Les doutes viennent de fondre comme neige au soleil. Comme son père Nathaniel, Enable s’est imposée de manière magistrale dans les King George à 3 ans. Elle n’est plus seulement le meilleur 3 ans européen sur la distance classique. Elle est le meilleure européen sur 2400 mètres. Son test face aux vieux s’est avéré être une démonstration. La pouliche de John Gosden a laissé Ulysses, le gagnant des Eclipse Stakes (Groupe 1) à 4 longueurs. Idaho et son frère Highland Reel, le crack au 6 Groupes 1, concluent troisième et quatrième.
Une super star
Frankie Dettori connaît bien Enable puisqu’ils ont gagné ensemble les trois Groupes 1 de la pouliche. Il a déclaré en sautant de cheval qu’elle était une super star. Le jockey était à la diète depuis une semaine pour pouvoir monter la jument de Khalid Abdullah à 54 kilos. Mais le jeu en valait la chandelle. Le poids, les mauvaises langues pourront dire qu’Enable avait l’avantage du poids puisque ses aînés lui rendaient 12 livres. Mais la facilité de sa victoire dans cet arc estival et la classe pure, tout simplement, marqueront les esprits.
Un triplé inédit
Enable devient la première jument de l’histoire a réalisé le triplé Oaks anglaises, irlandaises et King George. Elle devrait être dirigée selon son entraîneur John Gosden vers les Yorkshire Oaks au mois d’août avant de tenter sa chance dans le Qatar Prix de l’Arc de Triomphe dont elle est la favorite des books à 2/1. John Gosden a déjà entraîné deux vainqueurs de King George (Taghrooda et Nathaniel, le père d’Enable) et un vainqueur d’Arc (Golden Horn), mais selon lui Enable est « la meilleure pouliche qu’il ait jamais entraînée ».
fonte : Equidia
Gosden hails best filly he has trained after Enable’s spectacular success
Enable was a stone apart on the racecard and proved a class apart on the racecourse as she joined an illustrious group of great fillies to win the King George VI and Queen Elizabeth Stakes.
John Gosden hailed her the best filly he has trained after the Oaks and Irish Oaks winner produced another dominant victory that propelled her into the superstar bracket.
Not one of the year’s Derby winners turned up for the clash of the generations, but Enable might well have beaten them anyway in showing she could well be head and shoulders above the rest of her age group in the course of a four-and-a-half length win in the Qipco-sponsored feature.
Being run in a downpour – although not as torrential as when Enable had scored at Epsom – the race did not provide the conditions in which last year’s winner Highland Reel could mount much of a defence.
But even his best might not have been good enough as Enable, receiving 14lb in fillies and weight-for-age allowance, coasted past him on the bend and quickened clear for an impressive success that propelled her to a best price 9-4 (from 9-2) with Betfair for the Qatar Prix de l’Arc de Triomphe.
Eclipse winner Ulysses was briefly cruising on her heels, but once Frankie Dettori let her go second place was the best that could be expected for the Sir Michael Stoute representative.
Idaho ran on for third, with his big brother and Aidan O’Brien-trained stablemate Highland Reel fourth.
In landing Ascot’s midsummer showpiece Enable matched some of the sport’s best known fillies such as Park Top, Dahlia, Pawneese, Time Charter, Danedream and Taghrooda – another Oaks and King George winner from the Gosden stable.
“She’s a wonderful filly,” said Gosden. “To follow in the likes of Dahlia and Pawneese and even Taghrooda says a lot.
“I noticed Aidan’s horses were staying wide, looking for the better ground and what they didn’t race on yesterday, and they were all front rank together.
“Frankie knew she stayed, was on a good filly and didn’t want to take back and get in trouble. She exploded early in the straight. Ulysses made a wonderful run at her but she’s a very smart filly and understandably gets weight as a three-year-old against her elders.
“The King George has always been a meeting of the generations and I’ve always been keen on it, as I was with Nathaniel and Taghrooda. Last year Wings Of Desire was second to an older horse.
“She’d have won on good ground. She can handle anything. She’s won on Tapeta, good to firm and now soft to loose.”
Gosden was winning his third King George in seven years, the first with Enable’s sire Nathaniel. Taghrooda went on to contest the Yorkshire Oaks and Arc, finishing second and third, and Enable is set to follow the same path.
“I think she’s the best filly I’ve trained,” continued Gosden. “Royal Heroine in America, Taghrooda and her are fabulous fillies. Then there’s The Fugue and Dar Re Mi. I love great fillies to train. They’re a pleasure to be around.
“The style of her winning makes her great – it’s quite obvious she wants to race. She just want things to go her way and takes the race by the horns.”
He added: ”The plan has very much been the Yorkshire Oaks. This popped up in between. York’s now where we want to go, and then freshen up and see where we are in terms of the Arc.”
Gosden praised the dedication of Dettori, who after fracturing a shoulder last month fought his way back to fitness and dieted in order to ride at 8st 7lb.
“The days of not eating have paid off,” said Dettori. “I could do with a good burger now.
“She goes on any ground and now she has proved she can match up with older horses, which is what I thought. She’s very good.
“The doctor said it would take three months to return and I came back in five weeks. A horse like this is the key. You need something to push you, and she’s worth it.”
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Enable Electric In King George
Saturday, July 29, 2017
| 4th at ASC, Gr. Stk, £1,150,000 | G1 King George VI & Queen Elizabeth S. (Sponsored by Qipco) | (11f 211y) | Winner: Enable (GB), f, 3 by Nathaniel (Ire) |
Enable | Racing Post
By Tom Frary
It is rare that the mud flies in the G1 King George VI and Queen Elizabeth S., but Khalid Abdullah’s Enable (GB)(Nathaniel {Ire}) made light of dour conditions under a fasting Frankie Dettori to dominate the older colts in Saturday’s renewal at Ascot. So impressive on fast ground in the G1 English and Irish Oaks, the 5-4 favourite cantered through the first 10 furlongs racing behind the stable’s pacemaker Maverick Wave (Elusive Quality) and when set alight at the top of the straight opened up to join a special band which includes the great dual winner Dahlia. At the line, the homebred had 4 1/2 lengths to spare over the Eclipse hero Ulysses (Ire)(Galileo {Ire}), with 3/4 of a length back to Idaho (Ire)(Galileo {Ire}) as the field finished understandably strung out. “Frankie was bold, but she breaks well and is very business-like,” trainer John Gosden said in the immediate aftermath of witnessing the performance which outdid that of the stable’s Taghrooda (GB) (Sea the Stars {Ire}) in 2014. “He thought she was the best and wanted to make use of it. It wasn’t the plan to be that close, but she was getting weight from the older horses. The fact that she can do it on any ground means she is as good a filly as I’ve ever trained.”
Saturday, Ascot, Britain
KING GEORGE VI & QUEEN ELIZABETH S. (SPONSORED BY QIPCO)-G1, £1,150,000, ASC, 7-29, 3yo/up, 11f 211yT, 2:36.22, g/s.
1–ENABLE (GB), 119, f, 3, by Nathaniel (Ire)
1st Dam: Concentric (GB) (SW & GSP-Fr, $117,776), by Sadler’s Wells
2nd Dam: Apogee (GB), by Shirley Heights (GB)
3rd Dam: Bourbon Girl, by Ile de Bourbon
O-Khalid Abdullah; B-Juddmonte Farms Ltd (GB); T-John Gosden; J-Lanfranco Dettori. £652,165. Lifetime Record: G1SW-Ire, 6-5-0-1, $1,532,996. *1/2 to Contribution (GB) (Champs Elysees {GB}), MGSP-Fr. Werk Nick Rating: D. Click for the eNicks report & 5-cross pedigree.
2–Ulysses (Ire), 133, c, 4, Galileo (Ire)–Light Shift, by Kingmambo. O/B-Flaxman Stables Ireland Ltd (IRE); T-Sir Michael Stoute. £247,250.
3–Idaho (Ire), 133, c, 4, Galileo (Ire)–Hveger (Aus), by Danehill. (750,000gns Ylg ’14 TATOCT). O-Michael Tabor, Derrick Smith & Susan Magnier; B-Hveger Syndicate (IRE); T-Aidan O’Brien. £123,740.
Margins: 4HF, 3/4, 4. Odds: 1.25, 9.00, 8.00.
Also Ran: Highland Reel (Ire), Benbatl (GB), Desert Encounter (Ire), My Dream Boat (Ire), Maverick Wave, Jack Hobbs (GB), Sixties Song (Arg). Click for the Racing Post result or the free Equineline.com catalogue-style pedigree. Video, sponsored by Fasig-Tipton.
By Nathaniel, who relished similar conditions when winning a drama-filled edition in 2011 and who was beaten in a bobber by Danedream (Ger) (Lomitas {GB}) a year later also on good-to-soft, Enable had ideal credentials for this test which took on an entirely different shape as the heavy rain fell on already-deadened ground. Despite the Epsom Oaks being staged in a thunderstorm, the latest Juddmonte sensation had it slick there as she readily turned back Rhododendron (Ire) (Galileo {Ire}) June 2 and it was even quicker as she completed the double in the Irish equivalent two weeks prior to this. Tactics were certain to play a significant part here, with her potentially tricky draw in seven leaving her vulnerable to early scrimmaging but Frankie was happy to let her bounce out and put her head in front until Maverick Wave crossed over to provide the lead.
With Highland Reel (Ire) (Galileo {Ire}) for company as they ignored the pacemaker, Enable settled perfectly and had stablemate Jack Hobbs (GB) (Halling) behind along with Idaho as Ulysses travelled with his customary ease and Jim Crowley tracked their every move. Before the turn for home Highland Reel was the first to struggle and as he laboured and Ulysses nipped up his inner Idaho lost vital momentum, but Enable moved forward with Jack Hobbs and for a brief period a Gosden one-two was likely. Whereas the pink-and-green surged on, the royal blue began to drop away and it was Ulysses who was left to chase the runaway filly. Filling the final furlong with her deadly metronomic action, Enable never gave the Niarchos homebred a moment’s optimism as Idaho stayed on admirably to bridge the yawning gap from the remainder. In any other year, Ulysses would have made his own splash with a notable Eclipse-King George double which is rarely achieved but it was a case of hands up as the winner continued her rise through the historic ranks.
“She is top-drawer, a superstar,” was Dettori’s summation after the latest red-letter day in the twilight of his career. “I haven’t had a feel like that since Golden Horn and she made ten days of fish and water worth it. I’ve lost seven pounds in six days, but she’s as good as I’ve ridden and has proven to all the doubters that she’s the real deal.” Gosden paid tribute to his jockey and said, “To come back from a fractured shoulder Frankie had to fight a lonely battle and he’s not a spring chicken anymore, so I think that was impressive. It shows that he still has the hunger.” Enable will now be asked to complete the King George-Arc double which will also place her in elite company. “We always loved her and felt her best trip would be a mile and a half and I envisaged her being a nice horse, but I didn’t imagine she’d end up winning an English and Irish Oaks and a King George,” her trainer said. “If she is in good order, the [Aug. 24 G1] Yorkshire Oaks is next and then the one in Paris. She will have a nice pause and maybe a racecourse gallop before the [Oct. 1] Arc. Both her and Taghrooda are exceptional fillies, but walking in the footsteps of Dahlia and Pawneese you’ve got to be.”
Ulysses was proving his versatility and consistency as well as his class here and trainer Sir Michael Stoute was full of praise afterwards. “I am delighted with him. We like him on better ground, but we were beaten by a very good filly,” he said. “He is very versatile, really. He gets a mile and a half no problem and we have to be very pleased. We will have to do a bit of thinking now. We can do 10, we can do 12 and we don’t have to worry about soft ground, although he will be better on a faster surface. We have choices. I will look at him and see how he takes it.”
Enable’s dam is the Listed Prix Charles Laffitte winner and G3 Prix de Flore runner-up Concentric, whose prior best was the G2 Prix de Pomone and G3 Prix Allez France third Contribution but who has really clicked here with Nathaniel. This family has long promised to turn up a good one, with the dam’s four black-type half-siblings featuring the G3 Prix Thomas Bryon and G3 Prix du Chemin de Fer du Nord-winning sire Apsis (GB) and the G2 Prix de Royallieu scorer and G1 Prix de Diane runner-up Dance Routine (GB) (Sadler’s Wells). The latter went on to produce the champion Flintshire (GB) (Dansili {GB}), whose two runner-up finishes in the Arc may well be avenged in October, and also the G2 Prix Kergolay third Dance Moves (GB) (Dansili {GB}). The second dam, the G3 Prix de Royaumont winner Apogee, is also responsible for the Listed Prix Joubert winner Space Quest (GB) (Rainbow Quest) who produced the G2 Prix du Conseil de Paris runner-up Kocab (GB) (Unfuwain). The third dam Bourbon Girl was runner-up in both the G1 English and Irish Oaks and became the dam of the G2 Grand Prix de Chantilly winner and G1 Grand Prix de Saint-Cloud runner-up Daring Miss (GB) (Sadler’s Wells). She is also the second dam of the G1 Grand Prix de Saint-Cloud-winning sire Spanish Moon and Spanish Sun (El Prado {Ire}) who captured the G2 Ribblesdale S. before throwing the Listed Pretty Polly S. winner Swiss Range (GB) (Zamindar). Concentric also has a 2-year-old colt by Dansili (GB) named Centroid (GB), a yearling filly also by that sire and a filly foal by Frankel (GB).
fonte : TDN
Ascot: #Enable e Frankie Dettori nella leggenda delle King George G1! La Juddmonte spazza via maschi ed anziani..
Spingi Frankie, spingila verso la storia. Con la vittoria nelle King George Vi & Queen Elizabeth Stakes G1, Enable (Nathaniel) ha sfatato tutta una serie di miti che la riguardavano. Mai nessuna femmina aveva vinto le due Oaks, inglesi ed irlandesi, e poi anche le King George G1 nel giro di poche settimane. Significa che siamo di fronte ad una cavalla dalle potenzialità fuori dal normale. Enable, con un vantaggio di chili considerevole derivante dal sesso e dall’età (aveva 54 contro i 60 e mezzo degli altri), ha mostrato la faccia migliore della potenza dell’allevamento mondiale di Khalid Abdullah. Lei, poi, una virago nel fisico e nei modi, una cavalla spaccata da miglio e mezzo, con tanta classe distribuita a secchiate come l’acqua scesa nel Berkshire.
La femmina di Juddmonte, che al Curragh aveva fatto capire di essere qualcosa di spaventoso con una progressione devastante, era troppo in forma per non poter provare subito un impegno così gravoso. Tra Frankie che ha fatto sacrifici per rientrare nel peso, ed il recupero lampo per un taglio subito dopo la prova irlandese, Enable ha messo tanto del suo per risolvere una corsa sempre complicata perchè Ascot non è una pista così semplice come potrebbe sembrare. Complici le piogge delle ultime ore, Frankie, nell’ippodromo che più di tutti ha celebrato il suo immenso talento, ha cercato subito una scia percorribile mettendosi alle spalle del battistrada Maverick Wave, ma sempre rimanendo vicino alla testa, poi ha seguito verso il centro della pista Highland Reel, Idaho, Jack Hobbs, Ulysses e gli altri. A metà curva ha cominciato a chiamare la sua con una certa decisione e questa ha risposto subito presentandosi in retta in vantaggio, allungando metro dopo metro, lasciando gli altri di sasso.
Il primo a provare ad interferire con il suo incedere è stato Ulysses, che si è presentato all’appoggio con fare minaccioso, ma al momento di dover dimostrare di poterci fare anche sui 2400, ci si è messo in mezzo l’extra furlong e si è piantato dimostrando di essere più un cavallo da 2000 che da miglio e mezzo. Idaho, patito il cambio di categoria al momento della prima accelerazione, è piano piano risalito verso l’interno per accaparrarsi infine il terzo e insidiare il secondo gradino del podio ad Ulisse. Tutto questo mentre Enable, con il suo passo cingolato, mandata sulla terra chissà da quale dio delle corse, si involava verso la leggenda. IL VIDEO ED IL RISULTATO COMPLETO CONTINUANDO A LEGGERE PIU’ SOTTO.
La prima femmina a completare l’hat trick di G1 in serie, la prima femmina ed il primo inbreeding a livello mondiale di 3×2 su Sadler’s Wells a vincere una corsa del genere. La quinta vittoria per Frankie Dettori dopo Lammtarra, Swain, Daylami, Doyen. Per John Gosden era la terza vittoria nelle King George, sempre con i tre anni, dopo Nathaniel (Galileo), il papà di Enable nel 2011, poi nel 2014 con Taghrooda (Sea The Stars) che proprio come Enable veniva dalle Oaks (ma solo inglesi).
Ma Enable, va molto più forte di Taghrooda ed ha battuto un campo di partecipanti composto anche da gente come Highland Reel, mai pericoloso e alla fine quarto su terreno contrario, e Jack Hobbs, inabissatosi e giunto nono con in ultima posizione il campione argentino (ma in Europa le cose sono diverse), Sixties Song (Sixties Icon). Il tempo finale è stato di 2m 36.22s (slow by 7.72s).
Si trattava della seconda vittoria in questa corsa per Khalid Abdullah dopo Dancing Brave nel 1986, per una giubba che ha visto vincere oltre al campionissimo citato gente come Frankel, Arrogate, Kingman e chi più ne ha più ne metta. Enable, più forte di tutte le femmine che abbiano mai vestito quella giubba. Ora non ci sono più dubbi. Ora c’è da vincere anche l’Arc. Appuntamento fra un mesetto nelle Yorkshire Oaks G1 il 24 Agosto, e poi dritti verso l’autunno di Parigi e Chantilly.
Attualmente lo score di Enable parla di 6 corse disputate e 5 vittorie. Figlia di Nathaniel (Galileo) e prodotto della fattrice Concentric (Sadler’s Wells), in una sorta di piccola gemma dell’allevamento: L’inbreeding. Di solito non si fa. Ma la classe di Sadler’s Wells, permette anche questo.
