Intello Colt Swoops For Brigadier Gerard Success

[Wandering Eyes]

Sir Michael Stoute’s Freemason Lodge stable is in a rich vein of form at present and so it was perhaps inevitable that Regal Reality (GB) (Intello {Ger}) would provide a 10th renewal for the yard in Sandown’s G3 Matchbook Brigadier Gerard S. on Thursday. Trying this 10-furlong trip for the first time after a comeback third in the Apr. 26 G2 Sandown Mile, Cheveley Park Stud’s homebred was fractious at times in the preliminaries and free to post but settled just enough in the expert hands of Ryan Moore in the race. Keeping tabs on the 11-8 market-leader Matterhorn (Ire) (Raven’s Pass) as they tracked the pace set by Elwazir (GB) (Frankel {GB}), the 9-4 second favourite allowed his chief rival first run but brushed him aside with a furlong remaining en route to an impressive 3 3/4-length success in a smart time. Matterhorn had three lengths to spare over the well-regarded third-placed Danceteria (Fr) (Redoute’s Choice {Aus}), lending the form a solid look not too far shy of Group 1 standard.

1–REGAL REALITY (GB), 126, c, 4, by Intello (Ger)
1st Dam: Regal Realm (GB) (MGSW-Eng, $116,452), by Medicean (GB)
2nd Dam: Regal Riband (GB), by Fantastic Light
3rd Dam: Regal Rose (GB), by Danehill
O/B-Cheveley Park Stud Ltd (GB); T-Sir Michael Stoute; J-Ryan Moore. £39,697. Lifetime Record: 7-3-0-3, £129,774.

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