Observations On Today’s European Racing Scene

2.00 Newmarket, Mdn, £7,000, 2yo, c/g, 8fT

LINGUISTIC (IRE) (Lope de Vega {Ire}) bids to build on a promising debut second over this trip at Doncaster earlier in the month for Godolphin and John Gosden. The 650,000gns TAOCT graduate meets a compelling newcomer in Ibrahim Araci’s Mengli Khan (Ire) (Lope de Vega {Ire}), a Hugo Palmer-trained half-brother to the ill-fated 2013 G1 Fillies’ Mile and GI Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Fillies Turf winner Chriselliam (Ire) (Iffraaj {GB}).

4.05 Cork, Mdn, €17,000, 2yo, 8fT

GREAT TRANGO (IRE) (Canford Cliffs {Ire}), starts out for Derrick Smith and Aidan O’Brien and is a son of the 1998 G1 Irish 1000 Guineas heroine Tarascon (Ire) (Tirol {Ire}). Also debuting is Khalid Abdullah’s Footbridge (GB) (Zamindar), a Dermot Weld-trained son of the 2003 GI Gamely Breeders’ Cup H. and GI Yellow Ribbon S. winner Tates Creek (Rahy).

5.50 Cork, Mdn, €11,000, 3yo/up, f/m, 12fT

TRUTH (IRE) (Galileo {Ire}) understandably cost €1 million at Arqana August, being a close relative to last year’s G1 Irish Oaks winner Chicquita (Ire) (Montjeu {Ire}) from an excellent family which includes the likes of Alexandrova (Ire) (Sadler’s Wells). Aidan O’Brien saddles the bay, who races for the combination of Al Shaqab Racing, Susan Magnier, Michael Tabor and Derrick Smith and who meets 14 rivals on his belated debut.