TUESDAY, 30 JUNE 2020 THE WEEKLY WRAP: LONG INVESTEC DERBY ATTRACTS 17 AT THIS STAGE MAY THEY RUN Listed winner and ante-post favourite English King (Fr) (Camelot {GB}) is among 17 entries for Saturday=s G1 Investec Derby at Epsom.The mile-and-a-half Classic finds itself in an unusual position on the calendar this year, coming a month later than normal and after both Royal Ascot and the Irish Derby, because of the late start to the campaign. That will not matter one iota to the winning connections come this weekend, though--and for Ed Walker, trainer of Lingfield Derby Trial winner English King, it would be the realisation of a childhood ambition. AAnyone who says they don=t think about winning the Derby is surely lying,@ said Walker. AI=ve been thinking about it since I discovered horseracing when I was 13 years old, so of course you think about it in this position.@ Cont. p5 Way to Paris & Pierre-Charles Boudot, who is all smiles after winning the Grand Prix de Saint-Cloud | Scoop Dyga By Emma Berry IN TDN AMERICA TODAY It has been quite a week for the old boys. Continuing a fine UNCLE MO COLT TOPS FASIG-TIPTON MIDLANTIC season, Way To Paris (GB) (Champs Elysees {GB}) finally notched A colt by Uncle Mo made $1.1 million to top the first session of a deserved Group 1 victory for himself and his trainer Andrea the Fasig-Tipton Midlantic Sale on Monday. Click or tap here to Marcialis in the Grand Prix de Saint-Cloud. At seven, he is a year go straight to TDN America. younger than the sprinting duo of Limato (Ire) (Tagula {Ire}) and Judicial (Ire) (Iffraaj {GB}) who respectively recorded their 14th and 15th victories in Group 3 contests at Newmarket and Newcastle on Saturday. Then of course there's the redoubtable Caspian Prince (Ire), who ran his 101st race that same day, chalking up his 20th win at odds of 28-1. The biggest head-scratcher is how this remarkable 11-year-old, by Dylan Thomas (Ire) out of the unraced Crystal Gaze (Ire) (Rainbow Quest), has ended up winning the majority of his races over five furlongs. Now in his 10th season in training, Caspian Prince was an inspired purchase at 11,000gns at the Tattersalls December Yearling Sale and yet another credit to the skills of bloodstock agent Gill Richardson, whose bang-for-buck ratio with the horses she selects is as good as any out there. The horse has had seven different trainers in his career, with his highest-profile success coming for Tony Coyle when Caspian Prince beat Judicial's half-sister, the dual Group 1 winner Marsha (Ire) (Acclamation {GB}), in the G2 Friarstown Stud Sapphire S. almost three years ago. Cont. p2 TDN EUROPE • PAGE 2 OF 14 • THETDN.COM TUESDAY • 30 JUNE 2020 The Italian Way Way To Paris may have the perfect name and sire to win a Group 1 in the Parisian suburbs, but both he and his connections have their roots firmly planted in Italy. Bred by Franca Vittadini's Grundy Bloodstock, he races in the colours of nonagenarian Paolo Ferrario and is trained in Chantilly by Italian ex-pat Andrea Marcialis. Moreover, Way To Paris's dam Grey Way (Cozzene), from whom he inherits his grey coat, was herself the winner of the G2 Premio Lydia Tesio among her five victories on Italian soil. Twelve years prior to Way To Paris, who was born when Grey Way was 20, the mare had produced the dual G1 Premio Presidente della Repubblica winner Distant Way (Distant View), who later served his time at stud in Italy. Champs Elysees, a perfectly capable Flat stallion who was massively popular with the jumps brigade in the three seasons he stood at Castle Hyde Stud, died in 2018, the year his daughter Billesdon Brook (GB) won the 1000 Guineas. The brother to Dansili (GB) and Cacique (GB) also featured among the Italian group-race winners over the weekend via his German-bred and -trained son Durance (Ger), who beat French raider Royal Julius (GB) (Royal Applause {GB}) by a neck to land the G2 Gran Premio di Milano for owner-breeder Gestut It brought up a double not just for German runners but also for Ebbesloh. sons of Hasili (GB) as the race was won by the Juddmonte-bred The other group race on Sunday's card at San Siro, the G3 Runnymede (GB), (Dansili {GB}}, who is now trained by Sarah Premio Carlo Vittadini, is named in honour of the father of Way Steinberg for Stall Salzburg having been bought for 75,000gns at To Paris's breeder, who was himself the owner of the Tattersalls in February 2019. outstanding triple Classic winner of 1975, Grundy (GB) (Great A further feather in the cap for Italian breeding over the Nephew {GB}). weekend came in Ireland, where Speak In Colours (GB) (Excelebration {Ire}) recorded his sixth triumph in the G2 Weatherbys Ireland Greenlands S. Bred by Paolo and Emma Agostini, the 5-year-old raced initially in their Scuderia Archi Romani silks at two when trained by Marco Botti (who also trained his sire). Following his win in the Listed Doncaster S. at two, Speak In Colours was sold to Chantal Regalado-Gonzalez and transferred to Joseph O'Brien, subsequently adding another four stakes victories to his record. The Derby Cross The main event of the weekend, the Dubai Duty Free Irish Derby, produced the novel result of a Coolmore-owned winner whose sire and damsire both stood as Darley stallions. However much the Irish Derby's reputation regrettably continues to be devalued, there is much to like about the newest name on the roll of honour, Santiago (Ire) (Authorized {Ire}), not least his Grundy | Racing Post ability to have bounced back so soon after winning the G2 Queen's Vase at Royal Ascot. Cont. p3 TDN EUROPE • PAGE 3 OF 14 • THETDN.COM TUESDAY • 30 JUNE 2020 The Weekly Wrap Cont. Then there is his pedigree, and the fact that his fifth dam, Allegretta (GB), also pops up in the backgrounds of plenty of top-class horses, most notably as the grandam of Galileo (Ire) and Sea The Stars (Ire). Santiago's Classic victory further embellishes the late Cape Cross's record as a broodmare sire, a position he also occupies in Senior Vice President Gary King the pedigrees of Derby winners Australia (GB) (Galileo {Ire}) and Twitter: @garykingTDN Masar (Ire) (New Approach {Ire}), Japanese Derby winner Logi [email protected] Universe (Jpn) (Neo Universe {Jpn}), South Australian Derby + 1.732.320.0975 winner Russian Camelot (Ire) (Camelot {GB}), G1 Zabeel Classic winners Authentic Paddy (NZ) (Howbaddouwantit) and International Editor Consensus (NZ) (Postponed), and six-time Group 1 winner Kelsey Riley Laurens (Fr) (Siyouni {Fr}). Twitter: @kelseynrileyTDN Santiago's dam Wadyhatta (GB) was bought from Shadwell at [email protected] Arqana's Summer Sale when carrying Santiago for i275,000. European Editor Sheikh Hamdan has himself enjoyed plenty of success with the Emma Berry family over the years, notably through Tamayuz (GB) (Nayef), a Twitter: @collingsberry half-brother to Santiago's grandam Thamarat (GB) (Anabaa). [email protected] The 2007 Derby winner Authorized will probably end up being best remembered as the sire of dual Grand National winner Associate International Editor Tiger Roll (Ire) and, like so many sons of Montjeu (Ire), he has Heather Anderson had decent success with his jumpers, which include Nichols Twitter: @HLAndersonTDN Canyon (GB) and Goshen (Fr). But Authorized is also a Flat sire of Marketing Manager some note, his chief earner being the evergreen Hartnell (GB) Alayna Cullen who, like Santiago, won the Queen's Vase before he was Twitter: @AlaynaCullen exported to Australia. [email protected] Authorized served 12 seasons at Darley's British, Irish and French wings before being sold to stand in Turkey for the Contributing Editor Turkish Jockey Club for the 2020 season. Alan Carasso Twitter: @EquinealTDN Fairy's Story Cafe Racing In a good week for former Derby winners, the 2014 hero Sean Cronin Australia (GB) was represented by a third group win for his Tom Frary first-crop son Buckhurst (Ire) in the G3 Alleged S., as well as a [email protected] runner-up finish for 3-year-old daughter Cayenne Pepper (Ire) in the G1 Pretty Polly S. Irish Correspondent An interesting runner of Australia's on the pedigree front was Daithi Harvey Saturday's Hamilton maiden winner King Fairy (Ire). Trained by Regular Columnists William Haggas, he was making his second start in the colours of Chris McGrath | John Berry his breeder, the Tsui family's Sunderland Holdings, and the John Boyce | Amy Lynam 3-year-old colt is inbred 3x3 to their Arc winner and brilliant Melissa Steele broodmare Urban Sea (Miswaki) through his grandsires, the half-brothers Galileo (Ire) and Sea The Stars (Ire). King Fairy's dam My Fairy (Ire) was unraced but is a sister to My IN TDN AUS/NZ TODAY Titania (Ire), who was Sea The Stars's first group winner back in 2013. The family has also been kind to Haggas who trained VALE DANZERO another of the mare's half-siblings, the triple Group 2 winner Danzero (Aus) (Danehill) passed away at Rosemont Stud. Click Muthmir (Ire) (Invincible Spirit {Ire}). Cont. p4 or tap here to go straight to TDN Aus/NZ. TDN EUROPE • PAGE 4 OF 14 • THETDN.COM TUESDAY • 30 JUNE 2020 Great Heavens As we look ahead to the most exciting weekend of action since racing returned, with the Derby, Oaks, Eclipse, Prix du Jockey Club and Prix de Diane all being staged within two days, we must first acknowledge the welcome return of the great mare Magical (Ire) (Galileo {Ire}), who extended her Group 1 record to five wins with significant ease in Sunday's Alwasmiyah Pretty Polly S.