MONDAY, 7 JUNE 2021 CLASSIC DOUBLE FOR ST BOLSHOI BALLET >VERY SORE= FOLLOWING CAZOO DERBY MARK=S BASILICA Coolmore partners= Bolshoi Ballet (Ire) (Galileo {Ire}), who sustained a cut to his hind leg in the G1 Cazoo Derby before finishing seventh, is reported to be >very sore=, but that the injury will not take significant time to heal. The dual Group 3 winner was favoured at Epsom on Saturday. AHe was very sore this morning,@ said trainer Aidan O=Brien. AWe played back the videos of the race. At the top of the hill he had it, so he obviously got it in the first 150 yards. Usually with a horse if that happens late in a race it doesn=t affect them much because their blood is up, but this happened very early so it suggests it was a good reason for a disappointing run. It was just off the tendon at the back. The lads thought seven to 10 days is when we should be able to do something again with him.@ St Mark=s Basilica | Scoop Dyga IN TDN AMERICA TODAY ESSENTIAL QUALITY FINE AFTER BELMONT Champion Essential Quality (Tapit), who won the GI Belmont S. As far as passages around Chantilly=s circuit go in the 10 1/2- on Saturday, has exited that effort in good form and trainer Brad furlong G1 Qatar Prix du Jockey Club, St Mark=s Basilica (Fr) Cox is thinking the GI Travers S. could be next for the Godolphin (Siyouni {Fr}) enjoyed one as perfect as is possible on Sunday as homebred. Click or tap here to go straight to TDN America. he toyed with his rivals in the 181st edition of the Classic. Hardly breaking sweat to become the fourth colt to complete the G1 Poule d=Essai des Poulains-Prix du Jockey Club double since 2005, Ballydoyle=s 14-5 favourite was slotted behind the pace-setting Normandy Bridge (Fr) (Le Havre {Ire}) from his ideal draw by Ioritz Mendizabal and saved ground against the rail the whole way. As the long-time leader drifted left in the straight, an ideal gap opened for him to slip through 300 metres from the finish and after receiving a whip surged away to settle the outcome in an instant. Flashing his tail late and pulling himself up in the clear, the dominant winner who becomes his stable=s fifth Classic winner of 2021 and its first Jockey Club winner was in front by 1 3/4 lengths at the line from Sealiway (Fr) (Galiway {GB}), with Millebosc (Fr) (Le Havre {Ire}) a short head away in third. AIt is a thrill to ride again for Aidan O=Brien and there was no doubt I was riding the best horse in the race,@ Mendizabal commented after completing back-to-back wins in the Classic following Mishriff (Ire) (Make Believe {GB}) 12 months ago. Cont. p2 TDN EUROPE • PAGE 2 OF 18 • THETDN.COM MONDAY • 07 JUNE 2021 G1 Qatar Prix du Jockey Club Cont. from p1 the real action was all up front. Millebosc had tracked the He added, AThe only concern was whether he would stay or eventual winner against the fence and he was able to enter not and although it was my opinion after the Poulains that he contention in his own time, but in truth there was only Sealiway would, he had to confirm it and he did it in great style. I had a who at an insulting 53-1 could even remotely threaten inside lovely run through the race and he the final two furlongs. That G1 Prix did everything right. He=s a true Jean-Luc Lagardere hero briefly champion.@ flattered before Mendizabal shot It could be argued that this up the rail on St Mark=s Basilica and Classic was effectively decided was able to temporarily take a pull, when the draw was made, as the such was his control of the race at Rosegreen candidate already had that stage. As he had in enough of a class edge over his ParisLongchamp=s mile Classic assembled peers without the three weeks earlier, the winner addition of such a clear advantage was in a different league once his in the post position. Neither keen acceleration had been employed nor lazy from the break, the bay and while the winning margin was was able to move forward and not exaggerated, his superiority draft in a true Acatbird seat@ with was. the giant Normandy Bridge almost St Mark=s Basilica receives a congratulaory pat from jockey Ioritz Very few European Derby acting as shepherd in front. With Mendizabal | Scoop Dyga winners are able to win over six the Rouget trio Cheshire Academy furlongs at two, but St Mark=s (Fr) (Flintshire {GB}), Makaloun (Fr) (Bated Breath {GB}) and Basilica is in that unique category having broken his maiden over Saiydabad (Blame) effectively scuppered by their wide draws, that trip at The Curragh in August, just 13 days after running they all became hopelessly detached from an early stage and fifth in the G1 Phoenix S. over the same track and trip. Cont. p2 TDN EUROPE • PAGE 3 OF 18 • THETDN.COM MONDAY • 07 JUNE 2021 G1 Qatar Prix du Jockey Club Cont. Third to Thunder Moon (Ire) (Zoffany {Ire}) and Wembley (Ire) (Galileo {Ire}) over seven furlongs in the G1 Goffs Vincent O=Brien National S. back there in September, the bay took a step forward to reverse the form with that pair in the G1 Dewhurst S. at Newmarket on his 2-year-old finale in October. Whether he Senior Vice President Gary King ends up a G1 Prix de l=Arc de Triomphe contender remains to be Twitter: @garykingTDN seen, especially as the stable already has a cluster of horses for [email protected] that showcase, and it is more likely that he will become another + 1.732.320.0975 from Ballydoyle able to mix it between a mile and 10 furlongs. AWe are absolutely delighted--we thought he=d come forward International Editor from his first run at Longchamp, as they usually do and Ioritz Kelsey Riley gave him a brilliant ride,@ his trainer said. AHe=s a great Twitter: @kelseynrileyTDN horseman and very intelligent--he takes all the information on [email protected] board and when he rode for us at Deauville last year we were European Editor very impressed with him. When Frankie rode St Mark=s Basilica Emma Berry last year in the Dewhurst, he said he=d have no problem with a Twitter: @collingsberry mile and a quarter and he relaxes and quickens and is a very [email protected] easy horse to manoeuvre--he=s a very intelligent horse. We know the pace he has and it makes him very special--he has Associate International Editor those qualities you need in France more than anywhere really. Heather Anderson He was very impressive on his first run and did the same thing Twitter: @HLAndersonTDN today--he puts a race to bed very quickly and very few can do Marketing Manager that. He=s out of a Galileo mare by Siyouni and he has the Alayna Cullen qualities of both. We=ll see how he comes out of this and its Twitter: @AlaynaCullen possible he=ll stay further, but when you have a horse who is [email protected] able to quicken over mile like he can you don=t know. We=ll see what the lads want to do, but he=s a very exciting horse.@ Contributing Editors Frederic Rossi said of Sealiway, AHe ran a bad race last time in Alan Carasso the Poulains and that was my mistake, as I think I gave him too Christina Bossinakis hard a race in the Fontainebleau first time this season. He was Cafe Racing not quite ready for that and so paid the price in the Poulains, Sean Cronin but he had given every sign that he was bouncing back in the Tom Frary mornings and we saw the Sealiway I know on the track this [email protected] afternoon. There is no doubt that he was beaten by a better horse, but the result says that the European champion 2-year- Irish Correspondent old won and the French champion 2-year-old was second which Daithi Harvey says it all. We=ll give him a break and bring him back for the [G2 Prix] Guillaume d=Ornano [at Deauville Aug. 14].@ Regular Columnists Chris McGrath | John Berry | Kevin Blake Millebosc=s trainer Stephanie Nigge said, AI=m still crying--it was Amy Lynam | Melissa Steele a little bit too much pressure! I always said he was a nice one and he=s run a superb race. Unfortunately, he had a few setbacks earlier in the season and we had to bring him back for the races late and he still needed the race in the Prix de Guiche last time. He had changed a lot and improved physically since. He=ll probably stay further in the second half of the season and he=s a top horse for the future.@ Cont. p4 TDN EUROPE • PAGE 4 OF 18 • THETDN.COM MONDAY • 07 JUNE 2021 Pedigree Notes 3rd Dam: Fife (Ire), by Lomond St. Mark=s Basilica becomes the second Prix du Jockey Club (1,300,000gns Ylg >19 TATOCT). O-Derrick Smith, Susan hero for his sire and also gives his G3 Silver Flash S.-winning dam Magnier & Michael Tabor; B-Robert Scarborough (FR); T-Aidan Cabaret (Ire) (Galileo {Ire}) a third Classic after Magna Grecia O=Brien; J-Ioritz Mendizabal.