By Tom Frary
John Quinn seems perennially capable of producing a sprinter to make a mark in Pattern company and in partnership with son Sean he pulled off the feat again on Friday with Jm Jungle (Bungle Inthejungle) in Goodwood's feature G2 King George Qatar Stakes.
A proven lover of downhill tracks, Epsom's Dash Handicap winner was in his element far side under Jason Hart and asserted from the furlong pole to hold the fillies She's Quality (Acclamation) and Time For Sandals (Sands Of Mali) by a neck and half a length respectively.
“He is so good on these tracks, but then he's just a good horse. He's probably not as good going up a hill, but we don't have to worry about that too much,” Quinn Jr said of the 14-1 shot, who adds to the yard's tally here having supplied Liberty Beach to win the 2019 Molecomb and Highfield Princess to capture this two years ago. “He came up against American Affair earlier in the year and it is just very good sprint form.”
Offering a glimpse of what was to come when taking a course-and-distance handicap on soft ground at this Festival two years ago, Jm Jungle had continued to tread the boards in the big Saturday and Festival handicaps ever since. Encountering the King's Stand hero American Affair on three occasions since September, he had come off worse each time without losing any caste in defeat and reproduced that level of form to enter Epsom's hallowed winner's spot on Derby day. Third last time in the Listed City Walls Stakes at York, like Qirat and Witness Stand earlier at this meeting he was there ready to take advantage should the big guns fail to fire.
“Jason [Hart] said after York last time that he'd love to ride him in the Nunthorpe, where they go lickety-split as that would suit him really well,” Sean Quinn added. “He is a Group Two winner now and we don't have far to go, 20-odd miles, so that is something to look forward to.”
Jack Davison said of the consistent bridesmaid She's Quality, “She is a super filly and that is four seconds this year now at a high level, but I think it will all come good in the Nunthorpe. The rain probably didn't help, but I am very proud of her. She is the best sprinter in Ireland.”
Harry Eustace said of the Commonwealth Cup winner Time For Sandals, “She has run enormous. Today more than anything was to see how competitive she could be under those conditions, with a penalty and back at five furlongs on a sharp track. She certainly looked at home but over five you need everything to go right and she just couldn't get herself into the gap when she needed to. My gut feeling watching that was that she should go to six furlongs for the Haydock Sprint Cup.”
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Pedigree Notes
The dual Listed-placed dam The Shrew (Dansili) is a daughter of the Listed Chesham Stakes winner Whazzat (Daylami) whose second career has been a resounding success highlighted by the foaling of Exceed And Excel's G2 Mill Reef Stakes-winning sire James Garfield. Also responsible for the recent G3 Bahrain Trophy third Hallelujah U (Pinatubo) and for the dam of last year's G2 Royal Lodge Stakes winner Wimbledon Hawkeye (Kameko) who was touched off here in Thursday's G3 Gordon Stakes, she hails from the stellar Rafha dynasty which features Invincible Spirit.
In the week that the family's two-year-old colt Oxagon (Frankel) stormed to TDN Rising Star status at Sandown, The Shrew who is also connected to that sire's dual Group 3 winner and G1 Grand Prix de Paris third Sir Delius and More Than Ready's four-times Grade One-winning Breeders' Cup Mile heroine Uni has added another string to the bow. Her two-year-old gelding Wonderful Friend, a full-brother to Jm Jungle, was a £36,000 purchase by Kevin Ross Bloodstock at the Goffs UK Premier Yearling Sale while she also has a yearling filly by Coulsty.
Friday, Goodwood, Britain
KING GEORGE QATAR STAKES-G2, £317,000, Goodwood, 8-1, 3yo/up, 5fT, :57.57, g/s.
1–JM JUNGLE (IRE), 130, g, 5, by Bungle Inthejungle (GB)
1st Dam: The Shrew (GB) (MSP-Eng), by Dansili (GB)
2nd Dam: Whazzat (GB), by Daylami (Ire)
3rd Dam: Wosaita (GB), by Generous (Ire)
1ST BLACK-TYPE WIN; 1ST GROUP WIN. (£46,000 Ylg '21 GOFFUK). O-MPS Racing Ltd & The Ayrshire Tradesmen; B-Lodge Park Stud; T-John & Sean Quinn; J-Jason Hart. £179,771. Lifetime Record: 37-6-6-8, $607,119. Werk Nick Rating: D. Click for the eNicks report & 5-cross pedigree, or the free Equineline.com catalogue-style pedigree.
2–She's Quality (Ire), 127, f, 4, Acclamation (GB)–Quality Time (Ire), by Exceed And Excel (Aus). (€195,000 Ylg '22 GOFOR). O-Aristia Park Bloodstock & Partners; B-Rathbarry Stud; T-Jack Davison. £68,155.
3–Time For Sandals (Ire), 129, f, 3, Sands of Mali (Fr)–Days Of Summer (Ire), by Bachelor Duke. (€35,000 Ylg '23 TATIRY). O-D Bevan & Mrs D Bevan; B-Ballyhane; T-Harry Eustace. £34,109.
Margins: NK, HF, 1. Odds: 14.00, 9.00, 3.33.
Also Ran: Frost At Dawn, Big Mojo (Ire), Night Raider (Ire), Asfoora (Aus), Kerdos (Ire), Spartan Arrow (Ire), Khaadem (Ire), Town And Country (Ire). DNF: Clarendon House (GB). Scratched: Manaccan (GB), Celandine (GB).
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