Regally Bred Colt Aims for First Stakes
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WEDNESDAY, 5 JULY, 2017 PALMER OUTLINES RUNNING PLANS REGALLY BRED COLT AIMS Hugo Palmer=s season is running a little behind schedule FOR FIRST STAKES WIN compared to this time last year, but his team=s 27% strike rate in the last 14 days suggests the yard is starting to hit top gear. Two group wins last weekend also lend credence to this and the trainer issued an update on Tuesday on both Best Of Days (GB) (Azamour {Ire}) and Escobar (Ire) (Famous Name {GB}), two horses Palmer had high hopes for at the beginning of the season. After his win in the G2 Juddmonte Royal Lodge S. at Newmarket last September Best Of Days went into winter quarters as a potential Derby horse, but having missed Epsom he began his season in the G2 King Edward VII S. at Royal Ascot. The Godolphin colt made little impression, eventually coming home last behind Permian (Ire) (Teofilo {Ire}). AIt was a messy race and it went badly for him,@ Palmer commented. AHe was drawn wide and was a bit sluggish away but it was only the fourth run of his career. He has come back from it great, but I think with him now we will go through his grades.@ Cont. p2 IN TDN AMERICA TODAY Frontiersman wins with his ears pricked at Newmarket | Racing Post OPPENHEIM ON FASIG-TIPTON JULY The yearling sales season is almost here and Bill Oppenheim Charlie Appleby is hoping to get the Moet and Chandon July breaks down the Fasig-Tipton July catalogue by the numbers. Festival at Newmarket off to the best possible start for team Click or tap here to go straight to TDN America. Godolphin next week when he aims the progressive Frontiersman (GB) (Dubawi {Ire}) at the opening-day feature, the G2 Princess Of Wales=s Arqana Racing Club S. Thursday. Much is expected from Frontiersman, being a son of the brilliant seven-time Group/Grade 1 winner Ouija Board (GB) (Cape Cross {Ire}) and a half-brother to dual Derby winner Australia (GB) (Galileo {Ire}), so it was slightly disappointing to see him well beaten on his first start outside handicap company in a Group 3 at Newbury last autumn. The colt has obviously thrived from age three to four, however, and after easily winning a competitive handicap at Newmarket in May, Appleby pitched him straight into Group 1 company in the Investec Coronation Cup at Epsom where he beat all bar Highland Reel (Ire) (Galileo {Ire}). Having lived up to his birthright of being a graded stakes performer, Appleby is keen to take the next step and make Frontiersman a graded stakes winner. Cont. p2 TDN EUROPE/INTERNATIONAL • PAGE 2 OF 8 • THETDN.COM WEDNESDAY • 5 JULY, 2017 Regally Bred Colt Aiming For First Stakes Win cont. AHe was gelded the Monday after Ascot as the trainer and the AFrontiersman is set to be my runner in the Princess Of Wales=s owners were blowing more than the horse after the race,@ Arqana Racing Club S.@ Appleby confirmed Tuesday. AHe came Palmer said. "I felt at the two-pole that we were going to win a out of the Coronation Cup well and we intended to run him in Royal Ascot race, but then his head came up though and it didn't the Hardwicke S., only for him to scope dirty and there was then quite happen. The obvious race is going to be the not quite enough time to get him ready for Ascot. But he did a [G3] Thoroughbred S. at Goodwood over a mile and I think he nice piece of work last Saturday and, provided he maintains a will appreciate going round the bend like he did at Sandown," he clean bill of health, it=s all systems go for Newmarket. A repeat added. of his Coronation Cup run should put him bang in contention. Appleby has always been convinced of Frontiersman=s talent and the fact that he persuaded Sheikh Mohammed to supplement him for the Coronation Cup is testament to this. JOHNSTON TO MAKE LATE ECLIPSE CALL Reflecting on that Epsom run the trainer said, AHe was stepping Mark Johnston will make a late decision over the participation up from a handicap to a Group 1 in the Coronation so for sure of Permian (Ire) (Teofilo {Ire}) in Saturday=s G1 Coral Eclipse at that was a career best for him. We didn=t run him there on a Sandown. The 3-year-old has so far shown no signs of fatigue whim--he=s regally bred and had been showing us all the right following a busy campaign that has seen Sheikh Hamdan bin signs at home--and his performance justified the decision to Mohammed Al Maktoum=s colt run six times since April. Permian supplement him.@ Appleby is as confident as one could be in the has only lead up to a competitive contest like this, but he feels everything disappointed suggests a big run is imminent from the colt in the mile and a once when half contest. AGood ground would be perfect for him, he finishing 10th in wouldn=t want it testing, but anything quicker should be no the problem. And he=s already won on the Rowley Mile, so I am not G1 Investec worried about the track,@ he concluded. Epsom Derby and bounced back from that Palmer Outlines Running Plans (cont. from p1) to win the Palmer intends to aim Best Of Days at the Listed Bet365 S., a G2 King Edward 10-furlong race at Newbury July 22. VII S. at Royal Escobar fared little better for the Palmer team at Royal Ascot Ascot. Mark Johnston with Permian at Royal Ascot | th Racing Post when finishing 13 in the G3 Jersey S. and the Newmarket Regarding plans trainer hopes a routine surgical procedure following the race will for Saturday, Johnston said, "We've left him in and I wouldn't help focus Escobar=s mind on the job a bit more in future. rule it out. The horse is well. It does come quickly after Royal Ascot, but we said that last time, after the Derby." Barney Roy (GB) (Excelebration {Ire}) will vie for favouritism for the race, but his participation is not set in stone with the following day=s G1 Prix Jean Prat at Chantilly also a possibility. His trainer Richard Hannon however is keener on Sandown and commented, "I'm favouring the Eclipse, though I can't say I'm very confident he'll get a mile and a quarter, but there's every chance. He has always run to the line over a mile and is out of a Galileo mare." Aidan O=Brien will be seeking a sixth victory in the race and of his chief hope, Epsom Derby runner up Cliffs Of Moher (Ire) (Galileo {Ire}), he commented, "We're very happy so far. This will be a big week for him, but so far, so good. We've been very happy with him since Epsom." Best Of Days winning the G2 Royal Lodge S. | Racing Post TDN EUROPE/INTERNATIONAL • PAGE 3 OF 8 • THETDN.COM WEDNESDAY • 5 JULY, 2017 Tuesday, Hamburg, Germany SPARKASSE HOLSTEIN CUP-G3, i55,000, HMB, 7-4, 3yo/up, VICE PRESIDENT, INTERNATIONAL OPERATIONS 10fT, 2:19.46, sf. Gary King Twitter: @garykingTDN 1--#@MATCHWINNER (GER), 126, h, 6, by Sternkoenig (Ire) [email protected] 1st Dam: Mahamuni (Ire), by Sadler=s Wells + 1.732.320.0975 2nd Dam: Or Vision, by Irish River (Fr) International Editor 3rd Dam: Luv Luvin=, by Raise a Native Kelsey Riley (i12,000 RNA Ylg >12 BBAGS; i12,000 RNA 2yo >13 BBAMAY). Twitter: @kelseynrileyTDN O-J Schwarma; B-Gestut Gorlsdorf (GER); T-A Kleinkorres; [email protected] J-S Hellyn. i32,000. Lifetime Record: 18-8-3-3, i106,500. European Editor Werk Nick Rating: C. Click for eNicks report & 5-cross pedigree. Emma Berry 2--Wai Key Star (Ger), 126, c, 4, Soldier Hollow (GB)--Wakytara Twitter: @collingsberry (Ger), by Danehill. O-Stall Salzburg; B-Gestut Park Wiedingen [email protected] (GER); T-Andreas Wohler. i12,000. Associate International Editor 3--El Loco (Ger), 126, c, 4, Lope de Vega (Ire)--Elora (Ger), by Heather Anderson Alkalde (Ger). (i16,000 Ylg >14 BBAGS). O/B-Gestut Rottgen Twitter: @HLAndersonTDN (GER); T-Markus Klug. i6,000. Contributing Editor Margins: 3/4, HD, 1HF. Odds: 2.40, 1.40, 3.30. Alan Carasso Also Ran: Devastar (Ger), Apoleon (Ger). Scratched: Nordico (Ger). Click for the Racing Post result or the free Newmarket Bureau, Cafe Racing Sean Cronin Equineline.com catalogue-style pedigree. Tom Frary Fifth in the G2 Premio Federico Tesio over 11 furlongs at the [email protected] San Siro in September and fourth in the 10-furlong G3 Niederrhein-Pokal at Krefeld in November, Matchwinner Irish Correspondent Daithi Harvey returned to be third in a Saint-Cloud conditions event Apr. 6 before finishing fourth in the G3 Prix d=Hedouville over a mile Regular Columnists and a half at the latter venue May 8. Anchored in rear off a Bill Oppenheim Andrew Caulfield steady early gallop by a confident Stephen Hellyn, the chestnut John Berry had plenty to do straightening for home, but picked up to cut Kevin Blake down Wai Key Star in the last 50 yards. Tom Peacock Pedigree notes... Send Press Releases to: [email protected] The dam, who produced the listed performer Moi Lolita (GB) (Lawman {Fr}), also has an as-yet unraced 3-year-old filly by Lord of England (Ger) named Miss Germany (Ger), a 2-year-old filly by Maxios (GB) named Marilu (Ger) and a filly foal by Sea the Moon (Ger) named Moon a Lisa (Ger).