WEDNESDAY, 25 MAY, 2016 HOLLER ASCOT BOUND, TARGET TBD HIKARI POWERS HOME Godolphin=s Group 1 winning sprinter Holler (Aus) (Commands AT CHANTILLY {Aus}) will ship out from Australia May 31 to take in a choice of engagements at Royal Ascot. Trainer John O=Shea has indicated the owners= first choice is the G1 Diamond Jubilee S. over six furlongs on the final day of the meeting but has not ruled out Holler | Racing And Sports taking in the opening day=s sprint, the G1 King=s Stand S. June 14. "He's in good order and he'll be based at Godolphin's Moulton Paddocks and we hope he does well out there,@ said O=Shea. AHe's in both races, but we'll play it by ear. It's obviously up to the powers that be, but we'll wait to see how the next fortnight pans out." Cont. p9 A Shin Hikari | Scoop Dyga IN TDN AMERICA TODAY So impressive when winning the G1 Hong Kong Cup at Sha Tin SEVEN-FIGURE SUCCESS AT FASIG MIDLANTIC SALE in December, Eishindo Co Ltd=s A Shin Hikari (Jpn) (Deep Impact A filly from the second crop of US sire sensation Uncle Mo sold {Jpn}) dished out some more of the same punishment to his to prominent New York owner Chester Broman for $1 milion to European rivals in Tuesday=s G1 Prix d=Ispahan at Chantilly to top the two-day sale. stake a claim to world number one status. This renewal looked a Click or tap here to go straight to TDN America. solid one, with several of the continent=s finest lining up in varying states of readiness but the way the Japanese raider brushed them aside suggests there is nothing on this side of the globe that can give him a hard time. Sent off a large-looking 74- 10, the grey was settled in second early by Yuataka Take as Vadamos (Fr) (Monsun {Ger}) took up pace-setting duties, he loomed to that rival passing the quarter pole and surged clear for a dismissal of the G1 Prix Ganay one-two Dariyan (Fr) (Shamardal) and Silverwave (Fr) (Silver Frost {Ire}) by 10 lengths and 1 3/4 lengths respectively. AIt was the owner=s wish to race in Europe and the main concern beforehand was the condition of the ground more than his fitness, but it proved no problem,@ trainer Masanori Sakaguchi said. AHe usually likes to show the way, but that was not the case today. The change of tactic obviously didn=t matter and it was a good show from him. The plan now is to ship him in two weeks to England for the G1 Prince of Wales=s S. [at Royal Ascot June 15] and then go back home because he is not an Arc horse. A mile and a half is much too far for him.@ Prix d=Ispahan cont. p2 DISCOVER GREATNESS ANIMAL KINGDOM Leroidesanimaux (BRZ) - Dalicia (GER) | www.arrowfield.com.au TDN EUROPE/INTERNATIONAL • PAGE 2 OF 10 • THETDN.COM WEDNESDAY • 25 MAY, 2016 Prix d=Ispahan cont. Prior to his Hong Kong Cup display, A Shin Hikari, whose dam is a half to the GI Santa Anita H. winner Sir Beaufort (Pleasant Colony), had been steadily progressive without suggesting he GROUND CONTROL would be capable of such a dynamic performance in a contest of It was quite an amazing Classic weekend: all such international prestige. That represented one of the biggest three favorites--two at odds-on--placed but did upsets in the history of that race, but he managed it in not win, on soft ground at the Curragh Saturday stakes-record time so there was no fluke to it. Earlier, he had and Sunday (softer on Saturday), and on a muddy been ebullient from the front when winning Tokyo=s G3 Epsom dirt track at Pimlico Saturday afternoon. Rain Cup and G2 Mainichi Okan over nine furlongs in June and arrived everywhere, and proven soft-ground or October respectively before finishing ninth in the G1 Tenno Sho off-track performers went three-for-three. (Autumn) at the end of October. As a measure of the impression First up was the G1 Irish 2000 Guineas at the Curragh Saturday he made here, bookmakers Ladbrokes cut him to only 6-4 for afternoon. Sheikh Hamdan=s Awtaad, by Cape Cross, also the the Prince of Wales=s at the Royal meeting and that could look sire of last year=s G1 Epsom Derby winner Golden Horn, had big if he is able to reproduce this stunning effort. Last year=s G1 won the seven-furlong Listed Tetrarch S. on soft ground earlier Prix du Jockey Club hero New Bay (GB) (Dubawi {Ire}) was sent this month, and went off a well-backed third favorite behind off the 6-4 favourite, but never threatened to make an impact G1 English 2000 Guineas winner Galileo Gold (Paco Boy) and the and finished a total of 15 lengths behind the winner in sixth. disappointing favorite that day, last year=s champion European 2-year-old Air Force Blue (War Front). Awtaad was always Tuesday, Chantilly, France traveling ominously well and ran on strongly to beat Galileo PRIX D=ISPAHAN-G1, i250,000, CHY, 5-24, 4yo/up, 9fT, 1:53.29, Gold by 2 1/2 lengths, with Air Force Blue once again out with hy. the washing. Galileo Gold definitely 1--A SHIN HIKARI (JPN), 128, h, 5, by Deep Impact (Jpn) didn=t have a clear run up the inside rail, 1st Dam: Catalina, by Storm Cat and could have finished closer but 2nd Dam: Carolina Saga, by Caro (Ire) wouldn=t have beaten the winner on 3rd Dam: Key to the Saga, by Key to the Mint Saturday. How rain-affected was the O-Eishindo Co Ltd; B-K K Eishindo (JPN); T-Masanori Sakaguchi; result? Awtaad=s time was 1:45.26, which J-Yutaka Take. i142,850. Lifetime Record: G1SW-HK & is very slow, though the ground was MGSW-Jpn, 12-10-0-0, i3,044,810 *1/2 to A Shin Cool D sufficiently soft that even such a slow (Distorted Humor), SP-Jpn, $1,485,252; and A Shin P C time merited a Racing Post Rating (RPR) (Fusaichi Pegasus), SP-Jpn, $532,912. Werk Nick Rating: A+++ of 123--the same as Galileo Gold=s RPR *Triple Plus*. Click for the eNicks report & 5-cross pedigree. when winning in Newmarket. Will Kevin Prendergast Racing Post photo Awtaad be as effective on good ground, 2--Dariyan (Fr), 128, c, 4, Shamardal--Daryakana (Fr), by Selkirk. as if so, he becomes even a more O-H H The Aga Khan; B-H H The Aga Khan=s Studs SC (FR); attractive sire prospect, presumably for Sheikh Hamdan=s T-Alain de Royer-Dupre. i57,150. Derrinstown Stud in Ireland? 3--Silverwave (Fr), 128, c, 4, Silver Frost (Ire)--Miss Bio (Fr), by As things stand now, the winners of all three major European River Mist. (i60,000 RNA Ylg >13 AROCT; i420,000 2yo >14 2000 Guineas races are pointing for the June 14 G1 St James=s ARNOV). O-HSpirit; B-Mlle Marie-Laure Collet, Jean Collet & Palace S. opening day at Royal Ascot: Awtaad (RPR 123, soft Mme Marylene Collet (Fr); T-Pascal Bary. i28,575. ground); Galileo Gold (RPR 123); and impressive G1 Poule Margins: 10, 1 3/4, HF. Odds: 7.40, 5.90, 10.70. d=Essai des Poulains--French 2000 Guineas winner The Gurkha Also Ran: Vadamos (Fr), My Dream Boat (Ire), New Bay (GB), (Galileo), who ran RPR 122 when skunking his rivals in Deauville. Mondialiste (Ire), Wild Chief (Ger), Erupt (Ire). The Gurkha had been so impressive in France that >the lads= Click for the Racing Post result or the free Equineline.com must have been tempted to send him for the G1 Epsom Derby catalogue-style pedigree. Video, sponsored by Fasig-Tipton. (still, really, a race without a favorite), but as with Galileo Gold (though thankfully without the C=s and T=s) and Awtaad, the Guineas winners will stick to a mile at least for the St James=s Palace. TDN EUROPE/INTERNATIONAL • PAGE 3 OF 10 • THETDN.COM WEDNESDAY • 25 MAY, 2016 Bill Oppenheim cont. Nonetheless, Exaggerator joins Nyquist at the top table as the You can see why I think that race should be renamed the two best American 3-year-olds of 2016. >TDN Rising Stars= European 2000 Guineas and get a major sponsor for zillions, but Cherry Wine, from the first crop by Paddy O=Prado; and I guess that=s not on the cards. Stradivari (Medaglia d=Oro), running fourth in only his fourth The middle leg of last weekend=s three big Classics--and, of lifetime start; and the Japanese runner, Lani (Tapit), in fifth, all course, the middle leg of the U.S. Triple Crown--was the GI enhanced their credentials with credible races as well. Cherry Preakness S. at a muddy Pimlico. Second favorite Exaggerator Wine=s second moved Spendthrift=s Paddy O=Prado into fourth (Curlin) capitalized on Nyquist=s getting caught up in a speed on the TDN 2016 YTD North American Second-Crop Sire List duel; Exaggerator, as rider Kent Desormeaux said afterwards in (click here), behind Uncle Mo, Twirling Candy, and barn-mate several different ways, had a perfect trip, on ground over which Archarcharch. he was already proven. He had won big in the GI Santa Anita Finally, the G1 Irish 1000 Guineas on Saturday.