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WEDNESDAY, 16 JUNE 2021 THE SECOND SUMMER OF LOVE PALACE PIER HAS THE She has waited long enough, it seems, and the time has finally ANSWERS IN QUEEN ANNE arrived for the rekindling of Love (Ire) (Galileo {Ire}) at Royal Ascot. Denied outings in the Arc, the Breeders= Cup and the Tattersalls Gold Cup, Ballydoyle=s G1 1000 Guineas and G1 Epsom Oaks heroine has everything in her favour at last as the sun beats down on the famed Berkshire strip. Successful in her three 3-year-old starts--which also included the G1 Yorkshire Oaks--by a cumulative margin of 18 1/2 lengths, the chestnut lines up against the colts for the first time in what is always one of the year=s biggest tests. AShe=s been waiting to start back a while and while the ground is right, we=re keen to get her started,@ Aidan O=Brien said. AHer other option was the Pretty Polly and we could have waited for that against her own sex, but by then the ground could have gone again. She=s in good form, she=s ready to start again.@ Cont. p14 Palace Pier takes the Queen Anne S. | racingfotos.com Royal Ascot 2021 will be a unique experience for an action- IN TDN AMERICA TODAY starved public and the lucky 12,000-strong crowd witnessed a SILVER GLEAMS WITH HARD SPUN POLISH textbook beginning on Tuesday as the world=s leading Chris McGrath examines the legacy of the late owner Rick Thoroughbred Palace Pier (GB) (Kingman {GB}) provided the Porter, whose Hard Spun (Danzig) ran second in the GI Kentucky ultimate showman Frankie Dettori with the latest in his Derby. Click or tap here to go straight to TDN America. catalogue of Royal winners in the G1 Queen Anne S., a AWin and You=re In@ for the GI Breeders= Cup Mile this fall. While odds of 2-7 suggested a total eclipse was imminent, Sheikh Hamdan bin Mohammed Al Maktoum=s >TDN Rising Star= could only partially overshadow his rivals this time as he was made to work to augment his record after wins in last year=s G1 St James=s Palace S., G1 Prix Jacques le Marois and the G1 Lockinge S. at Newbury May 15. A touch free early exposed on the wing racing prominently towards the stand=s side, the bay was niggled at approaching three out and felt the whip as he snuck ahead with the race very much still in the balance a furlong and a half later. Pulling out extra on the run to the line without the marked flamboyance of his performance a month earlier, he was able to sufficiently apply himself to put Thady Gosden on the meeting=s esteemed honour roll. Ballydoyle=s reinvigorated Lockinge flop Lope Y Fernandez (Ire) (Lope de Vega {Ire}) chased hard and went down only by 1 1/2 lengths under Seamie Heffernan, with a length separating him and Sir Busker (Ire) (Sir Prancealot {Ire}). Cont. p2 TDN EUROPE • PAGE 2 OF 20 • THETDN.COM WEDNESDAY • 16 JUNE 2021 went on very fast ground in the Sussex and on bottomless in the Jacques le Marois, so he=s the same as him. He=s a lovely horse with a lot of scope about him and is a pleasure to be around.@ Palace Pier Has The Answers In Queen Anne Cont. from p1 Regarding future targets, Gosden, Sr. is pondering when to AIt=s the first time he has run on this kind of ground and he move up to 10 furlongs. AYou could go up in trip with him, as you didn=t really set down as well as he can,@ Dettori said after can see how relaxed he is,@ he added. AHe is in the [Aug. 18 G1] steering his 74th winner at the meeting. AHe=s still won a Group Juddmonte [International at York], but he=s also in the [July 28 1 and showed again that he=s the best miler around and on G1] Sussex [at Goodwood] and the [G1] Prix Jacques le Marois easier ground, he has a little bit more to give. It was a pressure [at Deauville Aug. 25], so I=ll talk to the owner and see. All the ride and I wanted everything to races are options, he=d have no go right and thankfully it did.@ trouble with the trip if they Palace Pier=s new-found zip decide to go there.@ mid-race in the Lockinge had led many to expect a Pedigree Notes scintillating display here, but Palace Pier=s unraced dam this was more in keeping with Beach Frolic (GB) (Nayef) is kin his prior performances marked to the G2 Dante S. winner by a more measured change of Bonfire (GB) (Manduro {Ger}) pace. His fire had taken time to and the G2 Windsor Forest S. be stoked in the G2 Sandown and G3 Musidora S. scorer Mile on his seasonal bow Apr. Joviality (GB) (Cape Cross {Ire}), 23 and there was a moment who was also third in the GI inside the final quarter mile Beverly D S. The listed-winning here where defeat was a third dam Miss D=Ouilly (Fr) realistic proposition. Frankie Dettori celebrates aboard Palace Pier | PA Media (Bikala {Ire}), who is a half-sister Failing to put the race to bed to another Jacques le Marois winner in Miss Satamixa (Fr) in the manner he had at Newbury, he nevertheless pulled out (Linamix {Fr}), produced the GIII Cardinal H. scorer Miss the stops to demonstrate the side of his character that is to be Caerleona (Fr) (Caerleon) who is in turn the dam of the triple found in all champions. John Gosden=s first instinct was that the group and graded-stakes winner Karen=s Caper (War Chant) and lack of fireworks was down to a combination of the race=s the GII Davona Dale H. winner Miss Coronado (Coronado=s moderate tempo and the winner=s innate idleness. AHe just Quest). Karen=s Caper, who was also runner-up in the GI Queen takes that moment to go and then he=s like his father in that he Elizabeth II Challenge Cup and the G1 Coronation S. here, went gets to the front and pulls up and says he=s done enough,@ he on to throw the G2 UAE 2000 Guineas scorer Kinglet commented. AWe suspected a slow pace and we got that slow (Kingmambo) while Miss Coronado was responsible for the pace, but he did it smoothly and came through and won his stakes scorer and GI Las Virgenes S. third Arethusa (A.P. Indy). race. He=s a gorgeous horse with a great attitude and is one of Cont. p3 those who is not a flashy worker but does it on the track. His sire TDN EUROPE • PAGE 3 OF 20 • THETDN.COM WEDNESDAY • 16 JUNE 2021 G1 Queen Anne S. Cont. PALACE PIER (GB) This is also the family of the G1 1000 Guineas and G1 Irish Oaks heroine Blue Bunting (Dynaformer). Beach Frolic=s unraced WIN AND YOU’RE IN ™ connection earnings include: 2-year-old colt Highland Frolic (Fr) (Highland Reel {Ire}) was a $ Automatic berth into #BC21 Mile 320,000gns purchase by McCalmont Bloodstock at the $ $60,000 in pre-entry & entry fees Tattersalls October Yearling Sale Book 1, while she also has a $ Travel award up to $10,000 for domestic yearling colt by Almanzor (Fr). starters and $40,000 for international starters Tuesday, Royal Ascot, Britain QUEEN ANNE S.-G1, ,400,000, Ascot, 6-15, 4yo/up, 8fT, Click HERE for the full 2020 #WINANDYOUREIN rules and race schedule. 1:39.18, g/f. 1--PALACE PIER (GB), 126, c, 4, by Kingman (GB) 1st Dam: Beach Frolic (GB), by Nayef FLARE AND TOIL IN THE ST JAMES=S PALACE 2nd Dam: Night Frolic (GB), by Night Shift They all assembled for another crack at Jim Bolger=s 3rd Dam: Miss d=Ouilly (Fr), by Bikala (Ire) workaholic Poetic Flare (Ire) (Dawn Approach {Ire}) in Tuesday=s >TDN Rising Star= (600,000gns Ylg >18 TATOCT). O-Sheikh G1 St James=s Palace S., but all they received was a more Hamdan bin Mohammed Al Maktoum; B-Highclere Stud & resounding beating as the wonder of Coolcullen spreadeagled a Floors Farming (GB); T-John & Thady Gosden; J-Lanfranco seemingly open-looking renewal of the mile contest. Bouncing Dettori. ,226,840. Lifetime Record: Hwt. 3yo-Eur at 7-9.5f & out of Europe=s three premier Guineas as if they were mere G1SW-Fr, 9-8-0-1, $1,409,789. Werk Nick Rating: C+. Click for pipe-openers, the homebred with as extraordinary a make-up as the eNicks report & 5-cross pedigree. the man who sculpted his presence duly ripped apart this race 2--Lope Y Fernandez (Ire), 126, c, 4, Lope de Vega (Ire)--Black to land what looked in hindsight to be excessively generous odds Dahlia (GB), by Dansili (GB). (i900,000 Ylg >18 ARAUG). of 7-2. At least shown due respect to be granted the mantle of O-Derrick Smith, Susan Magnier & Michael Tabor; B-SF favouritism for this showcase event which brought together the Bloodstock LLC (IRE); T-Aidan O=Brien. ,86,000. main protagonists among the miling Classic crop, the Newmarket Guineas hero and Irish Guineas runner-up followed 3--Sir Busker (Ire), 126, g, 5, Sir Prancealot (Ire)--Street Kitty the exacting pace in third dragging along the main group. (Ire), by Tiger Hill (Ire). (i25,000 Ylg >17 TIRSEP).