Breeders Cup Saturday The Irish Runners
November 6, 2021
Eleven Irish horses go to post in the Breeders Cup at Del Mar. Here we go through their form and access their respective chances.
Breeders Cup Turf Sprint – 7.40 GMT
In the Turf Sprint we have one, Ado McGuinness sends A Case Of You. with Ronan Whelan in the plate. The three-year-old transferred from John McConnell after his trice-raced juvenile campaign in which he ran third first time out, won a plus ten Maiden, and finished off with a win in the G3 Angelsey Stakes at the Curragh.
Ado has kept him busy this term, He beat Logo Hunter in Dundalk over 6f, didn’t stay behind Poetic Flare over 7f at Leopardstown, won the G3 Lacken Stakes back at 6f at Naas, didn’t cope with the heavy ground in the G1 Commonwealth Cup at Ascot over 6f, ran 3rd in the G3 Phoenix Sprint Stakes at the Curragh over 6f.
Dropped in trip, upped in class, he ran second in the G1 Flying Five at the Curragh over 5f and then won the G1 Prix de l’Abbaye over the same trip in Paris on Arc day.
Can it Be Won
Yes – A Case Of You goes there with a great chance
Breeders Cup Filly and Mare Turf – 8.59 GMT
In the Filly and Mare Turf, two Irish fillies run. Aidan O’Brien sends Love from Ballydoyle with Acanella traveling from Glenburnie for Ger Lyons.
Love was high-class last year, The 1000 Guineas at Newmarket, The Oaks at Epsom and the Yorkshire Oaks at York were all easily won. Ground ruled her out for the rest of the season, the good was gone.
This year she kicked off in the Prince Of Wales’s Stakes again winning easily. For her next start, she went off favourite for the George VI And Queen Elizabeth Stakes heading in the betting, the Derby winner, Adayar and Mishriff the subsequent International Stakes winner. She finished third to the pair at Ascot and filled the same spot at York behind Mishriff. Dropped in class to G2 level she was reeled in the closing stages in the Blanchford Stakes at the Curragh by La Petite Coco, beaten a short head. Ryan Moore will ride.
Acanella wouldn’t come with the same CV. The three year old has had seven runs’s, two as a juvenile, she won her Maiden early in the season in April and was then beaten 5¾L in the Irish 1,000 Guineas Trial in May. We didn’t see her again until this year.
Second in a Nursey at Naas, ninth at Listed level in Killarney, sixth at the same level at Gowan Park, she then won the G3 Snow Fairy Stakes at 16/1 at the Curragh beating a G1 winner in Champers Elysees, upped in class for her first crack at G1 level she was beaten 4L in the Matron Stakes at Leopardstown. Colin Keane will have his first spin on the track.
Can It Be Won
Yes – Both have a chance, Love is the class horse, bringing her A-Game she’s by far the best in the race.
Breeders Cup Turf Mile – 10.20 GMT
In the Breeders Cup Turf Mile we’ve three, Mother Earth for Aidan O’Brien, Pearls Galore for Paddy Twomey and Real Appeal for Jessica Harrington.
Mother Earth has been a busy bee, this will be her seventeenth run. Last year she finished second in the Juvenile Fillies Turf at this meeting at Keenland. Like Love, she took the 1000 Guineas on her reappearance, finished second in the Poule d’Essai des Pouliches, third in the Coronation Stakes, second in the Falmouth Stakes, back to winning ways in the Prix Rothschild, third in the Matron Stakes, second in the Sun Chariot Stakes and fifth in the Queen Elizabeth II Stakes, all Group 1 events. As a result, she’e accumulated 51 points in the Pattern Racing World Championships to lie second to Veery Elleegant. Ryan Moore rides.
Pearls Galore came from Freddy Head’s yard in France to begin her three year old career with Paddy Twomey. She hadn’t been placed in two runs for Freddy but first time out for Paddy she won a Limerick Maiden. She followed up in a Handicap at Cork, and in her final outing at three, she was second to Champers Ellesees in the G3 Fairy Bridge Stakes at Gowan Park, a run in November at Dundalk on the All Weather was not to her liking where she finished down the field.
This year three Group 3’s kicked off her season, third to Real Appeal in the Ballycorus Stakes at Leopardstown was followed by wins in the Brownstown Stakes Stakes at Fairyhouse and in the Fairy Bridge Stakes, this time at Tipperary. She’d earned her crack at a G1 and that came in the Matron Stakes at Leopardstown where she finished second to No Speak Alexander, a place in front of Mother Earth in a controversial result where the first past the post wasn’t thrown out having caused major interference in the closing stages, Mother Earth suffering the most. In France in the Prix de la Foret another great run, she finished second to Space Blues. Billy Lee gets the leg up.
The six-year-old Real Appeal has won six from nineteen, her best being her last, the G2 Boomerang Mile at Leopardstown where she’d apreviously won the G3 Ballycorus Stakes. Shane Foley rides.
Can It Be Won
Yes – Mother Earth has the class, a big run from Pearls Galore can’t be ruled out and Real Appeal who beat her in the Ballycourus can’t be dismissed.
The Breeders Cup Turf – 11.40 GMT
In the Turf we’ve five running.
Tarnawa is a worthy favourite, She was a triple G1 winner last year, the first, the Prix Vermeille, then the Prix de l’Opera, both at ParisLonchamp, then this, Breeders Cup Turf at Keenland, the former two under Christophe Soumillon, the latter under Colin Keane who is reunited with Dermot Weld’s star.
This year she was campaigned late with the big Autumn races targeted. Her seasonal reappearence came in August in the Ballyroan Stakes where she won with ease. Next up was the Irish Chmpion Stakes where she was carried across the track by St Marks Basilica going down ¾L. In the Arc she battled on to be second, outstayed on miserable ground.
Ballydoyle are mob-handed.
Mogul was a double G1 winner last year, he took the Grand Prix de Paris at Longchamp and the Hong Kong Vase at Sha Tin. This year he failed to spark beaten in his four runs though there was some signs of a return to form when beaten 3¾L last time out.
Broome had a great start to the season winning his first three, then beaten twice, finishing second both times, he then won a G1 taking Grand Prix de Saint-Cloud, was well off Adayar in the King George, ran second in the Prix Foy, and was down the field in the Arc. Frankie Dettori wile ride.
Japan won the Grand Prix de Paris and International Stakes in 2019. No wins last year and this year his two wins were at G3 level, the Ormonde Stakes at Chester and the Meld Stakes at Leopardstown. He didn’t get clear runs in his last two, the Sword Dancer Stakes at Saratoga or in the Joe Hirsch Turf Classic Stakes at Belmont. Ryan Moore will ride.
Bolshi Ballet went off favourite for the Derby but was struck into, then campaigned in America, he won the Belmont Derby Invitational Stakes, but disappointed in two subsequent runs, fourth in the Saratoga Derby Invitational Stakes and fourth in the Jockey Club Derby Invitational Stakes.
Can It Be Won
Yes – Tarnawa is drawn wide in 11. Given she likes to pass horses that is an advantage, Of the Ballydoyle horses, Japan could go well and get placed.
Recommendations
7.40 GMT Turf Sprint – A Case Of You 11/1 ew
8.59 GMT Filly and Mare Turf – Love 3/1 win (Nap)
10.20 GMT Turf Mile – Mother Earth 9/1 ew, Pearls Galore 14/1 ew
Mother Earth, Pearls Galore and Real Appeal combination to fill reverse exacta
11.40 GMT Turf – Tarnawa 11/8 win,
Tarnawa, Bolshoi Ballet and Japan combination to fill reverse exacta
