Pulpit, Meet Unbridled

In a weekend replete with upsets, two longshots introduced themselves as viable stallion prospects by scoring their first Group 1 or Grade I wins. Sheikh Hamdan’s Mukhadram (Shamardal), now a 5-year-old, who had been placed twice behind Al Kazeem (Dubawi) in top Group 1 10-furlong races last year (the Prince of Wales’s and the Eclipse), then second to African Story (Pivotal) in this year’s G1 Dubai World Cup, in its last year on Tapeta, finally got his first Group 1 win in Saturday’s Eclipse S., in which the first three at the start were the first three at
the finish. Then, in the inaugural GI Belmont Derby for 3-year-olds at 10 furlongs on the grass, the Phipps’s Mr Speaker, who is bred on the same cross as Tapit–by Pulpit out of an Unbridled mare (who happens to be a daughter of the great Personal Ensign), established his stallion credentials when red-hot jock Jose Lezcano cut the corner and came through on the inside rail to deny the Coolmore representative and favored Adelaide (Galileo).

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