4th-HAY, £5,000, Mdn, 5-26, 3yo/up, 8fT, 1:42.12, gd.
+LUSORY (GB) (c, 3, Shamardal–Playful Act {Ire} {Hwt. 2-year-old Filly-Eng, G1SW-Eng & G1SP-Ire, $482,582}, by Sadler's Wells), found cover after the initial strides and raced in rear for most of this belated debut. Making smooth headway into contention in the long straight, the 11-4 co-favourite loomed large on the outside approaching the final quarter mile and kept on well under mild rousting to comfortably assert by 1 1/4 lengths from Perigee (GB) (Cacique {Ire}). Bred in the purple, Lusory is the last known foal out of champion juvenile filly Playful Act (Ire) (Sadler's Wells), winner of the G1 Fillies' Mile and G2 May Hill S., and runner-up in the G1 Irish Oaks. Playful Act has three stakes winners to her credit headed by the GII New York S. heroine Giants Play (Giant's Causeway), GSW-US & SP-Eng, $159,449, and GIII Orchid S. victrix Anjaz (Street Cry), GSW-US, $195,378. The next dam is G3 Musidora S.-winning Magnificient Style (Silver Hawk), the dam of eight black-type winners of which two Group winners, Percussionist (Ire) and Changing Skies (Ire), are own siblings to Playful Act while the G1 King George VI & Queen Elizabeth S. and G1 Eclipse S. scorer Nathaniel (Ire) and the G1 Irish Oaks heroine Great Heavens (GB) are by Sadler's Wells's leading son Galileo (Ire). This is the Delta (Nasrullah {GB}) branch of the legendary Bourtai (Stimulus) dam line. Lifetime Record: 1-1-0-0, $4,753.
O-Godolphin; B-Darley (GB); T-Charlie Appleby.
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