9 INDIVIDUAL GROUP 1 WINNERS from OUR 2014 SALES LOT: DON’T MISS OUR 2016 BBAG YEARLING SALES DRAFT ISFAHAN - 3 X Group Winner, Including G1 German Derby
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THURSDAY, 1ST SEPTEMBER 2016 EBN EUROPEAN BLOODSTOCK NEWS FOR MORE INFORMATION: TEL: +44 (0) 1638 666512 • FAX: +44 (0) 1638 666516 • [email protected] • WWW.BLOODSTOCKNEWS.EU RELATIVELY SPEAKING | NEW ZEALAND | RACING ROUND-UP | STAKES FIELDS winner and three-time Gr.1-placed Lady Of The Desert (Rahy), TODAY’S HEADLINES whose first foal Queen Kindly (Frankel), replicated her dam and her grandam in landing the Gr.2 Lowther Stakes last month. RACING REVIEW RACING NEWS EXCEED’S QUEEN RULES IN BADEN-BADEN CUP BRITAIN There was plenty of pace for the lead in yesterday’s feature contest at Baden-Baden, the Listed Baden-Baden Cup for fillies WALKER ‘VERY TEMPTED’ BY JOEL and mares over 1400m. The Henri-Alex Pantall-trained Powder STAKES FOR STORMY ANTARCTIC Snow (Dubawi) won the battle for the lead, but was soon Stormy Antarctic (Stormy Atlantic) is one of the leading names restrained in front, with the field packed in behind. She was among a 32-strong entry for the Gr.2 Shadwell Joel Stakes at ridden soon after entering the home straight, where there were a Newmarket’s Rowley Mile Racecourse on Friday, 23rd September. host of challengers, namely the Andreas Wohler-trained Signora This £100,000 one-mile contest is, alongside the Shadwell Queen, who challenged to her inner and had taken over before Rockfel Stakes, one of two Gr.2 highlights on the middle day of the 200m pole. The daughter of Exceed And Excel stayed on best the three-day Cambridgeshire Meeting. Its initial entry features to win a shade cosily by a half-length, with Powder Snow a length no less than ten horses that have been successful at or above Gr.2 and a quarter in front of Antalya (Areion). level, plus eight more already victorious in lesser Pattern company. For the three-year-old Signora Queen this was a fourth win in The entry is headed by the Gr.1 Lockinge Stakes hero, Belardo five. A winner on her only start as a juvenile, she was below par (Lope De Vega), as well as the recent Gr.1 Juddmonte International when only tenth and last in the Listed Henkel-Stutenpreis at Stakes-third, Mutakayyef (Sea The Stars), and Custom Cut Dusseldorf in late April. Since then she has amassed wins in (Notnowcato), winner of this race in 2014 and runner-up twelve conditions company at Hannover in June and at Dusseldorf in months ago. mid-July. Stormy Antarctic is already proven over the Rowley Mile as he Bred by Rabbah Bloodstock Limited and running in the familiar ran away with the Gr.3 Craven Stakes over this course and distance blue and white colours of Jaber Abdullah, Signora Queen is the back in April. first foal out of the unraced Street Cry mare Queen’s Rose, a He has since proved himself a genuine Gr.1 performer when daughter of the Champion European Filly and Gr.1 winner finding only Zelzal (Sea The Stars) too strong in the Prix Jean Prat Queen’s Logic (Grand Lodge). 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He was going for Ed Walker, trainer of Stormy Antarctic, said: “Stormy Antarctic is the Gr.1 Prix Jean Prat but it came too soon and so we planned to in good order and the Shadwell Joel Stakes would be very tempting save him for the autumn for the [Gr.1] Queen Elizabeth II Stakes and for him if the ground came up on the slow side. first run him in September and see how he was doing.” “He’s a Gr.3 winner who has been second in two Gr.1s so it seems On the news of the sale of one of his better performers, Botti sensible to try to win a Gr.2 with him now. admitted: “It was a surprise. I think the deal was done through Ross “His ultimate goal is the Queen Elizabeth II Stakes at Ascot and I Doyle but I don’t know who bought the horse.” would love to send him there full of confidence on the back of a win. The Joel would fit in really well to that plan and the fact that he won there so impressively in the spring is a positive, but he does have IRELAND plenty of other options. “Although Timeform has rated it as his career-best performance, we MINDING COULD LAUNCH CHAMPION were kind of disappointed with his Marois run. It was a funny old race CHALLENGE AGAINST THE CHAPS and we got our tactics wrong, he was up on the speed in a furiously- run race where the first six home all came from well off the pace.” Minding, the outstanding daughter of Galileo, is likely to head to Leopardstown on 10th September for a crack at both the colts MONGAN EXCITED BY HARBOUR and older horses in the Gr.1 Irish Champion Stakes, according to LAW’S ST LEGER CHALLENGE her trainer Aidan O’Brien. Laura Mongan is set to saddle her first Classic runner in the Gr.1 St Also entered for the fillies’ and mares’ Gr.1 Matron Stakes on the Leger, the highlight of the four-day Ladbrokes St Leger Festival at same card, O’Brien appeared to be leaning towards a shot at the Doncaster on Saturday, 10th September. fellas, which could include Gr.1 Derby and Gr.1 Irish Derby winner The Epsom-based trainer is responsible for lightly-raced Harzand (Sea The Stars) and the Gr.1 Prix du Jockey Club victor Harbour Law, who has run well in two recognised trials this Almanzor (Wootton Bassett). season. The three-year-old Lawman colt was runner-up to Sword “She’ll run in either the [Gr.1] Matron or the [Gr.1 Irish] Champion Fighter (Galileo) in the two-mile Listed Queen’s Vase at Royal Stakes”, the trainer said on At The Races. “The lads will make the Ascot before dropping back three furlongs in trip and taking a decision closer the time, but it’s very possible she’ll go to the close fourth behind Housesofparliament (Galileo) in the Gr.3 Champion Stakes. We’re very happy with her. She’s had a nice bit of Bahrain Trophy at Newmarket on 7th July. Mongan, bidding to become the first female trainer to win the world’s oldest Classic, said: “I think we have done the right thing by not running Harbour Law between Newmarket and the St Leger. “It has freshened him up and he did a nice piece of work around Kempton last week, so he is good to go. “He ran well at Newmarket considering the drop back in trip probably wasn’t ideal for him. The St Leger distance will be more suitable and I think he is worthy of going there. “It does look an open race and, while there is no doubt he will have to put in a real good performance to get involved, we think he is capable of doing so. “We are not going there just to make up the numbers.” KNIFE WILL ADAPT WELL TO HONG KONG SAYS BOTTI Knife Edge (Zoffany), the Gr.2 Mehl-Mulhens-Rennen winner who has been sold to race in Hong Kong, will adapt well to racing in that part of the world, according to his former trainer Marco Botti. Botti revealed that the plan for the three-year-old had been to wait for an autumn campaign, but instead his owners Mrs John Magnier, Michael Tabor and Derrick Smith have decided to sell, and he left Botti’s Prestige Place yard on Saturday.