SUNDAY, 29TH MAY 2016 EBN EUROPEAN BLOODSTOCK NEWS FOR MORE INFORMATION: TEL: +44 (0) 1638 666512 • FAX: +44 (0) 1638 666516 • [email protected] • WWW.BLOODSTOCKNEWS.EU RACING NEWS | SALES TALK | STAKES RESULTS | STAKES FIELDS TODAY’S HEADLINES RACING REVIEW SANDY LANE STROLL FOR QUIET REFLECTION Quiet Reflection made short work of her male rivals to take the Gr.2 Sandy Lane Stakes, the feature race at Haydock Park yesterday, in impressive style. Held up at the rear of the field, the picture courtesy of Steven Cargill / Racingfotos.com picture courtesy Cargill of Steven three-year-old daughter of Showcasing made good headway over a furlong out and then surged past her rivals, powering clear to win easily by three and three quarter lengths, with Donjuan Triumphant (Dream Ahead) just getting the better of Gifted Master (Kodiac) for second. The winner of five of her six starts to date, including three at Group level, she has made stealthy progress and is now likely to Quiet Reflection (Showcasing) eases to victory in the race next in the Gr.1 Commonwealth Stakes at Royal Ascot. Gr.2 Sandy Lane Stakes at Haydock Park yesterday Trainer Karl Burke said, “She’s a different filly to the one that won in France [last month], she’s physically matured since then and I Trophy winner Clare Hills (Orpen), from the family of the Gr.1 knew she’d improved. It wasn’t the idea to sit that far back, but when Moyglare Stud Stakes-second Fear And Greed (Brief Truce). I saw him [jockey Dougie Costello] cruise up on her two out, I Whitsbury Manor Stud, where Showcasing stands, had earlier thought he’d gone too soon. She’s got a fantastic turn of foot and a cause for celebration when Scofflaw, a son of Foxwedge, who high cruising speed and, when you put them together, it makes stands at Whitsbury when on Northern Hemisphere duty, won a something special. Six furlongs is obviously no problem and at Ascot novice at Chester. we may as well keep her to her own age group [Gr.1 Commonwealth Cup], where hopefully the American [Acapulco] might give us a nice PINNACLE STAKES lead! If it was soft, we could go for the [Gr.1] King’s Stand [Stakes].” Journey, who won two Listed races last season, stepped up on Bred by Springcombe Park Stud and twice a DBS graduate, she those efforts to take the Gr.3 Pinnacle Stakes on the same card. is out of a winning daughter of the Listed (then) Hilary Needler The four-year-old daughter of Dubawi raced keenly behind the A Listed double at Bordeaux-le Bouscat for HARAS DE MONTAIGU Bred and raised by Haras de Montaigu: SAGAROI wins the Listed Derby du Midi & SHUTTERBUG lands the Listed Grand Prix de Bordeaux. HARAS DE MONTAIGU, 61240 NONANT LE PIN, FRANCE Contact: ALIETTE FORIEN Mob +33 608 582 136 Email: [email protected] www.harasdemontaigu.com CALL: +44 (0) 1638 66 65 12 1 RACING REVIEW EBN: SUNDAY, 29TH MAY 2016 leader Sweeping Up (Sea The Stars) before taking up the old son of Starspangledbanner made all the running and, when running over a furlong out. She ran on strongly in the closing strongly pressed in the closing stages by Convey (Dansili), he stages and was eased down to win by a length and a quarter from held on gamely to win by a neck. Third in Gr.3 Sirenia Stakes at Sweeping Up. Last year’s winner Miss Marjurie (Marju) again ran two, he opened his Stakes account last year by winning the Listed a good race, finishing three and a quarter lengths adrift in third. European Free Handicap and then finished sixth in the Gr.1 2,000 Journey currently holds entries in the Gr.2 Hardwicke Stakes at Guineas. Dropped back in trip, he finished sixth in the Gr.1 the Royal meeting, as well as the Gr.1 Pretty Polly Stakes. Commonwealth Stakes and then “won” the Gr.3 Minstrel Stakes, Jockey Frankie Dettori told Channel 4 Racing, “It was a good only to lose it later after failing a post race test, but his performance effort, she’s not easy, but she has lots of ability. With a race under her that day indicated that he could be a force to be reckoned with at belt, she’s run well. I was happy enough, but I still feel she can move that distance, as he demonstrated last month when winning the better. She thrived on the soft ground at Ascot on Champions Day. Listed King Richard III Stakes. The ground here is on the good to firm side now and it’s quick enough Winning trainer Hugo Palmer, who was training his first horse for her. She tries her heart out, but if we can drop her in we can get her for Godolphin, said, “This was a bit of a recovery mission, but he’s a better. In the first two furlongs she wasn’t really taking me, but Gr.3 winner again now. What I loved today was the way he had to dig approaching the bend she lit up and I had to get the revs down. Two deep, as in all his races previously he’s either won easily or been and a half furlongs out, she quickened up and put the race to bed. beaten a long way. Today he was softened up by Breton Rock, but She’s very honest, but she’s not easy. I only have to ride her in races still fought off Convey. He’s much more amenable now. I told James and I’m glad of that, the lads at home do a great job with her. Like don’t be afraid to mess about with the pace, which he did, but he felt most fillies, she can be temperamental.” he may have won easier if he’d just let him roll, but that might have Homebred by George Strawbridge, she is out of the Gr.1 Prix suited So Beloved. There is a Gr.1 at Saratoga in June for him, Royal-Oak winner Montare (Montjeu), a half-sister to the Listed beyond that there’s the Keeneland Mile and the Breeders’ Cup Mile. Prix Isonomy-third Destare (Desert Prince), from the family of "Over here there are a few seven-furlong races, but all within a few the European Group winners Feu De Guerre and Wizard King, as weeks of each other, so you have to aim at one. Then there’s the [Gr.1 well as the Champion Two-Year-Old filly Sovereign. Prix de la] Foret, but that’s usually on soft ground.” Bred by Ecurie de Grand Chene and an Arqana graduate, he is JURY STAKES out of the unraced Blissful Beat (Beat Hollow), a half-sister to Home Of The Brave pulled out all the stops to win the Gr.3 Jury the Gr.2 Criterion Stakes winner Suggestive and the Gr.3 Prix de Stakes in the colours of his new owner Godolphin. The four-year- Conde winner and sire Rashbag, both by Reprimand. HOME OF THE BRAVE c.2012 Starspangledbanner x Blissful Beat Timeform Jury Stakes (Gr.3), Haydock Trainer: Hugo Palmer Owner: Godolphin 2013 August Yearling Sale Price: €80,000 Buyer: Flemington Bloodstock Vendor: Coulonces Consignment PRICELESS Breeder : Écurie du Grand Chêne MOMENT NEXT SALE Summer Sale June 29 – July 1 Ltd © Racingfotos Deauville 2 CALL: +44 (0) 1638 66 65 12 RACING REVIEW EBN: SUNDAY, 29TH MAY 2016 BEVERLEY FRANCE Kodiac and Bansha House Stud celebrated a double at Beverley when Prince Of Lir, his two-year-old son won the Two-Year-Old PROGRESSIVE SAGAROI Trophy Conditions Stakes and his daughter Grizzel took the Hilary Needler Trophy Fillies’ Conditions Stakes, both prestigious TAKES DERBY IN STYLE events with a proud history. Sagaroi took his unbeaten record to three this season with a Con Marnane’s stud consigned Prince Of Lir to the Goffs UK comfortable victory in the Listed Derby du Midi, one of two Listed Breeze-Up Sale, where he was bought by his owner’s The Cool Silk races on yesterday’s Bordeaux Le Bouscat. The three-year-old son Partnership, with Anthony Stroud and Matt Coleman, for of King’s Best made all the running and was able to hold £170,000, while Grizzel was part of the Bansha House draft to Academic (Zamindar) at bay to score by a length. Tattersalls Craven Breeze-Up Sale, where she was bought by Peter Though his two wins earlier this year have been in moderate and Ross Doyle Bloodstock for 75,000gns. events, his connections clearly hold him in high regard, as he has Later Miss Marjurie (Marju), whom Marnane consigned to the an entry in the Gr.1 Prix de l’Arc de Triomphe. 2012 Tattersalls Craven Breeze-Up Sale, put up a solid performance Bred by Christopher Mahoney and an Arqana graduate in defeat in an attempt to defend her crown in the Gr.3 Pinnacle (consigned by Haras de la Reboursiere et de Montaigu, as was the Stakes at Haydock Park. Listed Grand Prix de Bordeaux winner Shutterbug), he is out of a winning full-sister to the Gr.1 Prix de l’Arc de Triomphe winner and sire Sagamix and the Gr.2 Prix de Malleret winner Sage Et GERMANY Jolie (dam of the Gr.1 Prix d’Ispahan winner and sire Sageburg) and the Gr.1 Criterium de Saint-Cloud winner and sire Sagacity TRIAL WIN BOOSTS STAR (Highest Honor), a family developed and campaigned by the late TO HEAD OF THE DERBY MARKET Jean-Luc Lagardere.