SUNDAY, MAY 12, 2013 732-747-8060 $ TDN Home Page Click Here BACK ON THE GLORY TRAIL SEA THE STARS COLT SMASHES RECORD The sound of deflation following the defeat of Europe=s Breeze-Up carnival descended upon Saint- Toronado (Ire) in last Saturday=s G1 2000 Guineas Cloud yesterday and Arqana=s record book was torn could be heard far afield, but his less flashy stable asunder within the first hour of trade as a Sea the Stars companion Olympic Glory (Ire) (Choisir {Aus}) can put (Ire) colt, already named Salamargo (Ire), broke through some pep back in the step of trainer Richard Hannon if the half-million barrier to set a new benchmark when he can overcome a wide draw in today=s G1 Poule selling to Newmarket conditioner Marco Botti, acting on d=Essai des Poulains at behalf of Sheikh Mohammed bin Khalifa Al Maktoum, Longchamp. Tasting defeat for i520,000. Offered by Alban Chevalier du Fau and only once so far on only his Jamie Railton=s The Channel Consignment as Hip 13, second start at the hands of the February-foaled bay, who is out of the dual stakes Dawn Approach (Ire) (New winner Navajo Moon (Ire) (Danehill), returned a Approach {Ire}) in Royal handsome profit on the i200,000 he cost when Ascot=s G2 Coventry S. in passing through the Deauville ring at last year=s August Olympic Glory June, Sheikh Joaan bin Hamad Yearling Sale. AI have three juveniles by his sire with Racing Post Al Thani=s likeable colt seemed me, and he is probably one of the best I=ve seen,@ Botti to find winning coming easily told Racing Post. AThey usually need a bit of time, but afterwards. Doing only what was required in he looks like he will be a mid-summer 2-year-old.@ Newmarket=s G2 Superlative S., Goodwood=s G2 Railton added, AHe=s always been a very special horse Vintage S. and this track=s G1 Prix Jean-Luc Lagardere, who is going to a great home. It=s always a risk to bring he looked even more languid on his return in the G3 expensive yearlings to the breeze-ups, but we have had Greenham S. at Newbury Apr. 20. Appearances can be a fantastic sale.@ Cont. p9 deceptive, however, and Richard Hannon is confident that the best is yet to come. AOlympic Glory is our big COMING OF AGE hope, but we have not been lucky with the draw and West Point Thoroughbreds, St. Elias Stable and he will have to be on his A-game to defy the 12 stall,@ Spendthrift Farm=s Freedom Child (Malibu Moon), he said. AHowever, this has been the plan since before declared a non-starter after missing the break in the the Greenham at Newbury, where he looked to be a GI Wood Memorial S. Apr. 6, punched his ticket to the horse crying out for a step up to the mile. The race GI Belmont S. with a 13 1/4-length tour-de-force in certainly did him good as his work has been sharper front- running style in the GII Peter Pan S. Cont. p7 since. He slipped under the radar last season and we probably did not realise just how good he was until he won at Glorious Goodwood. We then stepped him up to the top table in France on Arc day and he won really well. The only time he has been beaten was by Dawn Approach in the Coventry, so his form is rock-solid. We just need luck in running from that wide draw.@ Cont. p3-4 SETTING SAIL Today=s G1 Poule d=Essai des Pouliches has an open feel to it and little separates the entire field, but one who is not short on experience of the hustle and bustle of a big raceday is Sheikh Mohammed bin Khalifa Al Thani=s Flotilla (Fr) (Mizzen Mast). Fourth after suffering a troubled trip on heavy ground in the G1 Prix Marcel Boussac Flotilla over this track and trip on Arc Racing Post day, the Mikel Delzangles trainee stamped her authority in the GI Breeders= Cup Juvenile Fillies Turf on a wildly contrasting surface at Santa Anita in November. 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FRENCH CLASSICS One who has entered the picture quietly is Count 12 MAY, 2013 Andre de Ganay=s Style Vendome (Fr) (Anabaa), but he LONGCHAMP beat several of these including last year=s G3 Prix Eclipse and G2 Criterium de Maisons-Laffitte scorer Penny=s Picnic (Ire) (Kheleyf) in the Apr. 4 G3 Prix Poulains cont. Djebel at that venue last time and trainer Nicolas Mor To Follow?... Clement is hoping he can hold his own. AHe is the kind When Morandi (Fr) (Holy Roman Emperor {Ire}) won of horse who can accelerate in a furlong and put two or the nine-furlong G3 Prix de Conde here and the three lengths between him and some nice horses, so G1 Criterium de Saint-Cloud over a furlong further by a we think he=s the real deal,@ he said. AWe are looking combined total of 19 lengths, the sky seemed the limit, forward to it and he was a nice 2-year-old, but not a but there are questions to answer after his defeat in the champion. This year, he looks to have taken a step G3 Prix de Fontainebleau over this track and trip forward to compete in the big league. He is the perfect Apr. 14. Looking in need of further than this mile on racehorse--he is very relaxed and easy to train and can that occasion, he at least has a better draw than the quicken off a fast pace. We hope he=s good enough to surprise winner Gengis (Fr) (King=s Best) as they re- go close. I=ve had a few nice milers like Stormy River oppose, and two of the last three winners of this and French Fifteen, and this horse is right up there and Classic had been beaten in that prep. Back in third and maybe above them.@ One of Style Vendome=s wins at just run out of things there was Ecurie Jean-Louis two came because the saddle slipped on Olympic Bouchard=s Us Law (Ire) (Lawman {Fr}) and trainer Glory=s barnmate Havana Gold (Ire) (Teofilo {Ire}) near Pascal Bary is hoping his stamina lasts out here. AHe ran the end of Deauville=s Listed Prix Francois Boutin, and very well there and had to do all the work in front, so Qatar Racing Limited & CSH=s consistent colt will he got tired,@ he said. AHe will have improved for the provide a more accurate marker as to the merit of race, but a mile is his maximum and he is more of a Toronado after he was four lengths adrift of him in the horse for the G3 Jersey S. over seven furlongs. He is G3 Craven S. at Newmarket Apr. 18. maybe not good enough to win this, but he is a nice horse.@ Cont.