2.45 Sandown, Mdn, £6,000, 2yo, 7fT
EMARAATY (GB) (Dubawi {Ire}) was a 2.6million gns TATOCT yearling purchase by Shadwell and understandably is with John Gosden who trained his Group 1 half-sisters Izzi Top (GB) (Pivotal {GB}) and Jazzi Top (GB) (Danehill Dancer {Ire}). Out of the 2003 G1 Prix de l'Opera heroine Zee Zee Top (GB) (Zafonic), the April-foaled bay faces 15 rivals including Sheikh Mohammed Obaid Al Maktoum's similarly-unraced Sam Gold (Ire) (Iffraaj {GB}), a Roger Varian-trained half-brother to this year's G3 Fred Darling S. winner Dabyah (Ire) (Sepoy {Aus}) who was also third in last year's G1 Prix Marcel Boussac and fourth in the G1 1000 Guineas behind Winter (Ire) (Galileo {Ire}).
3.20 Sandown, Mdn, £6,000, 2yo, 7fT
HH Sheikha Al Jalila Racing's GRAFFITI MASTER (GB) (Dubawi {Ire}) is a son of 2001 G2 Sun Chariot S. victress Independence (GB) (Selkirk) and thus kin to MG1SW sire Mount Nelson (GB) (Rock of Gibraltar {Ire}) and 2009 G2 Great Voltigeur S. hero and G1 St Leger third Monitor Closely (Ire) (Oasis Dream {GB}). Rivals to the John Gosden-trained newcomer include Khalid Abdullah's once-raced Breath Caught (GB) (Bated Breath {GB}), who is a half-brother to MG1SW sire Twice Over (GB) (Observatory), from the Ralph Beckett stables.
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