (Elusive Quality), GSP-Ire.
2–Walk of Stars (GB), 128, c, 3, Dubawi (Ire)–Sound Reflection, by Street Cry (Ire). 1ST BLACK TYPE. O/B-Godolphin (GB); T-Charlie Appleby. £14,722.
3–Natural World (Ire), 128, c, 3, Frankel (GB)–Skiffle (GB), by Dubawi (Ire). 1ST BLACK TYPE. O/B-Godolphin (IRE); T-Charlie Appleby. £7,364.
Margins: 3/4, 3 1/4, 1. Odds: 2.25, 1.10, 6.50.
Also Ran: Zechariah (Ire). Scratched: Lionel (GB).

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No Nay Never Colt A New Rising Star

Aidan O'Brien's stable is going great guns at this fledgling stage of the season and there was another TDN Rising Star off the production line at Naas on Saturday as the 2-year-old Little Big Bear (Ire) (No Nay Never–Adventure Seeker {Fr}) booked his Royal Ascot ticket. Narrowly denied on debut by the Ger Lyons-trained Tough Talk (Ire) (Kingman {GB}) over six furlongs at The Curragh Apr. 10, the descendant of the legendary All Along (Fr) was backed down to 4-9 to deliver dropping to five for this Irish Stallion Farms EBF Maiden staged on yielding-to-soft. Always travelling like the winner in behind as the Joseph O'Brien-trained Alexis Zorba (GB) (Zoustar {Aus}) attempted to stretch him, the imposing bay who was a €320,000 Arqana Deauville August graduate was shaken up by Seamie Heffernan to take control inside the final furlong and register a three-length success without being fully extended. There was a further 3 3/4-length margin back to the Jessie Harrington-trained newcomer Keepupwithmyempire (Ire) (Holy Roman Emperor {Ire}) in third.

“He just outclassed them,” Heffernan said of the January-foaled bay, who was bred by Camas Park Stud and Summerhill and becomes his sire's third TDN Rising Star this term following the stable's fellow juveniles Deneuve (Ire) and Aesop's Fables (Ire). “He had a lovely run the first day, where he was a little bit green and he was one that caught my eye at home. He would be in the mix for Royal Ascot. He's a massive colt, he switches off and has loads of boot and a bit of class–he ticks a lot of boxes.”

Before this season, Ten Sovereigns (Ire) was the sole TDN Rising Star for the sire and he is still his best, but it is early days and the signals are strong that there is plenty to come from No Nay Never. Clearly Ballydoyle have some potentially high-class juveniles among his progeny in 2022 and Little Big Bear gives the impression he is one who is more than just a now horse given his impressive physique. Added to that, his pedigree is not one of a fast and precocious sprinter as his dam Adventure Seeker was a middle-distance performer for the Wildensteins and Alain de Royer-Dupre, winning the 10 1/2-furlong Listed Prix de Liancourt and placing second in the G3 Prix Cleopatre and fourth in the 2011 GI E P Taylor S.

Adventure Seeker, whose yearling is a full-brother to the winner, has thrown one previous stakes performer with her first foal being Andrea Mantegna (Giant's Causeway) who was second in the 12-furlong G3 Hobart Cup, GSP-Aus, $352,585. A half to the precocious but ill-fated G3 Princess Margaret S. third Along Again (Ire) (Elusive City), she is a granddaughter of the aforementioned All Along, the French champion and US Horse of the Year in 1983 courtesy of her G1 Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe, GI Turf Classic, G1 Rothmans International and GI Washington D. C. International victories.

1st-Naas, €16,000, Mdn, 5-7, 2yo, 5fT, 1:02.46, y/s.
LITTLE BIG BEAR (IRE), c, 2, by No Nay Never
1st Dam: Adventure Seeker (Fr) (SW & GSP-Fr, $155,312), by Bering (GB)
2nd Dam: American Adventure, by Miswaki
3rd Dam: All Along (Fr), by Targowice
(€320,000 Ylg '21 ARAUG). Lifetime Record: 2-1-1-0, $13,843. O-D Smith,Mrs J Magnier,M Tabor,Westerberg; B-Camas Park Stud & Summerhill (IRE); T-Aidan O'Brien. Click for the free Equineline.com catalogue-style pedigree. VIDEO.

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Galileo’s Martinstown A New Rising Star

After Aidan O'Brien had taken Chester by storm to an even greater extent than usual, the Rosegreen purple patch continued apace at Cork on Friday evening when the closing race saw a TDN Rising Star performance by the newcomer Martinstown (Ire) (Galileo {Ire}). Named after J P McManus's famous Co. Limerick establishment, the May-foaled bay carries the colours of his daughter Sue Ann Foley who owns him in partnership with Susan Magnier and Michael Tabor and with his title there was an air of expectation surrounding his debut under Wayne Lordan. Slowly away and a touch free early in the 10-furlong Irish Stallion Farms EBF Maiden despite being found cover against the rail, the 5-1 shot followed the front trio into the straight and needed to be switched out to deliver his challenge approaching the two-furlong pole. Gradually reeling in his experienced peers, the son of the Listed Salsabil S. winner Alive Alive Oh (GB) (Duke of Marmalade {Ire}) gave a final surge to overwhelm Point Gellibrand (Ire) (Camelot {GB}) close home and prevail by half a length, with Flying Dolphin (Ire) (Zoffany {Ire}) the same margin back in third.

Aidan O'Brien is in no rush with the full-brother to last year's impressive G2 Park Hill S. scorer Free Wind (GB), despite the fact that he is engaged in the Derby at present. “He is lovely,” he said. “We are delighted with him, he is a lovely big horse and is still a baby. It took him halfway down the straight to get going and Wayne gave him a lovely ride and we think he will stay further. He was big, so we didn't like to force him but has a lovely cruise to him. We were trying to give him as much time as we can and J.P. and Sue-Ann said to take our time with him. We might look for a winners' race, a conditions race, or maybe a handicap.”

Martinstown is the third foal out of Alive Alive Oh, who was also third in the G3 Dance Design Fillies S. Her second is the aforementioned Free Wind, who was also a late-starter who went places fast last term, capturing the G3 Prix Minerve before her seven-length Park Hill romp. Fittingly, the second dam Higher Love (Ire) (Sadler's Wells) reached her career crescendo with a second-place finish in the Listed Cheshire Oaks which started Ballydoyle's flawless Chester May meeting on Wednesday and also produced the G3 Fukushima Kinen and G3 Tanabata Sho winner Crescendo Love (Jpn) (Stay Gold {Jpn}). Also related to the stable's 1000 Guineas heroine Virginia Waters (Kingmambo) and sire Chevalier (Ire) (Danehill), her yearling is a full-brother to the winner and Free Wind.

7th-Cork, €15,000, Mdn, 5-6, 3yo/up, c/g, 10f 40yT, 2:13.25, gd.
MARTINSTOWN (IRE), c, 3, by Galileo (Ire)
1st Dam: Alive Alive Oh (GB) (SW & GSP-Ire), by Duke of Marmalade (Ire)
2nd Dam: Higher Love (Ire), by Sadler's Wells
3rd Dam: Dollar Bird (Ire), by Kris (GB)
Lifetime Record: 1-1-0-0, $9,485. O-Sue-Ann Foley & Mrs John Magnier & Michael Tabor; B-Mrs Sue Ann Foley (IRE); T-Aidan O'Brien. Click for the free Equineline.com catalogue-style pedigree. VIDEO.

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Cachet to Attempt 1000 Guineas Double

Trainer George Boughey told At The Races Friday that he would attempt the English-French Guineas double with G1 QIPCO 1000 Guineas heroine Cachet (Ire) (Aclaim {Ire}). The 'TDN Rising Star' will travel to ParisLongchamp for the G1 Poule d'Essai des Pouliches on May 15. The race comes just 14 days after her English Guineas win.

Sunday, after the Guineas, her trainer George Boughey said the filly would be pointed to the June 17 G1 Coronation S. at Ascot for her next start, her next step on her way to a start in the Breeders' Cup at Keeneland in the autumn, saying she loved fast ground. But Friday, he reversed course.

“Next weekend, we are going to run in France,” he told At The Races. “As long as the track doesn't turn into a quagmire, that's our plan. This morning, she was in great form. All the lights are green. She's got an extraordinary mind.”

Only four fillies in history have successfully attempted the double: Imprudence II (Fr) (Canot {Fr}) in 1947, Miesque (Nureyev) in 1987, Ravinella (Mr. Prospector) in 1988 and Special Duty (GB) (Hennessy) in 2010. Last year, Mother Earth (Ire) (Zoffany {Ire}) was beaten by Coeursamba (Fr) (The Wow Signal {Ire}) at ParisLongchamp after having won at Newmarket.

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