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SUNDAY, 18 MARCH, 2018 SLIPPER FAVOURITE STAYS PERFECT TEAL TIPPING BIG THINGS A week out from the G1 Golden Slipper, the world=s richest FOR STABLE STAR 2-year-old race, the top two betting choices were both on display over course and distance at Rosehill on Saturday and each came away with another win under its girth. First up was the Magic Millions 2YO Classic winner and Slipper favourite Sunlight (Aus) (Zoustar {Aus}), who ran her record to a perfect five with a win in the G3 Magic Night S. for trainer Tony McEvoy. Jumping on top, the $1.35 favourite was hassled early by Setsuna (Aus) (Choisir {Aus}), but drew clear to best Godolphin=s Cristobal (Aus) (Exceed and Excel {Aus}) by 1 1/4 lengths under mostly hand urging (video). Sunlight now goes into the Slipper off the same week backup that she used into the Magic Millions. AShe was good today,@ jockey Luke Currie told Racing NSW. AShe was really quick early. Even a little bit keen so hopefully that run takes the edge off her for next week. She did need it because she was getting tired late. On that back up last time in the Magic Millions, she was happy to come back off that leader Tip Two Win | racingfotos.com when it went with her.@ Cont. in Worldwide News p8 By Tom Peacock Suffice to say that the Qipco 2000 Guineas did not immediately spring to mind when Roger Teal first set eyes upon Tip Two Win (GB) (Dark Angel {Ire}). The small May foal, a first to be bred as something of an afterthought by Surrey-based owner Anne Cowley, has taken all those associated with him by surprise in winning four times and accumulating almost ,200,000 in prize money through several lucrative trips to Qatar. AWe picked him up unbroken and he looked like a Welsh mountain pony when we got him,@ Teal chuckles at the memory. ACovered in mud, a little hairball he was. I said to my wife there was no way back then you would imagine this would have happened.@ Sunlight and Luke Currie | Bronwen Healy Cowley, who has owned numerous horses including listed winner and G3 Sovereign S.-placed The Rectifier (Langfuhr), is a self-confessed novice in the bloodstock world. She gained an interest in racing from going with her late husband Fred, after IN TDN AMERICA TODAY whom Tip Two Win=s dam Freddie's Girl (More Than Ready) is MAGNUM MOON RISES IN REBEL named. ‘TDN Rising Star’ Magnum Moon (Malibu Moon) remained AShe had arthritis and I wasn=t going to run her any more but unbeaten with a hard-charging win in the GII Rebel S. at Oaklawn Adam Kirby, who used to ride other horses for me, kept asking Park Saturday. Click or tap here to go straight to TDN America. what I was doing with her,@ she explained. Cont. p2 TDN EUROPE/INTERNATIONAL • PAGE 2 OF 11 • THETDN.COM SUNDAY • 18 MARCH, 2018 Teal Tipping Big Things For Stable Star cont. from p1 was bit of a messy race; he got held up when he should've been AI=d say she was happy in a field and that I wasn=t into going forward, but David Probert, who rode him, said >don=t breeding, I know nothing about it and I=ve never sat on a horse change your plans, he=s still a nice horse.= He went to Ripon, ran in my life. This went on for a few years until finally I thought, >I=ll second in a listed race, then won a listed race at Doncaster. He=s do it=. Seamus Durack, who had been a little superstar.@ her, looked up what stallion After Tip Two Win chased home would suit her best and he said Mark Johnston=s unbeaten >you can=t get better than Dark Elarqam (GB) (Frankel {GB}) in the Angel.=@ G3 Tattersalls S. at Newmarket in So it proved. The son of one of late September, Teal realised he the stallion discoveries of this could aim even higher. century, who was born down AAdam Kirby came in and said the road from Teal at Kingwood because of his size, he was Stud, began to show some worried he might not train on, so sparkle on the gallops early in he persuaded us to go for the = 2017. Breeders Cup. We made the entry but unfortunately we didn=t get in AI him took to Lambourn to Roger Teal | racingfotos.com by one and to be worth going for work one day and had a smile us he had to be guaranteed a run. Adrian Beaumont from the on my face afterwards,@ Teal said. AYou=re never totally sure so International Racing Bureau said there was a race in Qatar in we went again a couple of weeks later. I rang Anne and said >I December [the Al Rayyan S.] that would suit the horse down to think we=re going to have some fun with this little fella.=@ the ground. Anne agreed and as he was fit and well, we went AI wasn=t going to run him before May until he was actually out there and he dotted up. That was seven furlongs, because two so we held back a little. We went to Windsor, he won very he handled it, we thought we could take in the step up to a mile nicely on his first run, then back at Windsor again [when third] it and he did it well again.@ TDN EUROPE/INTERNATIONAL • PAGE 3 OF 11 • THETDN.COM SUNDAY • 18 MARCH, 2018 That latest victory, in the Al Biddah Mile at the Emir=s Sword Festival in Doha in late February, encouraged Teal to consider the Guineas. While the trainer, a former assistant to Philip Mitchell, has only around 20 horses at Shefford Valley Stables in Berkshire, he has caused the odd upset in his time through the likes of dual Meydan and G3 Darley S. winner Steele Tango (Okawango). AWe=ve done well with what we=ve had I think,@ he said. AFor a small yard we=ve been out and danced with the big boys and come up lucky a few times. He=s a proper little horse; they don=t Vice President, International Operations come along very often for small owners and trainers like us. Gary King Obviously Aidan O=Brien, John Gosden, Mark Johnston will be Twitter: @garykingTDN there with their big guns but he=s shown enough to say he=s [email protected] good enough to have a crack at it anyway. If it doesn=t work out, + 1.732.320.0975 we can always lower our sights next time.@ International Editor Kelsey Riley HE’S GOT THE MOST AMAZING STRIDE Twitter: @kelseynrileyTDN [email protected] FOR A SMALL HORSE; HE DROPS DOWN European Editor INTO HIS GALLOP AND REALLY Emma Berry LENGTHENS. Twitter: @collingsberry Roger Teal on Tip Two Win [email protected] Associate International Editor Heather Anderson Twitter: @HLAndersonTDN AHe ran Mark Johnston=s close at Newmarket, that=s being Marketing Manager trained for the Guineas, and he was second to him on soft Alayna Cullen ground,@ Teal added. AHe=s a fantastic moving horse, he=s got the Twitter: @AlaynaCullen most amazing stride for a small horse, he drops down into his [email protected] gallop and really lengthens. If it=s good at Newmarket, they=d at Contributing Editor least have to respect us.@ Alan Carasso His owner is warming to the idea, although she might require a Twitter: @EquinealTDN little more persuasion. AI want to keep it very slow if I=ve got a good horse, I don=t Cafe Racing want to throw them into anything above their head but Roger Sean Cronin says he is a bloody good horse,@ said the straight-talking Tom Frary Scotswoman. AI don=t think I can get my head around it yet, how [email protected] good he=s turned out. He=s so laid back he=s comatose, if you saw Irish Correspondent him walk around the ring you wouldn=t have a pound each-way Daithi Harvey on him.@ As with all of the Cowley horses, Tip Two Win wears a Regular Columnists distinctive white breast-girth in memory of Fred, as it was a way Andrew Caulfield of him recognising their runners when he was suffering from John Berry dementia. It looks as if the tradition will continue for many more Kevin Blake years as Anne has caught the breeding bug and has had another Tom Peacock of her mares, Lovely Story (Ire) (Cape Cross {Ire}), covered by Dalham Hall=s New Approach (Ire) (Galileo {Ire}). TDN EUROPE/INTERNATIONAL • PAGE 4 OF 11 • THETDN.COM SUNDAY • 18 MARCH, 2018 AFreddie=s Girl has thrown a Mastercraftsman yearling, who I=ve called Marion=s Boy after a friend of mine, and she=s due a foal in April by The Gurkha,@ she explained. AThe next one she=ll THE FESTIVAL THAT DRAWS US IN be covered by is Fastnet Rock, so I=m trying to pick the best. By Alayna Cullen AI was offered a lot of money for Tip Two Win after his first If I'm being honest when you ask me race, and more money for Freddie=s Girl in foal with The Gurkha, the question, National Hunt or Flat, the even had someone on the phone from Miami,@ she added. AI=ve response is a resounding and deafening told them I=m in it for the long term and if I find a good horse I=m Flat.