Midnight Bisou (Midnight Lute) Was Back to Her BACK in the HEADLINES Best Form Saturday at Churchill Downs, Winning the GII Fleur De Lis H
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SUNDAY, JUNE 28, 2020 >BISOU= BACK TO HER BEST IN FLEUR DE LIS NEWSPAPEROFRECORD Champion Midnight Bisou (Midnight Lute) was back to her BACK IN THE HEADLINES best form Saturday at Churchill Downs, winning the GII Fleur de Lis H. with ease in her first start back on U.S. soil since finishing an ultra-game second in the Saudi Cup in February. GI Kentucky Oaks victress Serengeti Empress (Alternation) jetted straight to the lead, while favored Midnight Bisou bided her time back in mid-pack through a brisk :23.18 first quarter. Inched closer by Mike Smith, Midnight Bisou moved up into third, while still several lengths off the pacesetter, as the half went in :46.15. Charging up on the leader=s outside entering the far turn, the Eclipse winner rocketed past Serengeti Empress at the top of the lane and effortlessly cruised clear under a motionless Smith to win for fun. Motion Emotion (Take Charge Indy) held second with Another Broad (Include) in third and Serengeti Empress faded to fourth. With her victory in the Fleur de Lis, Midnight Bisou secured a spot in the starting gate for the GI Breeders= Cup Distaff in November. Cont. p4 Newspaperofrecord | Coglianese IN TDN EUROPE TODAY Klaravich Stables= Newspaperofrecord (Ire) (Lope de Vega BALLYDOYLE SUPERFECTA IN IRISH DERBY {Ire}) returned to her sensational juvenile form and proved her Santiago (Ire) (Authorized {Ire}) led home an Aidan O’Brien decisive score in the GIII Intercontinental S. last out was no fluke one-four for Ballydoyle and Coolmore. Click or tap here to with a scintillating victory in the GI Just a Game S. at Belmont go straight to TDN Europe. Saturday. Breaking on top, the even-money shot hustled out to a clear lead, doling out early splits of :23.79 and :48.1 with champion stablemate and slight favorite, also at even-money, Uni (GB) (More Than Ready) biding her time back off the pace in fourth. Newspaperofrecord was still well clear and under a hand ride from Irad Ortiz, Jr. on the backstretch, but Uni and fellow Brown runner and multiple graded winner Regal Glory (Animal Kingdom) were revving up entering the far turn. There was a very brief moment where it looked like her barnmates would make a race of it exiting the bend, but Newspaperofrecord practically laughed them off, powering clear with ease for a dominant victory. Beau Recall (Ire) (Sir Prancealot {Ire}) got up for second with Jose Ortiz aboard for an Ortiz-brother exacta and Uni held third. AWe trained her lightly and she has been training very relaxed,@ said trainer Chad Brown, who was winning his fourth straight renewal of the Just a Game. ALast time, she was going really fast and was a little fresh. Irad was confident that he could get her to rate a little bit. I loved our post today, off the fence a little bit. 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We all know that she likes a little juice in the ground. It was a good effort after three weeks. I was very proud of her. My team has done a great job with her. She's never looked better.@ When asked what=s next, the conditioner said, "I'm going to talk to [owner] Seth Klarman and see how she comes out of the race. She's just had two big races back-to-back. With limited mile races out there, she may be another one that has to face the boys but I don't want to commit her to that yet.@ Invitational S. last July, Newspaperofrecord was subsequently AGoing seven-eighths to a mile is good for her,@ said Ortiz, who shelved for the season and returned 11 months later in the won five races at Belmont Saturday. AShe can go further, too, seven-panel Intercontinental on a yielding surface here June 6 and I would not be afraid to go a mile and a sixteenth. I just She took the field from gate-to-wire, sailing home to an followed Chad's instructions. She came back good and looks effortless four-length success, good for a 103 Beyer Speed healthy and had a really good run. We ended last year a little Figure. disappointed, but she came back this year the right way. She's two-for-two, so hopefully she keeps doing it." Pedigree Notes: As for Uni, Brown said, "Uni has had a few bumps along the Newspaperofrecord is one of five Group 1 winners resulting road. She needed some extra time off and had a late start. She from crossing Lope de Vega (Ire) with daughters of Danehill and popped a splint and we had to pull that out; she missed a couple his sons. A daughter of the English Group 3 winner Sunday of works. Although she's run okay with some give in the ground, Times who also played the bridesmaid in the G1 Cheveley Park her best races really are on firm turf. Joel [Rosario] came back S., Newspaperofrecord was preceded by the listed heroine and said she was out of sorts having to move early off a Classical Times (GB) (Lawman {Fr}). Her dam is a half-sister to moderate pace." the SP dam of G1 Irish Derby hero Latrobe (Ire) Camelot {GB}), Undefeated during her 2018 juvenile campaign, runner-up in Australia=s G1 MacKinnon S., as well as Latrobe=s Newspaperofrecord won her debut, the GII Miss Grillo S. and SW & dual Classic-placed full-sister Pink Dogwood (Ire) and G3 the GI Breeders= Cup Juvenile Fillies Turf S. by a combined Gladness S. heroine Diamond Fields (Ire) (Fastnet Rock {Aus}). 20 lengths, all over yielding surfaces. Second to Concrete Rose This is the extended family of MGSW and two-time G1 Prix de la (Twirling Candy) in the GIII Edgewood S. at Churchill last term, Foret second Majestic Times (Ire) (Bluebird). Sunday Times=s last the bay completed the exacta behind her stablemate and reported foal is the winning 3-year-old Gleneagles (Ire) filly Daily eventual Grade I winner Cambier Parc (Medaglia d=Oro) in the Times (GB). nine-panel GIII Wonder Again S. here last summer. Fading to ninth behind Concrete Rose in the 1 1/4-mile GI Belmont Oaks TDN HEADLINE NEWS • PAGE 4 OF 17 • THETDN.COM SUNDAY • JUNE 28, 2020 Saturday, Belmont Park Midnight Bisou cont. from p1 JUST A GAME S.-GI, $250,000, Belmont, 6-27, 4yo/up, f/m, 1mT, 1:35.62, fm. 1--NEWSPAPEROFRECORD (IRE), 120, f, 4, by Lope de Vega (Ire) 1st Dam: Sunday Times (GB) (GSW & G1SP-Eng, $117,392), by Holy Roman Emperor (Ire) 2nd Dam: Forever Times (GB), by So Factual 3rd Dam: Simply Times, by Dodge >TDN Rising Star=. (200,000gns Ylg '17 TATOCT). O-Klaravich Stables, Inc.; B-Times of Wigan Ltd (IRE); T-Chad C. Brown; J-Irad Ortiz, Jr. $137,500. Lifetime Record: 8-5-2-0, $988,250. *1/2 to Classical Times (GB) (Lawman (FR)), SW & GSP-Eng. Werk Nick Rating: A+++. *Triple Plus*. Click for the eNicks report & 5-cross pedigree. 2--Beau Recall (Ire), 122, m, 6, by Sir Prancealot (Ire) 1st Dam: Greta d'Argent (Ire), by Great Commotion 2nd Dam: Petite-D-Argent (GB), by Noalto (GB) 3rd Dam: Honey to Spare, by Track Spare (Ire) (i17,000 Ylg '15 TISEP; $385,000 RNA 5yo '19 KEEJAN).