Three King Georges for the Brilliant Enable
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SUNDAY, 26 JULY 2020 MAGICAL DISPLAY IN THE OFFING THREE KING GEORGES FOR Avoiding her arch-foe Enable (GB) (Nathaniel {Ire}) at Ascot, Magical (Ire) (Galileo {Ire}) is kept to home soil to extend her THE BRILLIANT ENABLE awe-inspiring record in domestic races in Sunday=s G1 Tattersalls Gold Cup at The Curragh. With the race open to 3-year-olds in this unusual year but drawing only one which is her stable=s Armory (Ire) (Galileo {Ire}), Coolmore=s mare supreme looks to have a straightforward task in accomplishing a ninth success from 12 starts in Ireland. Her latest, in the course-and-distance G1 Pretty Polly S. June 28, was arguably her finest as she was giving 12 pounds weight-for-age and a 4 1/2-length beating to the subsequent G1 Irish Oaks runner-up Cayenne Pepper (Ire) (Australia {GB}). Last year=s G1 English and Irish Champion S. heroine has five victories at the top level to boast of, including in this last year and her odds reflect the prospect of her making it six here. AShe is very well and we=ve been very happy with her since her last run,@ Aidan O=Brien said of the 5-year-old, who will have to wait a bit longer for a rematch with the Juddmonte Enable (GB) winning her third King George | Racing Post mare. AMagical and Japan were being trained for the King George and Ascot=s promised match race failed to materialise on Saturday you=re never sure what is going to happen, but the two of them as Khalid Abdullah=s epoch-defining Enable (GB) (Nathaniel {Ire}) seem to have come to this weekend very well. Magical was brushed aside the Ballydoyle contingent with an ease rarely happy to stay at home and run on a track that she knows seen on this exalted stage. Forcing her way into history as the without having to travel--it looks like the race is going to suit her first to win three renewals of the Ascot centerpiece, the lovely. She=s only had the one run this year, whereas Japan has Juddmonte regina was at her exuberant best with Frankie Dettori at pains to contain her from the outset of the G1 King had the two runs and the King George was a race we had our George VI and Queen Elizabeth Qipco S., a Breeders= Cup >Win eye on with him for a long time. The Tattersalls Gold Cup is a and You=re In= event to the GI Breeders= Cup Turf. As she great race to have at the Curragh, and it=s a lovely race for sauntered behind Sovereign (Ire) (Galileo {Ire}) with her well- Magical ahead of the autumn.@ matched rider content to allow last year=s G1 Irish Derby hero as Joseph O=Brien saddles Lloyd Williams= admirable Buckhurst many lengths as he could take in the back straight, a look at the (Ire) (Australia {GB}), who beat Magical=s stablemate Sir mare and rider=s body language said all that needed to be said Dragonet (Ire) (Camelot {GB}) in the G3 Alleged S. over this track even before the trio made the home straight. This Berkshire and trip June 27 and his level of consistency could easily see him strip of yardage has been graced by great pugilistic encounters pull off a group 1 placing. such as Grundy-Bustino, but on this day it served only as a procession strip for its most accomplished summer monarch. Cont. p6 After Dettori had taken down his second pair of goggles and indulged in a lingering glance back to the struggling Japan (GB) IN TDN AMERICA TODAY (Galileo {Ire}) passing two out, the 4-9 favourite was finally let VOLATILE GOES WIRE TO WIRE IN VANDERBILT down for that oh-so-familiar power surge. Yet another supreme moment denied a suitably populated attendance this year, her Despite the pre-race antics of some of his rivals, Volatile shrugged it off, cruising home a winner in Saturday’s GI Alfred G. 5 1/2-length dismissal of Sovereign was nevertheless a defining Vanderbilt S. at Saratoga. Click or tap here to go straight to one in the turf=s annals. The fact that Japan wound up 16 1/2 TDN America. lengths back despite being perfectly-tuned for the match is testament to that. Cont. p3 TDN EUROPE • PAGE 2 OF 16 • THETDN.COM SUNDAY • 26 JULY 2020 Enable wins her third King George, cont. from p1 Trainer John Gosden was fully aware of the historical context of this achievement in the immediate aftermath. AI was expecting to see that, but life can be full of disappointments,@ he said. AI remember Angel Penna and Pawneese, Zilber and Dahlia and to win this three times having come back from injury--she=s quite some racemare. I find the responsibility quite enormous and it weighs heavy, but what a pleasure to be around a race mare like that.@ An expectedly-emotional Dettori, who was joining Lester Piggott on seven King Georges, added, AIt=s never been done before, so now we must try the impossible and win three Arcs. My favourite girl--she=s no spring chicken, but she made it look so easy. She has touched my heart.@ This 70th renewal in a year that will always be remembered was staged in the midst of a rainstorm, which was fitting as Enable first came to prominence in a much more dramatic electric version when powering to victory in the 2017 G1 Epsom Oaks, the first of 11 at this exalted level. While she will not get to the 25 secured by Winx (Aus) or probably even the 15 of Black Caviar (Aus) or 14 of Goldikova (Ire) before retirement beckons, Enable was going one better than the operation=s totemic Frankel (GB) and the past dual King George heroine Dahlia on a Saturday afternoon marked forever by an outlandish back in top order, there=s no doubt about that. It was a small but show of transcendence. All lingering doubts as to where her elite field today. There aren=t that many about once Ghaiyyath level had got to following a shock defeat in her attempt at a elected to go to York, and the Oaks and Derby winners live at third G1 Prix de l=Arc de Triomphe and more greatly-anticipated Ballydoyle. To that extent, the best were on show. With Anthony reversal at the hands of the impressive Ghaiyyath (Ire) (Dubawi Van Dyck not there, it was obvious Sovereign would set a solid {Ire}) in the July 5 G1 Eclipse S. at Sandown were banished here. pace, not a mad one. Given Japan has won a Juddmonte When she was here for the first time three years ago, she was International over 10 furlongs, he was always going to ride him running at a stone advantage due to weight-for-age over Ulysses to beat us for toe, but it went perfectly. I=m always worried here (Ire) (Galileo {Ire}) and co and that had shrunk to just a three- when you get rain on quick ground, because they can lose their pound sex allowance 12 months ago as she upstaged Crystal hind legs but thankfully that didn=t happen.@ Ocean (GB) (Sea the Stars {Ire}) in a tight contest. Both were Gosden=s continued his race analysis, AWilliam [Buick] just staged on good-to-soft ground after significant rain and went and then built it, built it, built it all the way. He actually got although the weather turned again to make it three wet his fractions perfect, as he has stayed on well to finish second. I renewals for the Juddmonte star, the late onstage of the rain think it was a great run from the second and I think we have meant that the surface was still on the fast side. Her winning probably stretched the stamina of the third, but I wouldn=t time of 2:28.92 confirmed that these are her ideal conditions, know. They are three proper ones and she came here and did it. with her previous King Georges won in 2:36.22 in 2017 and It has not been easy this year--as I have been clear with 2:32.42 last year. She is still the beneficiary of an allowance everyone--getting her to race-fitness, but the Eclipse really which is not only unnecessary but also unfairly profitable brought her on. The way she has trained, I was hoping that she concerning a mare who is the physical match of any older male would do a Montjeu--I remember him imperiously winning a in training, but her dominance in this particular affair far King George for John Hammond. I thought there was a chance, exceeded a three-pound gift. with the way she was training, she just might do that. There was AShe had trained beautifully for this,@ Gosden added. AI was a hint of that, nothing quite so spectacular, but a hint of it clear she wasn=t tuned up properly for the Eclipse, but she=s because they are group one horses.@ TDN EUROPE • PAGE 3 OF 16 • THETDN.COM SUNDAY • 26 JULY 2020 AShe has enormous mental strength. When Prince Khalid asked me last year that he was thinking about keeping her in training for one more year, I said that she adores training. She loves going out there and carries herself magnificently--she is a very proud person--and I think to that extent, she has made my job possible.