Memories In Control In The Meautry

[Wandering Eyes]

Missing out on third by fractions in one of Deauville’s showpiece events, the G1 Prix Maurice de Gheest, Sutong Pan Racing’s Spinning Memories (Ire) (Arcano {Ire}) made light work of Sunday’s G3 Prix de Meautry Barriere as the Normandy meeting drew to a close. Sent off the 2-1 favourite, the bay was typically exuberant tracking the pace in third under regular rider Christophe Soumillon. Seizing command passing the furlong marker, she opened up for a demonstration as Stake Acclaim (Ire) (Acclamation {GB}) led the chase trailing 3 1/2 lengths behind. “She deserved to win a race like this, having run so well in the Maurice de Gheest,” trainer Pascal Bary commented. “I think she won in very good style and we’ve now found her best distance. She won’t run over five and I’m not certain that there are any suitable opportunities over six in France so maybe we’ll look abroad and to Hong Kong, where her owner is living.”

Campaigned almost exclusively over seven furlongs so far, the former Andrew Oliver trainee had shown distinct promise when winning the Listed Prix Matchem at Saint-Cloud in October and the Listed Prix Maurice Zilber on the first of three starts on ParisLongchamp’s turning track on May 12. Fourth in the G3 Prix du Palais-Royal on May 30 and third in the July 4 G3 Prix de la Porte Maillot, she was beaten just over a length when caught late and denied a placing in the Aug. 4 Maurice de Gheest and is a sprinter that is certain to make the highest grade now that she has found her metier.

Pedigree Notes
Spinning Memories is the first live foal out of the unraced Hanalei Memories (Hard Spun), whose second dam is the GI Beverly D. S. and GI Queen Elizabeth II Challenge Cup S. heroine Memories of Silver (Silver Hawk). She has four black-type winners to her credit, headed by the GI Garden City S. winner Winter Memories (El Prado {Ire}) and the GIII Athenia S. winner La Cloche (Ghostzapper), with both of these proving stakes producers in their own right. Memories of Silver is kin to four stakes performers, most notably the GII Miss Grillo S. winner Memories (Hail the Pirates), who in turn the dam of the G3 Prix du Palais-Royal scorer Russian Revival (Nureyev).

Sunday, Deauville, France
PRIX DE MEAUTRY BARRIERE-G3, €80,000, Deauville, 8-25, 3yo/up, 6fT, 1:08.89, gd.
1–SPINNING MEMORIES (IRE), 125, f, 4, by Arcano (Ire)
1st Dam: Hanalei Memories, by Hard Spun
2nd Dam: Memories For Us, by Street Cry (Ire)
3rd Dam: Memories of Silver, by Silver Hawk
1ST GROUP WIN. O-Pan Sutong Racing Bloodstock; B-Mubarak Al Naemi (IRE); T-Pascal Bary; J-Christophe Soumillon. €40,000. Lifetime Record: 8-4-0-1, €141,990. Werk Nick Rating: C. Click for the eNicks report & 5-cross pedigree.
2–Stake Acclaim (Ire), 128, g, 7, Acclamation (GB)–Golden Legacy (Ire), by Rossini. (€65,000 Wlg ’12 GOFNOV; 62,000gns Ylg ’13 TATOCT; 125,000gns 2yo ’14 TATGNS). O-Michael Yarrow; B-G Devlin (IRE); T-Dean Ivory. €16,000.
3–Tertius (Fr), 125, c, 3, Siyouni (Fr)–Rhenania (Ire), by Shamardal. O/B-Mme Christa Zass (FR); T-Markus & Stephanie Nigge. €12,000.
Margins: 3HF, HF, 1. Odds: 2.00, 10.00, 24.00.
Also Ran: Poetry (GB), Comedia Eria (Fr), Keystroke (GB), Big Brothers Pride (Fr), Viscount Barfield (GB), Ilanga (Fr). Scratched: Glass Slippers (GB). Click for the Racing Post result or the free Equineline.com catalogue-style pedigree. Video, sponsored by Fasig-Tipton.

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