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By Wandering Eyes · Posted
Sunday, Kyoto, Japan, 15:40, MILE CHAMPIONSHIP-G1, ¥347,520,000, 3yo/up, 1600mT Field: 1-Toshin Macau (Jpn) (Big Arthur {Jpn}), 2-Champagne Color (Jpn) (Duramente {Jpn}), 3-Water Licht (Jpn) (Drefong), 4-Magic Sands (Jpn) (Kizuna {Jpn}), 5-Ascoli Piceno (Jpn) (Daiwa Major {Jpn}), 6-Gaia Force (Jpn) (Kitasan Black {Jpn}), 7-Cervinia (Jpn) (Harbinger {GB}), 80Kangchenjunga (Jpn) (Big Arthur {Jpn}), 9-Elton Barows (Jpn) (Deep Brillante {Jpn}), 10-Lavanda (Jpn) (Silver State {Jpn}), 11-Off Trail (GB) (Farhh {GB}), 12-Win Marvel (Jpn) (I'll Have Another), 13-Long Run (Jpn) (Victoire Pisa {Jpn}), 14-Lebensstil (Jpn) (Real Steel {Jpn}), 15-Jantar Mantar (Jpn) (Palace Malice {Jpn}), 16-Docklands (GB) (Massaat {Ire}), 17-Soul Rush (Jpn) (Rulership {Jpn}), 18-Wide Latour (Jpn) (California Chrome). Click here for the complete field. The post Black-Type Analysis: Jantar Mantar Faces Docklands In Mile Championship 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
Darley stallion Space Blues sired his second stakes winner on Saturday, with the victory of Drago Blues in the Listed Premio Campobello-Memorial Paolo Ferrario in Milan. Space Blues already has G1 Phoenix Stakes hero Power Blue, as well as the group-placed Do Or Do Not and Bourbon Blues, and listed-placed Polly Shelby from his first crop. In midfield from the bell, the 67-25 chance inched toward the head of affairs on the turn. Wanda (Cracksman) had cut the corner into the homestretch, and it took the Giovanni Vittorio Vitale-owned colt the length of the lane to get past and win by a neck. Bred by Plantation Stud, the colt cost 50,000gns as a weanling at Tattersalls, and passed through that same ring when sold for 45,000gns out of the October Yearling Sale Book 2. Offered for sale once more, he was purchased by Marco Bozzi Bloodstock for €12,000 out of the Arqana May Breeze-Up Sale. The first foal out of the stakes-placed Simplicity (Casamento), the colt was previously third in the G3 Premio Guido E Alessandro Berardelli. His dam has a yearling filly by Showcasing that was sold to Manor House Stables and SackvilleDonald for 70,000gns out of the October Yearling Sale Book 1. The post New Stakes Winner For Space Blues In Italy 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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Chevotel Racing's Orion Queen handled the heavy Milan turf and ran away with the G3 Premio St Leger Italiano in Italy on Saturday. The daughter of Sea The Moon was trying the 3000-metre distance for the first time. Setting off in a tracking second several paths off the fence, the 11-1 shot kept a close eye on last year's winner Taany (Teofilo) for the majority of the race. The field stayed well off the fence when rounding the bend into the home straight, and, despite covering more real estate than the pacesetter, the chestnut had dead aim on that foe leaving the bend. Taking over in early straight, the homebred ground her rivals into submission and crossed the line 3 1/4 lengths to the good of Ismahane (Isfahan) in second. It was another eight lengths back to Moon Wolf (Intello) in third, with Taany staying on for fourth by a length. The homebred won on debut at Nimes in February and added another win to her ledger four starts later at Hyeres over 2500 metres in June. After a second-place run at Divonne in August, she rebounded back at Lyon Parilly in a Class 3 handicap in September and warmed up for this with a second-place effort at Saint-Cloud in another handicap on October 26. Pedigree Notes Orion Queen is the 37th stakes winner for her sire, who stands at Lanwades Stud. She is also his 21st group winner and second from a Declaration Of War mare after GIII Honeymoon Stakes heroine Selenaia. Oriental Queen won thrice in a three-year career and also has the three-year-old filly Oriental Princess (Galiway), who has yet to place. Her granddam claimed the Listed Prix Urban Sea and is a half-sister to stakes winner Orion Star (Sternkoenig), who placed in both the G1 Grand Prix de Paris and in the G1 Prix du Cadran. Saturday, Milan, Italy PREMIO ST LEGER ITALIANO-G3, €70,400, Milan, 11-20, 3yo/up, 3000mT, 3:35.70, hy. 1–ORION QUEEN (FR), 123, f, 4, by Sea The Moon (Ger) 1st Dam: Oriental Queen (Fr), by Declaration Of War 2nd Dam: Orion Girl (Ger), by Law Society 3rd Dam: Okocha (Ger), by Platini (Ger) 1ST BLACK-TYPE WIN. 1ST GROUP WIN. O-Chevotel Racing. B-Chevotel de la Hauquerie (Fr). T-Manon Scandella Lacaille. J-Antonio Orani. €27,200. Lifetime Record: 9-4-2-1, €61,724. Werk Nick Rating: A++. Click for the eNicks report & 5-cross pedigree. Click for the free Equineline.com catalogue-style pedigree. 2–Ismahane (Ger), 117, f, 3, Isfahan (Ger)–Identity (Ger), by Manduro (Ger). 1ST BLACK TYPE. 1ST GROUP BLACK TYPE. (€90,000 Ylg '23 BBAGSEP). O-Darius Racing. B-Gestut Karlshof (Ger). T-Henk Grewe. €11,968. 3–Moon Wolf (Fr), 127, h, 7, Intello (Ger)–Diyakalanie (Fr), by Ashkalani (Ire). (€45,000 Ylg '19 ARQAUG). O-Stephane Wattel, JP Menville, Ecurie Ascot & Ecurie de Spa. B-Haras de Sainte Gauburge (Fr). T-Stephane Wattel. €6,528. Margins: 3 1/4, 8, 1. Odds: 11.30, 8.40, 8.25. Also Ran: Taany (Ire), Jolly Jumper (Ire), Almenkonig (Ger), Thine Be The Glory (Ire), Oberer (GB), Nonna Vanda (Ire), Maestro Del Mar (Fr). The post Orion Queen Rules In The St Leger Italiano 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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Champion filly Porta Fortuna still has “plenty of racing left in her” according to trainer Donnacha O'Brien, who admitted that he will be experiencing “mixed emotions” when his stable star goes through the ring at the forthcoming December Mares Sale at Tattersalls. The daughter of Caravaggio made it to the racecourse only once in 2025, when registering her eighth career win in May's G2 Lanwades Stud Stakes at the Curragh, but she has been given a clean bill of health by O'Brien ahead of her appearance during the second of the two Sceptre Sessions on Tuesday, December 2. “She's always been a very, very sound filly throughout her career, other than the little tweak that we got before Ascot [after her win at the Curragh],” said the trainer. “She put on a good bit of weight when we gave her the break and we decided that we probably weren't going to get her to the [G1] Matron [Stakes] in time. When that happened, the owners took the decision just to keep her in light work until the sales and keep her happy and healthy, so that's what we're doing.” He added, “She's in a great place now. She's a filly that potentially has plenty of racing left in her if that's what her new owners want. She's a special filly. She's achieved a lot already and possibly can achieve much more in the future.” Certainly, whether she races again or not, Porta Fortuna has already put together a CV which identifies her as one of the most decorated fillies to have raced in Europe in recent years. A four-time winner as a juvenile, including the G3 Albany Stakes and G1 Cheveley Park Stakes, she returned the following the season with a runner-up finish in the G1 1,000 Guineas, before winning at Royal Ascot for the second year in a row when beating five individual Group 1 winners in the G1 Coronation Stakes. “My highlight of her racing career so far would probably be the Coronation in Ascot as a three-year-old,” O'Brien said of that memorable success. “It was probably the highest-quality race she ran in. She impressively beat the Cartier Champion Two-Year-Old filly in Opera Singer and obviously to do it on the biggest stage in Royal Ascot is very special.” Porta Fortuna herself was crowned the Cartier Champion Three-Year-Old Filly at the end of 2024, having followed her Coronation victory with two further top-level triumphs in the Falmouth Stakes and Matron Stakes. The horse of a lifetime for a partnership consisting of Taylor Made's Medallion Racing, Steve Weston, Dean Reeves and Barry Fowler, Porta Fortuna was bought privately after making a successful debut at the Curragh in the colours of her owner-breeder, the O'Brien family's Whisperview Trading Ltd. She is the first foal out of Holy Roman Emperor's Too Precious, who is a full-sister to the triple Australian Group 2 winner and G1 Australian Cup runner-up Numerian, as well as the G3 Prix Francois Boutin third Montesilvano. This is also the family of the G1 St Leger-winning sire Milan and the Derby and Irish Derby hero and prolific sire Kahyasi. O'Brien continued, “She was one of my picks of our homebreds when she was a yearling. Then, when she came in, she was very professional and did everything very nicely from day one. She was always a very precocious two-year-old. “She's a very good-looking filly. She's not massively tall, but she's very scopey. She has great length and she's a great mover. She has a very strong backside on her, strong neck, shoulder and back – she's an impressive specimen. “She's built probably like a fast filly, but she stretches out to a mile easily and probably would get a little bit further if we ever tried it. She looks quite like her sire Caravaggio in that sense.” Characterising his stable flagbearer for the past three seasons, O'Brien added, “There's no badness in her. She's just a very hardy filly. She loves her work and loves everything she does. “I'm really looking forward to the Tattersalls Sales and seeing her selling. Obviously, it'll be mixed emotions but, at the same time, it'll be exciting to see who's there and trying to buy her. Hopefully, it'll be a night to celebrate her, her career and everything she's achieved. It'll be exciting to find out what the next chapter holds for her.” The post Sceptre Sessions Headliner Porta Fortuna “In A Great Place” And Could Race On 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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