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WEDNESDAY, 9 JUNE 2021 HEIDER PURCHASES TWILIGHT SPINNER AFTER EXCELLING AT By Kelsey Riley EPSOM, BOUGHEY IS FULL Scott Heider has privately purchased listed-winning 3-year-old filly Twilight Spinner (GB) (Twilight Son {GB}), who has joined STEAM AHEAD FOR ASCOT trainer Joseph O=Brien. A ,30,000 Goffs UK Premier Yearling Sale purchase by Jason Kelly, Twilight Spinner was third at first asking at Pontefract in April for Hambleton Racing and trainer David O=Meara before breaking her maiden at Ripon. She won the six furlong Listed Cecil Frail S. at Haydock by 6 1/2 lengths on May 21. AKevin Blake picked her out for Scott and she looks like she=s a progressive filly,@ said O=Brien, who has trained the likes of Crossfirehurricane (Kitten=s Joy), My Generation (Speightstown) and Pista (American Pharoah) for Heider. AScott has been a great supporter of the yard and we=ve been lucky together. We have a very good relationship and we=re hoping this filly can continue that on.@ Cont. p4 IN TDN AMERICA TODAY George Boughey | The Jockey Club TEAM MEDINA SPIRIT FILE CIVIL COMPLAINT A civil complaint was filed by the connections of GI Kentucky Derby By Emma Berry winner Medina Spirit (Protonico) in an attempt to force the KHRC to It is hard to ignore George Boughey at the moment. In only his turn over the colt's post-race urine sample so it can be tested second full season with a training licence, the 33-year-old is differently. Click or tap here to go straight to TDN America. seventh in the British trainers' list by number of winners on 44 for the season. Most impressive of all is his strike-rate of 28%. Of trainers to have had more than 100 runners, only Charlie Appleby ranks higher on 30%, for his 36 winners. But Boughey's most pleasing moment of the season so far came not from a winner but through the superbly gritty run of his stable star, Mystery Angel (Ire) (Kodi Bear {Ire}), who was second in the Cazoo Oaks having made most of the running. If the trainer and the owners in the Nick Bradley Racing syndicate were already on a high from the victory of Oscula (Ire) (Galileo Gold {Ire}) in the Woodcote S., the opening race of the Epsom meeting, then they were positively floating by the time Mystery Angel crossed the line in the Oaks. "It was a great day and she has come out of the race incredibly well. She hasn't been ridden yet [since Epsom] as we haven't really got any immediate plans for her so she is just having an easy time, but she is sound and she's eating well," reports Boughey of the filly who won the Listed Pretty Polly S. on the Rowley Mile, just across from where she is trained, before running fourth in the G3 Musidora S. Cont. p2 TDN EUROPE • PAGE 2 OF 12 • THETDN.COM WEDNESDAY • 9 JUNE 2021 Boughey Full Steam Ahead For Ascot Cont. from p1 for next week's Royal Meeting, along with recent impressive Prior to that, however, she had been well seasoned. Newmarket winner Cachet (Ire) (Aclaim {Ire}) for Highclere Mystery Angel graduated from the Craven Breeze-up Sale for Thoroughbred Racing, and dual novice winner Beautiful what now looks like a bargain price of 22,000gnsBBalmost Sunshine (GB) (Ardad {Ire}). The latter is one of a number of exactly the amount it cost to supplement her for the Oaks. She smart juveniles the trainer has for Kia Joorabchian's Amo Racing, ran six times as a 2-year-old, her two victories backed up by many of whose horses receive their early grounding in Ireland three important pieces of black-type. The hunt for a stakes win by crack breeze-up consignor Robson Aguiar. continued through March of this year, when Mystery Angel Superior Force (GB) (Ardad {Ire}) is another in that category made two trips to France and finished second in the Listed Prix and could be one of the colts to be Ascot-bound, along with Rose de Mai. fellow Amo colour-bearer The trainer continues, "She's Thunder Love (GB) (Profitable maturing into the filly that I {Ire}) and the treble winner and hoped she'd be. She was a very listed-placed Navello (Ire) late withdrawal from the mares' (Ivawood {GB}), who races for sale last year and a lot of people Fiona Carmichael and Evelyn were wondering why as she isn't Yates. really bred to do what she's "I'd be lying if I said I wasn't doing, but she is doing it. There pinching myself," says Boughey are some nice decisions to of his season to date. "It's make." extraordinary what's going on at The diminutive daughter of the moment. We had a team of Kodi Bear may not look like an horses and you kind of evaluate obvious middle-distance type, them in late February when the either physically or on paper, but 2-year-olds start doing a bit she apparently has both the more. It was a direct ploy from us heart and mind for the job. to keep buying older horses, and Boughey says, "She's very we won a couple of races with tough. I was outlining to anyone I unexposed 3-year-olds or spoke to before the Oaks that the 4-year-olds who could be a lot of thing about her is she has such a fun. I think to train a lot of good mind. I know it still wasn't winners you need to keep buying really busy at Epsom but she tried horses and that's what we walked into the paddock for the were initially successful with and Oaks and it was certainly the we won't change the motive biggest day that she has ever there. But, yes, to have had 14 seen and she was so relaxed. She 2-year-old winners alreadyBBI lobbed to post and she settled in think it's the most in Europe and I the race. The plan was to go certainly didn't expect that." forward and Ben [Curtis] and I Oscula went straight to Epsom were very confident that she Mystery Angel | Scoop Dyga having won well first time out on would stay. I know it does't look it to the eye but Nick Bradley the similar rolling downland course of Brighton, which was a sent me the sectionals and she ran the quickest final furlong. deliberate test on her trainer's behalf to see if she would be up Okay, so Frankie [Dettori] was easing up late on on the winner, to the Woodcote challenge. but she stays a mile and a half well seemingly, and what a fun "It's not an exact science but it's a pretty similar track and to filly we've got." be able to go down the hill and quicken again was useful," he Mystery Angel is by no means the only fun filly in Boughey's says. "I didn't expect her to win so cosily but she looks like she's Saffron House Stables. He has been winning 2-year-old races at creeping up the ranks. She will more than likely go to the Albany a phenomenal rate this season, and the Woodcote winner now and she goes there with a single-figure price chance." Oscula is one who will form part of a formidable juvenile team Cont. p3 TDN EUROPE • PAGE 3 OF 12 • THETDN.COM WEDNESDAY • 9 JUNE 2021 Boughey Full Steam Ahead For Ascot Cont. Meanwhile Oscula's stablemate Beautiful Sunshine is being prepared for the G2 Queen Mary S. "Beautiful Sunshine was a bit lazy on debut, and she and Superior Force are both by Ardad and they are quite similar in that they have taken a bit of racing to get them going, but Beautiful Sunshine has taken a step forward and she will go to Senior Vice President Gary King the Queen Mary with a pretty live chance," says Boughey. "Her Twitter: @garykingTDN work has been good and she has a great mind for it. The [email protected] 2-year-olds that we are taking to Ascot this year have been + 1.732.320.0975 pretty professional on debut. They have run professionally, and they have behaved, and I think that's a huge asset to take to International Editor Ascot. We had our first Ascot runner last year, Astimegoesby Kelsey Riley (Ire), and he was a bit of a hooligan in his race before and I Twitter: @kelseynrileyTDN slightly feared that might happen. But these ones have very [email protected] straight minds on them and that's key for a big day like that." European Editor Navello will arrive at Ascot more seasoned than most of his Emma Berry contemporaries. The colt has had five runs already, starting out Twitter: @collingsberry at Bath in early April, which turned out to be a good sighter for [email protected] his subsequent hat-trick at Wolverhampton, Brighton and Chester. Most recently he was third behind the Hugo Associate International Editor Palmer-trained Ebro River (Ire) (Galileo Gold {Ire}) in the Listed Heather Anderson National S. at Sandown. Twitter: @HLAndersonTDN His trainer notes, "Hugo's horse was obviously very impressive Marketing Manager and that goes to the Coventry now so we won't have to take him Alayna Cullen on, and Navello's speed was slightly blunted by the very soft Twitter: @AlaynaCullen ground that was drying.