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placed once and is a Mr. Prospector three-parts sister sister to the Japanese sprinter and sire Meiner Love (Seeking The Gold) winner of the Listed Sprinters Stakes, the Centaur Stakes and the Silk Road Stakes. She is also a half-sister to Miracle Worker, the winning dam of the Listed Whirlaway
and Changing Times Stakes winner Peppi Knows.
The third dam Heart Of Joy is a daughter of Lypheor and won the Grade 2 Palomar Handicap and Group 2 Nell Gwyn Stakes and was placed in the 1,000 Guineas, the Irish 1,000 Guineas, the Coronation Stakes and the Grade 1 Ramona Handicap.
She is a half-sister to the Riviera Stakes winner Ataentsic, who is the dam of Grade 2 San Fernando Breeders’ Cup Stakes winner and sire Unbridled Energy.
Advertise was rated 119 and is the best by Showcasing, and indeed, was rated higher than his sire. He is also the second winner of the Group 1 Commonwealth Cup sired by Showcasing after Quiet Reflection.
Showcasing has risen through the stallion ranks from humble origins and the crosses that have produced many of his winners reflect this, but he does show affinity with the
Nureyev line beyond Pivotal.
Soldier’s Call is out of a mare by Iceman,
Listed winner De Bruyne Horse has Soviet Star as his dam-sire and the 94-rated Showing Character is out of a daughter
of King Charlemagne – so inbreeding to Nureyev may be an option.
Showcasing has also done well with mares by Cadeaux Genereux and his son Bahamian Bounty with multiple Group 2-winning sprinter and Shadwell Stud young sire Tasleet out of a Cadeaux Genereux mare,
the Listed and Group 3 second Life Of Riley has Bahamian Bounty as his dam-sire as do Group 3-placed Shalailah and Show Stealer, who was rated 95 at three.
The Ahonoora sire line has also done
well with Showcasing with the full-brothers Mohaather and Prize Exhibit out of an Inchinor mare, while Compton Place is the broodmare sire of the exciting Listed-winning Lady Of France, amongst a number of good winners bred on the cross.
Royal Applause is the broodmare sire of Group 2 winner and Group-1 placed Capella Sansevero and daughters of Acclamation, a son of Royal Applause out of an Ahonoora mare, would appear to suit Advertise well.
Ten Sovereigns
No Nay Never – Seeking Solace (Exceed And Excel) Coolmore
€25,000
A grandson of the much-missed Scat Daddy, Ten Sovereigns is the sixth Group 1-winning juvenile in his direct sire-line, and is the best horse so far from the first two enormously exciting crops of No Nay Never.
He was rated 120 after an unbeaten juvenile campaign that only took in three races, and the buzz Ten Sovereigns created after his debut 7l success in a 25-runner Curragh maiden was unmissable.
He came good on the promise of that run with a facile victory in the Group 3 Round Tower Stakes and he passed his first serious exam with flying colours in the Group 1 Middle Park Stakes. Then the highly-regarded Jash attempted to rattle him but to no
avail, and the first two came almost 4l clear of a field that included Group 2 winners Emaraaty Ana and Marie’s Diamond, the Group 3 winners Rumble Inthejungle and Sergei Prokofiev and the subsequent Group 2 Boomerang Stakes and Group 3 Jersey Stakes winner Space Traveller.
Despite having a 1m2f winner as his dam there was doubt about Ten Sovereigns’s ability to last the mile of the Guineas due of his scintillating speed, but he was still sent off favourite for the 2,000 Guineas.
Racing prominently on the far side he got his head in front of that 16-strong group near the finish, but eventually finished two heads behind Skardu and Madhmoon in third on the far side, and fifth overall to stands’ side runner Magna Grecia.
He did not sparkle when dropped back to 6f for the Group 1 Commonwealth Cup, but still managed fourth place behind Advertise.
However, at Newmarket for the
Group 1 July Cup, the rocket of old returned and he firmly upended the Ascot form with Advertise.
He was a strong winner with his adversary in second almost 3l behind him. The Group 1 winners Fairyland, Pretty Pollyana, Brando, Dream Of Dreams and Limato were all behind Ten Sovereigns in the July Cup.
The 5f trip of the Nunthorpe Stakes didn’t appear to play to his strengths and he was then quarantined for an ambitious tilt at the Everest in Australia from where he returned to stud duties alongside his sire.
He is one of three winners so far out of the French Listed second and Group 3-placed mare Seeking Solace (Exceed And Excel).
She is a half-sister to the Group 2 Al Fahidi Fort second Flash Fire (Shamardal), and
Advertise going to post for the Group 2 July Stakes: he is the best son of Showcasing so far
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