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First Crop Yearlings in 2017 GARSWOOD Is a Comfortable Winner of the LR Free Handicap at Newmarket MACHIAVELLIAN MR PROSPECTOR COUP DE FOLIE MEDICEAN MYSTIC GODDESS STORM BIRD ROSE GODDESS DUTCH ART (ch 2004) SPECTRUM RAINBOW QUEST RIVER DANCER HALLAND PARK LASS PALACEGATE EPISODE DRUMALIS PASADENA LADY POLAR FALCON Garswood PIVOTAL FEARLESS REVIVAL Bay. 2010, 16.2 h.h. (1.68m). KYLLACHY SONG PRETTY POPPY MOONLIGHT SERENADE PENCHANT (b 2006) YOUNG GENERATION CADEAUX GENEREUX SMARTEN UP IRRESISTIBLE DANZIG POLISH ROMANCE SOME ROMANCE (2) Sire DUTCH ART – standing at Cheveley Park Stud: Won Gr.1 Middle Park Stakes, Gr.1 Prix Morny, Gr.2 Norfolk Stakes: Champion European First Season Sire 2011 ; sire of GARSWOOD , SLADE POWER (Gr.1 Diamond Jubilee Stakes, Gr.1 July Cup), CASPAR NETSCHER (Gr.2 x 3), PRODUCER (Gr.2 ), DUTCH CONNECTION (Gr.2 , Gr.3 x2), LADY’S FIRST (Gr.3 ), LOHIT (Gr.3 ), OTTONE (Gr.3 ), DUTCH MASTERPIECE (Gr.3 ) and ZONDERLAND (Gr.3 ). Dam PENCHANT – dam of: GARSWOOD , her first foal. Grandam IRRESISTIBLE – won 3 races at 2 and 3 years, including: LR Kilvington Stakes ; 2nd Gr.3 Brownstown Stakes , LR Firth of Clyde Stakes : dam of 5 winners, including INFALLIBLE (Gr.3 Nell Gwyn Stakes; 2nd Gr.1 Coronation Stakes, Gr.1 Falmouth Stakes; herself dam of MUTAKAYYEF (Gr.2 Summer Mile; also 3rd Gr.1 Juddmonte International Stakes, Gr.1 Woodbine Mile, all in 2016) . INTIMATION (LR Garnet Stakes and 3rd Gr.3 , 2016 ). INTRINSIC (4 races, including Stewards’ Cup). REMARKABLE (2 races; 2nd LR Carnarvon Stakes, 2016 ). WATCHABLE (2 races; 2nd Gr.3 Abernant Stakes; 3rd Gr.2 Goldene Peitsche, 2016 ). First crop yearlings in 2017 GARSWOOD is a comfortable winner of the LR Free Handicap at Newmarket. 6 Gr.1 winning sprinter by DUTCH ART Garswood FEE £4,000 (1st October SLF) GARSWOOD beats a top class field of European sprinters in the Gr.1 Prix Maurice de Gheest. Black Type winner at 2, 3 and 4 years RACE RECORD Winner of 4 races, £360,007, from 2 to 4 years , including: Won Gr.1 Prix Maurice de Gheest , Deauville, 6½f, GARSWOOD beats six Group winners in the Gr.2 Lennox Stakes at Goodwood. beating Vorda ( Gr.1 ), Fiesolana ( Gr.1 ), Gregorian ( Gr.2 ), Sommerabend ( Gr.2 ), Viztoria ( Gr.2 ), Caspar Netscher ( Gr.2 ), Thawaany ( Gr.3 ), Pinturicchio ( Gr.3 ), etc. Won Gr.2 Lennox Stakes , Goodwood, 7f, beating Krypton Factor ( Gr.1 ), Caspar Netscher ( Gr.2 ), Libranno ( Gr.2 ), Producer ( Gr.2 ), Monsieur Chevalier ( Gr.3 ), Pastoral Player ( Gr.3 ), etc. Won LR Free Handicap , Newmarket, 7f, beating Alhebayeb ( Gr.2 ), Heavy Metal ( Gr.2 ), Ayaar ( Gr.3 ), Chilworth Icon ( Gr.3 ). “Took this in impressive fashion...” RACING POST Won LR Harry Rosebery Stakes , Ayr, 5f, at 2. “A good class Listed juvenile sprint... won cosily...” RACING POST 2nd Gr.3 Cornwallis Stakes , Ascot, 5f, at 2. 2nd Gr.3 Criterion Stakes , Newmarket, 7f. 3rd Gr.1 Prix de la Foret , Longchamp, 7f, to Moonlight Cloud. “He’s definitely the fastest horse I’ve ever trained and Cheveley Park Stud has a wonderful temperament to go with it.” RICHARD FAHEY GARSWOOD lands the LR Harry Rosebery Stakes at Ayr as a 2yo. www.cheveleypark.co.uk 7.
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