Royal Ascot Listed Success for NAYEF Sire of SNOANO Winner of the Listed Wolferton Handicap
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SUNDAY, 25TH JUNE 2017 EBN EUROPEAN BLOODSTOCK NEWS FOR MORE INFORMATION: TEL: +44 (0) 1638 666512 • FAX: +44 (0) 1638 666516 • [email protected] • WWW.BLOODSTOCKNEWS.EU SIRES’ ROLL OF HONOUR | STAKES RESULTS | NH STAKES REVIEW | STAKES FIELDS TODAY’S HEADLINES RACING REVIEW TIN PROVES HIS METTLE IN DIAMOND JUBILEE The Tin Man, who made such dramatic progress thorough the picture courtesy of RACINGFOTOS.COM sprinting ranks last year, culminating in victory in the Gr.1 British Champions Sprint Stakes, added further lustre to his CV with a win in the Gr.1 Diamond Jubilee Stakes, the feature race on the fifth and final day of Royal Ascot. The Tin Man (Equiano) powers to victory in the Gr.1 Ridden by Tom Queally, the five-year-old son of Equiano was Diamond Jubilee Stakes from Tasleet (Showcasing) [blue held up early on in the six-furlong event but, having threaded a colours] and Limato (Tagula) [green] passage towards the far-side rail at the two furlong pole, the imposing gelding stayed on tenaciously, despite drifting left to “Tom gave him the most beautiful ride today. The Tin Man is a star score by a neck from the fast-finishing Tasleet (Showcasing) in horse and we are lucky to have him. Tom has proved that there is no second, with the favourite Limato (Tagula) a further three man better in the big races than him and he rode the horse beautifully quarters of a length behind in third. A Stewards’ enquiry was today; it’s great for the yard as well. called concerning interference between the first three horses, but “There is no place like Royal Ascot to train Gr.1 winners. To have a the placings remained unaltered. horse of that calibre, with the Fred Archer Partnership, is really The gelding, who also finished fourth in the 2015 Gr.1 Champion exciting. The horse is so laidback but, when he produces that sort of Sprint Stakes, was gaining his third victory at the track. The Tin performance, it is absolutely thrilling. He is the best older sprinter, I Man groom’s Oleg Sheyets also won the best turned out award. am not sure about the three-year-olds, but he has done it twice now. Fanshawe, registering his tenth victory at the Royal Meeting and He won the Champion Sprint last year and the Diamond Jubilee this second success in the contest after Society Rock in 2011, said: “I year. He is a very, very good horse. am a very relieved man. I am extremely grateful to The Tin Man, for “He loves Ascot, I think it’s the third time he has won here and it giving a fantastic performance. This horse doesn’t tell you a thing back suits his style, as he likes to come from off the pace. His acceleration home. He just has a buck and a kick and does none of his homework. really comes to the fore here. I was concerned about the ground Royal Ascot Listed success for NAYEF Sire of SNOANO Winner of the Listed Wolferton Handicap. Breeder: Minster Stud. +44 (0)1842 755913 R [email protected] R www.shadwellstud.co.uk CALL: +44 (0) 1638 66 65 12 1 RACING REVIEW EBN: SUNDAY, 25TH JUNE 2017 today, but Tom said when he won at Newbury [July 16] last year, it was like a road, so he put me at ease about that. “The Tin Man was the first horse we bought for the Fred Archer Syndicate and he is the top-rated sprinter, so he is a great advert for the syndicate and Fred Archer also built my yard! We have been a bit thin on the ground with runners this year, but it doesn’t matter when you have a horse like The Tin Man to get you out of jail.” “I’ll see how he comes out of this race. He is entered in the [Gr.1] July Cup, it’s the obvious target, but we will play it by ear. Things have come right for him at Ascot this year and he is in good form at the moment. There looks to be a good three-year-old around the place [Aidan O’Brien’s Caravaggio], so we’ll see what happens later in the year. “He is great for the yard and a great horse to have. I’m sure we will meet with Caravaggio at some point this year and let’s just hope The Tin Man is in one piece when they do meet up.” Owned by the Fred Archer Racing-Ormonde syndicate, which was set up by Fanshawe’s wife Jacko, bred by Elizabeth Grundy and a Tattersalls graduate (one of four Royal Ascot winners yesterday), he is a half-brother to the Champion Sprinter Deacon Blues (Compton Place), who also landed the Gr.2 (then) British Champions Sprint Stakes, and the Listed-placed filly Holley INVINCIBLE ARMY Shiftwell (Bahamian Bounty). They are out of the dual winner owned by Saeed Manana Persario (Bishop Of Cashel), a half-sister to the triple Gr.3 (then) wins the 50th Leicestershire Stakes winner, Gr.1 Prix de la Foret-third and sire £25,000 Tattersalls Warningford (Warning). Like his son, Equiano, who stands at Newsells Park Stud, had his October Book 1 Bonus finest moments at Royal Ascot, winning the Gr.1 King’s Stand winning Stakes twice. HARDWICKE STAKES £ 37,0 2 8 Idaho provided his dam Hveger with her second Group winner of the week at Royal Ascot when her four-year-old son of Galileo sold Highclere Stud followed his Gr.1 Prince of Wales’s Stakes-winning elder brother to Dermot Farrington Highland Reel to take the Gr.2 Hardwicke Stakes. Held up behind for 95,000 gns the leaders, headed by Dal Harraild (Champs Elysees), he was sent to chase Dartmouth (Dubawi), who took over the running in the straight. He quickly overhauled the Royal runner and set £25,000 Tattersalls October Book 1 Bonus sail for home, but his winning margin shrunk as Barsanti (Champs only for horses sold at Elysees) finished like a train from a long way back to get within Tattersalls October half a length of the winner. Yearling Sale, Book 1 Trainer Aidan O’Brien said: “He is a full-brother to Highland Reel, he has a fabulous pedigree and we’ve always loved him. Epsom was his first run of the year and he arrived at the track only an hour before the race [after travel problems] and he was very upset and he never got time to cool down. He was very unlucky in the St Leger last year, he had a lovely position in the straight. “Look, we are delighted; he is by Galileo and they never know when to stop improving and trying. Seamie [Heffernan] gave him a peach of a ride. We were very happy coming into the race.” Often overlooked, Idaho finished third in the Gr.1 Derby and second in the Gr.1 Irish Derby to Harzand, before taking the Gr.2 Great Voltigeur on his way to his disastrous run in the Gr.1 St Leger where he stumbled and unseated Heffernan three furlongs from home. Bred by the Hveger Syndicate, he is also a half-brother to the Australian-born Valdemoro (Encosta De Lago), who was second follow | like | watch in the Gr.1 Crown Oaks and the Gr.1 Storm Queen Stakes. Their Tel: +44 1638 665931 | tattersalls.com dam Hveger (Danehill) was placed in the Gr.1 Australasian Oaks and is a full-sister to the multiple Gr.1 winner and Haras du Petit Tellier-based sire Elvstroem and a half-sister to the triple Gr.1 2 CALL: +44 (0) 1638 66 65 12 RACING REVIEW EBN: SUNDAY, 25TH JUNE 2017 winner and sire Haradasun (Fusaichi Pegasus), who won the impressive that day and what’s unusual about her is that she is not a Gr.1 Queen Anne Stakes in 2008, from the family of the Champion very big filly, but she thinks she is big; she has a big personality. Like Sprinter and sire Starspangledbanner (Choisir), who was also a those very good ones, she has a real presence about her. Royal Ascot winner at the highest level in 2010. “You would imagine that she would stay much further in time. We might try and finish the season racing at a mile and then see where CHESHAM STAKES we go next year; I’m delighted that she does have the pace to run at Diminutive September lived up to her tall reputation, following seven. her easy victory at Leopardstown early in the month, with a “She could go to the [Gr.2] Debutante [Stakes] and then onto the comfortably victory in the Listed Chesham Stakes. [Gr.1] Moyglare [Stakes] next. She is bred to stay very well, we were Slowly away and bumped leaving the stalls, the two-year-old thinking of running her in the Albany Stakes, but Ryan [Moore, daughter of Deep Impact was held up towards the rear of the jockey] thought we should come to this race.” field, travelling strongly, as Nyaleti (Arch) set a searching pace up Bred by Orpendale and Chelston, she is a full-sister to the front. She began to make her move three furlongs out, quickening winner Wisconsin, who charted a somewhat unorthodox course to the front inside the final furlong and, though Nyaleti kept on when finishing well down the field in the Gr.2 Queen’s Vase on doggedly, she had her measure and strode away to score by two Friday, and a half-sister to Sir John Hawkins (Henrythenavigator), and a quarter lengths, with Masar (New Approach) a short head who was third in the 2013 Gr.2 Coventry Stakes behind War behind in third.