Dawn Approach’s Mary Tudor Irish Guineas-Bound After Navan Return

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Mary Tudor wasted no time in showing her prowess at two when a head runner-up to Magical (Ire) (Galileo {Ire}) on debut over a mile at Cork in early August and upheld that form when third behind that rival and Happily (Ire) (Galileo {Ire}) in The Curragh’s G2 Debutante S. over seven furlongs 12 days later. Below-par when fourth as the favourite for the G3 C.L. & M.F. Weld Park S. staying at that trip at Naas in September, the grey was fitted with a hood on this seasonal return and confirmed all her early promise to open her account in emphatic style. Settled in mid-division early by Billy Lee, she needed racing room in the straight but when angled out for her effort quickly established her dominion at the furlong marker before surging clear.
Trainer Willie McCreery is looking at the G1 Tattersalls Irish 1000 Guineas at The Curragh May 27. “She’s a lovely mare and has shown that form last year. She settled and did it well. She should get a mile and a half in time and we might go straight to the [Irish] Guineas now. I wanted to get her out to see where we are going with her. The ground dried up enough for her and that was the only thing I’d be a bit worried about–she wouldn’t want it any worse than that. I loved the way she quickened there when she saw the rising ground. She really put the head down, and it’s good that she is holding her form and improving a little bit.”
The dam Antiquities, who was runner-up in the G3 Prix Cleopatre, is a granddaughter of the G1 Irish Oaks heroine Helen Street (GB) (Troy {GB}) who also produced the sensational GI Stephen Foster H. and G1 Dubai World Cup hero and significant sire presence Street Cry (Ire) (Machiavellian). His full-sister Helsinki (GB) was responsible for Godolphin’s Shamardal (Giant’s Causeway), the European Champion 2-year-old colt who completed the G1 Poule d’Essai des Poulains-G1 Prix du Jockey Club double before becoming a leading sire. The dam’s yearling colt is by Shamardal himself.

IRISH STALLION FARMS EBF SALSABIL S.-Listed, €55,000, NAV, 4-22, 3yo, f, 10fT, 2:18.50, y/s.
1–MARY TUDOR (IRE), 126, f, 3, by Dawn Approach (Ire)
1st Dam: Antiquities (GB) (GSP-Fr, $116,642), by Kaldounevees (Fr)
2nd Dam: Historian (Ire), by Pennekamp
3rd Dam: Helen Street (GB), by Troy (GB)
1ST BLACK TYPE WIN.
O-Godolphin; B-Darley (IRE); T-Willie McCreery; J-Billy Lee. €32,450. Lifetime Record: GSP-Ire, 4-1-1-1, $58,996.
2–Hazel Bay (Ire), 126, f, 3, Iffraaj (GB)–Sadima (Ire), by Sadler’s Wells. (78,000gns Wlg ’15 TATFOA). O-Moyglare Stud Farm. €10,450.
3–Princess Yaiza (Ire), 126, f, 3, Casamento (Ire)–Undertone (Ire), by Noverre. (€18,500 RNA Ylg ’16 TIRSEP). O-Lindsay Laroche. €4,950.
Margins: 2HF, HF, 3/4. Odds: 4.50, 16.00, 20.00.
Also Ran: Sizzling (Ire), Sometimesadiamond (Ire), Written Word (GB), Baroness (Ire), Bye Bye Baby (Ire), Easter Lily (Ire), Extrasensory (Ire). Click for the Racing Post result. Video, sponsored by Fasig-Tipton.

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