July 30, 2024 - GALWAY, Race 1800, Msw, EUR €20,000, 7.0F
1st Dam: Lumiere Noire (Fr)
2st Dam: Lumiere Rouge (Fr)
2st Dam: Lumen Dei
Owner: Michael Tabor, Derrick Smith & Mrs John Magnier
Breeder: W Maxwell Ervine (IRE)
Trainer: Aidan O'Brien
The Galway Festival's seven-furlong fillies' maiden on the Tuesday card has proved a rich font of budding luminaries and Ballydoyle's Bubbling (Ire) (No Nay Never-Lumiere Noire {Fr}, by Dashing Blade {GB}) looked no exception as she became the stable's latest TDN Rising Star. Fourth behind the stable's subsequent G3 Silver Flash Stakes runner-up Exactly (Ire) (Frankel {GB}) on debut at Leopardstown earlier this month, the full-sister to the G1 2,000 Guineas runner-up Wichita (Ire) travelled with ease under Wayne Lordan stalking the early pace.
Sent forward to take control a furlong from home, the 320,000gns Tattersalls Book 1 graduate opened up to score by five lengths from the Paddy Twomey-trained newcomer Lady Mairen (Ire) (Dubawi {Ire}), with a neck further back to the Andrew Slattery-trained Abazaami (GB) (Mohaather {GB}) in third.
Lordan was impressed by the winner, who becomes No Nay Never's 10th TDN Rising Star, with the likes of the stable's Little Big Bear (Ire), Ten Sovereigns (Ire) and Aesop's Fables (Ire) the best so far. “She had a lovely run at Leopardstown, where she was a little bit raw early and stayed on very well in a good maiden and that experience stood to her,” he said. “She had a look around when she got to the front and is a nice filly. She hit the line well and these maidens always throw good horses.”
This is the race that Aidan O'Brien won with the dual 1,000 Guineas heroine Hermosa (Ire) (Galileo {Ire}) and which two years ago was won by another subsequent Classic heroine in Tahiyra (Ire) (Siyouni {Fr}). This year's G1 Irish Oaks third Purple Lily (Ire) (Calyx {GB}) also won it 12 months ago for the Twomey stable. Others to take it en route to big things are Legatissimo (Ire) (Danehill Dancer {Ire}), Sunspangled (Ire) (Caerleon)-Aidan O'Brien's first winner of it who went on to take the G1 Fillies' Mile-and Dance Design (Ire) (Sadler's Wells).
“She obviously had an eye-catching run the last day at Leopardstown and the form has worked out well,” stable representative Chris Armstrong added. “She made eye-catching progress in the last half-furlong then and really hit the line hard. She is a typical No Nay Never, has lots of natural pace, she really quickened right to the line and Wayne gave her a lovely ride. She really sprinted the last furlong and while she is still a bit babyish, that trip is perfect for her.”
“She is bang in the mix for the [G2] Debutante Stakes now and for all those good seven-furlong races. We had her brother Wichita, but we ended up never seeing his full potential so this is an exciting filly to have. When you look down through the roll of honour at Galway, it is a good track for educating horses, you need a proper one to win and Kyprios won here many years ago.”
The ill-fated Wichita was successful in the G2 Park Stakes and G3 Tattersalls Somerville Stakes and was also third in the G1 Dewhurst Stakes and G1 St James's Palace Stakes during his brief but fruitful career. The listed-winning dam, who also has a yearling filly by Starspangledbanner (Aus), is a half-sister to the GI Manhattan Handicap winner Desert Blanc (GB) (Desert Style {Ire}) from the family of the G2 Duke of
Cambridge Stakes runner-up Agincourt (Ire) (Declaration Of War).
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