By Tom Frary
Based on her initial showing on a racecourse when the seven-length winner of a Haydock maiden in September 2015, the 3-year-old campaign of Priceless at first proved a touch disappointing until she hit her stride from midsummer onwards. Rounding off with a first black-type success in the Listed Scarbrough S. over this trip at Doncaster in September, the bay returned with a resounding follow-up on the kind of rattling fast ground that Bath can supply without any watering facility. Breaking fast from her wide draw, she was allowed to coast to the lead after the first furlong and after kicking on the home turn sealed the result there and then.
It was in this race in the millennium year that Cassandra Go (Ire) (Indian Ridge {Ire}) won at the beginning of her 4-year-old campaign and Priceless was in a class of her own here to suggest she can take high rank among the sprinters of either sex this term. Her dam's first foal was Bright Moll (GB) (Mind Games {GB}), who later produced the G3 Chipchase S. winner Aeolus (GB) (Araafa {Ire}) and listed-placed Hezmah (GB) (Oasis Dream {GB}), while two years later she threw Doctor Brown who was second in the G2 Mill Reef S. as a British-trained juvenile before his reinvention in Hong Kong as Helene Brilliant where he was placed in stakes company. Also from the family of the G1 Tattersalls Gold Cup heroine Rebelline (Ire) (Robellino), she still has a 2-year-old colt by Lethal Force (Ire) named Hard Graft (GB) to come.
WHITSBURY MANOR STUD & EBF STALLIONS LANSDOWN S.-Listed, £40,000, BAT, 4-21, 3yo/up, f/m, 5f 11yT, :59.67, fm.
1–PRICELESS (GB), 131, f, 4, Exceed and Excel (Aus)–Molly Brown (GB), by Rudimentary. (70,000gns Ylg '14 TAOCT). O-Mr A. D. Spence; B-Biddestone Stud (GB); T-Clive Cox; J-Adam Kirby. £22,684. Lifetime Record: GSP-Eng, 10-3-2-1, $118,202. *1/2 to Doctor Brown (GB) (Dr Fong), GSP-Eng & SP-HK, $639,039.
2–Futoon (Ire), 128, f, 4, Kodiac (GB)–Vermilliann (Ire), by Mujadil. (12,000gns Wlg '13 TATFOA; €40,000 Ylg '14 GOFSPT; 3,000gns 2yo '15 TATMAR). O-Futoon Partners. £8,600.
3–Imtiyaaz (Ire), 128, m, 5, Starspangledbanner (Aus)–Endure (Ire), by Green Desert. (62,000gns Ylg '13 TAOCT). O-Mr M. Alqatami & Mr K. M. Al-Mudhaf. £4,304.
Margins: 5, 1HF, HF. Odds: 1.60, 20.00, 6.00. Click for the Racing Post result. Video, sponsored by Fasig-Tipton.
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