TAMARKUZ Winner of the Group 2 Godolphin Mile at Meydan Yesterday
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EUROPEAN BLOODSTOCK NEWS SUNDAY, 29TH MARCH 2015 – 27 PAGES For more information • T: +44 (0)1638 666512 • F:+44 (0)1638 666516 • [email protected] • www.bloodstocknews.eu inch of the way. There’s nothing wrong with finishing Today’s Headlines second in this type of race.” Prince Bishop had won ten previous races, including the RACING REVIEW Gr.1 Al Maktoum Challenge R3 here last season, but had been beaten into second on his two starts at this year’s Carnival. This was the fourth time he had tried the World DUBAWI’S PRINCE Cup; he finished tenth in 2011, seventh in 2012 and ninth last year, and had a crack at the Gr.1 Dubai Sheema LANDS WORLD CUP Classic over a longer trip in 2013, but was only tenth. In his first season as retained jockey for the Godolphin The chesnut was bred by Thurso Limited, in partnership team, William Buick partnered their eight-year-old Prince with Bill Dwan, and was bought for 80,000gns by Bishop (Dubawi) to victory in the world’s richest race, the Meadowlands Bloodstock at the Tattersalls December Foal $10m Gr.1 Dubai World Cup. Tailed off early as the top Sale, where he was offered by the Castlebridge Japanese dirt horse Hokko Tarumae (King Kamehameha) Consignment. He is a half-brother to four winners and is out held a narrow lead against the inside rail, the gelding of a half-sister to US Gr.2 winner Blingo (Artie Schiller) gradually got into contention and flew home on the outside and Ascot Listed victrix Hold To Ransom (Red Ransom), to beat the US runners California Chrome (Lucky Pulpit) who went on to produce the dual Australian Gr.3 winner and Lea (First Samurai) for the $6m first prize. Retrieve and Listed winner Reparations. Further back this Buick said straight after the race: “I cannot believe it. is the good Moller family of triple Group winner Topsy (dam This horse has come good. I can’t express what I’m feeling of Group winner and sire Most Welcome) and her Classic- right now. It's very surreal. We were detached last but we placed half-sister Furioso, dam of Gr.1 Derby winner and ended up travelling very well in the last turn. I feel a bit sire Teenoso. Prince Bishop’s dam, North East Bay numb at the moment but I’m sure when I get home it will (Prospect Bay), is boarded at Bill Dwan’s Castlebridge all sink in. It's a great team effort.” Stud, where she has a yearling colt by Casamento and is The successful trainer Saeed Bin Suroor, winning the visiting Sea The Moon this year. race for a record seventh time, added: “I knew the horse The victory capped a terrific day for Darley’s Dalham had ability. It’s such an important victory. I am very happy Hall Stud-based Dubawi, who was also responsible for with that. This horse has class and he has a big heart.” yesterday’s Gr.2 UAE Derby winner Mubtaahij, Australian California Chrome’s trainer Art Sherman was pleased Gr.2 victrix Catkins and South African Gr.3 winner Amber with his chesnut, commenting, “He lost a lot of ground on Orchid. A son of the 2000 Dubai World Cup winner Dubai both turns but he still ran game. He ran his eyeballs out. Millennium, Dubawi has sired a previous winner of the I’m just happy he came back in one piece. He tried every race in Monterosso, successful in the 2012 running. Group 2 first and second for September Yearling Sale Graduates TAMARKUZ Winner of the Group 2 Godolphin Mile at Meydan yesterday. Consignor: Glennwood Farm, Agent Keeneland Association, Inc. Buyer: Shadwell Estate Company for $325,000 P.O. Box 1690, Lexington, KY 40588-1690, Breeder: John D Gunther 4201 Versailles Rd, Lexington, KY 40510 Owner: Hamdan Al Maktoum Tel 001 859 254-3412 • Fax 001 859 233-2257 www.keeneland.com 2nd SLOANE AVENUE European Representative: Ed Prosser Consignor: Claiborne Farm First Floor, 239 Kensington High Street, Buyer: Cloran Stud for $85,000 London, W8 6SA Breeder: Claiborne Farm & Adele B Dilschneider Tel 0207 316 3060 • Mobile 07808 477827 Owner: Mrs Susan Roy [email protected] 1 EBN Sunday, 29th March 2015 RACING REVIEW GR.2 GODOLPHIN MILE FOR FAVOURITE TAMARKUZ Thoroughbred racing at Meydan yesterday started with the Gr.2 Godolphin MIle on the dirt course. The hot favourite Tamarkuz (Speightstown) was slowly away on the inside, as was Sloane Avenue (Candy Ride) from his wide draw, and the field was taken along by the locally- trained Frankyfourfingers (Sunday Break). The latter still led with 200m to run but was closed down in the final stages as Tamarkuz, who had been able to get into a position behind the leaders, moved to the front and just held off Sloane Avenue by a short-head. Jockey Paul Hanagan said of his partner’s slow start: “It was a lot for him to take in. I think the whole occasion might have got to him, but he dug so deep for me. It was a really genuine performance. When you win four on the bounce in very good races you have to give him a lot of respect.” The four victories in a row he referred to included February’s Gr.3 Firebreak Stakes and the Gr.3 Burj Nahaar on Super Saturday, and Tamarkuz has now won seven of his 13 starts. He was initially trained by Saeed bin Suroor for Godolphin but now runs in the colours of Hamdan Al Maktoum from the yard of M Al Muhairi. Bred by John Gunther in Kentucky and a $325,000 Keeneland September Sale purchase by Shadwell Estate Company, the chesnut is out of an unraced half-sister to the dual Gr.1 winner and sire Stay Thirsty (Bernardini), Gr.3 winner Andromeda’s Hero (Fusaichi Pegasus) and the Gr.1-placed Stakes winner Superfly (Fusaichi Pegasus). His Stakes-winning grandam, Make Change (Roberto), was placed eight times at Gr.1 level and under the Gr.1- placed third dam, Equal Change (Arts And Letters) are eleventh victory in 25 runs and his fifth at Group level. US Gr.1 winners Whywhywhy and Crisp, along with Group Yesterday’s win took his earnings to well over £1m – not a winners Nayyir, HIghest and Sky Hunter. bad return for a horse who was bought in at Brightwells for PANTHER STRIKES IN just £1,500 as a yearling. DUBAI GOLD CUP He is one of three Gr.1 winners on the flat for his multiple Gr.1-winning sire Shirocco and is the best of the four Brown Panther (Shirocco) had finished unplaced both winners and seven foals (all sons) produced by the times he has travelled out of Europe (2013 Gr.1 Melbourne Unfuwain mare Treble Heights, a Listed winner and Cup and 2014 Gr.1 Breeders’ Cup Turf) but he made his second in the Gr.2 Prix de Pomone in 2003 in Owen’s first outing to the UAE a winning one in the Gr.2 Dubai colours. She is a half-sister to the Gr.1 Ascot Gold Cup Gold Cup over 3200m. Settled behind the pacesetting third Warm Feeling (Kalaglow) and three Listed-placed Mushreq (Flying Spur), he went for home around the final winners, while the English Champion Two-Year-Old Filly turn under his regular jockey Richard Kingscote and soon Pasty is further back in his family. put the race to bed, staying on really well to score by three and a quarter lengths. Star Empire (Second Empire) was KENTUCKY DERBY BECKONS his nearest pursuer at the line, with Ahzeemah (Dubawi) FOR DERBY HERO MUBTAAHIJ a close third. His happy breeder and part-owner Michael Owen said After his narrow win in the Gr.3 Al Bastikiya over the same afterwards: “He’s been a superstar from day one and this 1900m trip, Mike de Kock’s Irish-bred Dubawi colt man [Tom Dascombe] has trained him to perfection. He Mubtaahij was sent off favourite for the Gr.2 UAE Derby always jumps really well out of the traps and he found and he turned the race into a procession, scoring by eight himself right up there. The rest is history, as they say. He’s lengths. His Gr.3 UAE 2,000 Guineas conqueror Maftool a special horse. I’ll probably never replace a horse like (Hard Spun) finished second after missing the break and this. It’s been an amazing story.” having to race wide. Dascombe added, “You spend months trying to get him The winner had finished unplaced twice at Newmarket right for the day and it’s all gone well. After about 100 last season and broke his maiden on the dirt at Meydan on yards I was pretty confident it was going to be our day. 31st December. This was his third victory in four starts He’s a phenomenal horse; he doesn’t know how to run a since and he will now be aimed at the Gr.1 Kentucky Derby bad race. Hopefully he’s better than ever.” at Churchill Downs, as his trainer confirmed, saying, “He’s The seven-year-old entire has now won on his seasonal given us the chance to get to Kentucky for the Derby and reappearance for the past three years and this was his that will be living the dream. 3 EBN Sunday, 29th March 2015 RACING REVIEW “Christophe [Soumillon] had him in the most remarkable Sole Power, who took his earnings to more than £1.9m position throughout the race.