12.55 Maisons-Laffitte, Debutantes, €27,000, 2yo, c/g, 8fT
MANKIB (GB) (Tamayuz {GB}) races in the colours of Sheikh Hamdan bin Rashid Al Maktoum for Freddy Head's stable and is the latest progeny out of the 2007 G1 Cheveley Park S. and 2008 G1 1000 Guineas heroine Natagora (Fr) (Divine Light {Jpn}). In opposition is His Highness The Aga Khan's Valamaz (Fr) (Azamour {Ire}), an Alain de Royer-Dupre-trained son of the dual group winner Vadapolina (Fr) (Trempolino) and a half-brother to the 2014 G1 Poule d'Essai des Pouliches runner-up Veda (Fr) (Dansili {GB}).
2.05 Maisons-Laffitte, Debutantes, €27,000, 2yo, f, 8fT
GOLD LUCK (FR) (Redoute's Choice {Aus}) is the latest progeny out of the stellar matriarch Born Gold (Blushing Groom {Fr}) who gave the world Goldikova (Ire) (Anabaa) and fellow Group 1 performers Galikova (Fr) (Galileo {Ire}) and Anodin (Ire) (Anabaa). The Wertheimers's homebred is saddled by Freddy Head and meets Palombe (Ire) (Nathaniel {Ire}), Baron Edouard de Rothschild's granddaughter of Grey Lilas (Ire) (Danehill) who represents that 2004 G1 Prix du Moulin de Longchamp heroine's trainer Andre Fabre.
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