TUESDAY, 25 MAY 2021 THE WEEKLY WRAP: INCARVILLE PREVAILS IN SAINT-ALARY THRILLER CLASSICS, CLASSICS Monday=s G1 Saxon Warrior Coolmore Prix Saint-Alary had a wide-open feel beforehand and that was reflected in the finish EVERYWHERE with less than a length separating the first four home in the ParisLongchamp feature. In the event, it was Gerard Augustin-Normand=s Incarville (Fr) (Wootton Bassett {GB}) who prevailed in a three-way photo with Cirona (GB) (Maxios {GB}) and Es La Vida (Ger) (Soldier Hollow {GB}) as >TDN Rising Star= Sibila Spain (Ire) (Frankel {GB}) was a close-up fourth and possibly unlucky. Runner-up in the 10 1/2-furlong G3 Prix Cleopatre at Saint-Cloud at the beginning of May, Incarville was held up in rear early by Christophe Soumillon along with Sibila Spain but whereas she had room for a clear run down the outside at the top of the straight her previously-unbeaten peer was shut in for crucial moments there. Cont. p6 Jackie & Jim Bolger | Amy Lynam/ITM IN TDN AMERICA TODAY WINSTAR STALLION LAOBAN DIES By Emma Berry GII Jim Dandy S. hero Laoban (Uncle Mo) passed away suddenly It seems harsh, when the British and Irish Classics have so far at WinStar Farm on Monday. Click or tap here to go straight to have been split two apiece between Jim Bolger and Aidan TDN America. O'Brien, to suggest that this season is all about Bolger. But, let's face it, it is. Plenty has been written about Poetic Flare (Ire) (Dawn Approach {Ire}) and Mac Swiney (Ire) (New Approach {Ire}) and the fact that both sides of their families are very much ingrained in the Bolger breeding and training academy. What is equally admirable, especially in the case of Mac Swiney, is the fact that they are being rigorously campaigned. The trainer has already confirmed that the Irish 2000 Guineas winner is now on course for Epsom in an attempt to emulate both his sire and grandsire in the race that many people still consider to be the greatest of them all. Surprisingly, the master breeder Jim Bolger is not one of them. Following Poetic Flare's triumph at Newmarket, Bolger declared that he believed the 2000 Guineas to be the most important race. That said, he surely will not mind if Mac Swiney delivers a second Derby victory for him, 13 years after New Approach became the first of six Derby winners for Galileo. Cont. p2 TDN EUROPE • PAGE 2 OF 19 • THETDN.COM TUESDAY • 25 MAY 2021 back, so I suppose the lads had him as a king before he came here." He has more than justified that belief, both on the racecourse and at stud, and Galileo has in no small way played a significant part in the training careers of both Bolger and his protege O'Brien. The latter has eight of the remaining Derby entries, Bolger has just one, Mac Swiney, the horse who could become the first Derby winner to be inbred to Galileo, through Bolger's two champion juveniles New Approach and Teofilo (Ire). Furthermore, as breeder, Bolger has another roll of the dice via Classics, Classics Everywhere Cont. from p1 the Mark Johnston-trained Gear Up (Ire), a son of Teofilo. For all his success, which includes wins in the G2 Beresford S., It is worth rewatching Galileo's own Derby triumph 20 years G1 Vertem Futurity and now the Irish 2000 Guineas, the ago to be reminded how the relatively small horse with the mud-loving Mac Swiney has never started favourite and remains massive stride skated round Tattenham Corner and scooted perhaps underrated. Following the coldest, wettest English May clear in the straight. in living memory, it would be folly to overlook the neat, In an interview with TDN earlier this year, Aidan O'Brien tenacious colt at Epsom on the first Saturday of June. Destiny reflected on the racing days of Europe's multiple champion sire, calls. who gave him his first Derby victory, recalling how those connected with Galileo at Coolmore had a high opinion of him Gold For Japan In Rome even as a yearling. Chantilly-based Satoshi Kobayashi has had seven winners in "He didn't walk, he prowled, " O'Brien said. "His walking stride France so far this year but it was in Italy on Sunday that he was so long and there was so much power from his front and recorded the biggest success of his career to date. Cont. p3 TDN EUROPE • PAGE 3 OF 19 • THETDN.COM TUESDAY • 25 MAY 2021 The Weekly Wrap Cont. The trainer sent the Teruya Yoshida homebred Tokyo Gold (Fr) (Kendargent {Fr}) to Capannelle for an easy four-length victory in 138th running of the Derby Italiano, which was downgraded to Group 2 status in 2009. Tokyo Gold is the first Classic winner for his sire Kendargent, and his third group winner this year after the likeable Skalleti Senior Vice President Gary King (Fr) and his full-brother Skazino (Fr). The latter claimed his Twitter: @garykingTDN second group victory of the season when winning the G2 Prix [email protected] Vicomtesse Vigier at ParisLongchamp on Monday. + 1.732.320.0975 Now 18, Kendargent is having a fruitful season in France and is numerically the most successful sire with 38 winners as well as International Editor the Nicolas Caullery-trained Kennella (Fr), who was third in the Kelsey Riley G1 Poule d'Essai des Pouliches. The Haras de Colleville stallion's Twitter: @kelseynrileyTDN reputation is also being enhanced by his son and stablemate [email protected] Goken (Fr), who was leading first-season sire and leading sire of European Editor 2-year-olds in France last year, with 15 winners from just 33 Emma Berry runners, including the group winners Go Athletico (Fr) and Twitter: @collingsberry Livachope (Fr). [email protected] Yoshida, owner of Japan's famous Shadai Farm, has a notably international outlook when it comes to selecting broodmares, Associate International Editor and his support extends to to a number of leading French sires, Heather Anderson including Le Havre (Ire) who is the sire of the latest foal for Arc Twitter: @HLAndersonTDN winner Dandedream (Ger) (Lomitas {GB}). The 13-year-old mare Marketing Manager foaled a filly by the Sumbe stallion last Wednesday in Japan. Alayna Cullen Yoshida also bought Le Havre's Classic-winning daughters La Twitter: @AlaynaCullen Cressonniere (Fr) and Avenir Certain (Fr). The latter has been [email protected] represented by two winners this season in her two daughters by Deep Impact (Jpn), the G2 Hanshin Himba S winner Dea Ailes Contributing Editors (Jpn), and 3-year-old Honneur (Jpn), who are sadly her only Alan Carasso offspring as she died after being covered by Deep Impact in Christina Bossinakis 2018. 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 IN TDN AUS/NZ TODAY BOMAN DELIGHTED WITH TATTS PURCHASE Stuart Boman was pleased with Zaaki (GB) (Leroidesanimaux Skazino | Scoop Dyga {Brz}) in the G1 Doomben Cup. Click or tap here to go straight to TDN Aus/NZ. TDN EUROPE • PAGE 4 OF 19 • THETDN.COM TUESDAY • 25 MAY 2021 The Weekly Wrap Cont. Sea The Moon is thus very similarly bred to Sea Of Sands, who is La Cressonniere visited Shalaa (Ire) and Golden Horn (GB) in now co-favourite for this year's Deutsches Derby on July 4. Europe and is now in Japan, where she had a colt last year by Epiphaneia (Jpn) before being covered by his fellow Shadai Second-Crop Sires To Watch stallion Lord Kanaloa (Jpn). For the current second-crop sires, what happens this year on the racecourse is arguably so much more important than the Carvalho Has Classic Double In Sight results from their first 2-year-old runners. It has been a successful couple of days for the French-born, Mehmas (Ire), who made a frankly staggering start to his stud German-based trainer Jean-Pierre career last year with a record 56 Carvalho, who won Monday's G2 winners, looks to be making that Mehl-Mulhens-Rennen (German important transition with his 2000 Guineas) with Mythico 3-year-olds and is also compiling (Ger), another promising an international profile. The 3-year-old for the recently Tally-Ho Stud resident has so far deceased Adlerflug (Ger). had only four runners in America On Sunday, Carvalho, a former but three of them have won, private trainer at Gestut including the treble Grade III Schlenderhan, saddled Sea Of victrix and appropriately named Sands (Ger) (Sea The Stars {Ire}) to Going Global (Ire), who has now win the G3 Derby Trial at won all four of her American Hoppegarten for owner/breeder starts. Gestut Hony-Hof, an operation we The G3 One Thousand Guineas will be covering in greater detail in Jean-Pierre Carvalho in 2019 | Scoop Dyga Trial winner Keeper Of Time (Ire) Wednesday's TDN. has recently been sold to race in Sea Of Sands represents a family which has had an enormous America and will surely add to her good record across the impact on the German Classics over the last two decades. His Atlantic, as has been the case for Tetragonal (Ire), a grandam Salve Regina (Ger) (Monsun Ger) won the G1 Preis der first-time-out winner for Hugo Palmer last year who won for Diana for Hony-Hof's owner Manfred Hellwig and was second in Richard Baltas on Saturday at Santa Anita on the same card as the G1 Deutsches Derby in 2002, two years after her full-brother Going Global.