5th-NAA, €15,500, Mdn, 8-1, 2yo, 7fT, 1:25.30, gd.
WHITECLIFFSOFDOVER (c, 2, War Front">War Front–Orate, by A.P. Indy), who was fourth on debut behind stablemate and subsequent G2 July S. runner-up Intelligence Cross (War Front) over six furlongs at The Curragh June 25, was sent off the even-money favourite and soon led. Clear and out of danger with a furlong to run, the $1.15million KEESEP yearling was kept up to his work to register a commanding three-length verdict over Qatar Racing's Lightening Fast (GB) (Frankel {GB}), the son of the 2011 G1 Cheveley Park S. heroine Lightening Pearl (Ire) (Marju {Ire}). The winner is a half-brother to the 2014 GI Beldame S. third Endless Chatter (First Samurai), SW & G1SP-US, $221,652. Their dam, the GI Frizette S. heroine Preach (Mr. Prospector), bred the luminary Pulpit while the third dam is Narrate (Honest Pleasure), winner of the GIII Falls City H. and a half to the sire Announce. This is also the family of the former Ballydoyle celebrity Minardi, winner of the G1 Middle Park S. and G1 Phoenix S. at two who was later third in the G1 Irish 2000 Guineas, and his equally high-profile half-brother and fellow sire Tale of the Cat. Lifetime Record: 2-1-0-0, $11,377. Video, sponsored by Fasig-Tipton.
O-Michael Tabor & Derrick Smith & Mrs John Magnier; B-Claiborne Farm (KY); T-Aidan O'Brien.[bullet ad=”us-bred-ky-bred-keen-grad”]
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