Galileo’s Elizabeth Browning Earns Her Stripes at The Curragh
| 3rd at CUR, Gr. Stk, €115,000 | G2 Kilboy Estate S. | (9f) | Winner: Elizabeth Browning (Ire), f, 3 by Galileo (Ire) |
By Sean Cronin
Elizabeth Browning enjoyed a busy juvenile campaign and closed her nine-race freshman season with an Oct. 29 nursery handicap score at Leopardstown. Failing to add to that tally in five subsequent sophomore starts, she lined up for this distaffers’ test returning off a third in the Listed Naas Oaks Trial June 28. Positioned at the tail of the seven-runner field from the outset, the bay was urged closer once into the home straight and stayed on relentlessly under a final-quarter drive to claim a career high in ultimately comfortable fashion. “She’s a filly we’ve always thought had a lot of ability and she missed a lot of lines,” said trainer Aidan O’Brien. “Seamus [Heffernan] gave her a great ride, she was coming home well and will stay a bit further. She’s starting to get it together and, on her last few runs, she’s starting to back up. It’s a great race for fillies at this time of year and it fits in perfect.”
Elizabeth Browning, full-sister to a yearling filly and a filly foal, is the second foal and Group winner for the juvenile winner Inca Princess (Ire) (Holy Roman Emperor {Ire}), who is also the dam of G1 Criterium International victor Johannes Vermeer (Ire) (Galileo {Ire}). The next dam is G2 Ribblesdale S. victress Miletrian (Ire) (Marju {Ire}), herself a half-sister to G2 Geoffrey Freer S. victor Mr. Combustible (Ire) (Hernando {Fr}) and a granddaughter of Um Lardaff (Ire) (Mill Reef), who in turn is a full-sister to G1 Epsom Derby and G1 Irish Derby-winning champion sire Shirley Heights (GB). Um Lardaff is also a full-sister to Millieme (Ire), herself the dam of the stakes-winning Myth To Reality (Fr) (Sadler’s Wells), who in turn produced MG1SW champion Divine Proportions (Kingmambo).
Sunday, Curragh, Ireland
KILBOY ESTATE S.-G2, €115,000, CUR, 7-16, 3yo/up, f, 9fT, 1:49.29, g/f.
1–#@ELIZABETH BROWNING (IRE), 126, f, 3, by Galileo (Ire)
1st Dam: Inca Princess (Ire), by Holy Roman Emperor (Ire)
2nd Dam: Miletrian (Ire), by Marju (Ire)
3rd Dam: Warg (GB), by Dancing Brave
O-China Horse Club International Ltd & Susan Magnier; B-Desert Star Phoenix JVC (IRE); T-Aidan O’Brien; J-Seamus Heffernan. €67,850. Lifetime Record: 16-2-4-3, $125,482. *Full to Johannes Vermeer (Ire), G1SW-Fr, MGSW-Ire & G1SP-Eng, $391,789. Werk Nick Rating: A+++ **Triple Plus. Click for the eNicks report & 5-cross pedigree.
2–Wilamina (Ire), 135, f, 4, Zoffany (Ire)–Tropical Lake (Ire), by Lomond. (€13,000 Wlg ’13 GOFNOV; €50,000 Ylg ’14 GOFORB). O-The Snailwell Stud; B-John Boden & Willie Kane (IRE); T-Martyn Meade. €23,000.
3–Laganore (Ire), 135, m, 5, Fastnet Rock (Aus)–Lady Bones (Ire), by Royal Applause (GB). O/B-Newtown Anner Stud Farm Ltd (IRE); T-Tony Martin. €11,500.
Margins: 1 3/4, 1HF, NK. Odds: 12.00, 8.00, 3.00.
Also Ran: Turret Rocks (Ire), Pocketfullofdreams (Fr), Absolute Blast (Ire), Sea Swift (Ire).
Click for the Racing Post result or the free Equineline.com catalogue-style pedigree.
Frankel’s Finche Prevails in the Eugene Adam
| 4th at MLF, Gr. Stk, €130,000 | G2 Prix Eugene Adam (Grand Prix de Maisons-Laffitte) | (10f) | Winner: Finche (GB), c, 3 by Frankel (GB) |
By Sean Cronin
Finche, who was a debut winner going one mile in a firsters’ test at Deuaville May 14, lined up for this pattern race bow coming off a third over this trip behind Afandem in the June 12 Listed Prix Ridgway at Compiegne. Breaking well to stalk the pace in second after the initial strides, he inched ever closer in the straight to poach a narrow advantage at the quarter-mile marker and kept on strongly under continued urging inside the final 300 metres to register a career high, extending trainer Andre Fabre’s record haul in the contest to a remarkable 15.
The homebred chestnut is a half-brother to four-time Grade I scorer Proviso (GB) (Dansili {GB}) and G1 Prince of Wales’s S.-winning French highweight Byword (GB) (Peintre Celebre). He is also a sibling of the 2-year-old colt Hainault (GB) (Frankel {GB}), a yearling colt by Bated Breath (GB) and a filly foal by Dansili (GB). His second dam is stakes-winning G3 Prix de Psyche runner-up Binary (GB) (Rainbow Quest), whose leading performer is Scandinavian champion and G3 Marit Sveaas Minnelop-winning sire Binary File (Nureyev).
Sunday, Saint-Cloud, France
PRIX EUGENE ADAM (GRAND PRIX DE MAISONS-LAFFITTE)-G2, €130,000, MLF, 7-16, 3yo, 10fT, 2:05, gd.
1–#@FINCHE (GB), 126, c, 3, by Frankel (GB)
1st Dam: Binche, by Woodman
2nd Dam: Binary (GB), by Rainbow Quest
3rd Dam: Balabina, by Nijinsky II
O-Khalid Abdullah; B-Juddmonte Farms Ltd (GB); T-Andre Fabre; J-Vincent Cheminaud. €74,100. Lifetime Record: 3-2-0-1, €96,450. Werk Nick Rating: C. Click for the eNicks report & 5-cross pedigree.
2–Afandem (Fr), 126, c, 3, Zoffany (Ire)–Miryale (Fr), by Anabaa. (€130,000 Ylg ’15 ARAUG). O-Al Shaqab Racing; B-Erwan & Mickael Robin (FR); T-Jean-Claude Rouget. €28,600.
3–Avilius (GB), 126, c, 3, Pivotal (GB)–Alessandria (GB), by Sunday Silence. O-Godolphin SNC; B-Darley (GB); T-Andre Fabre. €13,650.
Margins: HF, 1 1/4, HD. Odds: 9.80, 2.50, 6.60.
Also Ran: Volfango (Ire), Phelps Win (Fr), Amore Hass (Ire), Berdibek (Fr), Back On Board (Ire).
Click for the Racing Post result or the free Equineline.com catalogue-style pedigree.
fonte : TDN
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