Out on Parole

[Wandering Eyes]

Sunday’s G1 Qatar Prix Jean Prat, which has been switched from Chantilly to Deauville’s straight track for the first time, offers the last chance for the 3-year-old milers to win at this level with ‘TDN Rising Star’ Gustav Klimt (Ire) (Galileo {Ire}) sneaking away from the best of his generation in search of a slice of the action. Just a half-length behind Without Parole (GB) (Frankel {GB}) in the G1 St James’s Palace S. at Royal Ascot June 19, Ballydoyle’s hard-working colt has just last year’s G2 Superlative S. to boast of with regards to pattern-race successes but has put in honest efforts in the leading contests in this division and has experience of battle to aid him here. In contrast, the exciting Shadwell homebred Wusool (Speightstown) has yet to show what he can do in this company but the evidence of his demonstrative win in Chantilly’s G3 Prix Paul de Moussac June 17 suggests he is well up to this standard.

The star-crossed owner partnership of Antonio Caro and Gerard Augustin-Normand are represented by Olmedo (Fr) (Declaration of War), who looked high-class when scoring by a neck from Hey Gaman (GB) (New Approach {Ire}) in the G1 Poule d’Essai des Poulains at ParisLongchamp May 13 and the opposite when trailing in 13th in the 10 1/2-furlong G1 Prix du Jockey Club at Chantilly June 3.

“The horse is fine. The trainer is very pleased with him. I think the ground will be good for him as well,” the owners’ racing manager Sylvain Vidal commented. “He worked very well on Thursday morning. He looks wonderful, so we will see.”

In the Jockey Club, Intellogent (Ire) (Intello {Ger}) was less than a length back in fourth having captured the G3 Prix de Guiche over nine furlongs also at Chantilly May 7, while the impressive G2 Mehl-Mulhens-Rennen hero Ancient Spirit (Ger) (Invincible Spirit {Ire}) looks to back up the form of that German 2000 Guineas at Cologne May 21.

At Hamburg, the week’s action culminates in the G1 IDEE 149th Deutsches Derby, where favouritism is held by Jaber Abdullah’s May 1 G3 Bavarian Classic and June 3 G3 Ittlingen Derby Trial winner Royal Youmzain (Fr) (Youmzain {Ire}). Twelve months on from Windstoss (Ger) (Shirocco {Ger}) providing a first victory in this affair for Gestut Rottgen, his half-brother Weltstar (Ger) (Soldier Hollow {GB}) looks to double up for the operation on the back of a career-best success in the G2 Oppenheim Union Rennen at Cologne June 17.

Fairyhouse’s G3 Irish Stallion Farms EBF Brownstown S. offers a gilt-edged opportunity for Uncle Mo’s half-sister Could It Be Love (War Front) to register a deserved first black-type success after her gallant efforts when second in the G1 Irish 1000 Guineas at The Curragh May 27 and third in the G3 Jersey S. at Royal Ascot June 20.

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