SUNDAY, 16 JULY, 2017 >HARRY= BESTS ELDERS AND WINS THE >CUP= ENABLE POWERS TO Ground down by Caravaggio (Scat Daddy) in Royal Ascot=s CLASSIC DOUBLE G1 Commonwealth Cup June 23, Godolphin=s acquisition Harry Angel (Ire) (Dark Angel {Ire}) came back from the canvass with steel in his veins to comprehensively reverse that form in Saturday=s G1 Darley July Cup at Newmarket. Joined by Ballydoyle=s Intelligence Cross (War Front) on the front end as he had been at Ascot, the 9-2 shot had his blood up once more but this time had plenty left to shake off that rival inside the final quarter mile. Powering through the closing stages as the slow-starting 10-11 favourite Caravaggio failed to make serious inroads, Harry Angel hit the line strong with 1 1/4 lengths to spare over last year=s winner Limato (Ire) (Tagula {Ire}), with the outsider Brando (GB) (Pivotal {GB}) a half-length away denying Caravaggio a place in the frame by a short head. AHe=d have won last time without a shadow of a doubt and I knew he was the best, but it was a little bit unfortunate the way the race turned out,@ jockey Adam Kirby commented. Cont. p4 (Click here) Enable and Frankie Dettori win the Irish Oaks | Racingfotos.com IN TDN AMERICA TODAY SONGBIRD LANDS DEL ‘CAP With the middle-distance 3-year-old colts failing to provide a ‘TDN Rising Star’ Songbird (Medaglia d’Oro) got the job done in generation leader, Juddmonte=s G1 Epsom Oaks heroine Enable the GI Delaware H. Saturday, her 13th win from 14 starts. Click (GB) (Nathaniel {Ire}) laid claim to being the best of both sexes or tap here to go straight to TDN America. in her age group on Saturday with a powerful display in the G1 Darley Irish Oaks at The Curragh. Never out of her comfort zone, the homebred surged away from overmatched rivals to make her odds of 2-5 look generous as she slammed the G1 Pretty Polly S. runner-up Rain Goddess (Ire) (Galileo {Ire}) by 5 1/2 lengths. In this imperious mood, there would have to be some serious improvers among either the King George or Arc protagonists to stop her from dominating at Ascot in a fortnight or at Chantilly in October if connections go that way. Frankie Dettori, who only returned this week after suffering a shoulder injury last month, was taken aback by the performance. AI think she has improved since Epsom--she was always in second gear and when I gave her a backhander she flew,@ he commented after steering his fourth Irish Oaks winner. AI was able to ease my way to the line and save my shoulder. She is amazing. She has a good cruising speed for a stayer and can quicken and gets the distance really well. She doesn=t do much at home and is hard to gauge, but as long as she gives performances like that we don=t have to worry too much.@ Cont. p2 TDN EUROPE/INTERNATIONAL • PAGE 2 OF 18 • THETDN.COM SUNDAY • 16 JULY, 2017 Enable Powers to Classic Double Cont. from p1 AShe did it very well and got a nice lead into the straight,@ trainer John Gosden commented. AI couldn=t be more pleased AI probably came back a week or two early, but this was the and she has probably come on since Epsom. She has tactical dangling carrot that made me,@ he added. speed and a great temperament and has always been a lovely Thoughts that Enable would be this good at the start of the filly to be around. The [G1] King George and Queen Elizabeth S. year were fanciful, even allowing for the promise of her debut is an option, but I see she has a near-hind cut so we=ll have to win over a mile on Newcastle=s Tapeta at the end of November. see. There is also the [Aug. 24 G1] Yorkshire Oaks and the [Oct. All focus was on her stablemate Shutter Speed (GB) (Dansili 1] Arc, so we have plenty of options.@ {GB}) as they lined up for the same 10-furlong conditions race at Teddy Grimthorpe was also impressed. AThat was very Newbury Apr. 2 which had been taken by a previous Oaks exciting--it=s a long time back to [the operation=s two previous heroine in Light Shift (Kingmambo) and that proved correct as Irish Oaks winners] Wemyss Bight and Bolas and she has done it Enable finished third behind her and the eventual G3 Bahrain in the style of a top-class filly,@ he commented. AThe way the Trophy scorer Raheen House (Ire) (Sea the Stars {Ire}). It was race was run at Epsom, they really put it to her and she only when she upset Alluringly (Fastnet Rock {Aus}) on her first outstayed them and although today the pace was not quite so attempt at this kind of trip in the energetic and it was run at a May 10 Listed Cheshire Oaks that sensible gallop it was something she drew attention from the to get a good stride into. She was pundits, but in the lead-up to the very much physically tall and leggy June 2 Epsom Classic it was all at two, but has got some about Rhododendron (Ire) (Galileo substance and strength to her {Ire}). In a dramatic storm, Khalid now and also has a very nice Abdullah=s homebred displayed temperament. I=d have to talk to what she was truly capable of by John and Prince Khalid about the cracking that Ballydoyle favourite King George, as it could come too and going away to score by five soon and we could instead go to lengths in race-record time. There the Yorkshire Oaks and other was certainly more to take from races in the autumn. She=d have that race than the blue riband 24 to be supplemented for the Arc, hours later and she proved here Enable gets a deserved kiss off Frankie Dettori | Racing Post but they are nice thoughts to have.@ that she would be more than a match for any colt around. Dermot Weld was delighted with the performance of last Travelling with elan as she tracked the leader Bengala (Fr) year=s G3 C.L. & M.F. Weld Park S. scorer Eziyra (Ire) (Teofilo (Pivotal {GB}) in a clear second throughout the early stages, {Ire}) and said, AThat was an excellent renewal of the race and I there was a danger that she was overdoing it, but as soon as am thrilled with her. She was a good group winner over seven at Frankie asked the question in the straight she settled any two and the way she got that trip, we might look at further with worries in an instant. As Rain Goddess emerged to chase, she her. There is the [G2] Park Hill [S. at Doncaster Sept. 14] and could have tired but instead she continued to grow stronger as possibly the [G2] Prix de Royallieu [at Chantilly Sept. 30]. She is a the line approached and she duly hit that in a rapid time. filly that is just developing and coming at the right time.@ Cont. p3 TDN EUROPE/INTERNATIONAL • PAGE 3 OF 18 • THETDN.COM SUNDAY • 16 JULY, 2017 Enable Powers to Classic Double Cont. John Gosden also said of >TDN Rising Star= and the G2 Ribblesdale S. winner Coronet (GB) (Dubawi {Ire}), who plugged on into fourth, AShe was not happy and was changing her legs on the track, with Olivier Peslier niggling her along early. She is a better filly than that and we live to fight another day.@ VICE PRESIDENT, INTERNATIONAL OPERATIONS Gary King Twitter: @garykingTDN Pedigree Notes... [email protected] + 1.732.320.0975 Enable is out of the Listed Prix Charles Laffitte winner and G3 Prix de Flore runner-up Concentric, who also produced the International Editor G2 Prix de Pomone and G3 Prix Allez France third Contribution. Kelsey Riley Twitter: @kelseynrileyTDN She is one of five black-type performers to have emerged from [email protected] the G3 Prix de Royaumont winner Apogee alongside sire Apsis European Editor (GB) and the G1 Prix de Diane runner-up Dance Routine (GB) Emma Berry (Sadler=s Wells). The latter is in turn responsible for the multiple Twitter: @collingsberry top-flight winner and champion Flintshire (GB) (Dansili {GB}) [email protected] who was twice second in the Arc, and also the G2 Prix Kergolay Associate International Editor third Dance Moves (GB) (Dansili {GB}). Apogee=s Listed Prix Heather Anderson Twitter: @HLAndersonTDN Joubert winner Space Quest (GB) (Rainbow Quest) is the dam of the G2 Prix du Conseil de Paris runner-up Kocab (GB) Contributing Editor (Unfuwain), while the third dam is Bourbon Girl who was Alan Carasso runner-up in both the G1 English and Irish Oaks. Her best Newmarket Bureau, Cafe Racing progeny was the G2 Grand Prix de Chantilly winner and Sean Cronin Tom Frary G1 Grand Prix de Saint-Cloud runner-up Daring Miss (GB) [email protected] (Sadler=s Wells). The family also features the G1 Grand Prix de Saint-Cloud-winning sire Spanish Moon and G2 Ribblesdale S. Irish Correspondent Daithi Harvey scorer Spanish Sun (El Prado {Ire}). Concentric also has a 2-year-old colt by Dansili (GB) named Centroid (GB), a yearling Regular Columnists filly also by that sire and a filly foal by Frankel (GB). Click for the Bill Oppenheim Andrew Caulfield free Equineline.com catalogue-style pedigree.