Haras de Saint Pair's Glycon makes sparkling debut at Longchamp

Glycon completed a rewarding spell for a family raised by Haras de Saint Pair with one of the easiest victories it is possible to imagine at Longchamp on Thursday.

Even the five-length official margin does not do the manner of the performance justice as the Le Havre three-year-old passed all but one of the field down the home straight on his racecourse debut in the nine-furlong Prix de Pantin without coming off the bridle.

Although Glycon has already been gelded, he is from a useful lineage and has been kept to run in the colours of Andreas Putsch’s Normandy farm with trainer Jean-Claude Rouget.

His dam, Glorious Sight, was a Listed winner and third in the French Oaks for owner Richard C Strauss before being sold for €1,700,000 at the end of her racing career. Her first two foals, Girl Friday and Glad Eye, were winning fillies for Andre Fabre.

The mare hails from the magnificent family of champion sprinter Zipping and is a half-sister to Beauty Is Truth, dam of this year’s dual Guineas winner Hermosa and the top-class Hydrangea.

Saint Pair sold Glycon's Dubawi half-sister to US-based bloodstock agent Mike Ryan for 450,000gns at Tattersalls Book 1 last week to go with a 525,000gns Frankel colt from another line.

On Wednesday at Book 2, Putsch was celebrating another decent result when receiving 200,000gns for a Belardo colt set to be trained by Roger Varian.

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