Observations on the European Racing Scene

8.30 Gowran Park, Mdn, €14,000, 3yo/up, f/m, 9f 100yT
HIBISCUS (IRE) (Galileo {Ire}) makes her belated debut in the Susan Magnier silks for Ballydoyle, having cost 625,000gns at Tattersalls. Her dam is Jacqueline Quest (Ire) (Rock of Gibraltar {Ire}), who achieved fame when being disqualified by the stewards and robbed of glory in the 2010 G1 1000 Guineas before finishing third in the G1 Coronation S.