By Tom Frary
Beauvatier (Lope De Vega) may have come into Friday's G2 Thoroughbred Industry Employee Awards Challenge Stakes at Newmarket on the back of a minor slump, but he proved much the best of the line-up to restore confidence. Delivered by Alexis Pouchin to overwhelm Poet Master (Lope De Vega) inside the final furlong, the 7-1 shot registered a 2 1/4-length success as the 2-1 favourite Cosmic Year (Kingman) disappointed in third.
“He was very relaxed today, perfect, as he can be difficult sometimes and can pull,” Pouchin said of the Yann Barberot-trained winner, a dual Group 3 scorer with four top-level placings.
Alex Solis, racing manager to part owners LNJ Foxwoods SC, said, “It was amazing, as it has been a tough year for him this year. We finally found out today that he wants a bit more cover and a little more distance and he was very impressive.”
“In the Group 1s this year he never got cover and was a little rank, so today he just grabbed him out of the gate. Yann wanted him covered up, and he was right so he deserves all the credit. We were lucky to buy a piece of him and Nicolas des Chambure was right on the money.”
“Truthfully I don't know what we will do with him and we were thinking he could be a nice stallion prospect, but maybe there might be more to running him internationally. We're very fortunate to have that problem.”
One for France! 🇫🇷
Beauvatier pulls clear in the Thoroughbred Industry Employee Awards Challenge Stakes for Alexis Pouchin and Yann Barberot 🥇@NewmarketRace pic.twitter.com/95m4p219F6
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Pedigree Notes
Beauvatier is the first of three currently known foals out of the Listed-placed Enchanting Skies (Sea The Stars), with the second being the G3 Prix Miesque runner-up Lhakpa (Siyouni) and the third the unraced two-year-old colt Operator (Night Of Thunder) who was a €850,000 purchase by Blandford Bloodstock at last year's Arqana Deauville August. A half to the Preis von Europa hero Empoli (Halling), she hails from the high-class multiple Group winner Elle Danzig (Roi Danzig).
Friday, Newmarket, Britain
THOROUGHBRED INDUSTRY EMPLOYEE AWARDS CHALLENGE STAKES-G2, £125,000, Newmarket, 10-10, 3yo/up, 7fT, 1:22.52, gd.
1–BEAUVATIER (FR), 131, c, 4, by Lope De Vega (Ire)
1st Dam: Enchanting Skies (Ire) (SP-Fr), by Sea The Stars (Ire)
2nd Dam: Estefania (Ger), by Acatenango (Ger)
3rd Dam: Eirehill (Ire), by Danehill
TDN Rising Star. (€160,000 Ylg '22 ARAUG). O-Philippe Allaire & Haras d'Etreham; B-Ecurie des Monceaux, Qatar Bloodstock Ltd & Mme Barbara Keller; T-Yann Barberot; J-Alexis Pouchin. £70,888. Lifetime Record: MGSW & MG1SP-Fr, 17-6-1-5, $511,781. Lhakpa (Ire) (Siyouni {Fr}), GSWP-Fr & SP-UAE. Werk Nick Rating: A+++ *Triple Plus*. Click for the eNicks report & 5-cross pedigree, or the free Equineline.com catalogue-style pedigree.
2–Poet Master (Ire), 131, g, 5, Lope De Vega (Ire)–Madeline (Ire), by Kodiac (GB). O/B-Sheikh Mohammed Obaid Al Maktoum; T-Karl Burke. £26,875.
3–Cosmic Year (GB), 129, c, 3, Kingman (GB)–Passage Of Time (GB), by Dansili (GB). TDN Rising Star. O-Juddmonte; B-Juddmonte Farms Ltd; T-Harry Charlton. £13,450.
Margins: 2 1/4, 2 3/4, 2 3/4. Odds: 7.00, 2.50, 2.00.
Also Ran: Scoville (GB), Audience (GB).
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