Churchill Meets Nine in Champion Test
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FRIDAY, 8 SEPTEMBER, 2017 HOUTZEN RESUMES AT THE VALLEY CHURCHILL MEETS NINE IN Last season=s Magic Millions 2YO Classic winner Houtzen (Aus) CHAMPION TEST (I Am Invincible {Aus}) makes the first start of her Everest campaign in Saturday=s G2 McEwen S. at Moonee Valley. The 3-year-old filly, who was last seen suffering her first defeat when fifth in a soggy G1 Golden Slipper on Mar. 18, is the $2.40 favourite as she receives a minimum of 14 pounds from her elder rivals. Those include the 4-year-old Russian Revolution (Aus) (Snitzel {Aus}), last season=s G1 The Galaxy winner who also makes his seasonal debut. Also returning at Moonee Valley on Saturday is the 4-year-old filly Bonneval (NZ) (Makfi {GB}), who was last seen running away with the G1 ATC Oaks at The Championships on Apr. 8. Saturday=s feature race in Sydney is the G2 Run To The Rose for 3-year-old sprinters, where last-out The Rosebud winner Menari (Aus) (Snitzel {Aus}) is favoured from the Aug. 26 G3 San Domenico winner and >TDN Rising Star= Pariah (Aus) (Redoute=s Choice {Aus}). Churchill heads a three-pronged Ballydoyle assault on the G1 Irish Champion S. | racingfotos.com IN TDN AMERICA TODAY Churchill (Ire) (Galileo {Ire}) will spearhead Aidan O=Brien=s PROMISING JUVENILES WITH KEESEP KIN latest assault on the G1 QIPCO Irish Champion S. at Brian DiDonato takes a look at some of the entries to next week’s Leopardstown on Saturday, with stablemate Winter (Ire) Keeneland September sale with promising siblings. Click or tap (Galileo {Ire}) going to the same card=s G1 Matron S. here to go straight to TDN America. This year=s G1 English and Irish 2000 Guineas hero beat all bar Ulysses (Ire) (Galileo {Ire}) in the G1 Juddmonte International over this 10-furlong trip at York last time on Aug. 23, and will be a warm order to give the current Ballydoyle maestro an eighth edition. Joining him is the G1 Epsom Derby runner-up and >TDN Rising Star= Cliffs of Moher (Ire) (Galileo {Ire}), who was fourth in the Juddmonte, and the GI Secretariat S. second Taj Mahal (Ire) (Galileo {Ire}). There is a strong British challenge headed by Sir Peter Vela=s Eminent (Ire) (Frankel {GB}), who was sixth behind Churchill in the 2000 Guineas but who looked a different proposition last time when allowed to bowl along by Ryan Moore in the G2 Prix Guillaume d=Ornano at Deauville on Aug. 15. Drawn in one, he will have Churchill alongside in two while the other high-profile visitors Poet=s Word (Ire) (Poet=s Voice {GB}) and Decorated Knight (GB) (Galileo {Ire}) have fared less well with post positions nine and 10, respectively. TDN EUROPE/INTERNATIONAL • PAGE 2 OF 11 • THETDN.COM FRIDAY • 8 SEPTEMBER, 2017 Thursday, Salisbury, Britain BATHWICK TYRES DICK POOLE FILLIES S.-G3, ,42,500, SAL, 9-7, 2yo, f, 6fT, 1:15.30, gd. 1--ANNA NERIUM (GB), 126, f, 2, by Dubawi (Ire) 1st Dam: Anna Oleanda (Ire), by Old Vic (GB) 2nd Dam: Anna Paola (Ger), by Prince Ippi (Ger) 3rd Dam: Antwerpen (Ger), by Waldcanter (Ger) *1st Stakes Win. (300,000gns RNA Ylg >16 TATOCT). O-Exors of the Late Mr R. J. McCreery; B-Stowell Hill Ltd. (GB); T-Richard Hannon; J-Tom Marquand. ,24,102. Lifetime Record: 4-2-0-1, $39,861. *Full to Piping Rock (GB), GSW-Eng, & 1/2 to Middle Club (GB) (Fantastic Light), GSW-Fr, GSP-Ity & MSP-Eng, $254,972. Click for the eNicks report & 5-cross pedigree. Werk Nick Rating: A. 2--Eirene (GB), 126, f, 2, Declaration of War--Za Za Zoom (Ire), by Le Vie Dei Colori (GB). (85,000gns Wlg >15 TATFOA). O-Mr M. J. Yarrow; B-Scuderia Archi Romani (GB); T-Dean Ivory. ,9,138. 3--Special Purpose (Ire), 126, f, 2, Scat Daddy--Pussycat Lips (Ire), by Holy Roman Emperor (Ire). (,90,000 Ylg >16 GOUKPR). O-Qatar Racing Limited; B-Epona Bloodstock Ltd (IRE); T-William Haggas. ,4,573. Margins: NK, NO, 1. Odds: 40.00, 3.50, 3.50. Also Ran: One Minute (Ire), Oriental Song (Ire), Crossing The Line (GB), Mrs Gallagher (GB), Bambino Lola (GB), Reflect Alexander (Ire), Izzy Bizu (Ire), Tricksy Spirit (GB), Misty Spirit (GB), Listen Alexander (Ire). Scratched: Elizabeth Bennet (Ire), Lamya (Ger). Click for the Racing Post result. Video, sponsored by Fasig-Tipton. Third on her second outing behind the G3 Princess Margaret S. fourth Spring Cosmos (Ire) (Acclamation {GB}) over six furlongs at Newmarket on July 13, Anna Nerium scored over a furlong further back there last time on July 29 but carried little kudos into this event at a huge 40-1. Those odds looked not far off the mark as she was outpaced at halfway racing worse than mid- division and her chance looked forlorn two out as Tom Marquand applied some pressure. Getting rolling late as stamina came into play, the chestnut swooped on the Listed St Hugh=s S. winner Eirene in the final yards to prevail by a neck, with the G2 Lowther S. fifth Special Purpose just behind in third. Pedigree Notes... Anna Nerium is a full-sister to the same connections=s classy G3 Horris Hill S. scorer Piping Rock (GB), who retired unbeaten after three starts at two without the chance to test his Classic credentials. She is also a half-sister to three other black-type performers including the stable=s G3 Prix d=Aumale winner and G2 Oaks d=Italia runner-up Middle Club and the G3 Prix de Royaumont third Anna Mona (Ger) (Monsun {Ger}). TDN EUROPE/INTERNATIONAL • PAGE 3 OF 11 • THETDN.COM FRIDAY • 8 SEPTEMBER, 2017 Sheikha Al Jalila Racing=s famed maroon-and-white silks were seen in the winner=s enclosure at Windsor on Monday and they are carried on a grander scale at Saint-Cloud on Friday as the promising Glorious Journey (GB) (Dubawi {Ire}) takes in the G3 Prix la Rochette. He beat the useful Grand Koonta (Ire) (Dark Angel {Ire}) and Take Me With You (Scat Daddy) on his sole start over six furlongs at Newmarket on June 10 and meets only three rivals in this weak-looking renewal. The pick of them is Bertrand Belinguier=s Feralia (Fr) (Pedro the Great), who took the six- furlong Criterium du Bequet at La Teste de Buch on Aug. 1 and represents the Jean-Claude Rouget stable. Tom Marquand and Anna Nerium | racingfotos.com Another of the dam=s daughters, Coplow (GB) (Manduro {Ger}), has given the Hannons more reason for jubilation by producing the 2-year-old filly Billesdon Brook (GB) (Champs Elysees {GB}), who was third in the Listed Star S. before winning the G3 Prestige S., and also Billesdon Bess (GB) (Dick Turpin BIG ORANGE OUT OF IRISH LEGER {Ire}), who captured the recent Listed Upavon S. here. The second dam Anna Paola was the German champion 2-year-old and 3-year-old filly due to her successes in the G2 Preis der Diana (German Oaks) and G3 Preis des Winterfavoriten, and also produced Anno Luce (GB) (Old Vic {GB}), who took the G3 Preis der Hannoverschen and was third in the Diana herself. This is also the family of the MG1SP Annus Mirabilis (Fr) (Warning {GB}) and the G3 Park Hill S.-winning highweight Anna of Saxony (GB) (Ela-Mana-Mou {Ire}). Click for the free Equineline.com catalogue-style pedigree. THE JOURNEY CONTINUES Big Orange | Racing Post G1 Gold Cup winner Big Orange (GB) (Duke of Marmalade {Ire}) has been removed from consideration for Sunday=s G1 Irish St Leger due to the soft going and further expected rain. Therefore, a rematch with last year=s Gold Cup winner and this year=s second Order Of St George (Ire) (Galileo {Ire}) is off. Big Orange will be rerouted to the G1 Prix du Cadran on Arc weekend on Oct. 1. "Given the prevailing ground conditions of yielding to soft, I'm afraid we won't be running," trainer Michael Bell told At The Races. "There's little point in playing away from home on a surface that doesn't suit. He'll now go for the Prix du Cadran on Arc weekend. Every time I've had runners over that weekend it's Sheikha Al Jalila with parents Sheikh Mohammed always been pretty decent ground, so it's fingers crossed for the and Princess Haya at Royal Ascot | Racing Post same. TDN EUROPE/INTERNATIONAL • PAGE 4 OF 11 • THETDN.COM FRIDAY • 8 SEPTEMBER, 2017 Big Orange cont. Commenting on his new recruit, Ed Dunlop said, "I'm Bell added, AHe's been lightly campaigned and he's a very easy absolutely delighted to have been asked to train such a horse to train and keep fit because he's so clean-winded. He well-bred horse for OTI. They are having lots of winners at the makes life relatively easy." moment and have some nice horses racing for them around the world so I hope that this colt will be very lucky for OTI in the future." Dunlop's record in the Melbourne Cup includes three ALMANDIN HALF-BROTHER TO DUNLOP runner-up finishes for Red Cadeaux, while his G1 Ascot Gold Cup winner Trip To Paris (Ire) (Champs Elysees {GB}) was fourth in A Tertullian half-brother to last year's G1 Emirates Melbourne 2015 behind Prince Of Penzance (NZ) (Pentire {GB}) after Cup winner Almandin (Ger) (Monsun {Ger}) will go into training finishing second in the G1 Caulfield Cup.