sabato 28/10/2017. RECORD BREAKER RACING POST TROPHY. Peerless O’Brien on top of the world as Saxon Warrior seals Group 1 record // Doncaster: A #Saxon Warrior il Racing Post Trophy, record per Aidan O’Brien. 26 G1 in una stagione, superato Frankel // Aste: #Goffs #Open Yearling Sales: Movimento a €2,184,800, almeno 72 acquisti italiani! Ecco chi sono..

 

RECORD BREAKER RACING POST TROPHY

 

Peerless O’Brien on top of the world as Saxon Warrior seals Group 1 record

 
Sheer delight: Aidan O’Brien, with daughter Ana O’Brien by his side, beams with joy in the immediate aftermath to Saxon Warrior’s success
Sheer delight: Aidan O’Brien, with daughter Ana O’Brien by his side, beams with joy in the immediate aftermath to Saxon Warrior’s success
Edward Whitaker (racingpost.com/photos)
 
By Keith Melrose
 
He’s now just a general 5-1 chance for the Derby, but that doesn’t really matter. Not on Saturday at least.

Saxon Warrior won the Racing Post Trophy to become Aidan O’Brien’s 26th top-level winner of the year, breaking the record set by Bobby Frankel 14 years ago, and did in a style so typical of Ballydoyle runners.

The winner showed class and a game attitude to repel the John Gosden-trained Roaring Lion, who had looked all set to triumph at one stage – to the point it was a surprise he went only as short as 1-9 in-running – but was ultimately beaten by a widening neck.

The finish was much like the 2017 season in microcosm: in some senses it has belonged to Gosden with stars like Enable – the only non-Ballydoyle horse to win a Classic in Britain and Ireland this year – and Cracksman, but O’Brien characteristically had the final word. 

 

 

As Saxon Warrior came into the winner’s enclosure under Ryan Moore, much of the O’Brien clan – Aidan with wife Annemarie and daughters Sarah and Ana – walked abreast in an image that brought to mind Team Sky’s preferred formation crossing the line on the Champs Elysses.

Speaking after the race, O’Brien underlined the collaborative nature of the Ballydoyle project. “It’s a fantastic team effort and I’ve been very privileged to work with the people I have – Annemarie, the kids and all the team at home have been brilliant,” he said.

“Every Group 1 is hard to win, we don’t expect to win them and we’ve been very lucky to win what we have. I thought John’s horse had him at one stage, but Ryan’s given Saxon Warrior a great ride and he’s battled back, which is a really promising sign.”

Saxon Warrior had a couple of battles to win. First Verbal Dexterity, trained by O’Brien’s mentor Jim Bolger, came to challenge on the far side and then Roaring Lion swept round to the outside to launch his own assault.

Historic win: Saxon Warrior (far side), ridden by Ryan Moore, battles back to defeat Roaring Lion in the Racing Post Trophy, providing Aidan O’Brien with a record 26th top-level victory this year
Historic win: Saxon Warrior (far side), ridden by Ryan Moore, battles back to defeat Roaring Lion in the Racing Post Trophy, providing Aidan O’Brien with a record 26th top-level victory this year
Edward Whitaker (racingpost.com/photos)

“Roaring Lion ran a fantastic race and I was thrilled with him,” said Gosden. “He had the race won but then got blown off course, they were quite tough conditions out there. He’s a very nice horse and there’s no reason why he won’t go for the Guineas.”

For Saxon Warrior to see off successive challenges on just his third start is a testament to something and is probably multi-faceted. Although he is out of Maybe, who herself delivered O’Brien the Moyglare as a two-year-old, he is by Deep Impact, one of Japan’s most famous sires.

O’Brien’s partners at Coolmore, John Magnier, Michael Tabor – who on Saturday was celebrating his 76th birthday – and Derrick Smith, have perhaps the strongest stallion line-up in Europe but are famously adept at mixing their stock with the best from further afield.

Saxon Warrior is the first Deep Impact to reach so high a profile for this operation and is now unlikely to be the last.

“You have to give a lot of the credit to the lads, who breed all of these horses themselves and create all these good horses,” said O’Brien. “It’s just my job to get them to the track.”

O’Brien is most comfortable when being magnanimous and confessed the record is not something that typically occupies the forefront of his mind.

“I wasn’t even thinking about it for a long time, but this last month it’s been building up and I’m delighted we’ve got there,” he said. “It means a lot now it’s happened.”

The Pentagon, long assumed to be the main Ballydoyle hope in the months leading up to this race, finished third. His previous run had come before Saxon Warrior had made his debut in August, underlining the development O’Brien’s horses make through the season.

“They improve at least partly because of the people who look after them day in, day out,” added O’Brien. “They’re so dedicated, and they have to be for us to get the results like this.”

Celebration time: Aidan O’Brien and his wife Annemarie are all smiles following the record-breaking triumph
Celebration time: Aidan O’Brien and his wife Annemarie are all smiles following the record-breaking triumph
Edward Whitaker (racingpost.com/photos)

After O’Brien received his prize – and congratulations on the way to the podium, including from his former boss Jim Bolger, whose Verbal Dexterity finished fourth – thoughts turned to the future and just where the new high-water mark might rise before the year is out.

O’Brien has four of the seven in Sunday’s Criterium de Saint-Cloud, although he admitted he had not yet had time to study the opposition, which he will no doubt have rectified within minutes of leaving the winner’s enclosure. He also confirmed all is on track with his Breeders’ Cup runners, including Classic hopeful Churchill.

He said: “After the season’s finished we’ll celebrate and I’ll sit down and look back at this and what the achievement means. We’ll put the horses away but we’ll bring them back next year for the Classics.”

Those who look forward are the ones who make history, and that is the mark of O’Brien, who was tangibly on more comfortable territory when talking about the prospects of Saxon Warrior and US Navy Flag, the other half of his Dewhurst-Racing Post Trophy double.

“Ryan is adamant this lad has the speed for a mile,” he said. “There’s a lot of stamina in his breeding, but he can always start in the Guineas and work upwards. The best mile-and-a-half horses are often comfortable at a mile.”

The record-breaker concluded: “It’s always good to look forward to the next thing.”

 

Winning memento: Racing Post chief executive Alan Byrne congratulates Aidan O’Brien
Winning memento: Racing Post chief executive Alan Byrne congratulates Aidan O’Brien
Edward Whitaker (racingpost.com/photos)
 
fonte : RacingPost
 

 

28/10/2017. Doncaster: A #Saxon Warrior il Racing Post Trophy, record per Aidan O’Brien. 26 G1 in una stagione, superato Frankel.

 

E sono 26!! Aidan O’Brien è l’uomo dei record, e pensare che non ha ancora raggiunto i 50 anni. La vittoria numero 26 in G1, quella cioè che gli permette di riscrivere i libri di storia e superare definitvamente il record americano di Bobby Frankel, è arrivata inevitabilmente nel Racing Post Trophy G1 di Doncaster grazie aSaxon Warrior (Deep Impact) e a Ryan Moore che hanno ottenuto questa preziosa perla con una grandissima forza di volontà, frutto della resilienza del figlio di Deep Impact (Sunday Silence) agli attacchi reiterati del grigio  Roaring Lion (Kitten’s Joy), balzatogli addosso a 200 dal palo ma respinto con grande veemenza. Terzo è giunto un The Pentagon (Galileo) ancora immaturo ma del quale sentiremo parlare abbondantemente l’anno prossimo, quando maturerà definitivamente. 

Intanto però, Saxon Warrior ha dimostrato di valere tantissimo e dopo le 2 affermazioni irlandesi, su terreno contrario, si è presentato a Donny con i galloni di favorito ma con quota in perenne ascesa senza comunque mai toccare vertici alti. A Town Moor giocavano solo Verbal Dexterity (Vocalised) che però si è sgonfiato sotto il soffio potente del Saxon il quale si è presentato in mano facendo esplodere in un boato i racegoers sul campo, ma rendendo vibrante la contesa con il John Gosden della Qatar Racing che ha fatto un corsone facendo vibrare proprio Padre Aidan il quale, intanto, vedeva il suo staccarsi sempre di più dal resto della compagnia. Questo Racing Post Trophy, entrerà nella storia proprio come la vittoria numero 26 in G1 per il mago irlandese. 

Saxon Warrior è anche il primo vincitore a livello di G1 in Europa per il sire Deep Impact (Sunday Silence), una leggenda in Giappone, il cui sangue è sempre più vivo nel turf europeo grazie a degli accordi, foal sharing, scambio etico se così vogliamo dire, di geni giapponesi ed europei, entrambi sin troppo inflazionati. Ma non solo: Saxon è secondo foal e secondo vincitore per la campionessa Maybe (Galileo), terza nelle 1000 Guineas G1. Maybe, che ha anche un maschio da American Pharoah e sarà coperta da War Front il prossimo anno, è sorella piena della vincitrice di G1 Promise To Be True della famiglia di Dancing Rain (Danehill Dancer), vincitrice di Epsom Oaks, Preis der Diana G1 e Qipco British Champions Fillies’ and Mares’ Stakes G2. La famiglia femminile ha diramazioni anche in Dr Devious (Ahonoora), vincitore di Derby inglese G1 e stallone in Italia. 

IL VIDEO DEL RACING POST TROPHY QUIIL RISULTATO COMPLETO DEL RACING POST TROPHY CLICCANDO QUI.
Da segnalare in apertura di pomeriggio una nota tutta italiana. Raccontiamo infatti la vittoria in Listed, nelle Doncaster Stakes sui 1200 metri, di Speak In Colours (Excelebration e Maglietta Fina), un grigio allenato da Marco Botti con Andrea Atzeni in sella per i colori della Archi Romani di Paolo ed Emma Agostini. Congratulazioni! IL RISULTATO COMPLETO QUI.

 
 
 

Aste: #Goffs #Open Yearling Sales: Movimento a €2,184,800, almeno 72 acquisti italiani! Ecco chi sono..

 

Non è mica finita la sessione di aste riservate agli yearlings nati nel 2016 e che debutteranno nel 2018. In Irlanda si sono tenute le due sessioni di Open Yearling Sales in programma il 25 ed il 26 Ottobre per le quali erano in catalogo 497 cavalli di cui offerti 433, venduti 313 per un movimento complessivo di €2,184,800, la media molto bassa a €6,980, con il mediano a €4,700. 

Il top price lo ha realizzato il Lot 256, una femmina acquistata dal Rabbah Bloodstock per €62,000 ed è una figlia di Teofilo (Galileo) con mamma da Green Desert. La cosa buffa è che abbiamo contato 72 acquisti italiani! Potremmo anche sbagliarci e potrebbero essere di più, senza contare gli acquisti all’amichevole. 

Il top price italiano lo ha realizzato “Botti”, per un sauro da Farhh (Pivotal), il Lot 340, acquistato per €26,000. Il che sarebbe anche un prezzo normale, ma almeno 65 acquisti dei 72 che abbiamo raccontato sono racchiusi una forbice tra gli 0 euro ed i €10,000. Praticamente gli irlandesi quando vedono gli italiani sono sempre stra-felici.

Tra gli acquirenti ne abbiamo contati tantissimi. I nomi emersi sono quelli di Antonio Peraino, Antonio Cottu, Marinella Arienti, Pieraccini, Botti, Cherchi Franceschino, la Chimax, Fabio Boccardelli, Francesca Turri (che ha speso per 2 cavalli circa €25,000), Gaetano Ledda, Attilio Giorgi, Giovanni Floris che ne ha presi almeno una dozzina tutti a prezzo bassissimo, poi 5 per Satalia, poi ancora la New Racing Factory, Ulderico Piergiovanni, la Razza Latina ed altri sotto pseudonimi quali quelli simpatici di Figlidimourinho, Maistatiinb, FC Internazionale etc. Evidentemente qualche tifoso interista alle aste. Abbiamo anche ricostruito di chi si tratti, ma per questioni di privacy, apparente, non lo diciamo e lasciamo il divertimento a chi si vuole cimentare a capire.

I RISULTATI COMPLETI DELLE GOFFS OPEN YEARLING SALES 2017 QUI.

PUBBLICATO DA SABATO, OTTOBRE 28, 2017