August Sale 2018
1st Dam - Full-sister SILK RUN winner at Bangor, 3 August 2018
Racing Post Analysis:
having inherited the lead at halfway, he pressed on from four furlongs out, only giving best inside the final two furlongs. He looked a bit green too, should improve plenty for this and win a bumper.
The late Jeremy ended the 2018 spring point-to-point season as the resounding top producer of four-year-old maiden winners following 12 individual race winners, the last of which was Highstreet Roller on the penultimate day of the campaign. Showing all the characteristics customary of so many of her sire’s off-spring, she made a winning debut at Ballingarry to score with plenty in hand. Never far from the pace, she made her move along the back straight, and admirably coped with the test that the back straight at Ballingarry poses for a young horse, where three fences come in quick fire succession on the final lap, as the pace of the race begins to increase notably. Showing a good turn of foot exiting out of the back, she soon had the measure of her more experienced rivals with her superior change of gears most evident on the run for the home straight. There was plenty to like from this comfortable four length success.
It is notable that Derek O’Connor was booked to take the ride aboard Thelongwayaround for his debut at Tralee in a 13-runner five-year-old maiden, suggesting hopes were high for the Fruits Of Love’s introduction. A bad mistake at the mid-way point put pay to any hopes, and he was looked after, pulling-up before the race had really begun in earnest. That proved to be a wise decision, as seven-days later he was in the winner’s enclosure following a three-length victory at Kinsale. Patiently ridden once again towards the rear of the 12-runner field, Thelongwayaround had learned a lesson from his opening effort, as there were no jumping mistakes as he steadily took closer order on the inside of runners along the back straight. Still with a couple of lengths to find on the previously placed leader approaching the penultimate fence, the bay gelding continued to find for pressure to win going away by the line.
Few who were at Monksgrange in late April to witness the debut of The Con Man could have found fault with the performance that he produced on route to a facile success. All the vibes entering the race were positive, as the well-bred son of Oscar, who was a costly purchase as a store at €50,000, was well-backed into odds-on favouritism in a race which contained some previously proven sorts. That market confidence was justified, as the eye-filling debutant jumped with particular zest through the early stages bringing himself to take a share of the lead just after the midway point. Having always travelled with real purpose, the confidence that his rider Barry O’Neill had was clearly evident in the home straight as he sat motionless, in contrast to his rivals who were hard at work aboard the two main dangers in the race – Cragmore runner-up Old Rascals, and Classic Escape, a horse who has offered plenty of encouragement on a number of occasions prior to falling. Only ever having to be shaken up after the last, The Con Man ran out a six-length winner, but is value for considerably further. He would have to be considered very much an above average winner.
The progressive Nativegetaway ended the spring campaign with a career best to finish second behind Legend Of Zorro at Inchydoney. The Getaway gelding entered the race with two efforts at Ballyragget and Loughanmore respectively behind him and was never far from the pace at the Co. Cork venue. Whilst not able to match the turn of foot produced by the eventual winner, Legend Of Zorro, racing out of the back straight, he gamely stuck to his task to emerge from the pack and finish second in a 13-runner heat. That latest effort bodes well for the future and this improvement can be expected to continue.
The well-bred Black Centaur hails from a winning family, as this son of Oscar is out of an unraced Presenting mare that has an enviable strike rate of producing track winners, including the six-time track winners Mr Mercurial, who has won twice around Cheltenham, and Black Narcissus, three-time winner Misty Mai, and dual track winner Black Scorpion. Each of that quartet also began their careers point-to-pointing with John Gleeson, however what stands Black Centaur out amongst that grouping, is that he is the only one of them to have won at the first time of asking. That debut success was achieved at Tralee in late May when he made good progress exiting out of the back straight to take the lead on the run to the second-last. Showing real guts and toughness, he soon began to assert and ultimately ran out a comfortable seven-length winner of a 13-runner maiden. A strong staying sort, it is hard to see him not following in his families footsteps and adding to their track winners.
The Richard Frayne-owned and bred Rushour Ryan was in the process of running a career best on his third outing at Courtown when perfectly positioned to take advantage of a final fence faller to get his head in front by three-lengths. Two weeks later, the five-year-old proved himself adept at handling quicker conditions than what he had faced at Courtown when making lining up for his debut in winners’ company around Dromahane. He finished third on that effort, behind an in-form mare who bolstered the form by coming out and winning her third race of the campaign two weeks later. Out of the three-time winning mare, Evening Rushour, this son of Presenting is also from the family of the high-class winners Secreto and Lagostovegas.
Go Whatever is a son of Gold Well whom his connections paid €46,000 to acquire as a three-year-old, and the bay gelding, who hails from the family of Gold Cup winner Imperial Call, offered plenty of encouragement on his debut at Loughrea in early May. Always within the main group, Go Whatever gave chase in third round the home bend, and kept-on nicely all the way to the line to finish in third, beaten by just over eight-lengths. The winner on that occasion realised £58,000 at the Goffs UK Spring sales following the successes, whilst runner-up Barrowlands, has supplemented his run by finishing second once again at Tralee later that month. There is every likelihood of Go Whatever stepping up from his debut and going even closer in the near future.
Fox Valley is a horse that returned to the promise of her debut in a four-year-old mares’ maiden at Durrow in March 2017, a performance which saw her finish third, by winning on her fourth outing at Kinsale on the final weekend of the season. Waiting for better ground later in the campaign appeared to pay off, as the daughter of Wareed looked to thrive on the good ground at Kinsale, where she took up the running after the third-last and from that point only went further and further clear. In fact the race was well sewn-up by the final fence such was her authority over her rivals, as she quickly followed the success at Loughanmore of her half-sister Getaway Honey just weeks earlier. Getaway Honey has added to the pedigree by winning a bumper at Stratford, and there is no reason that Fox Valley cannot also develop into a productive good ground performer.
Diocese - placed 3rd in Gr.3 Prix De L’Union Des AQPS Centre-Est (French Bumper) at Vichy on 18/7/18
WINNER of Heath Court Hotel Dining Club Handicap (Class 3) 1m2f Newmarket (July) on 28/07/18 - Now OR 90
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