Hawk Mountain Leads Ballydoyle 1-2-3 In The Futurity

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Aidan O'Brien had a stranglehold on Saturday's G1 William Hill Futurity Trophy and was able to wrap up the British trainer's title with a one-two-three in the Doncaster feature led home by Hawk Mountain (Wootton Bassett). Sent off the outsider of the trio at 18-5 under Ronan Whelan, the Beresford winner scrapped it out with Action (Frankel) as the 7-4 favourite Benvenuto Cellini (Frankel) floundered in the deep ground. At the line, he had half a length to spare over Lambourn's half-brother, with Benvenuto Cellini 2 3/4 lengths away.

“He's a lovely big horse who stays and has pace and a great mind, so he's very exciting,” the trainer said of the son of Galileo's high-class Hydrangea, who was bringing up a dozen renewals for the stable and a 23rd Group 1 win this year. “We thought Action would be a middle-distance horse next year and he didn't surrender, whereas the winner could get away with being a miler before going up to middle distances.”

“He is big, but athletic and so chilled, he's hardly even blowing which is unusual,” O'Brien added of the winner. “He's 100 per-cent homebred and there have been so many people involved with him all along–it's a big team. Christophe said Benvenuto Cellini didn't go in the ground, but he kept coming to the line. He's a good mover who handles fast ground well. They are three lovely horses.”

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Hydrangea, who is also responsible for Dubawi's Listed Hurry Harriet Stakes winner and British Champions Fillies & Mares Stakes runner-up Wingspan and Listed Tetrarch Stakes winner Officer, is a full-sister to the Group 1-winning The United States and Hermosa and to Salsa whose daughter of Wootton Bassett, Whirl, is one of the best in the yard having won this year's Nassau and Pretty Polly.

Hermosa is also the dam of this year's G3 Hampton Court Stakes winner and Grand Prix de Paris runner-up Trinity College also by Dubawi, while this is the stellar dynasty of Last Tycoon. Hydrangea's yearling is a full-brother to Hawk Mountain, while she also has a colt foal by Justify.

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