SUNDAY, 30 JUNE 2019 SISKIN RULES IN THE RAILWAY SOVEREIGN SPRINGS IRISH Khalid Abdullah=s decision to put his faith in Ger Lyons reaped DERBY SURPRISE early reward on Saturday as Siskin (First Defence) maintained his unbeaten sequence in The Curragh=s G2 GAIN Railway S. Always travelling easily for Colin Keane tracking the front pair, the May 24 Listed Marble Hill S. scorer strode to the front passing the two pole and quickly subdued Monarch of Egypt (American Pharoah) before putting 2 1/2 lengths between him and Ballydoyle=s >TDN Rising Star=. AFirst and foremost it=s a huge result to be training for these people in the first place,@ Lyons said after welcoming back the heavily-backed 4-6 favourite. ATo get a good one so early in our career with them is a bonus. You don=t win over here until you win, because of who you are taking on.@ Siskin, who had beaten the subsequent Listed Chesham S. fifth Harpocrates (Ire) (Invincible Spirit {Ire}) convincingly on debut Sovereign wins the Irish Derby | Racing Post over this trip at Naas on May 11, had dealt with the same stable=s eventual G2 Norfolk S. sixth King Neptune (War Front) in There was a shock of major proportions in Saturday=s G1 Dubai the Marble Hill over this course and distance. Kept away from Duty Free Irish Derby as Ballydoyle=s pacemaker Sovereign (Ire) Royal Ascot with this in mind, the homebred categorically (Galileo {Ire}) went out of sight of his stablemates and refused to justified that patience. Cont. p4 stop en route to a six-length success. Partnered by the Epsom Derby-winning Padraig Beggy, the 33-1 shot who was 10th in the June 1 G1 Epsom Derby had Norway (Ire) (Galileo {Ire}) for company until shaking loose approaching the last two furlongs. Despite the steady advance of the 5-4 favourite Anthony Van Dyck (Ire) (Galileo {Ire}), the gulf was too wide and it was another big-priced Derby victory for the rider of Wings of Eagles (Fr) (Pour Moi {Ire}). Norway dropped back to third, 2 1/2 lengths away, in a renewal that will long be remembered for the way it turned pre-race logic on its head. Whatever the starting price of the winner, it was still a one-two-three for the sire and Aidan O=Brien in their favourite Classic, a sixth time that the trainer had filled the first three places and a 13th victory for the stable in total. AIt=s great to have horses to compete here and there is no Siskin | Racing Post hiding place,@ the master of Ballydoyle commented. ASovereign is a very genuine, well-bred horse who stays very well and the pace was always solid and upfront.@ Sovereign had looked more IN TDN AMERICA TODAY of a St Leger type than a Derby colt when galloping HOLLENDORFER DENIED ENTRY OF HORSES BY NYRA remorselessly to a 14-length maiden win on his third start over Bill Finley reports on NYRA’s latest decision to disallow entry of an extended mile on heavy ground at Galway and backed up all horses trained by Jerry Hollendorfer at NYRA tracks. Click or that impression when fourth after cutting out the running in the tap here to go straight to TDN America. G2 Beresford S. at Naas in September. Cont. p2 TDN EUROPE • PAGE 2 OF 18 • THETDN.COM SUNDAY • 30 JUNE 2019 Irish Derby cont. At some point, one of them was going to rewrite the script and Third to Guaranteed (Ire) (Teofilo {Ire}) after adopting the there was a precedent in the nine-length G1 1000 Guineas same tactics in the nine-furlong G3 Eyrefield S. at Leopardstown victory of Homecoming Queen (Ire) (Holy Roman Emperor {Ire}) a month later, he had acted as one of the targets for Broome at 25-1 in 2012. Sovereign=s winning time was also impressive on (Ire) (Australia {GB}) in both the G3 Ballysax S. at Leopardstown a track that suits forward-going types. Apr. 6 and the G3 Derrinstown Stud Derby Trial back there May Beggy, who was also narrowly denied on the outsider 12. Eight-lengths runner-up on testing ground in the former Rostropovich (Ire) (Frankel {GB}) in this 12 months ago, was in contest, he had narrowed the margin to three when third in the no doubt that this victory took precedence over his Epsom Derrinstown but there was nothing in his Epsom effort when highlight. AI=m over the moon. This would be more important to used to set the tempo to suggest he had this kind of me as an Irishman growing up wanting to win it and it was my performance in his armoury. main aim as an apprentice,@ he explained. AI am very lucky and Whereas Beggy had come from the clouds on Wings of Eagles it=s down to a big group of people, but mainly to Aidan O=Brien at Epsom two years ago, this was a case of cut-and-dried hard who put me on this horse. I got into a lovely comfortable rhythm running from the front to provide the bullseye for Anthony Van and always felt I could go quicker. He really enjoyed it here--he=s Dyck et al. By the time Norway began to suffer for attempting to a big galloper and kept going. I did think something would come lay close to him, Sovereign was already in an unassailable lead to me, but when I saw the screen I knew I was clear and just turning for home with Ryan Moore drawing the remainder out needed to keep him organised to the line.@ of hibernation a long way out of their ground. As the chestnut O=Brien added, AHe did have very good 2-year-old form and hit the line still thundering, the assembled crowd fell mostly won at Galway, which is a tough track and you have to stay very silent as the fancied colts just trailed in his wake. While it was well. He=s a quick breaker--tactically quick--and doesn=t mind nigh-on impossible to predict beforehand, the end result could bowling along and keeps galloping. If there is any chink in the be argued to have had a sense of inevitability about it in armour, it will be exposed here and you have to stay and that=s hindsight, with numerous regally-bred Galileos employed for the way it was. He handles soft ground as well as fast. pacemaking by the stable throughout the years. TDN EUROPE • PAGE 3 OF 18 • THETDN.COM SUNDAY • 30 JUNE 2019 Irish Derby cont. Looking at it, the first two got away from them and Anthony Van Dyck didn=t look like he stopped galloping going to the line. Padraig=s a great fellow who works hard like everybody day in day out and he=s a great rider.@ Of future targets for the first and second, O=Brien added, AHe could be a Leger horse or could go to France [for the July 14 G1 Grand Prix de Paris] or the [July 27 G1] King George. He won=t mind going the Leger trip. He=s a solid horse to have, because he=ll jump and he=ll go along in any kind of good race. Ryan=s horse ran very well. We were going to decide with him after this whether we go to the Grand Prix de Paris or the King George. I=d say they are still options, as there was nothing wrong with the run.@ and the G2 May Hill S. winner and G1 1000 Guineas third Ihtimal (Ire) (Shamardal). Also connected to the dual Australian Group 1 winner Trust in a Gust (Aus) (Keep the Faith {Aus}) and the Japanese Group 1 performer Shonan Mighty (Jpn) (Manhattan Sovereign and Padraig Beggy | Racing Post Cafe {Jpn}), Devoted To You=s duo to follow are also by Galileo and are a 2-year-old colt named Dawn Rising (Ire) and a yearling filly. Pedigree Notes Sovereign is out of Barronstown Stud=s Devoted To You (Ire) (Danehill Dancer {Ire}), who raced at or around a mile for this Saturday, Curragh, Ireland stable and also won a Galway maiden on testing ground at two DUBAI DUTY FREE IRISH DERBY-G1, i1,500,000, Curragh, 6-29, by a wide margin. Second in the G2 Debutante S. and the G3 3yo, 12fT, 2:31.50, gd. Park Express S., she is a half-sister to four stakes winners 1--SOVEREIGN (IRE), 126, c, 3, by Galileo (Ire) including the GIII Honeybee S. scorer Humble Eight (Seattle 1st Dam: Devoted To You (Ire) (MGSP-Ire), Battle), she is in turn the dam of the listed-winning Sadler=s by Danehill Dancer (Ire) Wells full-siblings Stage Call (Ire) and Humilis (Ire), while the 2nd Dam: Alleged Devotion, by Alleged third dam is the G3 Fillies= Mile third Morning Devotion 3rd Dam: Morning Devotion, by Affirmed (Affirmed). Her trio of group winners are Balanchine (Storm 1ST BLACK-TYPE WIN; 1ST GROUP WIN; 1ST GROUP 1 WIN. Bird), the heroine of this Classic in 1994, the G2 Jockey Club S. O-Susan Magnier, Michael Tabor & Derrick Smith; scorer Romanov (Ire) (Nureyev) and the G2 Sun Chariot S. B-Barronstown Stud (IRE); T-Aidan O=Brien; J-Padraig Brendan winner Red Slippers (Nureyev). Beggy. i855,000. Lifetime Record: 9-2-1-2, $1,019,699. 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