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SATURDAY, 27 FEBRUARY 2016 DIAMONDS ON OFFER AT INGLIS PREMIER TRIAL REMATCH IN Inglis=s Premier Yearling Sale, which has developed a LINGFIELD=S WINTER DERBY reputation as a reliable source of black-type winners across the Southern Hemisphere and Asia, begins Sunday at the company=s Oaklands complex in Melbourne and runs through Mar. 2. A total of 755 lots are catalogued, including 100 half- or full- siblings to stakes winners and the progeny of 98 stakes-winning dams. Siblings to yearlings catalogued for Premier have won 14 stakes races over the last two months alone, and six set to go under the hammer have siblings contesting Saturday=s G1 Blue Diamond S., Victoria=s most important juvenile race. Lot 149 is a Savabeel (Aus) half-brother to Blue Diamond third choice Samara Dancer (NZ) (Hinchinbrook {Aus}), the winner of the G2 Blue Diamond Fillies Prelude since the catalogue was printed. The colt is also a full-brother to 2013 G3 Caulfield Guineas winner Eclair Big Bang (NZ). Cont. in Worldwide News p4 Group 3 winner Maverick Wave lines up in the G3 Coral Winter Derby at Lingfield Saturday | Racing Post Saturday=s G3 Coral Winter Derby offers a fascinating rematch MOHAYMEN ANCHORS FOUNTAIN OF YOUTH between the first and second in the Listed Winter Derby Trial Shadwell Stable=s Mohaymen (Tapit) aims to keep his over the same Lingfield track and 10-furlong trip Feb. 6, with record perfect in Gulfstream Park=s GII Xpressbet Fountain of just a half-length separating Grendisar (Ire) (Invincible Spirit Youth S. Saturday. {Ire}) and Festive Fare (GB) (Teofilo {Ire}). Both have fine Click or tap here to go straight to TDN America. records on the all-weather, with the former bidding to go one better than when second to Britain=s chief synthetics runner Tryster (Ire) (Shamardal) in this 12 months ago. Tryster=s trainer Charlie Appleby puts forward Festive Fare in the hope that he can find improvement on his seasonal bow behind Grendisar, which was his first reversal in four all-weather starts. AFestive Fare came out of the trial for this race in good order and we hope that he might have learnt a bit from that experience,@ Appleby said. AHe didn=t come down the hill very well last time, but galloped out strongly. We have put cheek- pieces on him this time to hopefully allow him to race more prominently and help him to travel better down the hill. I am expecting a big run from him.@ One intriguing contender from the John Gosden stable is the Chilean performer Furia Cruzada (Chi) (Newfoundland), successful in the G1 Gran Premio Gilberto Lerena and G1 Gran Premio Criadores at Palermo last term and an unknown quantity in this sphere. Cont. p2 TDN EUROPE/INTERNATIONAL $ PAGE 2 of 6 $ THETDN.COM SATURDAY, 27 FEBRUARY 2016 Trial Rematch in Lingfield=s Winter Derby Cont. from p1 Furia Cruzada=s stable companion Maverick Wave (Elusive Quality) has to better his latest sixth in the Listed Churchill S. over this track and trip in November, but his success in the WITH ANDREW MEAD, THE CASTLEBRIDGE CONSIGNMENT G3 Huxley S. at Chester in May proved that he is a class act from the front by turning back the eventual GI Canadian International 1) Horse you are most looking forward to seeing this season? hero Cannock Chase (Lemon Drop Kid). AMaverick Wave is ready AM: Seeing Racing Post Trophy winner Marcel (Ire) (Lawman to begin his campaign. Since he is rated 110, there are few {Fr}) race, trained by a good bloke and top trainer in Pete opportunities for him until later in the season,@ Gosden Chapple-Hyam, purchased as a yearling by my friend and commented. colleague Troy Steve. The fancied William Haggas-trained Battalion (Ire) (Authorized 2) A stallion who could feature prominently (doesn=t have to {Ire}) was scratched Friday afternoon after coming up sore be first season)? Thursday evening. AM: I really like Sir Percy (GB) (Mark of Esteem {Ire}) as a great The Winter Derby is a fast-track qualifier for the ,200,000 value sire, his stock are Coral Easter Classic on Good Friday Mar. 25. talented with generally good temperaments. 3) Positive change you Saturday, Lingfield, Britain, post time: 3:20 p.m. would like to see for the industry in 2016? CORAL WINTER DERBY-G3, ,100,000, 4yo/up, 10f (AWT) SC PP HORSE SIRE JOCKEY TRAINER WT AM: I'd like to see the BHA 1 2 Tullius (Ire) Le Vie dei Colori (GB) Fortune Balding 131 and Weatherbys look at 2 1 Energia Davos (Brz) Torrential Baker J Chapple-Hyam129 ways of reducing the huge 3 10 Battalion (Ire) Authorized (Ire) SCR SCR SCR costs imposed on UK 4 8 Complicit (Ire) Captain Rio (GB) Morris Cole 126 owners in sustaining the 5 5 Fire Fighting (Ire) Soldier of Fortune (Ire) Mulrennan Johnston 126 bureaucracy of racing. The 6 7 Grendisar (Ire) Invincible Spirit (Ire) Kirby M Botti 126 Andrew Mead | Castlebridge 7 6 Maverick Wave Elusive Quality Tart Gosden 126 BHA, in particular, seems 8 9 Battle of Marathon War Front Harley Ryan 125 to still be adding to those 9 3 Festive Fare (GB) Teofilo (Ire) Atzeni Appleby 125 costs. 10 4 Furia Cruzada (Chi) Newfoundland Havlin Gosden 123 TDN EUROPE/INTERNATIONAL $ PAGE 3 of 6 $ THETDN.COM SATURDAY, 27 FEBRUARY 2016 TATTS IRELAND ASCOT CATALOGUE ONLINE A largest-ever catalogued of 102 has been assembled for Tattersalls Ireland=s Ascot Breeze-Up Sale Apr. 6, and that catalogue is now online. The sale produced The Wow Signal (Ire) Friday=s Result: (Starspangledbanner {Aus}), winner of the G2 Norfolk S. at Royal 4th-DUN, i11,000, Mdn, 2-26, 3yo, f, 8f (AWT), 1:40.19, st. Ascot and G1 Prix Morny in +VA PENSIERO (IRE) (f, 3, High Chaparral {Ire}--Thoughtless 2014, as well as last year=s G3 Moment {Ire} {SP-Ire, $209,816}, by Pivotal {GB}), sent off at Solario S. victor First Selection 7-1, gradually worked her way into second. Sent to the front (Spa) (Diktat {GB}). with 1 1/2 furlongs remaining, the homebred stayed on to This year=s catalogues record a 1 1/2-length success from Ruby Gates (Ire) (Avonbridge includes siblings to black-type {GB}). The dam, who hails from the extended family of the GISW winners and the progeny of Zoftig (Cozzene), also has a 2-year-old colt named Bid Adieu (Ire) both accomplished and young by Pour Moi (Ire) and a yearling colt by Lope de Vega (Ire). sires like Bated Breath (GB), The Wow Signal | Tattersalls Ireland Lifetime Record: 1-1-0-0, $8,363. Video, sponsored by Canford Cliffs (Ire), Dark Fasig-Tipton. Angel (Ire), Exceed and Excel (Aus), Invincible Spirit (Ire), Kodiac O/B-Moyglare Stud Farm (IRE); T-Dermot Weld. (GB), Makfi (GB) and Sepoy (Aus). The breezes will take place Apr. 6 on the Ascot course at 9 a.m. local time followed by the sale at 3 p.m. Friday=s Result: 1st-CHY, i25,000, Mdn, 2-26, 3yo, 6 1/2f (AWT), 1:19.64, st. SIGNS OF SUCCESS (IRE) (c, 3, Elusive City--Quartz {Fr} {SW-Fr, Friday=s Result: $119,598}, by Muhtathir {GB}), fourth on debut over seven 6th-WOL, ,6,000, Mdn, 2-26, 3yo, 8f 141y(AWT), 1:51.57, st. furlongs here in November, broke awkwardly from his wide stall +ULTIMATE STAR (GB) (c, 3, Starspangledbanner {Aus}-- but was soon tanking his way up to a close-up second. Grinding Ultimate Best {GB}, by King=s Best), a 13,000 gns TATFOA down Never Compromise (Fr) (Astronomer Royal) with 300 weanling whose price tag jumped to ,230,000 as a DNPRM metres left to travel, the i65,000 ARCAUG yearling who started yearling, missed the beat slightly before being restrained to race as the 6-4 favourite, asserted to score by a half-length. The dam, who descends like the luminaries Six Sense (Jpn) (Sunday towards the rear throughout the early stages. Cutting between Silence) and Seville (Ger) (Galileo {Ire}) from the accomplished rivals on the final turn, the 13-8 second favourite was delivered matriarch Boubskaia (GB), has a 2-year-old colt by Shamardal wide in the straight and despite running greenly, mastered Four and a yearling filly by Declaration of War. Lifetime Record: Mile Beach (GB) (Dalakhani {Ire}) in the last 50 yards for an 2 starts, 1 win, 1 place, i15,000. Video, sponsored by ultimately comfortable 3/4-of-a-length win. The dam, whose Fasig-Tipton. half-siblings include the black-type performers Film Script (GB) O-Ecurie Pandora Racing, Ahmed Mouknass & Isabelle Corbani; (Unfuwain), National Park (GB) (Common Grounds {GB}) and B-Haras d=Etreham & Ponchartrain Stud (IRE); T-Mauricio Barney Mcgrew (Ire) (Mark of Esteem {Ire}), has a 2-year-old Delcher Sanchez. colt by Kyllachy (GB) and a yearling colt by Mayson (GB). Purchased by MAB Agency (M-A Berghgracht) Lifetime Record: 1-1-0-0, ,3,881. Video, sponsored by Fasig-Tipton. O-Qatar Racing Limited; B-The Pocock Family (GB); T-David EUROPEAN-BRED WINNERS Simcock. IN SINGAPORE: +Heracles (Ity), g, 3, Fast Company (Ire)--Solar Dawn (GB), by Soviet Star. Kranji, 2-26, (i49k/,38k), 1000m (AWT), 1:00.75. ADDITIONAL MAIDEN WINNER: B-Joan Coburn. *1/2 to Kiris World (GB) (Distant Relative {Ire}), Kawartha (GB), f, 4, Royal Applause (GB)--Zarkavean (GB), by GSW-Ity; and Solzah ( Ire) (Zaha), SW & GSP-Ity. **i31,000 Ylg Medicean (GB). LIN, 2-26, 12f (AWT), 2:30.23.