SUNDAY, MAY 27, 2012 732-747-8060 $ TDN Home Page Click Here ALL POWER TO HIM MAKE WAY Those who witnessed the lifeless effort of Power She may not have been an obvious leading lady a few (GB) (Oasis Dream {GB}) in the G1 2000 Guineas three weeks ago, but Homecoming Queen (Ire) (Holy Roman weeks ago would have given Michael Tabor=s colt little Emperor {Ire}) put herself firmly in the spotlight with a chance of providing Aidan O=Brien sensational victory at Newmarket and is poised to with an eighth renewal of the complete the double in today=s G1 Etihad Airways Irish G1 Abu Dhabi Irish 2000 Guineas 1000 Guineas at The yesterday. Yet again, the new Curragh. Any suggestion she maestro of Ballydoyle produced would play a hand in the some uncanny magic in the 1000 Guineas early last interim period to catapult the season would have seemed J “TDN Rising Star” J fanciful at best, particularly forward from his Newmarket flop after Susan Magnier=s and onto Classic glory at The diminutive bay had been Curragh. AHe was a very solid shelled out the back in a six- horse last year, and we thought furlong Naas maiden in June. the combination of very soft Since a rise in trip and Homecoming Queen ground and it being his first run of switch to forcing tactics, she Power Racing Post/Martin Lynch Racing Post/Ed Whitaker the year were to blame at has left her initial ditherings Newmarket,@ O=Brien said. AWe behind her and came into her own under a never-say- were delighted with him since and Ryan [Moore] told die ride from Ryan Moore three weeks ago. That Joseph to ride him, as he said he had felt great during astonishing performance is backed up by impressive the first half of the race before getting tired.@ fractions and a repeat will see her become the third to complete the Newmarket-Curragh Guineas double since Saturday, Curragh, Ireland 2004. AIt was a great performance in Newmarket and if ABU DHABI IRISH 2000 GUINEAS-G1, i300,000, she reproduces something like that she should be very, Curragh, 5-26, 3yo, c/f, 1mT, 1:39.04, gd. very hard to beat,@ commented jockey Joseph O=Brien. 1--POWER (GB), 126, c, 3, by Oasis Dream (GB) AThere was no fluke about it. She went to the front and 1st Dam: Frappe (Ire), by Inchinor (GB) did it the hard way.@ Cont. p14 2nd Dam: Glatisant (GB), by Rainbow Quest 3rd Dam: Dancing Rocks (GB), by Green Dancer (50,000gns RNA yrl >10 TATOCT). O-Michael Tabor, Derrick Smith & Susan Magnier; B-Norelands & Hugo Lascelles; T-Aidan O=Brien; J-Joseph O=Brien; i174,000. Lifetime Record: GSW & G1SP-Eng, 8-5-2-0, i506,164. *1/2 to Thakafaat (Ire) (Unfuwain), GSW-Eng, $194,772. Click for the eNicks report & 5-cross pedigree. Werk Nick Rating: A+++ *Triple Plus*. 2--Foxtrot Romeo (Ire), 126, c, 3, Danehill Dancer (Ire)- - Hawala (Ire), by Warning (GB). (i90,000 yrl >10 GOFSPT). O-Andrew Tinkler; B-Barronstown Stud; T-Bryan Smart; i60,000. 3--Reply (Ire), 126, c, 3, Oasis Dream (GB)--Cap Coz (Ire), by Indian Ridge (Ire). (i500,000 yrl >10 ARQAUG). O-Susan Magnier, Michael Tabor, Derrick Smith & Eduard Mordukhovitch; B-Mrs C Regalado-Gonzalez; T-Aidan O=Brien; i30,000. Margins: 1, 3/4, NK. Odds: 5-1, 33-1, 25-1. Also Ran: Daddy Long Legs, Born to Sea (Ire), Hermival (Ire), Wrote (Ire), Alkazim (Ire), Takar (Ire), Trumpet Major (Ire). Scratched: Parish Hall (Ire). 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Admirably consistent at two, Power was winning the Listed Marble Hill S. on this card last year and went on to Royal Ascot to add the G2 Coventry S. to his tally the next month. He was second as the 7-4 favorite when returning from a break in the G1 Phoenix S. here in August, but Aidan O=Brien blamed himself for leaving him short on that occasion, and with the pressure applied at home in the meantime returned to put matters right in the G1 National S. in September. Denied only by this race=s most notable absentee Parish Hall (Ire) (Teofilo {Ire}) in the G1 Dewhurst S. at The winning connections Newmarket the Racing Post/Ed Whitaker following month, he had attracted support for the 2000 Guineas but that proved wide of the mark as he faded to beat only one rival. Despite that negative hanging over him, it was only 12 months ago that Roderic O=Connor (Ire) (Galileo {Ire}) had rebounded from an unplaced effort at Newmarket to win this race, and jockey bookings and market strength suggested that all the faith remained. Keen early anchored against the fence in sixth as the stable=s G2 UAE Derby first and third Daddy Long Legs and Wrote (Ire) (High Chaparral {Ire}) set off in isolation, Power tracked the British raider Foxtrot Romeo through as the two leaders started to send out Sea Change... distress signals with a quarter mile to race. Making One of the race=s intriguing players was Born To Sea ground up the rail, he was forced to angle around the (Ire) (Invincible Spirit {Ire}) and, like Power, Christopher tiring Wrote and as Daddy Long Legs veered left from Tsui=s three-parts brother to Sea the Stars (Ire) made the furlong marker was able to dash back to the rail. In major improvement from front with 100 yards remaining, he surged away from an unplaced effort in the the surprise package Foxtrot Romeo despite flashing his 2000 Guineas. Sporting a tail to lead home a one-three-four for the stable. AHe hood for the first time, he traveled and quickened well off a solid pace today, and stayed on late to be fifth. Ryan [Moore] felt he was a little bit unlucky in the AI was very pleased with Dewhurst last year--if he had gone a bit farther he him,@ jockey Pat Smullen would have got there--so he gets a mile well,@ said told PA Sport. AThe O=Brien. ADaddy Long Legs is a different horse on the number-one objective grass and wouldn=t mind stepping up to a mile and a was to get him to settle, quarter. I think Power is a horse for the G1 St James=s but once he did, I was Palace S. [at Royal Ascot June 19], but it will be too far behind. Hopefully discussed and they all have lots of options open to Born to Sea prior to the English he will progress, and I 2000 Guineas Racing Post/Mark Cranham them.@ In a remarkable turn of events for Highclere think he has the ability to Stud, John Magnier revealed that Power had been be a nice horse once he starts doing things right.@ John raised alongside the leading Derby contenders Camelot Manley=s Trumpet Major (Ire) (Arakan) was sent off the (GB) (Montjeu {Ire}) and Bonfire (GB) (Manduro {Ger}) 9-4 favorite, but after trailing in last of the 10 runners at the Berkshire-based operation.