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Friday’s Observations: Persian King Craven Breeze Up Sensation Debuts at York

BySport room

Aug 22, 2024

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. Friday’s Observations features Tattersalls Craven Breeze Up graduate Bambalam (Persian King).

 

16.45 York, Mdn, £100,000, 2yo, 7fT
BAMBALAM (FR) (Persian King {Ire}), who was his sire’s most expensive progeny sold at auction when becoming the fourth-highest-priced lot at the Tattersalls Craven Breeze Up Sale in April, makes his debut in this valuable and always-intriguing British Stallion Studs EBF Convivial Maiden Stakes. Trained by Richard Fahey for KHK Racing, the 600,000gns purchase who is a half-brother to the group 3-placed Ritournelle (Fr) (Camelot {GB}) meets some promising types with the benefit of experience. They include Amo Racing’s Ralph Beckett-trained €1million Arqana May Breeze-Up purchase Angelo Buonarroti (Justifywhose only run came when beaten around three lengths in the G2 Coventry Stakes; Ballydoyle’s Curragh maiden-placed filly Whirl (Ire) (Wootton Bassett {GB}) whose dam is a full-sister to Galileo’s Hydrangea (Ire), The United States (Ire) and Hermosa (Ire); Hidetoshi Yamamoto’s Ultrasoul (Ire) (Kingman {GB}), a Roger Varian-trained son of the G1 Prix de Diane heroine Channel (Ire) (Nathaniel {Ire}) who was second to the day’s G2 Gimcrack Stakes contender Shadow Of Light (GB) (Lope De Vega {Ire}) on debut at Yarmouth; and Wathnan Racing’s Realign (Fr) (Blue Point {Ire}), a William Haggas-trained €550,000 Arqana May Breeze-Up purchase who also chased home Shadow Of Light at Newmarket.

 

HOW THEY FARED
16.50 Leopardstown, Mdn, €18,000, 2yo, f, 7f 30yT
Native Verse (Ire) (Siyouni {Fr}), the 550,000gns Tattersalls October Book 1 half-sister to the G1 Nassau Stakes winner Al Husn (Ire) (Dubawi {Ire}), was too keen early and after tanking her way to the front paid for it in the straight when fading to eighth.

16.10 York, Listed, £100,000, 3yo/up, f/m, 11f 188yT
Sunderland Holding’s ‘TDN Rising Star’ Sea Just In Time (Ire) (Sea The Stars {Ire}) was scratched from this Listed British EBF & Sir Henry Cecil Galtres Stakes.

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