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By Wandering Eyes · Posted
Juddmonte's Sunly had looked one to follow when going two-for-two in the Listed Prix de la Seine and stayed on the rise with a smooth win in the G3 Prix de Royaumont at Chantilly on Sunday. Always travelling easily for Christophe Soumillon, the Francis-Henri Graffard-trained daughter of Night Of Thunder took control a furlong from home en route to a 2 1/2-length success from Cloth Of Stars' Indalimos. In doing so, the 9-10 favourite was completing a family Group 3 weekend double following the exploits of the sire's equally-exciting Estrange at Haydock on Saturday. Sunday, Chantilly, France PRIX DE ROYAUMONT-G3, €80,000, Chantilly, 6-1, 3yo, f, 12fT, 2:27.76, gd. 1–SUNLY (GB), 123, f, 3, by Night Of Thunder (Ire) 1st Dam: Suffused (GB) (MGSW-US, GISP-Can & SP-Eng, $697,248), by Champs Elysees (GB) 2nd Dam: Scuffle (GB), by Daylami (Ire) 3rd Dam: Tantina, by Distant View 1ST GROUP WIN. O-Juddmonte Farms Inc; B-Juddmonte Farms Ireland Ltd; T-Francis-Henri Graffard; J-Christophe Soumillon. €40,000. Lifetime Record: 3-3-0-0, €81,000. Werk Nick Rating: A. Click for the eNicks report & 5-cross pedigree, or the free Equineline.com catalogue-style pedigree. 2–Indalimos (Fr), 123, f, 3, Cloth Of Stars (Ire)–Lucy The Painter (Ire), by Excellent Art (GB). (€12,000 RNA Ylg '23 ARQFEB; €47,000 Ylg '23 ARQOCT). O-Yves Burrus; B-John Plowden Carrington; T-Andre Fabre. €16,000. 3–Eleganz (Ire), 123, f, 3, Adlerflug (Ger)–Kizingo (Ire), by Oasis Dream (GB). 1ST BLACK TYPE; 1ST GROUP BLACK TYPE. (€300,000 Ylg '23 BBAGS). O-Imad Al Sagar; B-Gestut Rottgen; T-Andre Fabre. €12,000. Margins: 2HF, SNK, NK. Odds: 0.90, 6.40, 8.10. Also Ran: Ginalyah (Ire), Rabbit's Foot (Fr), Secret Of Love (GB), Zakharova (Fr), Konada (Fr). The post Night Of Thunder’s Sunly Unbeaten After Royaumont Test appeared first on TDN | Thoroughbred Daily News | Horse Racing News, Results and Video | Thoroughbred Breeding and Auctions. View the full article -
This has been happening for a very long time, I got caught when a fixed odds changed from 32 to 52, no chance to get the better odds, very poor considering today's technology, I'm sure it's just a tease, but very frustrating, gone are the days of the balloon going up, tote closed. -
By Wandering Eyes · Posted
After losing his unbeaten record when second in April's G1 Satsuki Sho (Japanese 2000 Guineas), Croix Du Nord was on something of a recovery mission, and he delivered when it counted, running out a three-quarter length winner of the G1 Tokyo Yushun (Japanese Derby) on Sunday. Masquerade Ball (Duramente), third in the Satsuki Sho, charged home second, 1 1/2 lengths to the good of Shohei (Saturnalia). The betting public felt the 2400 metres of the G1 Tokyo Yushun (Japanese Derby) was well within the son of Kitasan Black's scope, and they duly made him the 11-10 favourite. On a quest to be the fifth Derby winner for Sunday Racing, the eventual winner raced in a stalking fourth behind the dueling leaders Satono Shining (Kizuna) and Ho O Atman (Duramente) with Sho Hei in third. Ho O Atman took the lead outright once the field had entered the backstretch, and Yuichi Kitamura remained patient aboard Croix Du North. Trying to steal a march on his rivals, Ho O Atman opened up a double-digit margin at one point and still had a huge gap back to Satono Shining on the far turn. That lead shrank rapidly once the pacesetter reached the 500-metre mark and a cluster of horses appeared poised with their challenges. Churning away 100 metres later, Croix Du Nord found the front 1 1/2 furlongs from home and he held firm as the rallying Masquerade Ball came flying for second and a game Shohei took third. Satono Shining held on four fourth, a neck back of the third-place finisher. “I felt it was my responsibility to make Croix du Nord a Derby winner ever since the colt won the Hopeful Stakes, so my feeling now is that I am relieved to have accomplished by mission,” said jockey Yuichi Kitamura. “The whole process since the win last year, including our runner-up effort in the Satsuki Sho, was a meaningful and precious learning experience for me. The colt felt great today and I was able to come into the race with every confidence so victory itself came as no surprise to me.” A winner of his first three starts at two including the G2 Hai Nisai Stakes and G1 Hopeful Stakes, Croix Du Nord was second in the G1 Satsuki Sho (Japanese 2000 Guineas) to Museum Mile (Leontes) in April. That rival finished sixth on Sunday. Pedigree Notes Kitasan Black is best known as the sire of globetrotting wunderkind Equinox, but Croix Du Nord paved new ground on Sunday with his victory. Equinox was second in the 2022 Japanese Derby, the same position as the son of Black Tide's other Group 1 winner Sol Oriens, who placed in the race in 2023. Overall, the Shadai Stallion Station resident has sired 13 stakes winners with 10 of them at the group/graded level. Rising Cross (Cape Cross) last graced the sales ring when she was a 73,333gns buy-back when offered by John Best Racing Stables during the Tattersalls Autumn HIT Sale of 2005. A winner of the G3 Prestige Stakes at two, the dark bay won the G2 Park Hill Stakes at three, and was also second in the G1 Oaks and third in the G1 Irish Oaks. Kept in training at five, she was third in the GIII Bewitch Stakes in the U.S. and retired with earnings of over $500,000. Croix Du Nord is one of 13 foals out of Rising Cross, 10 of which have run with seven winners among them. Besides the Japanese Derby hero, her best is the Manhattan Café filly Earthrise, who was placed thrice at Group 3 level in Japan. Rising Cross's latest offspring is a juvenile full-brother to the winner named Charing Cross, and a yearling filly by Satono Diamond. This is the extended family of G1 Derby winners Morston and Blakeney. Sunday, Tokyo Japan TOKYO YUSHUN (JAPANESE DERBY)-G1, ¥609,590,000, Tokyo, 6-1, 3yo, c/f, 2400mT, 2:23.70, fm. 1–CROIX DU NORD (JPN), 126, c, 3, by Kitasan Black (Jpn) 1st Dam: Rising Cross (GB) (GSP & G1SP-Eng, G1SP-Ire, GSP-US, 501,841), by Cape Cross (Ire) 2nd Dam: Woodrising (GB), by Nomination (GB) 3rd Dam: Bodham (GB), by Bustino (GB) O-Sunday Racing; B-Northern Farm (Jpn); T-Takashi Saito; J-Yuichi Kitamura; ¥327,713,000. Lifetime Record: Ch. 2yo Colt-Jpn, 5-4-1-0, ¥532,486,000. Click for the free Equineline.com catalogue-style pedigree. Werk Nick Rating: C. Click for the eNicks report & 5-cross pedigree. 2–Masquerade Ball (Jpn), 126, c, 3, Duramente (Jpn)–Mask Off (Jpn), by Deep Impact (Jpn). O-Shadai Race Horse; B-Shadai Farm (Jpn); ¥127,918,000. 3–Shohei (Jpn), 126, c, 3, Saturnalia (Jpn)–Oro Trajet (Jpn), by Orfevre (Jpn). 1ST GROUP 1 BLACK TYPE. O-Tatsue Ishikawa; B-Northern Farm (Jpn); ¥78,959,000. Margins: 3/4, 1HF, NK. Odds: 1.10, 5.80, 13.40. Also Ran: Satono Shining (Jpn), Eri King (Jpn), Museum Mile (Jpn), M's (Jpn), Giovanni (Jpn), Feiern Kranz (Jpn), Lila Emblem (Jpn), Ho O Atman (Jpn), Kalamatianos (Jpn), Toppi Born (Jpn), Fandom (Jpn), Dragon Boost (Jpn), Nishino Agent (Jpn), Readiness (Jpn), Faust Rasen (Jpn). Click for the JRA chart & video. The post Kitasan Black’s Croix Du Nord Finds His True North In Japanese Derby appeared first on TDN | Thoroughbred Daily News | Horse Racing News, Results and Video | Thoroughbred Breeding and Auctions. View the full article -
By Wandering Eyes · Posted
A seemingly wide-open renewal of Chantilly's G1 Qatar Prix du Jockey-Club ultimately produced the most straightforward outcome as Ballydoyle's Camille Pissarro prevailed as the 12-5 favourite. Drawn against the rail, one of the stable's abundance of Wootton Bassett colts only had to follow the pace aided by the yard's Trinity College taking the shortest route. Ryan Moore's only complication came in the closing stages as he needed to thread the G1 Prix Jean-Luc Lagardere winner through a gap no more a horse's width but he had all the momentum with his mount having saved so much energy throughout. At the line, the sire's second Classic winner of 2025 had half a length to spare over Godolphin's Cualificar, Lope De Vega's G3 Prix la Force and G3 Prix de Guiche-winning son of the Oaks heroine Qualify who covered himself in glory from stall 12. Juddmonte's Detain was a neck away in third, making it a one-three for Wootton Bassett as it had been in the G1 Poule d'Essai des Poulains when Camille Pissarro had been two places behind stablemate Henri Matisse. “He did everything right today and Aidan had him in a beautiful frame of mind,” Moore said after steering his second Prix du Jockey Club winner and first for Ballydoyle. “Fair play to Christophe [Soumillon], he said he'd have no problem with the trip and he showed nice acceleration there. He put them away.” The post ‘He Put Them Away’: Moore Charmed By Wootton Bassett’s Jockey Club Hero Camille Pissarro appeared first on TDN | Thoroughbred Daily News | Horse Racing News, Results and Video | Thoroughbred Breeding and Auctions. View the full article -
By Wandering Eyes · Posted
Trainer Michael McCarthy confirmed Sunday morning that Preakness Stakes winner Journalism (Curlin) will run in Saturday's Belmont Stakes at Saratoga. The announcement came after Journalism worked four furlongs in :47.50 Saturday morning on Saratoga's main track, with regular jockey Umberto Rispoli on board. “Based off what I saw here this morning, I would be hard-pressed to find a reason not to enter,” McCarthy said, standing outside Journalism's stall at the Oklahoma training track. McCarthy said the horse would be entered Sunday when entries are taken. The draw takes place Monday in downtown Saratoga. Journalism finished second in the Kentucky Derby as the favorite, behind Sovereignty (Into Mischief), who is also being pointed towards the Belmont. Asked if was looking forward to the race, Aron Wellman, president and founder of Eclipse Thoroughbreds, the colt's owner, said, “Absolutely. This is an American classic, man. You only get three shots at them. We have been fortunate to particpate and compete in the first two. It would mean a lot. There is a lot of importance associated with this race. And we feel like we've got the goods.” The post Journalism A Go For Belmont Stakes After Saratoga Work appeared first on TDN | Thoroughbred Daily News | Horse Racing News, Results and Video | Thoroughbred Breeding and Auctions. View the full article
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