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First Mares In Foal To Yeomanstown’s Supremacy

Group 1 winner Supremacy (Ire) (Mehmas {Ire}) has five mares scanned in foal, Yeomanstown Stud announced on Friday. Among the mares pregnant to the 2020 G1 Middle Park S. winner are: The Hermitage (Ire) (Kheyleyf), who is the dam of G3 Princess Margaret S. heroine Angel's Hideaway (Ire) (Dark Angel {Ire}) and the stakes performer Perfect Angel (Ire) (Dark Angel {Ire}); Eraadaat (Ire) (Intikhab), the dam of the black-type performing Black Beach (GB) (Footstepsinthesand {GB}); and All On Red (Ire) (Red Clubs {Ire}), who was stakes-placed. The G2 Richmond S. hero stands for €12,500 this season.

“Supremacy has been very well received and supported by breeders,” said Yeomanstown's Gay O'Callaghan. “He has shown great enthusiasm for his new role and I'm sure he'll be a great success.”

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Buick Off Saudi Cup Mounts After Covid Positive

Godolphin jockey William Buick, who was slated to ride the Jan. 21 G2 Al Fahidi Fort hero Naval Crown (GB) (Dubawi {Ire}) in the G3 1351 Turf Sprint on the Saturday of the Saudi Cup meeting, has tested positive for Covid and will be off his mounts in Riyadh on Saturday. Also due to ride Siskany (GB) (Dubawi {Ire}) in the G3 Longines Red Sea Turf H., Noble Truth (Fr) (Kingman {GB}) in the G3 Saudi Derby and Copano Kicking (Spring At Last) in the G3 Riyadh Cup Sprint, Buick missed several rides at Meydan on Friday, as well. In Friday's G3 Dubai Millennium S., Buick had been booked for Star Safari (GB) (Sea The Stars {Ire}), but Andrea Atzeni finished second aboard the Godolphin runner instead.

For his Saudi Cup mounts, James Doyle will deputise for Buick on Naval Crown and Siskany, while Frankie Dettori has been called up to ride Noble Truth. In place of Doyle on Happy Power (Ire) (Dark Angel {Ire}) in the 1351 Cup Sprint is David Egan. The regular rider of 2021 Saudi Cup victor Mishriff (Ire) (Make Believe {GB}), Egan also picks up the ride on Copano Kicking for Buick in the Riyadh Dirt Sprint.

Ginobili (Munnings) will be forced to miss the Sprint after emerging from his second gallop at King Abdulaziz unsatisfactorily. Trainer Richard Baltas told Daily Racing Form that the 5-year-old was lame in his left for, but that the first set of X-rays taken were negative. Results of a second set of images were pending and Baltas surmised that Ginobili would undergo a nuclear scan upon his return to America.

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Pyledriver ‘Bouncing And Kicking’ In Saudi

Last year's G1 Coronation Cup winner Pyledriver (GB) (Harbour Watch {Ire}) is reported to be in fine fettle by his co-trainer William Muir ahead of Saturday's G3 Neom Turf Cup, and though a positive Covid test has ruled Muir out of traveling to Saudi Arabia, he has been keeping close tabs on his stable star via video feed and through communication with his team on the ground, which includes his son-in-law and jockey Martin Dwyer.

The 5-year-old Pyledriver won the Listed Churchill S. at Lingfield on Nov. 13 in his first outing since the Coronation Cup, and he was second in the G1 Hong Kong Vase when last seen on Dec. 12.

“The horse is in great order, he travelled well to Hong Kong and that was the first time he's ever done it,” Muir said. “Since he's been in Saudi he's bouncing and kicking. He's done a breeze [Thursday] morning on grass, I've seen it on video and we were all very happy with it.

“Martin was delighted with him. He did the same thing in Hong Kong–we were walking back off the track together and I said 'what do you think?' and he said, 'whatever beats this will win,' and he was right, the one horse that beat us won. I asked him this morning how he was and he said he feels better than Hong Kong, he said he feels fresh, he's alert, he's just in a very good place. We are in a good place. The horse has had everything happen perfectly. We're happy, we've just got to exercise on Friday and then see what happens on the day.”

Muir, who trains in partnership with Chris Grassick, said it was “frustrating” to be self-isolating while Pyledriver goes on his travels.

“I would have been there myself, but I've tested positive for Covid so I couldn't go,” Muir said. “Martin was fine, he had a negative test so he's gone out and is there now. It's just frustrating, I've got to keep myself away from the staff so they don't catch it as well. I've just got a little bit of a cold. A few years ago I wouldn't have missed any work at all, if I was working for somebody else I'd be feeling guilty that I wasn't working.”

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Comea Runners Top Tattersalls Cheltenham Sale

Willmount (GB) (Blue Bresil {Fr}) (lot 8) and Shannon Royale (Ire) (Walk In The Park {Ire}) (lot 12) finished one-two in a 4-year-old maiden point-to-point at Comea in Ireland on Feb. 13, and that is also the order they finished in at the top of the leaderboard at the Tattersalls Cheltenham February Sale on Thursday. Willmount was sold to British-based trainer Neil Mulholland, who saw off the likes of Harold Kirk, Gerry Hogan and Eddie O'Leary to secure him for £340,000, while Shannon Royale was bought by Mags O'Toole to go to Gordon Elliott for £300,000.

Mulholland said of Willmount, “He is for owner Oliver Harris who has a few horses with us. The horse was one of the standout horses at the sale, and when I mentioned him to Oliver he said that number eight is his lucky number. The horse came highly recommended and I am delighted to have him on board. The sire is going places, and Oliver was keen to get him and stuck his neck out. We'll get him home, we'll treat him as a good horse, see if we can win a bumper.”

O'Toole said of Shannon Royale, “He is a fine big horse, the sire is on fire, he had a lovely run against the top lot, he is a horse for the future, he won't be rushed and goes into training with Gordon Elliot for an existing client. I loved the way the winner and this horse got away from the others, they quickened well. He is gorgeous, he has a lovely head on him.”

A total of 33 horses were sold on the day (clearance rate of 89%) for an aggregate of £2,718,000. The average was £82,364 and the median £60,000.

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