Half-Sister to BC Mile Hero Expert Eye Graduates at Headquarters

[Wandering Eyes]

5th-Newmarket, £10,000, Mdn, 4-17, 3yo, f, 7fT, 1:28.43, g/f.
CLERISY (GB) (f, 3, Kingman {GB}–Exemplify {GB}, by Dansili {GB}), who registered a Dec. 10 debut third tackling a shade over seven furlongs atop Wolverhampton’s synthetic surface in her only prior start, broke alertly and was steadied off the far-side pace racing in the centre of the track throughout this seasonal return. Shaken up passing the quarter-mile marker, the 8-1 chance challenged entering the final furlong and was ridden out on the climb to deny Gentlewoman (Ire) (Shamardal) by a neck. Following the win, Sir Michael Stoute indicated that York’s May 17 Listed Michael Seely Memorial S. was a likely target, a contest the trainer won in 2005 with subsequent G1 Sun Chariot S. and G1 Lockinge S. heroine Peeress (GB) (Pivotal {GB}) and in 2013 with Pavlosk (Arch), whose son Derevo (GB) (Dansili {GB}) shed maiden status at Chelmsford City last week. Clerisy becomes the third winner out of a winning half-sister to MG1SW European champion juvenile filly Special Duty (GB) (Hennessy) and the homebred bay is a half-sister to last term’s GI Breeders’ Cup Mile hero Expert Eye (GB) (Acclamation {GB}). Her dam Exemplify (GB) (Dansili {GB}), herself produced by a sibling of the MGISW duo Sightseek (Distant View) and Tates Creek (Rahy), has the hitherto unraced 2-year-old colt Eyewitness (GB) (Dark Angel {Ire}) and a yearling colt by Kingman (GB) to come. Lifetime Record: 2-1-0-1, $9,151.
O-Khalid Abdullah; B-Juddmonte Farms Ltd (GB); T-Sir Michael Stoute.

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