By Tom Frary
Yeomanstown Stud's first-season sire Supremacy had two engaged in Thursday's Listed National Stakes and it was the outsider of the pair Anthelia who stepped up to provide his first black-type win. Sent off at 25-1 for Sandown's Royal Ascot pointer despite being two-for-two after educations at Bath and Salisbury, Middleham Park Racing's £6,000 Goffs UK Premier graduate raced behind the early pace before creeping up the rail inside the last furlong. In front 100 yards out, the Rod Millman-trained filly stayed on under Lewis Edmunds to beat the colt First Legion by a length.
“She wasn't given much of a chance in the betting, but she couldn't have done any more coming into today and had given me a hell of a feel at Bath,” Edmunds said. “She was green at Salisbury and still green today. They didn't go as quick as we thought they would, it was just a sensible gallop and although she came off it quite early she was strong at the finish.”
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Millman added, “We paid £6,000 for her and she's probably worth a bit more now. The main thing today was to get some black-type and, as it's turned out, she's better than we thought she was. She will still be learning the game–when she won at Bath she came from the pack and then it was only a four-runner race last time, so this will be the first time she has been roughed up in a race. It's very exciting for the future really and we haven't had one finish at the top of our gallops like her for a long time.”
Anthelia is currently the last known foal out of the Listed Rose Bowl Stakes-placed All On Red, a daughter of Red Clubs who is a half-sister to Sir Prancelot's Del Mar Juvenile Fillies Turf Stakes-placed Applecross.
STAR SPORTS NATIONAL STAKES-Listed, £40,000, Sandown, 5-29, 2yo, 5f 10yT, 1:03.18, gd.
1–ANTHELIA (IRE), 123, f, 2, by Supremacy (Ire)
1st Dam: All On Red (Ire) (SP-Eng), by Red Clubs (Ire)
2nd Dam: Champion Tipster (GB), by Pursuit Of Love (GB)
3rd Dam: Halloa (GB), by Wolfhound
1ST BLACK TYPE WIN. (£6,000 Ylg '24 GOFFUK). O-Middleham Park Racing LXIV Mrs L Millman; B-Yeomanstown Stud; T-Rod Millman; J-Lewis Edmunds. £22,684. Lifetime Record: 3-3-0-0, $48,266.
2–First Legion (Ire), 128, c, 2, Mehmas (Ire)–Navette (Ire), by Invincible Spirit (Ire). 1ST BLACK TYPE. (€50,000 Wlg '23 GOFNOF; 500,000gns 2yo '25 TATBRE). O-Yuesheng Zhang; B-Littlejohn Bloodstock Ltd; T-Richard Hannon. £8,600.
3–Eskimo Pie (Ire), 123, f, 2, Kodi Bear (Ire)–Sussex Garden (Ire), by Acclamation (GB). 1ST BLACK TYPE. (75,000gns Ylg '24 TADEY). O-Jane Chapple-Hyam & Gordon Li; B-Rathbarry Stud; T-Jane Chapple-Hyam. £4,304.
Margins: 1, 1 1/4, 1. Odds: 25.00, 2.25, 10.00.
Also Ran: Clear Force (Ire), Kamakameleon (GB), Sayidah Hard Spun (GB), Alkuwarrior (Ire).
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