By Tom Frary
Having won the Oaks and Irish Oaks, Minnie Hauk (Frankel) completed the heralded treble on Thursday in the G1 Yorkshire Oaks with the minimum of fuss. Held up behind as Wayne Lordan set the tempo on the Ribblesdale winner Garden Of Eden (Saxon Warrior), the 8-15 favourite moved up to take control two out and draw away from her main rival Estrange (Night Of Thunder) for a resounding 3 1/2-length success.
“She's very straightforward and professional and does everything very smooth,” Ryan Moore said of the winner, who also won the Listed Cheshire Oaks in May and was rounding off a rare set of races with that title. “She put the race to bed when I asked her and the last furlong was easy. She does what you ask her to do and with the higher tempo and nice track and ground today she was able to show more, but she's always been very good.”
Aidan O'Brien, who was registering a record-equalling ninth Yorkshire Oaks success, has the Arc in mind for the winner who he believes was compromised by the way the race panned out. “Wayne set lovely fractions [on Garden Of Eden], but Ryan couldn't follow as close as he would have liked as the other filly [Qilin Queen] got between them and we feel there is probably more to come still when the pace is strong and even,” he explained. “She doesn't kill herself getting there, but she's always finishing.”
“She's made like a miler, not like a typical middle-distance filly but gets this trip well and is a very good mover so we always thought that fast ground would suit her,” the master of Ballydoyle added of the winner, who now has a guaranteed berth in the $2 million Maker's Mark Breeders' Cup Filly & Mare Turf. “She has to be close to the top of our pecking order for the Arc and we know ease in the ground doesn't matter. When these fillies are improving at this time of year you never know what will happen. Ryan just said the Breeders' Cup Turf, so she's obviously given him an unbelievable feel.”
Michael Tabor added, “I think she won very comfortably, she's obviously very good and looking forward maybe she will run in the Arc or the Breeders' Cup. Hopefully we can keep her in training as a four-year-old and enjoy her. Yesterday was not a disaster, but it was tough. It's tough when you lose which is why you have to appreciate when you win because it is not easy.”
Estrange's rider Danny Tudhope said, “It went as we thought, she travelled lovely and settled well and I thought I had half a chance when I loomed to Ryan, but Minnie Hauk just went away from me quite easily and probably outstayed me. This ground was fine for her, maybe she could come back in trip again.”
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Pedigree Notes
Minnie Hauk, who was the €1.85 million 2023 Goffs Orby Book 1 topper, is out of Multilingual (Dansili)
who is a daughter of the Poule d'Essai des Pouliches heroine Zenda (Zamindar) and therefore a half to the brilliant Kingman. Also a full-sister to as well as the G3 Tercentenary Stakes winner Remote and Frankel's G3 Cumberland Lodge Stakes-placed First Eleven, she also boasts the G2 Summer Mile and G3 Thoroughbred Stakes winner and Prix d'Ispahan runner-up Tilsit (First Defence).
Bought by the Sangsters for $525,000 at the 2019 Keeneland November Sale, Multilingual is also a half to the dams of Group-placed Macduff (Sea The Stars), Ricetta (Camelot), Fajjaj (Dawn Approach) and Repartee by Kingman's sire Invincible Spirit. Also connected to Oasis Dream and Beat Hollow et al, Multilingual's two-year-old filly Voice Coach is by No Nay Never while she was bred to Justify last year and this.
Thursday, York, Britain
PERTEMPS NETWORK YORKSHIRE OAKS-G1, £600,000, York, 8-21, 3yo/up, f/m, 11f 188yT, 2:26.67, g/f.
1–MINNIE HAUK (IRE), 126, f, 3, by Frankel (GB)
1st Dam: Multilingual (GB), by Dansili (GB)
2nd Dam: Zenda (GB), by Zamindar
3rd Dam: Hope (Ire), by Dancing Brave
(€1,850,000 Ylg '23 GOFOR). O-Derrick Smith, Mrs John Magnier & Michael Tabor; B-B V Sangster; T-Aidan O'Brien; J-Ryan Moore. £340,260. Lifetime Record: G1SW-Ire, 6-5-1-0, $1,336,457. *1/2 to Tilsit (First Defence), MGSW-Eng & G1SP-Fr, $234,843. Werk Nick Rating: A+++ *Triple Plus*. Click for the eNicks report & 5-cross pedigree, or the free Equineline.com catalogue-style pedigree.
2–Estrange (Ire), 135, f, 4, Night Of Thunder (Ire)–Alienate (GB), by Oasis Dream (GB). 1ST GROUP 1 BLACK TYPE. (425,000gns Ylg '22 TATOCT). O-Cheveley Park Stud; B-A Stroud, T Stewart & J Hanly; T-David O'Meara. £129,000.
3–Garden Of Eden (Ire), 126, f, 3, Saxon Warrior (Jpn)–Komedy (Ire), by Kodiac (GB). 1ST GROUP 1 BLACK TYPE. (€160,000 Wlg '22 GOFNO1; €200,000 Ylg '23 GOFOR). O-Mrs John Magnier, Michael Tabor & Derrick Smith; B-Mark Hanly & Stephanie Hanly; T-Aidan O'Brien. £64,560.
Margins: 3HF, 3HF, 18. Odds: 0.53, 2.50, 16.00.
Also Ran: Qilin Queen (Ire).
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