your highness reigns

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YOUR HIGHNESS REIGNS
FABRICE SOLOUY’s outstanding mare Your Highness returned to winning
form with a comfortable
victory in the Prix Europole de Competitivite
at La Capelle on Sunday.
The UET Masters Series
Group II race drew 10 of
Europe’s top sprinters including five Group I winners
in Billie de Montfort, Black
d’Avril, Booster Winner, Robert Bi and Aladin d’Ecajeul,
the latter two, placegetters
in last week’s Prix de Washington.
Frederick Prat’s Black
d’Avril won the early duel for
the front but Your Highness
surged past down the back
straight to take control of the
race until the closing stages.
In the final straight Black
d’Avril pulled out to challenge but was soon struggling as Orja Kihlstrom calmly let out the reins and Your
Highness cruised to the line
two lengths clear.
Booster Winner charged
home for second while Billie de Montfort stayed on
for third with Black d’Avril
fourth.
The victory took the P.V.
Racing Stable Hb owned
daughter of Chocolatier’s
earnings to €969,340 from
18 victories in 36 starts.
In Paris, Phillipe Allairre’s
stable claimed a Group III
double with firstly Dawana
winning the Prix de Berlin at
Enghien on the weekend.
The daughter of Ready
Cash easily defeated Frank
Anne’s Deese de Gueron
(Melchior Jet) and Dream
Darling (Sam Bourbon). The
winner clocked 1’14”9 for
the 2150m event.
Stablemate Artiste de
Joudes (Prodigious) driven
by David Thomain got up
to win the Group III Prix de
la Manche, nosing our Ulula Bella (Jam Pridem) from
Jean Paul Marmion’s stable.
Tom Rush L’As de Vertaute) was third.
The Group II 3525m marathon Grand Prix du Conseil
Municipal was also held on
the weekend. at VIchy
Jean Francois Senet’s Sire
de la Cruise was quickly to
the lead, scooting out to a
lead of half a dozen lengths,
while Christian Bigeon’s star
Tiego d’Etang settled back
near the rear.
German-bred Duke of
Greenwood and Beau Gamin
led the peleton as Sire de la
Cruese set a slick pace, and
led by three lengths rounding the final bend
Tiego d’Etan swept up but
he broke on the bend while-
Your Highness and Orjan Kihlstrom (right) are in complete control at La Capelle on the weekend
SIre de la Cruise responded
in the straight, seeing off
Beau Gamin’s challenge,
and then holding off determinged staying runs from
Thierry Duvaldestin’s veteran warhorse Swedishman )
second) and Serge Peltier’s
Un Diamant D’Amour (third).
The winner clocked the
remarkable tim of 1’14”2
(1.59.2MR) for the 3525m
marathon.
FRENCH FACT
France has a centralised
racing programme with most
major races being held at it’s
governing body LeTrot’s major track, Paris-Vincennes.
LeTrot runs four tracks,
Vincennes, Enghien, Caen
and Cabourg while the other
230 racetracks are autonomous while receiving their
purse funding from LeTrot.
All the major regional
tracks have important races, This weekend saw two
regional tracks hold their
glamour events, with Vichy ‘s
only Group II, the Grand Prix
du Conseil Municpal while
La Capell staged the Prix Europole de Competivite.
Sauveur claims Ulf Thoresen International
Ake Lindblom’s Sauveur
claimed the Ulf Thoresen
Grand International at Jarlsberg in Sweden on the weekend.
A swag of punters hopes
went west when BBS Sugarlight broke on the first turn
while Uhlf Olsson on Papagyo
E (Coktail Jet) grabbed control down the back straight
and set a torrid pace.
Ake Lindblom took Sauveur
(Echo) forward to sit parked
on the hot pace set by Papagayo E and loomed up to
challenge on the turn.
Papagayo E folded shortly
after the turn .as Sauveur got
to the front and comfortably
held off the challenge of a
fast closing Ringostarr Treb
(Classic Photo) while Rod
Stewart (Love You) also finished well for third.
Sauveur, who was the sec-
ond favourite, went a slick
1’11”2
(1.54.3) for the
2100m trip.
Johnny Johansson’s tough
veteran Harry Haythrow outstayed pacesetter Solvato
in the gold division race at
Halmstead on Saturday.
Stefan Sodjerkvist had held
a commanding lead on the
well-bred US import Solvato
(Donato Hanover) but Harry
Haythrow came off his back
in the straight and then held
of the charge form Spring
Erom (Gentle Star) to win.
Solvato faded to third.
Meanwhile Uncle Lasse’s
trainer Stefan Melander was
comparing his new stable
star Uncle Lasse with Nuncio
and Scarlet night after the US
import had earned the trainer his fourth Group I SprinterMästaren at Halmstad last
week.
LOVE YOU
CALIFORNIA ZEN (Winner
2300m Vichy) DUNYASHA
(2nd 2875m Enghien) COCONUT BOND (2nd 2225m
Feurs) CABANON BLEU (2nd
2850m Le Croise-Laroche)
COMME CHEZ NOUS (2nd
2850m Cabourg) BEROLINA
(3rd 2150m Vichy)
JEAN SEBASTIEN (3rd
2600m Addington,
NZ) BOOSTER WINNER
(2nd 1609m Group II
1’10”8/1609m La Capelle)
CATCH THE WIN (Winner 2700m La Cappelle)
DECENNIE (Winner 2150m
Enghien) DUBAI UNION
(Winner 2875m Enghien)
ULYSSE ATOUT (Winner
2850m Villedieu-les-Poeles)
DIVA BEJI (2nd 2100 L’Isle
Sur La Sorgue) BAKYRA (3rd
2300m Borely)
SAM BOURBON
DREAM DARLING (3rd
Group III 2150m Enghien)
QUAKER JET
AYRTON (Winner 3000m
Nantes) CALA JOSSELYN
(2nd 2300m Vichy) CYBELE
DU VERNET (3rd 2225m
Feurs)
READY CASH
DAWANA (Winner Group III
2150m Enghien) BEST OF
BOURBON (Winner La Ca-
Uncle Lasse wins at Halmstad.
in 36 starts and he set a new
mark of 1”09’3 and took his
earnings to 8,56M SEK.
“It was a great performance,”
said driver Örjan Kihlström.
Second was Conrad Lugauer’s Beidabliks Nubbe,
driven by Christoffer Eriksson
while Melander-stable mate
Cruzado dela Noche was
third.
pelle) DESTINY JIEL (Winner
1800m 2250m Enghien)
DIVINE DI LEONE (Winner
2875m Vichy) BE BOP
MARCEAUX (Winner 2875m
Feurs) BEST OF DU VAL (2nd
1’12”5/1609m Vichy) BELLE
DU LUAT (2nd 2200m Vichy)
2875m Vichy) VICE CONSUL
(2nd 2850m L’Isle Sur La
Sorgue) CESAR DES LUCAS
(2nd 3025m Montier-EnDer) CESAR DU CAIEU (3rd
2850m Cabourg) VERY
FIRST (3rd 2875m Enghien)
UN SECRET (3rd 2950m
Biarritz)
DEESSE (Winner 2625m
Plestin-Les-Greves) CHIPIE (Winner 2825m Sable-Sur-Sarthe) DEL PIERO
(2nd 2700m La Capelle)
ORLANDO VICI
BEAUTY’S MELODY (Winner
2300m Borely) COMPLICE
(Winner 2550m GournayEn-Bray) VANDERLOV (2nd
Dawana wins at Enghien.
GERARD FORNI
UET MASTERS SERIES
UET MASTERS SERIES POINTS
1 Bold Eagle (FRA) 2800; 2 Your Highness (ITA) 2750; 3
Oasis Bi (ITA) 2400; 4 Un Mec d’Heripre (FRA) 1900;
5= Timoko (FRA), Nuncio (USA) 1850; 7 Lionel (NOR)
1750; 8 Creatine (USA) 1600; 9 Orsia (ITA) 1550; 10
On Track Piraten (SWE) 1125; 11= Propulsion (USA) Moses Rob (ITA) 1100; 13 Votliguer de Myrt, Mosaique Face
(SWE) 1350; 15 Pascia’Lest (ITA) Delicious U.S. (USA)
1050.
Next race,
16 July. Arjang’s Stora Sprinterlopp, Sweden
GERARD FORNI
“I’ve had fantastic winners in
both Scarlet Knight and Nuncio, but this was one hell of
a show. I’ve always said he is
a great horse,” Melander told
a Swedish website last week.
Uncle Lasse was a leading
North American 3YO before
arriving at Stefan Melander
and Catarina Lundström last
winter. The win was his 12th
THE BEST MADRIK
GERARD FORNI
SWEDEN
Ex-pat American Jerry Riordan produced Treasure Kronos to win the Stosprintern at
Halmstead on the weekend.
The tough daughter of Lutfi
Kolgjini’s former age group
star Raja Mirchi, sat parked
the entire journey as Timo
Nurmos’ Faye Bros (Explosive
Matter) set a solid pace.
But Christopher Eriksson
on Treasure Kronos quickly had her measure in the
straight and went on to win
by 2 lengths in 1’11”1.
Stefan Melander’s Bacio
(Muscle Hill) rallied strongly for second and Faye Bros
hung on for third.
ITALY
Alessandro
Gocciadoro’s
Peace of Mind won the Gran
Premio Riccardo Grassi at
Cesena on the weekend.
Roberto Vecchione drove
the joint-favourite daughter
of Uronometro to beat Lornzo Baldi’s outsider Newyork
Newyork (Supergill) into second in a time of 1’11”9 for
the 1660m trip.
Rania Lest, a Love You half
sister to former Italian Derby
winner Pascia Lest was third.
GERMANY
Hot favorite Geronimo T won
the Buddonenbrock-Rennen
at Berlin’s Mariendorf track
on the weekend.
The Hans Joachin Tipke
trained son of Uranus was
driven by Thorsten Tietz to
edge out Dreambreaker in
1’14”5 for the 2100m. Stefan Schoonhoven’s Gigant
Greenwood (Mr Pine Chip)
was third.
NEW ZEALAND
Love You has been available
for 10 years in New Zealand
and from just 136 foals of
racing age he is the sire of
55 individual winners, 20 of
whom have won or placed at
Group level.
Six of his progeny have won
over 100,000 while Amore
Stride is a Group I winner
who has won $99,156.
Major winners also include
Monbet (8 Group 1 wins),
Habibti (5 Group 1 wins) and
the Group 2 winners Lotalov,
Kincaslough and Paramount
Queen
REPEAT LOVE
DIXIT DU BOURG (Winner
1250m Biarritz) BRINDILLE DE MAI (2nd 2700m
Graignes) CYBORG DE LA
BASLE (2nd 2600m Genets)
BRASILIA DU BOURG (3rd
2200m Gournay-En-Bray)
MILE RATE CONVERSION:
2.00 =1’14”6, 1.57=1’12”7,
1.54=1’10”8, 1.51= 1’09.