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THURSDAY, 9 SEPTEMBER 2021 INSPIRAL SET FOR MAY ROMANET RETIRES AS IFHA CHAIRMAN; TO BE SUCCEEDED BY ENGELBRECHT-BRESGES HILL EXAMINATION Louis Romanet will retire as chairman of the International Federation of Horseracing Authorities in October, and will be succeeded by Winfried Engelbrecht-Bresges, who was elected by the IFHA=s executive council. Romanet has served as chairman of the IFHA since its inception in 1994 in Paris. Going forward, the IFHA will be supported by a global management team that will be announced in October. The IFHA executive council also elected four Vice Chairs: Jockey Club President and Chief Executive Officer Jim Gagliano and outgoing Horse Racing Ireland Chief Executive Brian Kavanagh were re-elected as the vice chairs for the Americas and Europe, respectively. Japan Racing Association Chief Executive Officer Masayuki Goto was elected as the new vice chair for Asia, replacing Engelbrecht-Bresges who formerly served in that role. Cont. p7 Inspiral | Racingfotos.com IN TDN AMERICA TODAY Doncaster=s four-day St Leger Festival gears up for instalment BREEDERS CAN PIN THEIR HOPES ON A MIGHTY OAK two on Thursday, with the G2 Cazoo May Hill S. and G2 Hippo Chris McGrath delves into the Pin Oak Stud dispersal that will be Pro3 Park Hill Fillies= S. vying for headline billing at the Town offered at Fasig-Tipton and Keeneland in the coming days . Click or tap here to go straight to TDN America. Moor venue. Cheveley Park Stud=s hitherto undefeated Inspiral (GB) (Frankel {GB}), who impressed for the Gosdens and Dettori triumvirate when snagging Sandown=s Listed Star S. in July, is set to be the shortest-priced favourite on the seven-race card and will go off at prohibitive odds for the one-mile May Hill. Inspiral is the fourth and best winner from as many runners for G1 1000 Guineas and G1 Coronation S. runner-up Starscope (GB) (Selkirk) and the stud=s Chris Richardson is looking forward to this test acting as a staging post to next month=s G1 Fillies= Mile at Newmarket. AShe=s done well physically since Sandown, but it is nerve- wracking stepping into this company,@ he revealed. AShe=s done nothing wrong and it will be interesting to see if she can step up to Group 2 level. She=s a character, but she=s very professional and certainly powered home in impressive style at Sandown. We=ll just go a race at a time and, if it all goes well, I=d imagine Mrs. Thompson might want to run in the [G1] Fillies= Mile which will then give us a guide to next year. Her mother was second in the Guineas and Coronation so you put the best to the best and hope you get something like this.@ Cont. p2 TDN EUROPE • PAGE 2 OF 14 • THETDN.COM THURSDAY • 9 SEPTEMBER 2021 May Hill and will see four sophomore fillies take receipt of a 10- pound weight-for-age allowance from their five elders. George Strawbridge=s 325,000gns Tattersalls October Book 1 yearling Free Wind (Ire) (Galileo {Ire}) will be a warm order for success, having won last month=s G3 Prix Minerve in stylish fashion, and bids to benefit from that sizeable concession. Juddmonte=s work-in-progress Yesyes (GB) (Camelot {GB}) secured a first black-type success in last month=s Listed Chester S. over much this trip and takes a logical step up in class here. Conditioner Ralph Beckett won consecutive editions of this marathon with G1 St Leger heroine Simple Verse (Ire) (Duke of Marmalade {Ire}) in 2016 and Alyssa (GB) (Sir Percy {GB}) in 2017. Bill and Tim Gredley=s G1 Epsom Oaks fourth Save A Forest Save A Forest | PA Media (Ire) (Kingman {GB}) had Yesyes back in fourth when garnering Newmarket=s Listed Chalice S. at the end of July and is another beneficiary of the weight allowance. AShe seems versatile Thursday=s Previews Cont. from p1 ground-wise and, if we had our choice, we=d prefer a bit more Inspiral=s rivals number six and include George Strawbridge=s ease in the ground, but it is what it is,@ explained trainer Roger homebred Speak (GB) (Sea The Moon {Ger}), who accounted for Varian. AIt looks like her [held-up] running style will suit the step subsequent >TDN Rising Star= Natasha (GB) (Frankel {GB}) when up in trip and we=ll have to see how it plays out on the day. I comfortably on top of an Aug. 2 one-mile maiden at Kempton in think it was a relatively straightforward decision [to come here], her only start to date. Andrew Balding will have one eye on the once we saw what was left in the Leger. She=d have been a big skies and hoping the forecast rain arrives in time to take some outsider in the Leger, whereas she looks to have a genuine sting out of ground conditions for this turf bow. AWe wouldn=t chance in the Park Hill. It=s the right race for her and hopefully want the ground too quick for her and, hopefully, they get some she=ll run very well.@ of the forecast rain,@ the trainer said. AShe always looked like a The older brigade is headed by last term=s G1 Preis der Diana nice filly at home and I=m very happy with her. The [debut] form (German Oaks) fourth Silence Please (Ire) (Gleneagles {Ire}),who is probably quite strong, the second has gone on and won since, returns to action off a fourth for Jessica Harrington in Deauville=s but it=s a step up in class. She=s a nice filly and I=m looking Aug. 22 G2 Prix de Pomone. Cont. p3 forward to seeing her run.@ AI=m hoping for a bit of rain and if the ground is too quick we=ll have to scratch,@ said trainer Ed Walker of Kirsten Rausing=s homebred Haydock maiden winner Kawida (GB) (Sir Percy {GB}). AShe didn=t love the quick ground at Newmarket so we=ll get a good feel of how the ground is and see,@ he added. AShe=s a nice filly and progressive and we were disappointed when she got beaten at Newmarket. She won well next time and they pulled a long way clear of the third. She=s a well-bred filly and deserves to take her chance in a race like this. I=m hoping she=ll run a big race.@ Ralph Beckett trainee Prosperous Voyage (Ire) (Zoffany {Ire}), a Oct. 8 G1 Fillies= Mile entry, already boasts pattern-race form and is another with claims based on a close-up third to Mise En Scene (GB) (Siyouni {Fr}) in Goodwood=s G3 Prestige S. last month. Free Wind Heads Park Hill Contenders Affectionately known as the AFillies= St Leger@ and staged over the full Classic trip, the Park Hill follows immediately after the TDN EUROPE • PAGE 3 OF 14 • THETDN.COM THURSDAY • 9 SEPTEMBER 2021 Thursday=s Previews Cont. Another is Dr. Ali Ridha=s G3 Geoffrey Freer S. eighth-of-eight Golden Pass (GB) (Golden Horn {GB}), who had Free Wind 3/4- of-a-length back in second when garnering July=s Listed Aphrodite Fillies= S. at Newmarket. AGolden Pass ran so badly in the Geoffrey Freer and her blood picture was wrong after that,@ Senior Vice President Gary King revealed trainer Hugo Palmer. AWe=re happy to put a line Twitter: @garykingTDN through that performance and her work at home was good on [email protected] Saturday. I had been looking forward to stepping her up to a + 1.732.320.0975 mile-and-six as it has always looked like it would suit her. Just because we had one go and it went wrong at Newbury, I=m not International Editor prepared to change my mind on that. The favourite is Free Kelsey Riley Wind, who she beat fairly well one start ago, and they=ve both Twitter: @kelseynrileyTDN had one start since. We finished last and Free Wind has won. [email protected] She has an obvious chance, but you=d have to excuse her last European Editor run.@ Emma Berry Twitter: @collingsberry Rome Bidding To Conquer Paris [email protected] Continental action takes the form of a ParisLongchamp soiree, which features two juvenile pattern-race contests and the Listed Associate International Editor = Heather Anderson Prix Joubert for 3-year-old stayers. Coolmore and Westerberg s Twitter: @HLAndersonTDN Ancient Rome (War Front) appears the one to beat in the card=s opening G3 Prix des Chenes and bids to extend trainer Andre Marketing Manager Fabre=s record haul of nine in the one-mile heat. He comes back Alayna Cullen off an easy two-length defeat of the reopposing Green Fly (GB) Twitter: @AlaynaCullen (Frankel {GB}) in a 7 1/2-furlong conditions heat at Deauville last [email protected] month. His four rivals also include Listed Criterium du Fonds Europeen de l=Elevage fourth Scherzo (Fr) (Wootton Bassett Contributing Editors {GB}) and the Roger Varian-trained Chelmsford novice scorer Alan Carasso Christina Bossinakis Claim The Crown (Ire) (Acclamation {GB}). Cont. p4 Cafe Racing Sean Cronin Tom Frary [email protected] Irish Correspondent Daithi Harvey Regular Columnists Chris McGrath | John Berry | Kevin Blake Amy Lynam | Melissa Steele Zellie | Scoop Dyga TDN EUROPE • PAGE 4 OF 14 • THETDN.COM THURSDAY • 9 SEPTEMBER 2021 Thursday=s Previews Cont. JUST BEAUTIFUL TAKES THE SCEPTRE Fabre, whose tally of five is one shy of Francois Boutin=s record Yet another filly to spring from the rich source of winners that six in the G3 Prix d=Aumale, has nominated G2 Prix du Calvados is the G1 Falmouth S., bargain-buy Just Beautiful (GB) (Pride of second Fleur d=Iris (GB) (Shamardal) and G3 Prix Six Perfections Dubai {Aus}) made her presence felt in Wednesday=s G3 Japan runner-up Zellie (Fr) (Wootton Bassett {GB}), both G1 Prix Racing Association Sceptre Fillies S.