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TUESDAY, 1 JUNE 2021 THE WEEKLY WRAP: 19 STAND THEIR GROUND FOR CAZOO DERBY REYNIER RULES There are 19 colts remaining in the 1 1/2-mile G1 Cazoo Derby at Epsom Downs on Saturday, June 5. Leading the way is current favourite and G3 Derrinstown Stud Derby Trial S. hero Bolshoi Ballet (Ire) (Galileo {Ire}), one of six for Aidan O=Brien and the various Coolmore partners. Joining the G3 Ballysax S. victor from Ballydoyle are: former race favourite High Definition (Ire) (Galileo {Ire}), who won the G2 Beresford S. at two and was third in the G2 Al Basti Equiworld Dubai Dante S. to Godolphin=s Hurricane Lane (Ire) (Frankel {GB}) on May 13; G1 Criterium International winner and G1 Tattersalls Irish 2000 Guineas runner-up Van Gogh (American Pharoah); and the winners Sir Lamorak (Ire) (Camelot {GB}), The Mediterranean (Ire) (Galileo {Ire}) and Kyprios (Ire) (Galileo {Ire}). Cont. p6 Jerome Reynier | Emma Berry IN TDN AMERICA TODAY SMOOTH LIKE STRAIGHT SALUTES IN SHOEMAKER By Emma Berry The GI Shoemaker Mile S. went to Smooth Like Straight Yes, it's Derby week in Epsom and Chantilly, and it's all about (Midnight Lute). Click or tap here to go straight to TDN the Classic generation, but as we briefly cast our minds back America. over the past seven days, let's hear it for the oldies. At ParisLongchamp on Sunday, the 6-year-olds Skalleti (Fr) (Kendargent {Fr}) and Marianafoot (Fr) (Footstepsinthesand {GB}) pulled off a group-race double on a stellar weekend for owner Jean-Claude Seroul and trainer Jerome Reynier, while their younger stablemate Elusive Foot (Ire) (Footstepsinthesand {GB}) brought up a memorable treble in the QuintJ. These followed Saturday's Listed Derby du Medoc victory for the same owner/trainer combination with Paco (Ire) (Paco Boy {Ire}). On board the G1 Prix Ganay winner Skalleti and Paco was Gerald Mosse, now back in his native France following a bit of a European tour in recent seasons. Mosse is 54, the same age as this season's 2000 Guineas-winning jockey Kevin Manning, and he rode his first Group 1 winner when the 35-year-old Reynier was a toddler. The combination of youth and experience has proved a fruitful one as Mosse also rode Reynier's Listed Grand Prix du Bordeaux winner Monty (Fr) (Motivator {GB}) on Saturday. Cont. p2 TDN EUROPE • PAGE 2 OF 12 • THETDN.COM TUESDAY • 01 JUNE 2021 Skallet's offspring have been dominating ParisLongchamp this season. Not only has Skalleti won the G2 Prix d'Harcourt as well as the Ganay, the previous weekend his full-brother, the up-and-coming stayer Skazino (Fr), won the G2 Prix Vicomtesse Vigier following his easy success in the G3 Prix de Barbeville in early May. Then there's the 7-year-old Skalleto (Fr), not quite as talented as his illustrious siblings but listed-placed nonetheless and winner of a handicap at the track on May 16. The mare has so far produced four foals, all by Kendargent, the youngest of Reynier Rules Cont. from p1 which is the unraced 2-year-old gelding Skalli (Fr), and she is The pair also combined for one of the trainer's early major now back in foal to the 18-year-old stallion. wins when Royal Julius (Ire) (Royal Applause {GB}) landed Italy's Reynier has done his bit to boost the profile of the southern G2 Premio President della Repubblica. French training centre of Calas, near Marseille, and he is proving It's safe to say that Skalleti has now stolen the title of stable something of a dab hand at nurturing the careers of his horses star from Royal Julius, becoming the first Group 1 winner for his through to maturity. Six is clearly not old for a horseBBit just trainer, his sire Kendargent, and for Seroul. The latter, now in his seems so in an increasingly precocity-obsessed industry. 80s and a prolific owner/breeder in France over many years, Skalleti, and his fellow 6-year-olds Marianafoot and Monty, bred his other three weekend stakes winners but not Skalleti, have won 23 races between them and counting. As a gelding, who was bred by Guy Pariente, owner of both Kendargent and Skalleti can race on unhindered by concerns of a stud career Skalleti's listed-winning dam Skallet (Fr). The 13-year-old mare is while his mind and body allows. Reynier has already stated that a daughter of the well-bred former Haras des Faunes resident his long-term aim for this season is a return to Ascot for the G1 Muhaymin, by A.P. Indy out of the 1000 Guineas winner QIPCO Champion S., in which he was second last year. Shadayid (Shadeed). Cont. p3 TDN EUROPE • PAGE 3 OF 12 • THETDN.COM TUESDAY • 01 JUNE 2021 The Weekly Wrap Cont. Skalleti only needs another seven wins to equal a former wonder of the French ranks, Cirrus Des Aigles (Fr) (Even Top {GB}), who won the Champion S. 10 years ago and returned to Ascot in three successive years to finish runner-up twice. We look forward to welcoming Skalleti back for years to come, Senior Vice President Gary King and we can expect to hear plenty more about his trainer. From Twitter: @garykingTDN 12 runners last week, Reynier saddled seven winners and he [email protected] now lies in third place in the French trainers' table behind those + 1.732.320.0975 multiple champions Jean-Claude Rouget and Andre Fabre. International Editor Anything Euchen Do Kelsey Riley Twitter: @kelseynrileyTDN On the subject of equine golden oldies, there are few more [email protected] admirable horses in training than William Johnstone's homebred Euchen Glen (GB) (Authorized {Ire}), who sprang something of a European Editor surprise when winning the G3 Coral Brigadier Gerard S., run in Emma Berry memory of the late Joe Mercer, as the 20-1 outsider of four. Twitter: @collingsberry Granted, the soft ground at Sandown played to his strengths, [email protected] but there's plenty to love about the Jim Goldie-trained 8-year-old, who was recording his 11th win from 37 starts after Associate International Editor Heather Anderson having the best part of two years off the track with a tendon Twitter: @HLAndersonTDN injury after winning the John Smith's Cup in July 2018. His impressive list of wins includes last year's G3 St Simon S. in Marketing Manager heavy ground and G3 Cumberland Lodge S. on soft. Even more Alayna Cullen impressive is that his victories have come from 1m2f at almost Twitter: @AlaynaCullen every distance up to 2m, the latter being his win in the Shergar [email protected] Cup Stayers. Sandown's Brigadier Gerard meeting is arguably the best Contributing Editors evening fixture of the year in Britain, and this year the two Alan Carasso Christina Bossinakis group races on the card were plundered by Scottish and Irish raiders. 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 Euchen Glen | Racingfotos.com TDN EUROPE • PAGE 4 OF 12 • THETDN.COM TUESDAY • 01 JUNE 2021 The Weekly Wrap Cont. Golden Moment Jim Goldie took the Brigadier Gerard trophy back to The one other stakes race at Sandown's Thursday meeting Renfrewshire and Henry de Bromhead proved that he's far more provided a special first for the team behind the 2000 Guineas than just an excellent National Hunt trainer, by sending the winner Galileo Gold (Ire). It was actually a second first, as Ebro 4-year-old Lismore (Ire) (Zoffany River (Ire), winner of the Listed {Ire}) to land the G3 Coral Henry National S., had already become S. his sire's first winner on May 15 The statuesque filly, who races for Galileo Gold's former trainer for her breeders Sonia and Hugo Palmer and owner Al Anthony Rogers, would certainly Shaqab Racing. Extra lustre was not look out of place in a field of provided by the fact that he was smart jumping mares, but she bred by Tally-Ho Stud, where may well now be aimed at Galileo Gold stands. following the example of fellow His stud-mate Cotai Glory (GB) Irish-trained Princess Zoe (Ger) is ahead of Galileo Gold in the (Jukebox Jury {Ire}) later in the table with eight individual season with a raid on the G1 Prix winners, and Ardad (Ire) is du Cadran on Arc weekend. In a further clear still on nine. But year in which her trainer has Galileo Gold is the first of the captured the Cheltenham Gold Lismore | Racingfotos.com freshman sires to notch a stakes Cup, Champion Hurdle, winner and Ebro River looks Champion Chase and Grand National, we should perhaps expect likely to head next to the G2 Coventry S. nothing less than to see him adding a Group 1 victory on the Flat Cont. p5 to his outstanding record. TDN EUROPE • PAGE 5 OF 12 • THETDN.COM TUESDAY • 01 JUNE 2021 Ebro River is the first stakes winner for Galileo Gold and the first stakes winner for a European first-season sire | Racingfotos.com The Weekly Wrap Cont. bloodstock agent Patrick Barbe, who had previously owned and The chestnut colt is out of the Balmont mare Soft Power (Ire), bred his dam Magic Potion (Fr). Barbe also had a close a half-sister to the dam of top sprinter Slade Power (Ire) (Dutch connection to the mare's sire Divine Light (Jpn) (Sunday Silence), Art {GB}), and the 10-year-old mare is now back in foal to whom he had been responsible for importing to France from Galileo Gold at Tally-Ho Stud.