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DUBAWI DOUBLE GIVES PREMIER FOALS A POLISH A brace of colts by Champion Sire Dubawi gave the elite session of Tattersalls’ December Foal Sale a touch of glitter at Park Paddocks yesterday, writes Carl Evans. Lot 939, the Dubawi half-brother to Gr.1 Moyglare Stud Darley’s great sire was represented by just three foals – two Stakes winner Skitter Scatter (Scat Daddy), who was colts and a filly – in Europe’s highest-grossing auction of bought by Godolphin for 700,000gns. © Tattersalls.com weanlings, but they did not let him down, thanks primarily to Sheikh Mohammed, the ruler of Dubai, head of Darley and Godolphin, and the man who stands the stallion. He bought both IN TODAY’S ISSUE... colts for a combined 1,300,000gns, while Andreas Putsch of Haras de Saint Pair gained the filly for 310,000gns. Racing Review p9 These high-value transactions helped carry turnover to a mark Letter From America p18 of 16,341,000gns, a fall of approximately 750,000gns or four per cent. The average price was down 14 per cent at 86,460gns while Leading Sires’ Table p19 the median price of 57,000gns was a drop of 12 per cent, but in
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2021 STALLIONS almanzor 30.000€ The european champion city light 7.000€ Multiple Gr.1 performer by siyouni hello youmzain 25.000€ High class sprinter by kodiac persian king 30.000€ The Kingman ! scissor Kick 5.000€ A promising start at stud
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TATTERSALLS DECEMBER FOAL SALE- DAY THREE Lot Sex Sire – Dam Vendor Purchaser Price (gns) 939 c DUBAWI – Dane Street Airlie Stud Godolphin 700,000 944 c DUBAWI – Baisse Fittocks Stud Godolphin 600,000 955 c FRANKEL – Suelita Whitsbury Manor Stud Juddmonte Farms 550,000 954 f DUBAWI – Joyful Hope New England Stud Haras de Saint Pair 310,000 854 c LOPE DE VEGA – Lucky Clio Newtown Stud Oneliner Stables 300,000
CLICK HERE FOR SALE RESULTS the context of COVID-world breeders will know they have when offered as an October Sale yearling in 2010, but she won a navigated a cliff edge. No less importantly and marvellously was couple of races and her 2015 cover by Scat Daddy resulted in the the clearance rate of 87 per cent, up six per cent, while 52 foals aforementioned Skitter Scatter, winner of the Gr.1 Moyglare made a six-figure sum, just four fewer than at the session last year. Stud Stakes for the Rogers family and their long-term partner Who would have thought such solid trade would be possible Robert Clay of Three Chimneys Farm. when continents started locking down in March? What Dubawi can bring to the mix will be interesting, although For those who follow this unique form of business, but cannot he is no stranger to Street Cry mares. Stroud said: “He’s by Dubawi attend international bloodstock auctions because of COVID who we love, and he’s a very athletic individual. In all these decisions restrictions, the figures may well convey an image of trade we are aiming for quality, and David [Loder] and I really like him. carrying on as usual albeit with a correction in values. You have to He’s the first foal we have bought this week and Sheikh Mohammed attend to realise it is a bizarre environment in which face coverings liked the model.” are obligatory, the restaurants are closed, entry to the ring is Minutes later the Stroud/Loder axis swept into action again, securely limited, and respite from the winter weather involves posting a 600,000gns bid that bought a Dubawi colt (Lot 944) hugging a cup of takeaway coffee while standing socially- out of Baisse (High Chaparral), the dam of Best Of Days, a distanced under an open-sided marquee. multiple Stakes winner for the Sheikh’s Godolphin operation. So a That Tattersalls has been able to stage the December Sale, on Dubawi colt selling to Godolphin, which is not so unusual, until time and at its chosen venue, is a godsend for which all breeders, you consider the foal in question was bred by a one-mare breeder. consignors and buyers collectively seem hugely grateful. Gerhard Schoeningh bought Baisse through Crispin de Moubray for 48,000gns at Book 2 of the October Sale, and in his SKITTER SCATTER GILDS AIRLIE’S LILY colours she won twice including a Listed race in Germany. He now The name of Champion Two-Year-Old Filly Skitter Scatter gave boards Baisse at the Cumani family’s Fittocks Stud near the page of her Dubawi half-brother (Lot 939) an exotic uplift, Newmarket, and it was from their farm that her Dubawi foal was and he duly headed trade when selling for 700,000gns at consigned yesterday. yesterday’s third session of the December Foal Sale. The valuation Sara Cumani said: “Whenever anyone sells a big-priced horse they was the joint-second-highest for a colt at this famous auction. say it was a gorgeous horse, but he really was. We’ve had him since Anthony Stroud brought the hammer down on behalf of he was born and he’s been a complete charmer all along. He had Sheikh Mohammed, completing another good ring result for grade one X-rays, a grade one scope and no one could fault him. Sonia and Anthony Rogers of Airlie Stud. Their mare Dane Street, “The full-sister [unraced two-year-old Summerland, who was a half-sister to sire Intense Focus, was knocked down to vendor sold for 725,000gns at this sale in 2018] is with Charlie Appleby and
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Another Dubawi colt, Lot 944, a half-brother to Australian “he is unbelievably good value and has Gr.1 winner Best Of Days (Azamour), went the way of Godolphin, selling for 600,000gns. © Tattersalls.com had a very good last couple of years” Ed Sackville, TDN, 25th Nov “an outstanding individual by the [Nathaniel] yearling filly is called Beau Rivage [and has been a sire who is doing really well” retained]. The mare is in foal to Frankel and is going to Sea The Anthony Stroud, purchaser for Godolphin Moon. Gerhard owns Hoppegarten racecourse and this is the only of the 360,000gns colt that topped Day 3 broodmare he owns. at Tattersalls Book 2 “We tried to get him to sell half of the half-sister to us, but since he has just the one mare he wanted to keep her daughter.” “a very good, popular stallion The sole Dubawi filly (Lot 954) in the catalogue sold to Andreas who does very well” Putsch having been consigned by Peter Stanley’s New England Daniel Creighton, purchaser of the 130,000gns Stud on behalf of her breeders Watership Down Stud and Andrew yearling filly at Tattersalls on Monday Rosen. She is a daughter of the Shamardal mare Joyful Hope, a half-sister to the dam of Thursday’s session-topping Sea The Stars colt who realised 170,000gns. WHITSBURY WONDERS KEEP COMING Ed Harper will not forget this sale for many years to come after his Whitsbury Manor Stud enjoyed its second rollicking result in two days with foals out of inexpensive mares. On Thursday a home-bred colt by resident sire Havana Grey sold for a superb 130,000gns, a colossal result for a new sire off an £8,000 covering fee, and yesterday the Hampshire stud traded a 550,000gns son of Frankel (Lot 955) which completed a superb piece of business by Harper’s father Chris. He bought the foal’s dam, Suelita (Dutch Art), for 21,500gns at this ring in 2013, and Other yearlings in 2020 (from €15,000 fee) sold for she has hardly been out of the news since – her offspring have 200,000gns, 170,000gns, £170,000, 140,000gns, included three Stakes earners, headed by this year’s Gr.2 Mill Reef 125,000gns, £130,000, 125,000gns, £130,000, €125,000 etc. Stakes winner Alkumait (Showcasing), and a raft of six-figure foals, phenomenal stuff by a mare who was sold for just 3,200gns as a yearling before winning four races in Italy. Juddmonte Farms’s Simon Mockridge lowered the hammer for her Frankel foal, and then said: “He’s a late foal, but very well balanced and the mare has produced three very good horses. We struggled to buy yearlings because they were making a lot of money, so it made sense to buy here.” EUROPEAN CHAMPION SPRINTER & PROVEN GR.1 SIRE BY CHOISIR Ed Harper paid tribute to his staff for their part in this week’s results, and added: “I guess it was a bold move to put the mare to Fee: Frankel, but there was something about her stock which justified €22,500 the decision. I can’t take credit for buying her – that was down to Dad, and she’s probably the only mare he has bought in the last Contact: Coolmore Stud Tel: +353-52-6131298. Castlehyde Stud Tel: +353-25-31966. seven years. E-mail: [email protected] Website: www.coolmore.com
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Bred in County Waterford by Arild Faeste of Tourgar Bloodstock, and consigned by the Grassick family’s Newtown Stud, the son of Lope De Vega (Lot 854) was foaled by Lucky Clio (Key Of Luck) whose breeding record is nothing if not admirable. Her seven winners, headed by the Classic hero, include three other Stakes earners. Lowry said his purchase had been bought with a yearling sale in mind, and added: “He was the pick of the day – a full-brother to a Classic winner and a half-brother to three other black-type horses and by Lope De Vega, who has had an outstanding year and is becoming a sire of sires. “He had seven or eight black-type two-year-olds and five rated over 100 and we were lucky with one of his yearlings at Book 1. In our time in the industry I don’t remember a full-brother to a Classic winner being sold as a foal and it was an outstanding opportunity to Juddmonte Farms purchased Lot 955, a Frankel half- gain a collectors’ item.” brother to Gr.2 Mill Reef Stakes winner Alkumait In a period of fiscal uncertainty – except for the certainty that (Showcasing), for 550,000gns. © Tattersalls.com Government borrowing is going to have to be repaid by taxpayers – Lowry was asked about the business of buying foals some 11 months before they can be reoffered. He said: “You’re hoping that “She looks cheap now, but from the very first foal she has done us the end-users who buy yearlings will still be there next year. The proud. I remember taking a call from Brendan Duke who trained [her [COVID] vaccines that are coming along the line look very promising 2015 foal] The Broghie Man in the February of his two-year-old and everyone is working to get a deal between Britain and Europe career, and he said ‘I think you’ve got a very good horse here’ and he after Brexit, so we have to be positive. wasn’t wrong. Since that phone call it has been all the way up with “If we don’t have the horses we cannot sell them.” this mare. We had to step her up with her coverings, and for a young Cathy Grassick said of the colt foal’s sale: “Arild has kept foal this colt had such a sound head on him. everything going at Tourgar [following the death of his wife Cherry] “He’s a late foal [10th May] but nothing fazed him, not the travel, and is helped by his daughter Nina. She and I started bid spotting at not the prep – he was only weaned a couple of weeks before starting Goffs and we became best friends – it was through Nina that her prep. As long as he was well fed he wasn’t bothered. I’m just so parents asked me to help them with their bloodstock. They asked me pleased Juddmonte bought him because it is going to be so pleasing to buy some mares for them, and Lucky Clio was the first. seeing him race in the pink and green colours. “Because this was a late foal we didn’t cover her this year, and there “I would say there are a couple of very emotional people back in are a lot of ideas being pushed around the table as to her next cover. Ireland. They have just sold a full-brother to Phoenix Of Spain, and She could go back to Showcasing to repeat Alkumait, or, because sadly Cherry died in the middle of his career – she didn’t get to see she is empty, she could travel further afield.” him win the Guineas, and all these things mean so much. “This colt was a different colour to Phoenix, but very similar in LOWRY AND LOPE MAKE CLIO LUCKY temperament and walk. They are both unflappable good walkers A full-brother to Gr.1 Irish 2,000 Guineas winner Phoenix Of and both handled coming to the sales. The mare is a great producer Spain added 300,000gns to the day’s turnover when being and she takes something from every stallion she visits. She lives at knocked down to online bidder Ger Lowry of Oneliner Stables. Arild’s home and we take her to foal and prep the stock. UNFORTUNATELY SOCIETY ROCK – UNFORTUNATE (KOMAITE) FASTEST winner of the Gr.1 Prix Morny in the past 10 years First crop foals selling this week Don’t miss out!
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agent said: “Lullaby Moon will come back in something like the Fred Darling Stakes next year and could be a Guineas filly. I thought this colt was pretty flawless, he vetted perfectly, and he’s a half- brother to a Gimcrack winner who showed blinding speed when winning that race.” Of the foal, Elliott added: “We took the view that if he came here as a yearling he would have cost more, and while we did stretch to buy him we are thrilled to have got him. “Whenever Amo buys a horse the dream is Royal Ascot and in a few years’ time he might take us there. It’s longer term, but when you start bidding past the pinhookers there are few end users here buying horses, so if you are patient and take that long view, you can buy value. If it all clicks, we are in with a right chance.” WARRIOR MAKES A MARK AGAIN Saxon Warrior’s first foals continued to make their mark in the sales ring when one of his daughters (Lot 835) was knocked Oneliner Stables bought Lot 854, a Lope De Vega full- down for 280,000gns to Philipp Stauffenberg. brother to Gr.1 Irish 2,000 Guineas winner and sire Phoenix A February foal with two successful half-siblings, she had spent Of Spain, for 300,000gns. © Tattersalls.com a four-week spell of prepping with Jenny Norris of Norris Bloodstock and then entered the ring as the property of Steven “Up until two years ago Arild had just two mares, and the other Smith’s Hunscote Stud and Chris Humber of Humber Bloodstock. one bred Grandeur, so he does a great job.” They bred her from the Arch mare Archangel Gabriel, a full- Other successful sales by Lope De Vega’s offspring included a sister to the American Gr.1 winner Prince Arch and a half-sister to colt (Lot 878) who was picked up by the Yeomanstown Stud team the Gr.1 National Stakes winner Kingsfort (War Chant). for 260,000gns. Consigned by Tom Whelan’s Church View Stables Norris described the foal as “an absolute queen – [the type that] on behalf of Aston House Stud, the foal was produced by Bezique makes my job a lot easier,” while Hunscote Stud’s Andy Lloyd said (Cape Cross), a Listed winner in Italy and dam of the Listed winner of the filly: “I’m happy and sad, because she’s been the most and Gr.3-placed Khalidi (High Chaparral). spectacular horse we’ve had and an absolute darling so I’m sorry to see her go. It’s a lot of money and you have to be commercial AMO DRAWN TO BELARDO BY MOON sometimes. Lope De Vega’s efforts to keep the Shamardal line going will “Unfortunately the mare didn’t quite catch this year and we’re only work if his sons step up to the plate, and in Belardo he has mulling plans for next season. but one promising representative. “We all fancied Saxon Warrior as a racehorse, and he won the A colt by the Darley sire (Lot 919) made a notable impression [Gr.1] Racing Post Trophy about an hour after we had a runner on the when taking his turn in the ring yesterday, and it required a bid of same Doncaster card. Ryan [Moore] rode both horses and he said to 280,000gns by bloodstock agent Alex Elliott to ensure his clients me ‘This horse [Saxon Warrior] is very good and will go through any at Amo Racing gained a lovely prospect for the 2022 season. The ground’. I followed him after that – he won a strong Guineas and I’m colt was consigned by breeders Derek and Gay Veitch of Ringfort sure that you can see from his early results that he has a future as a Stud, and he had the advantage of being a half-brother to the stallion. Mehmas colt Minzaal who won this year’s Gr.2 Gimcrack Stakes “He and Roaring Lion had some great battles that year and if you in Sheikh Hamdan’s colours. see him he is a lovely horse.” Belardo was a key part of Elliott’s thinking, for one of Amo’s Stauffenberg’s plan is to reoffer the filly next year, and he said: “I prime assets from this year’s turf season has been two-year-old thought she was a gorgeous filly. I had to stretch for her, and if she filly Lullaby Moon, winner of the Listed Two Year Old Trophy at had been a colt I wouldn’t have gone that far, but it is a good family Redcar and the Gr.3 Prix Miesque for Ralph Beckett’s stable. The and she has residual value whatever happens.”
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Other distaffers who made a notable sum and are likely to be EXPERT EYE back on the block at a yearling sale in 2021 included a 285,000gns 801 c ex Oh Dream 7,000 Sea The Stars filly (Lot 1002) from Joe Hernon’s Castletown Stud. 809 c ex Oeuvre D’Art v 45,000 Violet Hesketh of W H Bloodstock signed for this early foal in a 822 f ex Sommesnil WD partnership with Kelsey Lupo’s Atlas Bloodstock – their purchase 834 f ex Bahati WD was a daughter of the Adlerflug mare Amazone, who has already 839 c ex Starlit Sands 9,500 produced two Stakes-performing fillies. 911 c ex Cool Kitten 9,000 934 f ex Tanouma 75,000 FIRST CROP FOAL SIRES (GNS) 938 f ex Stupendous Miss WD 1016 c ex Deep Dream 14,000 Sponsored by HARRY ANGEL 777 f ex Cape Mystery 12,000 797 f ex Espagnolette v 30,000 927 c ex Fatanah 23,000 1007 f ex Marasima 20,000 www.edmondsonhall.com l [email protected] l +44 (0)1638 560556 1023 f ex Ocelot WD KESSAAR CRACKSMAN 773 c ex Drumcliffe Dancer 32,000 812 f ex Diablery WD 794 c ex Sweet Lady Rose 10,000 818 f ex Act Of War 65,000 831 c ex Belle Rose v 20,000 ROARING LION 865 f ex Bella Nouf WD 870 f ex Princess Lala 34,000 923 f ex Great Court 105,000 917 f ex Coolminx 95,000 967 f ex Simple Verse WD 994 c ex Tamaanee WD 968 c ex Applause WD 995 f ex Smiling Blue Eyes 15,500 1018 c ex Rainbow’s Edge v 25,000 SAXON WARRIOR 1019 c ex Exceed Sensazione 55,000 835 f ex Archangel Gabriel 280,000
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TATTERSALLS DAY 3 STATISTICS (GNS) WITHDRAWALS 2020 % 2019 Today Catalogued 268 268 Lots: 1046, 1058, 1061, 1063, 1064, 1068, 1074, 1076, 1098, 1104, Offered 218 211 1105, 1106, 1113, 1114, 1119, 1135, 1136, 1153, 1157, 1158, 1163, Sold 189 (87%) 171 (81%) 1165, 1167, 1179, 1180 Aggregate 16,341,000 -4 17,102,000 Average 86,460 -14 100,012 TATTERSALLS CHELTENHAM Median 57,000 -12 65,000 CUMULATIVE STATISTICS (GNS) ENTRIES ONLINE FOR 2020 % 2019 CHELTENHAM DECEMBER SALE Catalogued 782 871 Offered 666 723 Entries are now online for the Tattersalls Cheltenham December Sold 543 (81%) 548 (76%) Sale, which will be held at Tattersalls in Newmarket on Thursday, Aggregate 25,059,700 -8 27,330,000 10th December. Average 46,970 -6 49,872 In total, 29 initial entries are now available to view online, while Median 24,000 -14 28,000 further entries will be taken over the weekend from Borris House and Ballindenisk point-to-points, while wild cards will be added Click here to contact IRT, or visit www.irt.com from Kinsale, Tattersalls, Mainstown, Chaddesley Corbett and Wadebridge point-to-points on 5th and 6th December. The main catalogue will go to print on Monday, 30th November with the 857 c ex Stormy Blessing 35,000 hard copy posted out on Thursday, 3rd December. 999 c ex Desert Tigress 75,000 SIOUX NATION 774 c ex Xema 20,000 NATIONAL HUNT RACING REVIEW 798 c ex Enliven p/s 5,000 908 c ex All Time High 65,000 BRITAIN TASLEET 790 c ex Mulhimatty v 15,000 CARIBEAN BOY JUMPS TO GR.2 GLORY 881 f ex Chevise WD The first of two Graded contests on good ground at Newbury 885 c ex Darajaat 30,000 yesterday, the 2m4f Gr.2 Berkshire Novices’ Chase attracted a field U S NAVY FLAG of just three, with the outsider of the trio Caribean Boy (Myboycharlie) making most of the running and jumping boldly 838 c ex Fresh Strike 45,000 to comfortably register his first Stakes success for Nicky 910 c ex Leaf 72,000 Henderson. ZOUSTAR The grey French-bred six-year-old, a five-length winner of a 815 f ex Thatsallimsaying 92,000 Haydock chase back in February on his second British start, took 819 f ex Sterling Sound v 40,000 it up at the second fence from the odds-on favourite, last season’s 866 f ex Moons Of Jupiter 80,000 Gr.1 Tolworth Novices’ Hurdle winner Fiddlerontheroof 883 c ex Peach Melba 90,000 (Stowaway), who got off the mark over fences at the second 892 c ex La Collina 150,000 attempt at Exeter last time, while the second favourite, the Gr.1 920 c ex Brazilian Style WD novice hurdle-placed Getaway Trump (Getaway), a recent
Won a vintage renewal of the Group 1 Sussex Stakes His Sire’s Best Son in a faster time than Kingman OR: 123 | TF: 129
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CALL: +44 (0) 1638 66 65 12 9 RACING REVIEW EBN: SATURDAY, 28TH NOVEMBER 2020 novice chase scorer at Fakenham, was content to track the front A Gr.1-placed bumper performer, Thyme Hill won the Gr.1 pair in third. Out in front Caribean Boy put in some fine jumps Challow Novices’ Hurdle at Newbury last season before a slightly under Daryl Jacob as Fiddlerontheroof raced on and off the unlucky fourth-place finish in the Gr.1 Albert Bartlett Novices’ bridle in second and Getaway Trump remained at the rear under Hurdle at the Cheltenham Festival. On his first start since that fine a patient ride. After a slight mistake at the eleventh by Caribean effort back in March, he was up against a formidable line-up, Boy, Fiddlerontheroof moved upsides to deliver his challenge at including last season’s shock Stayers’ Hurdle hero Lisnagar Oscar the twelfth as the ridden along Getaway Trump began to weaken (Oscar), 2019 Stayers’ Hurdle victor and last year’s Long Distance out of contention. Up the home straight the front duo went head Hurdle winner Paisley Park (Oscar) and the exciting last time out to head from three out, but on the approach to the last Caribean Gr.2 scorer McFabulous (Milan), as well as Gr.1-winning hurdlers Boy travelled noticeably better and after another good leap he Summerville Boy (Sandmason) and Sam Spinner (Black Sam only needed to be shaken up on the run-in to assert for a decisive Bellamy). However, it was the recent Cheltenham scorer Honest four-length success over Fiddlerontheroof in second. Getaway Vic (Kalanisi) who set no more than an even pace out in front Trump eventually took third another 31 lengths further back. tracked by a slightly free-going Thyme Hill under Richard A €180,000 purchase by Highflyer Bloodstock following a Johnson, with both the well-fancied Paisley Park and the second-placed effort in the Listed Prix de Marsan Hurdle on his favourite McFabulous settled in midfield. The pace lifted on the final start for F-M Cottin in France, Caribean Boy was bred by run for home and McFabulous made headway rounding the final Mme S and G Guittard out of the winning Linamix mare Caribena. turn to take it up two out as Thyme Hill still travelled smoothly in A half-brother to two winners on the Flat, he is from the high- a prominent position and a ridden along Paisley Park began to class Aga Khan family of Gr.1-placed dual Gr.2-winning mare stay on in behind. Shaken up approaching the last flight, Thyme Candarliya and the Stakes scores Canessar and Canndera. Hill touched down in front chased hard by McFabulous, but he stayed on well to assert on the run-in and found plenty for THYME HILL DOWNS BIG GUNS TO pressure close home to hold on by a length and a half from the SCORE IN LONG DISTANCE HURDLE late rally of Paisley Park in second, with the one-paced The progressive Thyme Hill, a six-year-old son of Kayf Tara, put McFabulous another five lengths back in third. himself firmly towards the top end of the market for the Gr.1 Bred by Overbury Stallions Ltd, Thyme Hill is a full-brother to Stayers’ Hurdle, as he kept on best to defeat nine rivals in an Storming Strumpet, who won a bumper, as well as over both outstanding edition of the 3m Gr.2 Long Distance Hurdle at hurdles and fences and was Listed-placed over the smaller Newbury yesterday for Philip Hobbs. obstacles. Their dam Rosita Bay (Hernando) won four times and
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She was settled towards the back early in the 1m3f contest, as Aunt Lubie (Uncle Mo) set a steady pace up front, then switched wider after the turn into the home straight and pounced late to collar Going To Vegas (Goldencents) by half a length in the final strides. The British-bred Quick (Olympic Glory), a dual winner when trained by Richard Hannon, was third in a close finish. Orglandes was bred by Franklin Finance and Elisabeth Vidal and was a €75,000 purchase at the Arqana October Yearling Sale. She is the second winner produced by Influence (Dansili), a winning half-sister to Listed scorer Indignant (Gold Away) and to the dam of March’s Gr.3 Prix Exbury winner Simona (Siyouni). The second and third dams, Moiava (Bering) and Mona Stella (Nureyev), both won at Gr.2 level and the family also includes Gr.1 winners Special Quest (Rainbow Quest) and Dancing Maid (Lyphard). Thyme Hill (Kayf Tara), seen here winning at Cheltenham last season, landed the Gr.2 Long Distance Hurdle at Newbury yesterday on his seasonal debut. © Steve Cargill AQPS RACING REVIEW is a half-sister to the Stakes-winning jumper Lemony Bay FRANCE (Overbury). The grandam is Lemon’s Mill (Roberto), who scored on the Flat and four times each over hurdles and fences, including HOLLEE BLOOMS at Gr.2 level. IN SAINT-CLOUD FEATURE One of the feature AQPS races throughout the season was RACING REVIEW yesterday’s Gr.1 Prix Jacques de Vienne, restricted to three-year- olds and run over 2500m at Saint-Cloud. USA The favourite was the unbeaten J P McManus-owned filly Holly (Voiladenuo), who had won two Gr.3 races, though the commentator may have struggled due to the presence of another ORGLANDES SWOOPS LATE filly named Hollee, and it was the latter who came out on top. TO LAND DEL MAR GR.3 The chesnut daughter of Fuisse raced against the rails just off The Le Havre filly Orglandes had finished her racing career in the leaders and alongside her homophone, and, as the field France in the summer of last year with victories at Clairefontaine fanned out into the home straight she was pushed into a narrow and Deauville, but was then sold privately to continue her career lead. She faced plenty of challengers on both sides, notably the in the US. grey filly Hillary (Gris De Gris), but was always just in command Switched to Chad Brown, she reappeared over a year later in an and held on gamely to beat her by a short neck. allowance contest at Monmouth Park in September, finishing This was the second victory in four starts for Hollee, who had third, and then won at a similar level at Belmont Park on 9th not previously contested a Stakes race. She was bred by the October. She was stepped up to Graded level on Thursday for the Trinquet family and is a daughter of the Ragmar mare Noisete, Gr.3 Red Carpet Handicap at Del Mar and was sent off favourite. who won on the Flat and was placed over fences.