Looking for Classic Winners…
Total Page:16
File Type:pdf, Size:1020Kb
MONDAY, 10TH APRIL 2017 Dragon Pulse EBN EUROPEAN BLOODSTOCK NEWS FOR MORE INFORMATION: TEL: +44 (0) 1638 666512 • FAX: +44 (0) 1638 666516 • [email protected] • WWW.BLOODSTOCKNEWS.EU STALLION NEWS | STAKES RESULTS | FIRST SEASON SIRE FOCUS | STAKES FIELDS TODAY’S HEADLINES RACING REVIEW CLOTH SHOWS HE IS STAR MATERIAL IN HARCOURT Cloth Of Stars, who had good form in what became a truncated picture courtesy of RACINGFOTOS.COM three-year-old season, has been firing on all cylinders already this season. The four-year-old son of Sea The Stars opened his account when landing the first European Group race of the season, the Gr.3 Prix Exbury in March, and added to that with victory in the Gr.2 Prix d’Harcourt, the feature race at Chantilly Left to right: Diamond Fields (Fastnet Rock) beating Alice yesterday. Settled in the leading pack, behind his paternal half- Springs (Galileo) and Blue Vega (Lope De Vega) in the brother Mekhtaal, he raced keenly at times and briefly looked Gr.3 Gladness Stakes at Naas to become her sire’s second flat-footed as the field turned into the straight. He began to make Group winner of the day headway and finished strongly to get up close home and win a shade cosily by a neck from Mekhtaal, with Maniaco (Galileo) a unraced full-sister to the Gr.1 Oaks winner and Gr.1 Irish Oaks length and a half back in third. runner-up Light Shift (dam of Gr.3 winner Ulysses). His grandam This was the sixth win, and fifth at Group level, for the bay, who also produced the Gr.1 victrix Shiva (Hector Protector), the Gr.2 was successful in the Gr.3 Prix des Chenes at two and the Gr.3 Prix winner and sire Limnos (Hector Protector) and the Listed winner La Force and Gr.2 Prix Greffulhe last spring. He also finished third Burning Sunset (Caerleon; dam of the Gr.2 winner Smoking in the Gr.1 Grand Prix de Paris, having finished eighth in the Gr.1 Sun and grandam of the multiple Gr.1 winner Main Sequence). Derby on his previous start. According to Godolphin representative Lisa-Jane Graffard, Cloth Of Stars could go for the Gr.1 Prix Ganay at Saint-Cloud, a track the horse likes, where he will also face FIRST SEASON SIRE FOCUS Mekhtaal again, or travel abroad for the Gr.2 Jockey Club Stakes at Our series continues with Whitsbury Manor Stud’s Newmarket or the Gr.1 Queen Elizabeth Cup at Sha Tin. SWISS SPIRIT, who is already the sire of a winner. Bred by Peter Anastasiou and bought by John Ferguson at He is featured on pages 5-6 & 17-18 Tattersalls, he is out of Strawberry Fledge (Kingmambo), an Looking for Classic winners… BBAG graduate ISFAHAN KNIFE EDGE leads home a 1-2 for BBAG graduates wins the German Derby, Gr.1 in the Group 2 German 2.000 Guineas, with DEGAS a close second. Premier Yearling Sale RRepresentativeepresentive Gr Greateat Britain Britain 1st September 2017 & Ireland Entries close: Richard Venn 21st April 2017 Cellphone: +44(0) 78 84 47 89 13 Email: [email protected] www.bbag-sales.de CALL: +44 (0) 1638 66 65 12 1 RACING REVIEW EBN: MONDAY, 10TH APRIL 2017 PRIX VANTEAUX (Muhtathir), with a head back to Franz Schubert, who could not Gold Luck just got the better of her rivals Monroe Bay (Makfi) quite get to the winner in time after making his run down the and Hebah (Sea The Stars) to take the Gr.3 Prix Vanteaux. Racing outside. on the outside behind the leading pair, she was sent about her Graphite, as his name might suggest, a steel grey son of business 200m from home, but had to pull out all the stops to Shamardal, was fourth on his debut at Maisons-Laffitte in beat her rivals narrowly. September, but returned to the course the following month to A winner on her debut at Maisons-Laffitte in September, the lose his maiden tag on his only starts at two. He currently holds three-year-old daughter of Redoute’s Choice was second on her entries in the Gr.1 Poule d’Essai de Poulains, the Gr.1 Prix du Jockey Club and the Gr.1 Grand Prix de Paris. only other start at two in the Listed Prix Isonomy. Bred by Haras de Saint Pair, from a family developed by the late Homebred by Wertheimer et Frere and from one of their finest Jean-Luc Lagardere, and an Arqana graduate, he is a half-brother families, Gold Luck is a half-sister to the multiple Champion to the Gr.2 Del Mar Derby winner and sire Fairly Ransom (Red racemare Goldikova (Anabaa), the Gr.1 Prix Vermeille winner Ransom) and the Listed Prix Finlande winner Fairly Fair Galikova (Galileo), whose first foal Galikeo (Dansili) was (Sinndar), out of a dual Gr.3-placed full-sister to the Gr.1 Prix narrowly beaten in a maiden earlier on the card, and the Gr.3 Prix Ganay winner Fair Mix (Linamix). Paul de Moussac winner, multiple Gr.1-placed and young sire Anodin (Anabaa), out of Born Gold (Blushing Groom), a full- PRIX SIGY sister to the Gr.1 Coronation Stakes and Gr.1 Prix Marcel Boussac Fas (Fastnet Rock), who landed the Listed Prix Ronde de Nuit at winner Gold Splash. Their dam Riviere D’Or (Lyphard) was also Chantilly last month, added further lustre to his CV when taking a Gr.1 winner, having landed the Prix Saint-Alary. the Gr.3 Prix Sigy. The three-year-old son of Fastnet Rock made virtually all the running and power edclear of his rivals in the PRIX LA FORCE closing stages to win by an ever-increasing three and a half Graphite upstaged his more fancied stablemate Franz Schubert lengths to give his sire his second Group winner of the day, (Dansili) to land the Gr.3 Prix La Force on the same card. While the following Diamond Fields’s victory in the Gr.3 Gladness Stakes at latter was held up at the rear of the field after a tardy start, Naas. The British-trained Mrs Danvers (Ishiguru), who was Graphite was settled in mid-division on the rails. He slipped unbeaten last year, was reluctant to load and showed little through a gap between his rivals over 200m from home and Third in the Gr.3 Prix Eclipse and the Listed Prix Saraca and stayed on strongly to score by a neck from Phelps Win fourth in the Gr.2 Criterium de Maisons-Laffitte, Fas could be a ANIMAL HEALTH TRUST FOR A 15% DISCOUNT CHARITY RACE DAY BUY YOUR TICKETS BEFORE 31 MARCH 10 JUNE 2017 NEWMARKET Join us in our 75th anniversary celebrations for an exhilarating afternoon watching the CHAMPAGNE RECEPTION COMPLIMENTARY WINE races; a perfect day outing for family, THREE-COURSE LUNCH COMPLIMENTARY GIN BAR friends, or even business clients. To book a ticket or a table email [email protected] or call 0207 025 0035 FOR MORE INFORMATION VISIT OUR WEBSITE AT AHT.ORG.UK ANIMAL HEALTH TRUST, LANWADES PARK, KENTFORD, NEWMARKET, SUFFOLK CB8 7UU REGISTERED CHARITY NO: 209642 2 CALL: +44 (0) 1638 66 65 12 RACING REVIEW EBN: MONDAY, 10TH APRIL 2017 major player in the major sprint races this season, if he continues for trainer Fozzy Stack, who this year took over the licence from to improve and his trainer Pia Brandt has the Gr.1 Commonwealth his father, Tommy. Cup at Royal Ascot as his target. Diamond Fields spent quite a lot of last year, racing in North Homebred by Zalim Bifov and from a speedy family, their dam America, where she was second in the Gr.2 Sands Point Stakes Sotka (Dutch Art) was a Listed-placed winner at two and is a half- and third in the Lake Placid Stakes. According to her connections, sister to the multiple Gr.1-winning sprinter Sole Power (Kyllachy) she has the Gr.3 Athasi Stakes and the Gr.3 Amethyst Stakes as her and the Gr.3-placed two-year-old Cornus (Inchinor), who won 15 possible next targets and is also likely to make further forays races. Also in the family are the Gr.2-winning juvenile and sire across the Atlantic. Auction House (Exbourne) and Tychonic (Last Tycoon), a Bred by Sweetman’s Bloodstock and a Goffs graduate, she is multiple Graded winner of 13 races in the US. owned by top South African breeder Mary Slack and is out of the Listed-placed Question Times (Shamardal), a half-sister to the Gr.3 Sceptre Stakes winner Sunday Times (Holy Roman IRELAND Emperor), from the family of the Gr.2 Hungerford Stakes winner Welsh Emperor (Emperor Jones). DIAMOND RUSH DENIES ALLEGED STAKES ALICE SPRINGS GLADNESS British challenger Air Pilot made a winning trip to Ireland to get Diamond Fields swooped late to claim top honours in the up close home to land the Gr.3 Alleged Stakes at Naas. Last year’s Gladness Stakes, one of two Gr.3 races at Naas yesterday. The Gr.1 Derby runner-up US Army Ranger (Galileo) was the headline contest attracted a five-strong field, with Aidan O’Brien’s triple act in the race and Aidan O’Brien’s charge was the narrow Gr.1 winner Alice Springs (Galileo) the short-priced favourite on favourite on his first start since finishing down the field in the Gr.1 her seasonal reappearance. Blue De Vega (Lope De Vega) took Champion Stakes at Ascot last October.