FRIDAY, 21 AUGUST 2020 ADJUSTMENT TO DEAUVILLE SELECT DATES EASY FOR LOVE IN THE After announcing on Wednesday that its Deauville Select Sale YORKSHIRE OAKS would be moved forward a little more than two weeks to accommodate the UK government=s quarantine requirement for visitors from France, Arqana made another minor adjustment to those dates on Thursday. The sale will now be staged on Sept. 9 to 11 to avoid a clash with the Tattersalls Ascot yearling sale. "With so many constraints coming into play and such a restricted time period to stage all American and European yearling sales, it is virtually impossible to please everyone and sales clashes are almost inevitable,@ said Arqana Chief Executive Officer Eric Hoyeau. AHowever, Arqana and Tattersalls have agreed that cooperation is paramount amid the current crisis and that we should do our utmost to make attendance at our sales compatible for vendors and buyers alike." Love cruises to victory in the Yorkshire Oaks | racingfotos.com IN TDN AMERICA TODAY Some stellar fillies have crossed York=s Knavesmire down the MY GIRL RED GIVES TEXAS THE GREEN LIGHT years, but the G1 1000 Guineas and G1 Epsom Oaks heroine Erich Brehm is riding a high as the breeder of GII Sorrento S. Love (Ire) (Galileo {Ire}) is up there with the best after her winner My Girl Red, a daughter of his first-crop sire Texas Red. saunter through Thursday=s G1 Darley Yorkshire Oaks. With an Click or tap here to go straight to TDN America. epic G1 Prix de l=Arc de Triomphe in the offing in six weeks= time, there will be few who will sleep easy with Ballydoyle=s leading prospect looming large on the horizon. While her performances in the June 7 Newmarket and July 4 Epsom Classics left none in any doubt that she was in a territory of her own, this staging post to ParisLongchamp only served to confirm her elevated level of ability and the fact remains that on the first Sunday in October she will be getting weight from all her main rivals. Ryan Moore proved just a passenger here, with the 4-9 favourite travelling smoothly in second tracking Manuela de Vega (Ire) (Lope de Vega {Ire}) before being shaken up to take control approaching two out. If the slightly easy ground was compromising her, it did not seem so as she proved totally dominant en route to a five-length success from the progressive Alpinista (GB) (Frankel {GB}), with One Voice (Ire) (Poet=s Voice {GB}) two lengths back in third as they finished strung out. AShe=s straightforward and realistically this was her easiest task for a while,@ her rider commented. AThey had to step up to run to her level and she was very professional--it was business as usual for her today.@ Cont. p2 TDN EUROPE • PAGE 2 OF 13 • THETDN.COM FRIDAY • 21 AUGUST 2020 Easy For Love In The Yorkshire Oaks cont. from p1 AThe ground=s a bit dead and it was a worry for her, as when I rode her in the Debutante last year I thought it was a bit slow for her but she=s obviously thrived and got stronger. She=s been exceptional every start and we=ll see how she is over the next six weeks.@ Aidan O'Brien was full of praise afterwards. "She was always very exciting--I don't know if we've ever had as an exciting a filly at this stage. I can't name one that has been as exciting as her at this stage ever," he said. "When you're training them and they're your own, you don't ever want to get carried away, but it's her movement and her pace and her action and her attitude--that's the makings of those great horses and she seems to have all that. She has looked very special from the minute she ran in the Guineas. We thought she was a very good filly last year, but we thought she'd be a middle-distance filly, so when she did that in the Guineas we weren't sure what would happen in the Oaks. But when she went up in trip she was very happy and for her to do that today, after having a break since the Oaks, was very good. We were nervous about today because of the ground, but know now we could run on good to soft. We couldn't be happier with what she's done. We were delighted with today and if she comes out of today well and goes on to the Arc, we'd be looking forward to it." Love seems to have been growing in stature with each passing month, causing an upset but leaving no one in any doubt that Her performances this season have taken her to the top of the she clear best in the G3 Silver Flash S. over seven furlongs at tree among her stable=s 3-year-olds and while Serpentine (Ire) Leopardstown last July and following up in the G1 Moyglare Stud (Galileo {Ire}) gets the chance to back up his Derby romp in next S. at The Curragh in September. In between, she was undone by month=s G1 Grand Prix de Paris, it will be a surprise if Moore is easy ground when fifth in the G2 Debutante S. at that latter not on Love in the Arc. venue and it may be that the similar going took the edge off her Sir Mark Prescott was left to reflect on a masterclass of as she was third in the G1 Fillies= Mile at Newmarket in October. plotting, with Alpinista having only won her listed race a week previously. "That went exactly as I hoped it might, because Alpinista got second in a Group 1 without having to have too hard a race," he told the Racing Post. "To be honest I don=t think she would have been entered under normal circumstances. I was looking for the big black-type and once you=ve got it you can be a bit more creative, especially with a filly. This was a huge day for Miss Rausing. I=ve been lucky enough to train the dam Alwilda and the granddam Albanova, as well as Albanova=s sister Alborada." According to the Post, Prescott is looking at either Doncaster=s G2 Park Hill S. or a Group 2 for fillies over a mile and a half at Baden-Baden. "Miss Rausing is marvellous when it comes to keeping fillies and mares going, and Alwilda and Albanova were both five when they won their most important races,@ he said. Love blossoms in the Yorkshire Oaks | PA Media ASometimes when she wins with one that has taken a bit of time I like to say that it was a case of 'winner trained by Miss Rausing at Lanwades Stud', because I would have given up." TDN EUROPE • PAGE 3 OF 13 • THETDN.COM FRIDAY • 21 AUGUST 2020 Pedigree Notes The winner is a half-sister to Lucky Kristale (GB) (Lucky Story), who captured the G2 Lowther S. at this meeting having won the G2 Cherry Hinton S. The dam Pikaboo (GB) (Pivotal {GB}) has done well with matings with Galileo, producing this stable=s Group 3-winning fillies Flattering (Ire) and Peach Tree (Ire) for Senior Vice President the Coolmore monarch before Love appeared. Pikaboo is a half- Gary King sister to the seven-furlong specialist and dual G2 Park S.-winning Twitter: @garykingTDN sire Arabian Gleam (GB) by Pivotal=s son Kyllachy (GB), and the [email protected] listed-winning sprinter Kimberella (GB) also by Kyllachy. Two + 1.732.320.0975 other of her half-siblings Light Quest (Quest For Fame {GB}) and Cute (GB) (Diktat {GB}) have also proven smart producers in International Editor their own right. The former was responsible for the G3 Prix Fille Kelsey Riley Twitter: @kelseynrileyTDN de l=Air scorer and stakes producer Skia (Fr) (Motivator {GB}) [email protected] and the Singapore Gold Cup winner Tropaios (GB) (Excellent Art {GB}), while Cute is the dam of the recent Listed Midsummer S. European Editor winner and G1 Prix d=Ispahan third Pogo (Ire) (Zebedee {GB}). Emma Berry This is also the family of the G1 English and Irish 2000 Guineas- Twitter: @collingsberry winning sire Don=t Forget Me (Ire) (Ahonoora {GB}). [email protected] Associate International Editor Heather Anderson LOVE (IRE) Twitter: @HLAndersonTDN WIN AND YOU’RE IN ™ connection earnings include: Marketing Manager $ Automatic berth into #BC20 F/M Turf Alayna Cullen $ $60,000 in pre-entry & entry fees Twitter: @AlaynaCullen $ Travel award up to $10,000 for domestic [email protected] starters and $40,000 for international starters Contributing Editors Alan Carasso Click HERE for the full 2020 Christina Bossinakis #WINANDYOUREIN rules and race schedule. Cafe Racing Sean Cronin Thursday, York, Britain Tom Frary DARLEY YORKSHIRE OAKS-G1, ,250,000, York, 8-20, 3yo/up, f, [email protected] 11f 188yT, 2:31.31, gd. 1--LOVE (IRE), 124, f, 3, by Galileo (Ire) Irish Correspondent 1st Dam: Pikaboo (GB), by Pivotal (GB) Daithi Harvey 2nd Dam: Gleam of Light (Ire), by Danehill Regular Columnists 3rd Dam: Gold Runner, by Runnett (GB) Chris McGrath | John Berry | Kevin Blake O-Michael Tabor, Derrick Smith & Susan Magnier; B-Coolmore Amy Lynam | Melissa Steele (IRE); T-Aidan O=Brien; J-Ryan Moore. ,141,775. Lifetime Record: G1SW-Ire, 10-6-1-1, $929,001. *Full to Flattering (Ire), GSW-Ire & SP-Eng; and Peach Tree (Ire), GSW-Ire, $142,207; IN TDN AUS/NZ TODAY and 1/2 to Lucky Kristale (GB) (Lucky Story), MGSW-Eng, $288,793.