By Tom Frary
Coming out of the G2 Prix Robert Papin with muscular issues, Heartache was put back together again by the rampant Clive Cox stable and duly returned to deny Havana Grey in what had promised to be and what amounted to be a match on Town Moor. Going from a Bath maiden win on debut May 26 to G2 Queen Mary S. glory at Royal Ascot June 21, the bay had the class to fill third spot behind the subsequent G1 Prix Morny winner Unfortunately (Ire) (Society Rock {Ire}) in the Robert Papin at Maisons-Laffitte despite having sustained an injury during that 5 1/2-furlong contest July 23. Settled just off the pace racing far side as the Morny runner-up Havana Grey made the running up the centre, she worked her way past him inside the final 100 yards as Ryan Moore asked for reserves and as expected the pair of talented sprinters drew well away from May Girl and the remainder.
“When they said it was heavy ground at the start of the week, the last thing I thought possible was to come and win like this,” Cox said. “Obviously it’s kept drying and she’s done so well from her last run. Ryan was very impressed by her and said she was just taking it easy and enjoying the last little bit, so it was very good.” Explaining Heartache’s recent problem, he added, “She was muscle-sore after the Prix Robert Papin. There was a coming together at the start which is where I think it happened. We’ve got a great team at home who got her back in good nick and she’s grown and is stronger, too. The [G1] Cheveley Park [Stakes at Newmarket Sept. 30] is very much on the cards, stepping up to six, as long as it’s not too soft. In the meantime we’ve got nothing to lose and the way she’s developed and grown, she’s an awfully nice filly for next year. She’d be a Commonwealth Cup filly if she gets six. I think that’s hopefully on the cards. The only reason Adam [Kirby] was not on board today was because he couldn’t do the weight. Ryan was a more than able deputy and I was delighted to have him.”
Karl Burke is another trainer enjoying a stellar campaign and he said of the runner-up, “I think we’ve bumped into an improving filly. I saw her in France and for me she looked a bit bigger and stronger today. I said that to Clive before the race and he said she’d grown. That was her fourth run, this was our eighth run, so she’s entitled to keep improving. PJ [McDonald] said he quickened and he couldn’t believe the other horse got back to him, so we have no excuses. There are no real five-furlong races for him now, so I doubt he’ll run again this season.”
Heartache’s dam Place In My Heart, who also has a yearling filly by Showcasing (GB) and a filly foal by Iffraaj (GB), captured the Listed Lansdown Fillies’ S. and was third in the G3 Prix de Saint-Georges for this stable. She is a half-sister to the G3 Tetrarch S. winner Leitrim House (GB) (Cadeaux Genereux {GB}), while the listed-placed second dam Lonely Heart is a half to the dam of the G2 Sapphire S. and G3 Flying Five S. winner Stepper Point (GB) (Kyllachy {GB}).
Friday, Doncaster, Britain
WAINWRIGHTS FLYING CHILDERS S.-G2, £70,000, DON, 9-15, 2yo, 5f 3yT, :58.73, g/s.
1–HEARTACHE (GB), 124, f, 2, by Kyllachy (GB)
1st Dam: Place In My Heart (GB) (SW-Eng & GSP-Fr), by Compton Place (GB)
2nd Dam: Lonely Heart (GB), by Midyan
3rd Dam: Take Heart (GB), by Electric (GB)
O-The Hot to Trot Syndicate – Heartache; B-Whitsbury Manor Stud (GB); T-Clive Cox; J-Ryan Moore. £39,697. Lifetime Record: GSP-Fr, 4-3-0-1, $153,751. Werk Nick Rating: A+++ *Triple Plus*. Click for the eNicks report & 5-cross pedigree.
2–Havana Grey (GB), 127, c, 2, Havana Gold (Ire)–Blanc de Chine (Ire), by Dark Angel (Ire). (42,000gns Wlg ’15 TATFOA; €70,000 Ylg ’16 ARAUG). O-Global Racing Club & Mrs E Burke; B-Mickley Stud & Lady Lonsdale (GB); T-Karl Burke. £15,050.
3–May Girl (GB), 124, f, 2, Mayson (GB)–Instructress (GB), by Diktat (GB). O/B-Bottisham Heath Stud (GB); T-Robert Cowell. £7,532.
Margins: HF, 4HF, HF. Odds: 1.50, 1.00, 10.00.
Also Ran: Pursuing the Dream (Ire), Roland Rocks (Ire), Midsummer Knight (GB), Spoof (GB), Yogi’s Girl (Ire), Wings of the Rock (Ire).
Click for the Racing Post result or the free Equineline.com catalogue-style pedigree. Video, sponsored by Fasig-Tipton.
GOFFS: Orby In Focus – First Season Sire Preview
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With less than two weeks to go before the Goffs Orby Sale gets underway, Aisling Crowe gives us a preview of what some of the First Season Sires have to offer in the second of three installments…
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| A head in front of Australia in the 2000 Guineas was Kingman (Invincible Spirit) and Juddmonte’s first season sire has the race record and pedigree to become an outstanding stallion. His Classic winning dam Zenda is a Zamindar half-sister to another Juddmonte star sire in Oasis Dream and their dam Hope (Dancing Brave) is an own sister to Wemyss Bight, the dam of Beat Hollow, and a half-sister to Coraline the dam of sires Reefscape, Coastal Path and Martaline. Prix du Jockey Club victor and new Ballylinch Stud sire New Bay shares his third dam Bahamian with Kingman.
Winner of four Group 1s over a mile as a three-year-old including the Irish 2000 Guineas and St James’s Palace Stakes, four yearlings by the son of Invincible Spirit will sell at Goffs’ Orby Sale.
Baroda and Colbinstown Stud consign Lot 444 a colt out of the winning Pivotal mare Go Lovely Rose, a full-sister to the brilliant Group 1 winner Immortal Verse. From a wonderful Kilfrush Stud family, his second dam Side of Paradise (Sadler’s Wells) is a half-sister to champion Last Tycoon (Try My Best) and to Save Me The Waltz (King’s Lake), the dam of Group 1 winning half-sisters Valentine Waltz (Be My Guest) and Sense Of Style (Thunder Gulch). |
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Shadwell Stud’s Eclipse winner Mukhadram (Shamardal) is represented by four yearlings from his first crop. His dam Magic Tree (Timber Country) is an unraced half-sister to Group 1 winners Kirklees (Jade Robbery) and Mastery (Sulamani). Their dam Noyesii (Diesis) is a daughter of the champion Cherokee Rose (Dancing Brave).
Mr Michael Downey sells Lot 378 a colt by Mukhadram out of Comma (Kingmambo) who has produced two winners, both by Rail Link, from three foals to race. She is a daughter of Kentucky Oaks winner Flute (Seattle Slew) and a half-sister to Filimbi (Mizzen Mast) a Grade 2 winner who was placed four times in Grade 1 Company. Another half-sister Crosswinds (Storm Cat) is the dam of Weep No More (Mineshaft) who beat Rachel’s Valentina (Bernardini) to win the Grade 1 Ashland Stakes at Keeneland last year. |
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| Coolmore Stud’s No Nay Never is the first season sire with the most yearlings catalogued in this year’s Orby Sale with 21. He is the first son of the late, lamented Scat Daddy to retire to stud in Europe and his sizzling victories in the Norfolk Stakes and Prix Morny made people sit up and take notice of the rocketship bay and his sire.
His sire line is that of Group 1 winning juveniles with his first five sires – Scat Daddy, Johannesburg, Hennessy, Storm Cat and Storm Bird – all successful at the highest level in their first season to race. No Nay Never also features the tough and brilliant Mr Prospector prominently in his pedigree.
Scat Daddy’s best offspring is probably the three-year-old filly Lady Aurelia and The Castlebridge Consignment offers Lot 30 a filly by No Nay Never with champions on her page. The second foal of Lady Ederle, (English Channel) a half-sister to Rumored (Royal Academy) the dam of Dabirism (Hat Trick) himself a winner of the Prix Morny and the Prix Jean Luc Lagardere. Retired to stud a year before No Nay Never, his first crop of two-year-olds include the Royal Ascot winner Different League, third in last month’s Prix Morny.
Lot 239 is a son of Scat Daddy from one of the best and most active families around. Oaks Farm Stables sends a son of Theann (Rock of Gibraltar) to the Orby Sale, a half-brother to dual Grade 1 winner Photo Call (Galileo). Theann is a half-sister to Halfway to Heaven (Pivotal) a three times Group 1 winner who has produced Fillies’ Mile winner Rhodedendron (Galileo), second in this year’s 1000 Guineas and Oaks. Second dam Cassandra Go (Indian Ridge) won the King’s Stand Stakes when it was a Group 2 and was runner-up in the July Cup and is a half-sister to Coventry Stakes winner and Group 1 sire Verglas (Highest Honor).
Day Two of the Orby Sale features a son of No Nay Never with sires and Group 1 winners galore in his pedigree. Glenvale Stud offers Lot 343 a colt out of Brigids Cross (Sadler’s Wells) the dam of Listed winning filly We Are Ninety (Thewayyouare). Brigids Cross is a full sister to Fillies’ Mile winner Listen, a successful broodmare in Japan, and to Sequoyah, victorious in the Moyglare Stud Stakes but better known as the dam of Henrythenavigator (Kingmambo) and his full-sister the Classic-placed Queen Cleopatra, the second dam of Cliffs Of Moher (Galileo), second in this year’s Derby. Stunning Breeders’ Cup Turf winner Magician (Galileo) who stands at Coolmore’s Ashford Stud in Kentucky, is also a member of this family and two colts from his first crop – Lots 47 and 323 – are catalogued to sell at the Orby Sale. |
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