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MONDAY, 15 JUNE 2020 GANAY SUCCESS FOR SOTTSASS GUINEAS WIN IS SWEET It was not easy for Sottsass (Fr) (Siyouni {Fr}) in Sunday=s G1 FOR FORGOTTEN MARE Prix Ganay at Chantilly, but White Birch Farm=s G1 Prix du Jockey-Club hero and G1 Prix de l=Arc de Triomphe third duly delivered to put his 4-year-old campaign on the right track. Settled third early by Cristian Demuro racing without cover as Shaman (Ire) (Shamardal) enjoyed an unpestered lead, the even-money favourite who had been fourth in the G2 Prix d=Harcourt at ParisLongchamp May 11 gained a narrow advantage with 300 metres remaining and battled gamely as Way To Paris (GB) (Champs Elysees {GB}) closed in. At the line, there was just a head between them, with Shaman fading to third three lengths away. Jean-Claude Rouget was not at the track, but his long-time Click for a video interview with Adrian Regan and Fergus Galvin right-hand man Jean-Bernard Roth was on hand. of Hunter Valley Farm Cont. p5 By Kelsey Riley In bloodstock circles, plenty of air is devoted to rueing the IN TDN AMERICA TODAY unforgiving nature of the market, not least the tendency to toss WHY JERRY BAILEY IS NO FAN OF THE WHIP a mare out with the bath water should she fail to sparkle with Bill Finley speaks with retired Hall of Fame jockey Jerry Bailey her first few foals. following the California Horse Racing Board’s new whip When Kameko (Kitten=s Joy) won the G1 2000 Guineas on June regulations in The Week in Review . Click or tap here to go 6, he made a fairly strong case for perseverance. His dam, the straight to TDN America. well-bred graded stakes winner Sweeter Still (Ire) (Rock Of Gibraltar {Ire}), had been the co-second highest priced lot at Keeneland=s January Sale in 2014 at $750,000 in foal to Galileo (Ire), carrying her second foal and bought by Phyllis Wyeth to breed to her GI Belmont S. winner Union Rags. Four years later, Sweeter Still was plucked out of the ring at Keeneland November by the little-known T. Lesley Thompson for $1,500. Bred by Annemarie O=Brien, Sweeter Still is out of the Belmez mare Beltisaal (Fr), who had herself commanded a modest price tag when bought by O=Brien=s father Joe Crowley for 8,000 Irish guineas in 2001, having a relatively light pedigree at the time. Sweeter Still was given every chance when put into training with Annemarie=s husband Aidan at Ballydoyle, but after just one start at two was sold to American interests. Sweeter Still put together a productive campaign at three, winning a listed stake at Santa Anita at second asking and two months later adding a Grade III going a mile on the turf. She failed to shine at four and five, however, and after making one early season start at six was retired and covered by Giant=s Causeway. Cont. p2 TDN EUROPE • PAGE 2 OF 25 • THETDN.COM MONDAY • 15 JUNE 2020 Sweeter Still Cont. from p1 November of 2018 with a covering to Calumet=s Optimizer, a son Though she aborted that pregnancy, Sweeter Still returned to of English Channel. By that time two additional unraced produce Giant=s Causeway the following season and produced the were weighing down her record, and the former blueblood went $100,000 foal Dreaming Of Stella (Ire). through almost entirely unnoticed at $1,500. Sweeter Still made a brief return to her native land to foal To say Sweeter Still fell through the cracks would be an Dreaming Of Stella and visit Galileo (Ire), and by the time she understatement; she positively plummeted through them. And a visited the ring at the 2014 Keeneland January Sale her pedigree month later, her first foal Dreaming Of Stella would be offloaded had enjoyed a few significant updates. In 2012 her three- for 2,000gns at Tattersalls December to Elwick Stud. quarter-brother Kingsbarns (Ire) (Galileo {Ire}) had won the G1 Kameko had been similarly overlooked when he visited the Racing Post Trophy, making it three same ring for the September pattern winners for the dam, and yearling sale two months earlier. under the third dam Rip Van The bay colt in the Paramount Winkle (Ire) (Galileo {Ire}) had been Sales consignment on day two of a top-class miler in 2009. Sweeter the sale was a brother to Still shared the top of the NobodyBquite literally: his 2-year- leaderboard at Keeneland with the old brother Nobody (Union Rags) likes of Life Happened (Stravinsky), was the highest achieving of his whose daughter Tepin would go on siblings on the racetrack at the to win the G1 Queen Anne S., as time, having been beaten a well as the dams of GI Breeders= combined 50 lengths in a pair of Cup Classic winner Mucho Macho maiden claimers at Delta Downs. Man (Macho Uno) and G1 Poule Kameko=s $90,000 pricetag paid d=Essai des Pouliches victress Kameko winning the 2000 Guineas | Racing Post homage to a good physical, but Flotilla (Mizzen Mast). emphasized the coolness of the Returned to the ring in November of 2015 carrying her second market to both his underachieving dam and to his overachieving colt by the then-unproven Union Rags, Sweeter Still was led out but underappreciated sire Kitten=s Joy. Onlookers, though, unsold at $325,000. By the time she reappeared at Keeneland a should have been shaking in their boots when they saw the year later carrying Kameko, neither of her first two foals had name on the ticket: David Redvers. Two years earlier, the made the racesBa massive knock in the modern marketplace, advisor to Qatar Racing and Bloodstock had paid $160,000 for a and Calumet Farm was able to scoop her up for $35,000. After colt by the same sire at the same sale, and at the time Kameko foaling out Kameko at Calumet a stone=s throw from the sales was hammered down, Roaring Lion had won the G1 Coral- pavilion, Sweeter Still was covered by four-time Grade I winner Eclipse and G1 Juddmonte International and had been third in Big Blue Kitten, resulting in a three-quarter-sister to Kameko the G1 Investec Derby. Four days after Kameko was secured, who was a $5,000 Keeneland September yearling and who goes Roaring Lion won the G1 Irish Champion S., and five weeks after through the ring at the July 1 Arqana Breeze-Up Sale as part of that he clinched champion 3-year-old and Horse of the Year the Church Farm and Horse Park Stud draft. honours when backing up to a mile to win the GI Queen Sweeter Still made the short trek to Keeneland once again in Elizabeth II S. Cont. p3 TDN EUROPE • PAGE 3 OF 25 • THETDN.COM MONDAY • 15 JUNE 2020 Sweeter Still Cont. Meanwhile, Kameko was seeing out his 30-day quarantine at Hunter Valley Farm in Versailles, Kentucky, where Sheikh Fahad boards his Kentucky-based mares. Hunter Valley is owned by a quartet of Irishmen and managed by part-owners Adrian Regan and Fergus Galvin. AWe quarantine all the Qatar [Racing] yearlings that are Senior Vice President Gary King bought at the sales here before they go [to Europe],@ Regan Twitter: @garykingTDN said. ASo we got to see Kameko for 30 days. He was a very [email protected] attractive colt at the time, a very nice yearling, but I'd be lying if + 1.732.320.0975 I said I called Tweenhills and said, "This will be your next Group 1 winner." International Editor Kelsey Riley Twitter: @kelseynrileyTDN [email protected] European Editor Emma Berry Twitter: @collingsberry [email protected] Associate International Editor Heather Anderson Twitter: @HLAndersonTDN Marketing Manager Alayna Cullen Twitter: @AlaynaCullen [email protected] Sheikh Fahad bought Kameko=s dam privately last summer | Racing Post Contributing Editor Alan Carasso Twitter: @EquinealTDN Sweet Deal Cafe Racing Early last summer, as Kameko was gearing up for a racecourse Sean Cronin debut with trainer Andrew Balding, Fergus Galvin said he Tom Frary received a call from Redvers. [email protected] ASheikh Fahad and David recognized how good he was--I think it was about a month before he even ran--and asked us to look Irish Correspondent up the mare,@ he recalled. AWe were quite astonished to see Daithi Harvey that she had gone through the year previous for $1,500. She Regular Columnists was a good race mare and has a good pedigree, but we all know Chris McGrath | John Berry the market is very unforgiving on those mares after four or five John Boyce | Amy Lynam foals. And if they don't produce, they really can go through for Melissa Steele any little amount. ASo we were able to come up with a deal with the previous owner [on behalf of Qatar Bloodstock]. We got the mare, and she had had quite a late foal [a filly] by Optimizer. So she wasn't bred last year, but we did get her covered early to Kitten's Joy this year. So she is carrying a full-sibling to Kameko for next year.@ Cont. p4 SOTTSASS c.2016 SIYOUNI x STARLET’S SISTER Prix Ganay (Gr1), Chantilly Owner .................. White Birch Farm Trainer ................... Jean-Claude Rouget Breeder ............... Écurie des Monceaux 2017 AUGUST YEARLING SALE Price ..................... €340,000 Buyer ................... Oceanic Bloodstock Inc Vendor ................. PRICELESS Écurie des Monceaux NEXT SALE MOMENT BREEZE UP July 1 – Goffs UK, Doncaster, England Agence G / Scoopdyga © TDN EUROPE • PAGE 4 OF 25 • THETDN.COM MONDAY • 15 JUNE 2020 Sweeter Still Cont.