Justify double handed as fillies take centre stage at Navan on Saturday
Statuette and Unless are daughters of Immortal Verse and Clemmie
Triple Crown winner Justify will be represented by two regally bred newcomers in the Irish Stallion Farms EBF Fillies Maiden (1.05) at Navan on Saturday, including the first foal out of Cheveley Park Stakes heroine Clemmie.
The Aidan O'Brien-trained pair of Statuette and Unless are out of top-class racemares in Coronation Stakes and Prix Jacques le Marois scorer Immortal Verse and the aforementioned Clemmie. Statuette is therefore a three-parts sister to last year's Cheveley Park heroine Tenebrism.
Clemmie, who also struck in the Duchess of Cambridge Stakes and Grangecon Stud Stakes at two, as well as finishing third in the Falmouth and Matron Stakes at three, is a Galileo sister to dual Guineas hero and Coolmore's second-season sire Churchill, with the pair being out of the stakes-winning Storm Cat mare Meow.
The daughter of Galileo has a yearling filly by Justify and produced a Wootton Bassett filly this term, while Immortal Verse - who sold to BBA Ireland for 4,700,000gns from Mount Coote Stud at the Tattersalls December Mare Sale in 2013 - has produced three winners from four runners so far.
They will face a handful of well-bred rivals in the extended five-furlong contest including Silmaniya, the Aga Khan's Expert Eye half-sister to Group winner and Flying Five Stakes third Sonaiyla; and Queen Of Cartes, a once-raced Kingman filly out of an unraced half-sister to Raven's Pass.
The following Lynn Lodge Stud Irish EBF Maiden (1.40) includes Age Of Kings, a Kingman colt who was a fine second on his debut and is out of the multiple Group-winning Fastnet Rock mare Turret Rocks; and Kodi Red, a son of Kodi Bear from the family of Fillies' Mile winner Red Bloom.
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Published on 27 May 2022inNews
Last updated 11:56, 27 May 2022
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