SATURDAY, 21 AUGUST 2021 SUPER SATURDAY ON TAP NUNTHORPE CAST FEEL As York=s Ebor festival draws to a close, with the ever-popular WINTER=S CHILL ,500,000 handicap after which it is named the feature event on the Knavesmire, Saturday has something for every angle with abundant pattern-race action across three countries thrown into the bargain. While the 22-strong field assembled for the extended 15-furlong Ebor headed by the May 27 G3 Brigadier Gerard S. and July 2 Listed Gala S.-winning veteran Euchen Glen (GB) (Authorized {Ire}) offers a punting puzzle in Europe=s version of the Melbourne Cup, the purists can revel in a string of group races from early afternoon into the evening. It all begins at Deauville with the G2 Prix du Calvados and culminates five hours later with The Curragh=s G2 Galileo Irish EBF Futurity S., which often act as early sighters for next year=s monuments. In the Futurity, Aidan O=Brien looks to extend his current tally of 13 winners of the seven-furlong Classic pointer with >TDN Rising Star= Point Lonsdale (Ire) (Australia {GB}), who has Winter Power stuns her Nunthorpe rivals | PA Media followed the AChurchill@ path of Listed Chesham S. and G3 Tyros S. so far. Overcoming heavy ground to deny Reach For the Moon Friday=s G1 Coolmore Wootton Bassett Nunthorpe S. was (GB) (Sea the Stars {Ire}) in the former test at Royal Ascot June always going to be about raw speed and the 3-year-old filly 19, the full-brother to Broome (Ire) returned to Ireland to Winter Power (Ire) (Bungle Inthejungle {GB}) qualified more subject the re-opposing Maritime Wings (Ire) (Gleneagles {Ire}) than most in that regard having displayed it in abundance in the to a three-length beating in Leopardstown=s Tyros July 22. May 13 Listed Westow S. and July 10 Listed City Walls S. over Others to complete the Tyros-Futurity double in recent times this flat York five. In front of all bar the furiously-fast Golden Pal include the stable=s subsequent luminaries Gleneagles (Ire) and (Uncle Mo) until the two-furlong pole, King Power=s 9-1 shot left Cape Blanco (Ire) and the Bolger pair New Approach (Ire) and that U.S. raider in her wake there and hit the line under Silvestre Teofilo (Ire), so Point Lonsdale is in hallowed territory. Cont. p8 de Sousa with 1 1/4 lengths to spare over the generously-priced fellow Northern-trained Emaraaty Ana (GB) (Shamardal). IN TDN AMERICA TODAY Dragon Symbol (GB) (Cable Bay {Ire}) stayed on to place yet again at this level, half a length away as the 9-4 favourite Suesa TIZ THE STORY OF A TRUE MAGICIAN (Ire) (Night of Thunder {Ire}) found it all happening a touch too Chris McGrath examines the legacy of the late Spendthrift Farm fast 3/4 of a length further back in fourth. owner and industry visionary B. Wayne Hughes. Click or tap here to go straight to TDN America. Cont. p2 TDN EUROPE • PAGE 2 OF 17 • THETDN.COM SATURDAY • 21 AUGUST 2021 Nunthorpe Cast Feel Winter=s Chill cont. from p1 means so much to the family with the filly Pipalong (Ire) (Pips AShe=s a wonderful filly,@ commented trainer Tim Easterby of Pride {GB}) third to Nuclear Debate (Geiger Counter) in the the famous clan renowned for decades in this Yorkshire area. millennium edition. By the time Winter Power was having her AThe best ones have that kick, that bit extra and she has it. She eighth 2-year-old start in the Listed Harry Rosebery S. at Ayr in doesn=t take any training, she September, she was boasting just lobs around at the back of just two wins in a nursery and the string and has done so well novice at Redcar and Ripon but it and thrived late summer. This was then that she took off with a spring, she was looking a bit light black-type breakthrough before and backward but she=s put on storming to a three-length so much weight and looks success in Newmarket=s G3 tremendous now. She has Cornwallis S. the following relaxed and got great confidence month. in herself.@ Winter Power=s dynamic The Easterbys are part of the displays in the Westow and City fabric in these parts, with Tim=s Walls here this term came either Habton Grange Stables in Malton side of a ninth when setting off built up by his father Peter too fast in the G1 King=s Stand S. Winter Power and Silvestre de Sousa hit the line whose most high-profile horse at Royal Ascot June 15, but this in the Nunthorpe | PA Media was the York legend Sea Pigeon was a contrasting display of who defied top weight of 10 stones to land this meeting=s ideally-measured speed over Britain=s minimum trip. Coming up feature Ebor H. in 1979. While his colourful uncle Mick enjoyed the centre on her own as the fellow Northern-based Liberty glory in this in 1976 with Lochnager (GB), the current licence- Beach (GB) (Cable Bay {Ire}) kept Golden Pal honest away to her holder at Habton Grange had yet to collect in the race that left, the bay was always way beyond the reach of Suesa who TDN EUROPE • PAGE 3 OF 17 • THETDN.COM SATURDAY • 21 AUGUST 2021 Nunthorpe cont. was on the fastest ground she had encountered and almost every rival was under the pump after as little as two furlongs. Dragon Symbol was one of them, but he has shown on more than one occasion that he never gives up the chase and he was only robbed of another silver medal late on by the 40-1 shot Emaraaty Ana who has been revived by a Hamilton conditions Senior Vice President Gary King win at the end of last month. Twitter: @garykingTDN AShe=s unbelievably fast and when she hits the gates right she=s [email protected] really good,@ Silvestre de Sousa said. AShe did that here first time + 1.732.320.0975 this year and I thought I hadn=t sat on anything as fast as her.@ AShe showed a fantastic turn of foot in the Cornwallis last year International Editor and she=s just got something special,@ Easterby said. AThere is no Kelsey Riley scientific reason why I feel she=ll get better, but it=s in the way Twitter: @kelseynrileyTDN she=s developed so much. She is switched off in her brain and [email protected] chilled out--she gets down to it with no issues. At Ascot, she just European Editor went a crazy pace and it=s no use doing it all in the first part of Emma Berry the race. She=s in the [Oct. 3 G1 Prix de l=] Abbaye [at Twitter: @collingsberry ParisLongchamp] and I=ll speak to [King Power racing manager] [email protected] Alastair [Donald] and the team and see what they want to do now. She=ll need a bit of time after a Group 1 race like that, even Associate International Editor though she=s won nicely. I wouldn=t want to get her caught up in Heather Anderson the logistical problems that are involved with travelling at this Twitter: @HLAndersonTDN time, so I=m not sure about the Breeders= Cup.@ Marketing Manager Emaraaty Ana=s trainer Kevin Ryan said of the runner-up, who Alayna Cullen took the 2018 G2 Gimcrack S. at this meeting, AThe Hamilton Twitter: @AlaynaCullen race gave him confidence. Passing the two-pole I knew they=d [email protected] gone hard and it was a question of if they could keep it up as I knew he=d stay on strong. Fair do=s to the winner, she=s Contributing Editors incredible. She probably hit a brick wall, but it was too close to Alan Carasso the line for us. Ours is a very good horse. This fellow is as good Christina Bossinakis as I=ve had. He=s probably a better six-furlong horse, we=ve run Cafe Racing him over five to get him to relax but it leaves the rest of the Sean Cronin season open. He=s probably a bit ground-dependent and needs it Tom Frary quick, he=s in the Abbaye which might suit but he=s also in at [email protected] Haydock [in the Sept. 4 G1 Sprint Cup] and Champions Day which could come up as bogs so we=ll see. He=s only young, he=ll Irish Correspondent get better.@ Daithi Harvey Regular Columnists WINTER POWER (IRE) Chris McGrath | John Berry | Kevin Blake WIN AND YOU’RE IN ™ Amy Lynam | Melissa Steele connection earnings include: $ Automatic berth into #BC21 Turf Sprint $ $30,000 in pre-entry & entry fees $ Travel award up to $10,000 for domestic starters and $40,000 for international starters Click HERE for the full 2021 #WINANDYOUREIN rules and race schedule. FEED THE DIFFERENCE For that extra bit of FEED THE STRADIVARIUS backup and support Three Lonsdale Cup Stakes, while raising your DIFFERENCE Group 2 Champions, Saracen are here to help. 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