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TUESDAY, 4 AUGUST 2020 MOHAATHER TARGETING QEII THE WEEKLY WRAP: MORE Last week=s G1 Sussex S. winner Mohaather (GB) (Showcasing JOY FOR COX & MCCARTAN {GB}) is aiming for the G1 Queen Elizabeth II S. on Champions Day as his next big target, with trainer Marcus Tregoning as-yet undecided as to whether the 4-year-old will have another start prior. AHis end-of-season target will be the QEII,@ said Tregoning. AWhether something slots in before that we=re not sure yet, but Ascot is his main target. AWe could have really done with the [G1 Prix Jacques le] Marois being a week later than it is. There isn=t anything that slots in ideally, as the Marois is the 16th [of August] which is a bit quick and if we drop down to seven for the Foret [on Oct. 4] it=s too close to Champions Day. With the races all moved around it=s difficult. At least we=re now looking having won a Group 1; given how we felt after Royal Ascot things are a good bit different.@ Cont. p5 Clive Cox | Emma Berry IN TDN AMERICA TODAY FASIG-TIPTON SELECTED YEARLING CATALOGUE OUT A total of 662 yearlings have been catalogued for the Fasig- By Emma Berry Tipton Selected Yaerlings Showcase. Click or tap here to go It was 11 years ago that Xtension (Ire) (Xaar {GB}) became only straight to TDN America. the second group winner for his trainer Clive Cox when landing the G2 Veuve Clicquot Vintage S. under Adam Kirby. In the intervening years, Cox and Kirby have become a force to be reckoned with, particularly in the major sprint contests and often with horses bought relatively inexpensively by the trainer. Xtension was himself a i15,000 yearling purchase from his breeder Paul McCartan of Ballyphilip Stud, and he was later sold on as a 3-year-old to race in Hong Kong before returning to Ireland in 2015 to stand at Rathbarry Stud. Xtension was the third foal of his dam, Great Joy (Ire) (Grand Lodge), who won and was listed-placed in Germany before being bought by McCartan for 24,000gns at the age of seven. While Xtension, who went on to win the G1 BMW Champions Mile two years running, was the best of her offspring on the track, her daughters are continuing to make notable contributions to her legacy from the paddocks. Beatrix Potter (Ire) (Cadeaux Genereux {Ire}) is now best known as the dam of Harry Angel (Ire) (Dark Angel {Ire}), the dual Group 1-winning sprinter who was another Cox purchase from Ballyphilip at ,44,000. Cont. p2 TDN EUROPE • PAGE 2 OF 10 • THETDN.COM TUESDAY • 4 AUGUST 2020 More Joy for Cox & McCartan Cont. from p1 Three years after he won the G2 Mill Reef S. for Cox, his half-brother Pierre Lapin (Ire) (Cappella Sansevero {GB}) landed the same race last season for Roger Varian and Sheikh Mohammed Obaid. In the meantime the family had thrown up another stakes winner in Mrs Gallagher (GB) (Oasis Dream {GB}), a dual listed scorer for William Jarvis and Emma Banks, the team which also won the G3 Valiant S. with Lady Bowthorpe (GB) (Nathaniel {Ire}) two weekends ago. Mrs Gallagher is the first foal of Great Joy's listed-placed daughter A Huge Dream (Ire) (Refuse To Bend {Ire}). Last week yet another daughter of Great Joy put Cox back in the spotlight at Goodwood when Supremacy (Ire) (Mehmas {Ire}) hugged the rail to grab a four-length win in the G2 Richmond S. He too had been bought by his trainer as a yearling, for ,65,000 at the Goffs Premier Yearling Sale. Bred If things had gone to plan at last year's December Sale, Nando by the Hong Kong-based Kangyu International Racing, he was Parrado would have been racing for other connections, but the being carried by his dam Triggers Broom (Ire) (Arcano {Ire}) 165,000gns foal purchase from breeder Anita Wigan was bought when she was bought at the Tattersalls December Mares' Sale back by the McCartans at 200,000gns when offered as a for 110,000gns. yearling. The 'failed' pinhook has subsequently turned a Supremacy reflects yet more glory on the Great Joy family potential loss into a major win with his 150-1 victory in the but he may yet prove to be a thorn in McCartan's side as his colours of Marie McCartan in the G2 Coventry S. at Royal Ascot. next target is likely to be the G1 Darley Prix Morny, in which he When the McCartans were looking for a trainer for the colt, it's may face his stable-mate Nando Parrado (GB) (Kodiac {GB}). little surprise that they plumped for one who had already reaped great success with Ballyphilip graduates: Clive Cox. Flying Angels While the McCartan-bred Harry Angel has just completed his second season at Darley's Dalham Hall Stud and is on his way south to Australia, his erstwhile paddock mate Battaash (Ire) (Dark Angel {Ire}), another outstanding Ballyphilip Stud graduate, continues to light up the season with his blink-and-miss-it blitzes. In winning the G2 King George Qatar S. for the fourth consecutive year he also lowered the track record, just as he did in the G1 Coolmore Nunthorpe S. last year. And that seems likely to be the race in which we will see him next, with a trip to Keeneland for the Breeders' Cup an apparently longed-for target of his trainer Charlie Hills. Battaash | Scoop Dyga Cont. p3 TDN EUROPE • PAGE 3 OF 10 • THETDN.COM TUESDAY • 4 AUGUST 2020 The Weekly Wrap Cont. Just as at Royal Ascot, Battaash provided one of the highlights of another terrific week for his owner Sheikh Hamdan Al Maktoum, who notched six winners at Goodwood to match his Royal Meeting tally. For obvious anatomical reasons, Battaash will never join the Shadwell stallion roster, but at some stage the team at Nunnery Stud can surely look forward to welcoming the Senior Vice President Gary King sheikh's G1 Qatar Sussex S. winner Mohaather (GB) (Showcasing Twitter: @garykingTDN {GB}). While his victory was for one of the sport's major owners, [email protected] it brought with it quite a bit of extra cheer as Mohaather also + 1.732.320.0975 represents some smaller connections. For Marcus Tregoning, Sheikh Hamdan has been a longstanding patron and it no doubt International Editor brought the trainer much satisfaction to be able to repay this Kelsey Riley loyalty in saddling his first Group 1 winner since Sir Percy (GB) Twitter: @kelseynrileyTDN won the Derby in 2006. [email protected] It has been a shorter time between drinks for breeder Gaie European Editor Johnson Houghton, who keeps five broodmares and was Emma Berry celebrating her second Group 1 winner from the same family in Twitter: @collingsberry two years. Indeed, the first came in her own colours with Queen [email protected] Anne S. winner Accidental Agent (GB) (Delagator {GB}), who is out of Mohaather's half-sister Roodle (GB) (Xaar {GB}). The icing Associate International Editor on the cake was that Accidental Agent is trained by Johnson Heather Anderson Houghton's daughter Eve. A recap of this family, which has been Twitter: @HLAndersonTDN cultivated by Johnson Houghton through five generations, can Marketing Manager be found in Chris McGrath=s TDN Interview with the breeder last Alayna Cullen year. Twitter: @AlaynaCullen While events at Goodwood doubtless delighted the Shadwell [email protected] team, arguably the week's most exciting result for Sheikh Hamdan was delivered at Deauville on Saturday by homebred Contributing Editors Raabihah (Sea The Stars {Ire}). The 3-year-old filly ran out the Alan Carasso easy winner of the G3 Prix de Psyche for Jean-Claude Rouget, Christina Bossinakis having previously finished only half a length off behind Fancy Cafe Racing Blue (Ire) (Deep Impact {Jpn}) when fourth in the G1 Prix de Sean Cronin Diane. Cont. p4 Tom Frary [email protected] Irish Correspondent Daithi Harvey Regular Columnists Chris McGrath | John Berry | Kevin Blake Amy Lynam | Melissa Steele IN TDN AUS/NZ TODAY SHALAA COLT ON TOP AT MAGIC MILLIONS A colt by Shalaa (Ire) topped the first day of the Magic Millions National Yearling Sale. Click or tap here to go straight to TDN Raabihah | Scoop Dyga Aus/NZ. TDN EUROPE • PAGE 4 OF 10 • THETDN.COM TUESDAY • 4 AUGUST 2020 The Weekly Wrap Cont. (Ire), now known as Magic Hour (Ire), is with Fabre, who also has This was the only time she had been beaten in four starts and, another Galileo filly for Von Opel. Named Beluga (Ire), she is a with Oaks winner Eswarah (GB) and Midway Lady as her second three-parts-sister to Fabre's Derby winner Pour Moi (Ire) and third dams, plus a Derby and Arc winner for a father, (Montjeu {Ire}). Raabihah is an interesting proposition for the Arc herself. The other Galileo filly from Goffs was the i3 million Rouget, who believes Raabihah to be the "best filly in France", sale-topping daughter of Vimal and Gillian Khosla's Green Room noted that she is the best filly he has trained since Stacelita (Fr) (Theatrical {Ire}), who was bought in partnership with MV (Monsun {Ger}), who won four Group 1s for his stable before Magnier. She is now in training at Ballydoyle and has been landing another two Grade I races in America for Chad Brown. named Espania (Ire). Stars Out In Paris Brothers Share The Love Sea The Stars brought the curtain down on his magnificent Hunscote Stud and Mick Channon brought home the trophy 3-year-old season in the Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe and though for Sunday's G3 Prix Cabourg thanks to the unbeaten Cairn he is yet to sire a winner of that race, Sea Of Class (Ire) went Gorm (GB).