Observations on the European Racing Scene for Tuesday, May 29

[Wandering Eyes]

Observations on the European Racing Scene turns the spotlight on the best European races of the day, highlighting well-pedigreed horses early in their careers, horses of note returning to action and young runners that achieved notable results in the sales ring. Tuesday’s Insights features a half-sister to GI Beverly D. S. heroine Gorella (Fr) (Grape Tree Road {GB}).

2.10 Lingfield, Cond, £5,800, 2yo, f, 6f (AWT)
ROYAL INTERVENTION (IRE) (Exceed and Excel {Aus}) is a half-sister to the 2006 GI Beverly D S. winner Gorella (Fr) (Grape Tree Road {GB}) who races for a partnership between Lord Lloyd Webber and Will Farish. Ed Walker introduces the homebred, whose opponents include the similarly unraced Octave (Ire) (Dawn Approach {Ire}), Sheikh Hamdan bin Mohammed Al Maktoum’s daughter of the G3 May Hill S. winner and G1 Poule d’Essai des Pouliches third Calando (Storm Cat) who represents the Mark Johnston stable.

7.45 Gowran Park, Mdn, €12,000, 3yo, 12fT
PARK BLOOM (IRE) (Galileo {Ire}) is set to be pure broodmare gold later on for her breeder Lodge Park Stud and owner Patricia Burns, as a full-sister to the G1 Epsom Oaks heroine Was (Ire), fellow Ballydoyle pattern-race performer Douglas Macarthur (Ire) and MGSP Al Naamah (Ire) who was a 5-million gns TATOCT purchase. Jim Bolger has charge of her racing career and introduces her in a race which contains another notable in His Highness The Aga Khan’s Romiyna (Ire) (Nathaniel {Ire}), a Dermot Weld-trained half-sister to the MGSW sire Rajsaman (Fr) (Linamix {Fr}).

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