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Well-bred Galileo colts and an €850,000 pinhook coup among newcomers to note

A bounty of bluebloods to look out for in Britain and Ireland on Tuesday

Galileo: Coolmore phenomenon is well represented at the Curragh
Galileo: Coolmore phenomenon is well represented at the CurraghCredit: Patrick McCann

There is a plethora of notably bred newcomers on both sides of the Irish Sea to look forward to during Tuesday's racing.

A busy day for breeding aficionados begins with the Irish Stallions Farms Maiden for two-year-olds over seven furlongs at the Curragh at 1pm.

The race features two Galileo colts with inevitably strong distaff pedigrees having the wraps taken off them by trainer Aidan O'Brien.

Coolmore homebred Tiger Moth, who looks the stable first string with Seamie Heffernan booked, is out of Lesson In Humility, a daughter of Mujadil who won the Group 3 Ballyogan Stakes and finished third in the Golden Jubilee Stakes and Prix Maurice de Gheest at the highest level.


Curragh 1.00 card


Lesson In Humility has produced three winners headed by her first produce, Marble Hill Stakes winner and Norfolk Stakes runner-up Coach House, a son of Oasis Dream who stands at Chapel Stud and has supplied this season's Listed scorer and Cheveley Park Stakes third Summer Sands.

The mare has subsequently been mated regularly with Galileo and has produced Group 3-placed Butterscotch and the winner Puppetshow to the champion sire.

Galileo's other debutant in the Curragh maiden is Keats, who is out of the brilliant sprinting filly Airwave – an explosive winner of the Cheveley Park Stakes and Temple Stakes and placed in three Group 1s, most memorably when failing to reel in Choisir in the Golden Jubilee Stakes.

A half-sister to ill-fated Nunthorpe winner Jwala, Airwave has already clicked with Galileo to produce stakes winners Aloof and Orator, although the mare's most significant offspring to date is Meow, her daughter by Storm Cat who was a Listed winner and runner-up in the Queen Mary Stakes.

Meow went on to produce champions Churchill and Clemmie and recent Diamond Stakes winner Blenheim Palace when paired with Galileo.

Keats, who is thus closely related to Churchill and Clemmie, has the assistance of Michael Hussey in the saddle.

Another newcomer in the race to look out for at likely generous odds is Ten Year Ticket, an already gelded Rock Of Gibraltar half-brother to three winners who boast Racing Post Ratings in excess of 100 including Ross Castle and Snazzy Jazzy, who both excelled on testing going when winning their Group 3s.

Ten Year Ticket is trained by Jim Bolger for Nicky Teehan of Bluegate Stud, who bred the horse out of Bulrushes, an unraced Byron half-sister to Lennox Stakes winner and Lockinge third Tariq.

Trading tour de force

The British EBF Fillies' Novice Stakes over six furlongs at Yarmouth (2.15) also holds deep intrigue as it has been chosen by trainer Michael Bell as the curtain raiser to the career of Lady Light, who pulled off one of the biggest pinhooking coups of last year's sales season.

Lady Light is a Showcasing sister to Duke of York Stakes hero Tasleet, who also finished second in the Diamond Jubilee Stakes, Haydock Sprint Cup and British Champions Sprint before embarking on his stallion career at Nunnery Stud this year.


Yarmouth 2.15 card


The pair are out of Bird Key, an unraced Cadeaux Genereux half-sister to Champagne Stakes winner Etlaala and to the dam of the breathtakingly quick Battaash.

Lady Light was bought as a foal by Mick Flanagan from breeder Whitsbury Manor Stud for 220,000gns and resold through Baroda and Colbinstown Stud at the Goffs Orby Yearling Sale to Mark Player for €850,000. She now carries the colours of the China Horse Club.

Group 1 connections galore

The following race at Yarmouth, the British EBF Fillies' Novice Stakes over a mile (2.50), features at least three debutantes with prepossessing pedigrees.

Cabaletta, trained by Roger Varian for Cheveley Park Stud, is by Mastercraftsman out of Allegretto, a daughter of Galileo and Doncaster Cup winner Alleluia who earned Group 1 laurels in the Prix Royal-Oak.

Float, a Qatar Racing homebred whose career is overseen by David Simcock, is a Nathaniel three-parts sister to Irish Derby and Secretariat Stakes hero Treasure Beach and to smart stayer Count Octave.


Yarmouth 2.50 card


The filly – who is out of Honorine, a winning Mark Of Esteem half-sister to high-class Indian Creek - is also a sibling to stakes-winning fillies Elidor and Honor Bound.

Frankly Darling, meanwhile, represents the same team of trainer John Gosden and owner-breeder Anthony Oppenheimer as recent superstars Golden Horn, Cracksman and Star Catcher.

She is a Frankel half-sister to useful handicapper First In Line and Galtres Stakes winner Our Obsession, dam of this season's Oaks sixth Frankellina (also by Frankel), out of Cheshire Oaks winner and Lancashire Oaks runner-up Hidden Hope, a half-sister to Coronation Stakes victress Rebecca Sharp.

Frankly Darling hails from the same family as Cracksman and Golden Horn, as all are descended from the Lorenzaccio mare Lora.

Dubawi dazzler

Yet another two-year-old newcomer to look forward to on Tuesday is Khaloosy in the Ladbrokes Where the Nation Plays EBF Novice Stakes over seven furlongs at Newcastle (2.35).

Roger Varian unleashes the grey colt by Dubawi on behalf of owner-breeder Hamdan Al Maktoum.


Newcastle 2.35 card


He is out of Elshaadin, a daughter of Dalakhani and Distinctive Look, who is in turn by Danehill out of blue hen Magnicient Style, making the granddam a half-sister to Group 1 winners Nathaniel, Great Heavens and Playful Act and further Pattern scorers Echoes In Eternity, Percussionist and Changing Skies.

Distinctive Look's most famous offspring – thus a half-sister to Elshaadin – is the Grade 1-winning hurdler Supasundae.

Martin StevensBloodstock journalist

Published on 21 October 2019inNews

Last updated 12:09, 22 October 2019

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