3.18 Nottingham, Mdn, 2yo, f, 5f 8yT
SENORITA BONITA (IRE) (Starspangledbanner {Aus}) topped the Tattersalls Craven Breeze Up Sale at 900,000gns and debuts for Victorious Forever and Simon and Ed Crisford in the maiden won in the last three years by Zelaina, Leovanni and Beautiful Diamond. Jaber Abdullah's Queen Of Christmas (Ire) (Mehmas {Ire}) also makes her debut, with the Karl Burke-trained €305,000 Arqana Deauville October purchase a half-sister to the Listed-winning dam of last year's Prix du Moulin de Longchamp hero Sahlan (Wootton Bassett).
5.40 Curragh, Mdn, 2yo, 7fT
GIANT SEQUOIA (Frankel {GB}) is one of two newcomers from Ballydoyle and the pick of Ryan Moore, with the son of the Oaks runner-up Pink Dogwood (Camelot) racing for a partnership between Resolute Racing, Coolmore and Westerberg. He is joined by Aix La Chapelle (Justify), a full-brother to the G2 Airlie Stud Stakes winner Statuette and half to last year's Poule d'Essai des Poulains hero Henri Matisse (Wootton Bassett) and the dual Group 1 winner Tenebrism (Caravaggio) out of the Coronation Stakes and Prix Jacques le Marois heroine Immortal Verse (Pivotal).
5.10 Curragh, Mdn, 2yo, 6fT
CAPTAIN JAMES COOK (GB) (Blackbeard {Ire}) seems like one of Ballydoyle's big-name horses and received favourable mention at the stable's Press Day in March, so it will pay to keep tabs on him for now. A half-brother to last year's Flying Five Stakes hero Arizona Blaze (Sergei Prokofiev), the 500,000gns Tattersalls October Book 1 purchase meets 13 rivals in this intriguing affair.
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