Observations: Sept. 8, 2016

Sea The Stars | Racing Post

12.40 Chantilly, Debutantes, €27,000, 2yo, f, 8fT

LISTEN IN (IRE) (Sea the Stars {Ire}) debuts for George Strawbridge and Freddy Head and is a half-sister to the 2013 G1 Hong Kong Vase hero Dominant (Ire) (Cacique {Ire}) and the 2014 G2 Lennox S. winner Es Que Love (Ire) (Clodovil {Ire}), who cost 310,000gns at the Tattersalls November Foal Sale two years ago. She meets Prince Faisal's Moon Mountain (GB) (Frankel (GB)">Frankel {GB}), an Andre Fabre-trained half to four black-type performers.

4.50 Doncaster, Mdn, £15,000, 2yo, 8fT

WOLF COUNTRY (GB) (Dubawi {Ire}) made a splash at Tattersalls October when selling for 725,000gns and debuts in a hot race for Godolphin's Charlie Appleby stable. Out of the GSW Goathemala (Ger) (Black Sam Bellamy {Ire}) from the family of Fame and Glory (GB) (Montjeu {Ire}), he faces some experienced rivals headed by Ibrahim Araci's Hydroxide (GB) (Lope de Vega {Ire}), a Hugo Palmer-trained colt who shaped with much promise on debut when second over seven furlongs at Newmarket last month.

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