MONDAY, 29 JUNE 2020 WAY TO PARIS HAS HIS DAY MAGICAL STUNNING IN Good things come to those who wait and connections and fans PRETTY POLLY RETURN of Way To Paris (GB) (Champs Elysees {GB}) gained a much- deserved moment in the sun as the 7-year-old was played late to take Sunday=s G1 Grand Prix de Saint-Cloud. Restrained in last early by Pierre-Charles Boudot, the ever-zestful grey emerged in the nick of time to deny the battling duo Nagano Gold (GB) (Sixties Icon {GB}) and Ziyad (GB) (Rock of Gibraltar {Ire}) by a neck and a head. AYou are always a little bit worried when running horses back- to-back with short intervals, but it looked in the mornings as if he had kept his form,@ trainer Andrea Marcialis said of the 6-5 favourite, who was runner-up in the G1 Prix Ganay at Chantilly on June 14. AIt is my and his first Group 1 and he is so brave--I owe him so much and it is a great moment. I thought we were in trouble, but he found more and has a big heart. He=ll have a break now until the autumn.@ Cont. p4 Aidan O=Brien and groom Liam O=Brien with Magical after her fifth Group 1 victory | Racing Post IN TDN AMERICA TODAY DELAYED MIDLANTIC SALE STARTS MONDAY The Fasig-Tipton Midlantic 2-Year-Olds in Training Sale finally Playing host to a Magical (Ire) (Galileo {Ire}) in full swing, begins on Monday. Jessica Martini has the scoop. Click or tap Sunday=s G1 Alwasmiyah Pretty Polly S. at The Curragh was as here to go straight to TDN America. good as over after less than a furlong as Seamie Heffernan committed to front-running duties on the returning 2-5 favourite. Kept in training for good reason, the G1 English and Irish Champion S. and G1 Tattersalls Gold Cup heroine of 2019 showed no mercy to her opposition and took off heading to two out en route to a 4 1/2-length dismissal of the 3-year-old Cayenne Pepper (Ire) (Australia {GB}), with 1 3/4 lengths back to Fleeting (Ire) (Zoffany {Ire}) in third. Of all Magical=s achievements, her record on Irish soil is formidable, with 11 runs at Cork, Naas, Leopardstown and here yielding eight wins including this romp. Two of her domestic reversals came as a 2-year-old, while the other was in the 2018 G1 Matron S. over an inadequate mile, so when it comes to home advantage the 5-year-old is as close to unopposable as it gets. Busy in England during this period last term, she was finishing runner-up in the G1 Prince of Wales=s S. and the G1 Eclipse S. prior to her victorious autumn spell. Cont. p2 TDN EUROPE • PAGE 2 OF 20 • THETDN.COM MONDAY • 29 JUNE 2020 Magical Stunning In Pretty Polly Return Cont. from p1 bang there with all the good ones I=ve ridden,@ he commented. AShe=s very exciting and always has been, but she=s got AAnd everything is still there. She=s a mile-and-a-half filly for stronger this year and that=s why the lads decided to leave her in me.@ training,@ Aidan O=Brien said. AShe was to go to No Nay Never. We could have gone to Sandown [for the Eclipse], but this was a Pedigree Notes lovely race to start her off. We=ll probably let Japan go to Magical is out of the excellent producer Halfway To Heaven Sandown--he=s had a run. We=ll look at the King George for her (Ire) (Pivotal {GB}), who herself won the G1 Irish 1000 Guineas, next. We learned last year that G1 Nassau S. and G1 Sun Chariot she gets 10 really well and gets 12 S. All her progeny to date are by as well. It makes her very Galileo, including the triple Group uncomplicated. You usually see a 1-winning Rhododendron (Ire) and big change between three to four, the G3 International S. winner but something really strange Flying the Flag (Ire) with her happened the way she changed youngest being a yearling colt. over the winter to this year. It=s Halfway To Heaven is in turn the very obvious the power she has leading performer for the triple now. She had been working group-winning sprinter Cassandra brilliantly, but we knew that she Go (Ire) (Indian Ridge {Ire}), whose would come on plenty as well. The other black-type winners include Irish Champion S. and the Arc are Theann (GB) (Rock of Gibraltar all races that are open to her.@ Magical in full flight in the Pretty Polly | Racing Post {Ire) who in turn produced the GI Amazingly, this was the first time First Lady S. and GI Rodeo S. heroine Photo Call (Ire) from a that Heffernan has partnered Magical and he was happy with mating with Galileo and the G2 Richmond S. scorer Land Force the opportunity. AI thought she was a steering job and she=s (Ire) (No Nay Never). Cont. p3 TDN EUROPE • PAGE 3 OF 20 • THETDN.COM MONDAY • 29 JUNE 2020 G1 Pretty Polly S. Cont. This outstanding dynasty also features the notable sire Verglas (Ire) and the G1 Melbourne Cup hero Cross Counter (GB) by Galileo=s son Teofilo (Ire). Senior Vice President Gary King Sunday, Curragh, Ireland Twitter: @garykingTDN ALWASMIYAH PRETTY POLLY S.-G1, i200,000, Curragh, 6-28, [email protected] 3yo/up, f/m, 10fT, 2:12.29, gd. + 1.732.320.0975 1--MAGICAL (IRE), 138, m, 5, by Galileo (Ire) 1st Dam: Halfway To Heaven (Ire) (Broodmare of the International Editor Year-Ire, MG1SW-Eng, G1SW-Ire & G1SP-Fr, Kelsey Riley $941,139), by Pivotal (GB) Twitter: @kelseynrileyTDN 2nd Dam: Cassandra Go (Ire), by Indian Ridge (Ire) [email protected] 3rd Dam: Rahaam, by Secreto European Editor O-Derrick Smith; B-Orpendale, Chelston & Wynatt (IRE); Emma Berry T-Aidan O=Brien; J-Seamus Heffernan. i120,000. Lifetime Twitter: @collingsberry Record: Hwt. 3yo-Eur at 11-14f, Hwt. Older Mare-Eur at [email protected] 9.5-11f, Hwt. Older Mare-Ire at 11-14f, MG1SW-Eng & GISP-US, 22-10-6-0, $4,456,271. *Full to Rhododendron (Ire), Associate International Editor Hwt. 2yo Filly-Ire, Hwt. Older Mare-Eur at 7-9.5f, MG1SW-Eng, Heather Anderson G1SW-Fr, GSW & G1SP-Ire, GISP-USA, $1,786,763; Flying the Twitter: @HLAndersonTDN Flag (IRE), GSW-Ire & GSP-SAf, $195,702. Click for the Marketing Manager eNicks report & 5-cross pedigree. Werk Nick Rating: A+++ Alayna Cullen *Triple Plus*. Twitter: @AlaynaCullen [email protected] 2--Cayenne Pepper (Ire), 126, f, 3, Australia (GB)--Muwakaba, by Elusive Quality. (195,000gns Wlg >17 TATFOA). O-Jon Kelly; Contributing Editor B-GHS Bloodstock & JC Bloodstock (IRE); T-Jessica Harrington. Alan Carasso i40,000. Twitter: @EquinealTDN 3--Fleeting (Ire), 138, f, 4, Zoffany (Ire)--Azafata (Spa), by Cafe Racing Motivator (GB). (i50,000 Wlg >16 ARQDEC; i100,000 Ylg >17 Sean Cronin ARAUG). O-Susan Magnier, Michael Tabor & Derrick Smith; Tom Frary B-Fernando Bermudez (IRE); T-Aidan O=Brien. i20,000. [email protected] Margins: 4HF, 1 3/4, 3HF. Odds: 0.40, 7.00, 5.00. Irish Correspondent Also Ran: True Self (Ire), Roca Roma (Ire). Click for the Racing Daithi Harvey Post result or the free Equineline.com catalogue-style pedigree. Regular Columnists Chris McGrath | John Berry John Boyce | Amy Lynam Melissa Steele Goffs Arqana Breeze Up Sale: IN TDN AUS/NZ TODAY The breezes for the upcoming Goffs Arqana 2020 Breeze Up Sale were conducted at Doncaster Racecourse on Sunday. The COOLMORE’S VANCOUVER SIRES GROUP 2 WINNER videos of all of the breezes, as well as some of the height and Mount Pleasant (Aus) (Vancouver {Aus}) became his sire’s first weight measurements of the entered lots are now online. The stakes winner in the G2 SA Nursery at Turffontein. Click or tap sale is scheduled for July 1, beginning at 10 a.m. local time. here to go straight to TDN Aus/NZ. GETTING AHEAD OF THE FIELD STARTS IN THE PADDOCK For that extra bit of backup Frenetic and support while raising FEED THE First Flier Stakes, Listed your Champions, Saracen are DIFFERENCE here to help. 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Runner-up in the G3 Prix de Barbeville and G2 Prix the last 100 metres by the popular grey. Vicomtesse Vigier at ParisLongchamp, he dropped to 14 furlongs AI=m delighted--he deserved that and a mile and a half is much to beat Marmelo (GB) (Duke of Marmalade {Ire}) in the G2 Prix better for him than the Ganay distance,@ the winning rider said.