Dubawi’s Plumatic Springs a Surprise in the Muguet

[Wandering Eyes]

Sent off an insulting 28-1, the Wertheimers’ 5-year-old Plumatic (GB) (Dubawi {Ire}) made a mockery of those odds when upstaging Olmedo (Fr) (Declaration of War) in Wednesday’s G2 Prix du Muguet at Saint-Cloud. Held up in last early by Vincent Cheminaud, last year’s G3 Sovereign S. winner was still there turning for home as the 2018 G1 Poule d’Essai des Poulains hero Olmedo was committed on the front end by Cristian Demuro. Bearing down on him as the line neared, the homebred son of Plumania (GB) (Anabaa) who had her finest moment here when winning the G1 Grand Prix de Saint-Cloud got the better of his rival in the last metres for a neck success, with the winner’s stablemate Met Et Nuages (Fr) (Lope de Vega {Ire}) 3/4 of a length back in third to continue the excellent form of the Fabre yard. The winning owner-breeders’ racing manager Pierre-Yves Bureau said, “We had been running him over too far earlier in his career and he still managed to show a lot of quality, but he had spent a very good winter on the farm and looks like he has grown and fully matured. We’ve found his best distance, although he could probably go a little further. We have to try and make him a group one winner and there are plenty of possibilities, one being the [G1] Prix d’Ispahan [at ParisLongchamp May 26]. He is not entered in the Queen Anne, but we will see nearer the time what M. Fabre wants to do.”

Wednesday, Saint-Cloud, France
PRIX DU MUGUET-G2, €130,000, Saint-Cloud, 5-1, 4yo/up, 8fT, 1:37.97, gd.
1–PLUMATIC (GB), 126, h, 5, by Dubawi (Ire)
1st Dam: Plumania (GB) (G1SW-Fr, $838,738), by Anabaa
2nd Dam: Featherquest (GB), by Rainbow Quest
3rd Dam: Featherhill (Fr), by Lyphard
O/B-Wertheimer & Frere (GB); T-Andre Fabre; J-Vincent Cheminaud. €74,100. Lifetime Record: GSW-Eng, 11-4-2-1, €231,794. *1/2 to Maniaco (GB) (Galileo {Ire}), SW & GSP-Fr. Werk Nick Rating: A. Click for the eNicks report & 5-cross pedigree.
2–Olmedo (Fr), 126, c, 4, Declaration of War–Super Pie, by Pivotal (GB). (€100,000 Ylg ’16 ARAU2). O-Ecurie Antonio Caro & Gerard Augustin-Normand; B-Dream With Me Stable Inc (FR); T-Jean-Claude Rouget. €28,600.
3–Mer et Nuages (Fr), 126, c, 4, Lope de Vega (Ire)–Mahnaz (GB), by Dansili (GB). O-Godolphin SNC; B-Ecurie Peregrine SAS (FR); T-Andre Fabre. €13,650.
Margins: NK, 3/4, 2HF. Odds: 28.00, 4.60, 3.40.
Also Ran: Tornibush (Ire), Graphite (Fr), Polydream (Ire), Ostilio (GB). Scratched: Geniale (Jpn). Click for the Racing Post result or the free Equineline.com catalogue-style pedigree. Video, sponsored by Fasig-Tipton.

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