By Sean Cronin
Le Brivido (Fr) (Siyouni {Fr}), who opened his career with victories at Chantilly in November and April, was narrowly denied by subsequent G1 Prix du Jockey Club hero Brametot (Ire) (Rajsaman {Fr}) in Deauville's G1 Poule d'Essai des Poulains last month and rebounded in style to claim Wednesday's G3 Jersey S. at Royal Ascot. Well away to shadow the pace in the centre of the track, the 2-1 favourite was shaken up to find open runway approaching the final quarter mile and kept on relentlessly under continued urging in the closing stages to inhale 66-1 outsider Spirit of Valor (War Front) in the dying strides for a neck success. Mubtasim (Ire) (Arcano {Ire}) closed strongly underneath the stands' side rail and finished 2 1/4 lengths adrift in third. “He was a little bit excited at the gate, but he's a very nice horse and we had a good race,” explained rider Pierre-Charles Boudot. “He showed a good turn of foot when I asked him.” Trainer Andre Fabre, registering a ninth Royal winner, added, “He looked beat with a furlong to go, but he showed his class and courage to come back and win. He raced a little freely, but his action was good and he did it well. He is a relatively inexperienced horse and coming to [Royal] Ascot was a new experience for him. I had no doubt he was a good horse and what I liked is that he showed he will get a mile. We will probably run him in the [Aug. 13 G1 ] Prix Jacques Le Marois [at Deauville].”
Wednesday, Royal Ascot, Britain
JERSEY S.-G3, £90,000, ASC, 6-21, 3yo, 7fT, 1:25.05, g/f.
1–#@LE BRIVIDO (FR), 127, c, 3, by Siyouni (Fr)
1st Dam: La Bugatty (Ire), by Dr Fong
2nd Dam: La Balagna (GB), by Kris (GB)
3rd Dam: Belle Tempete, by Lovely Dancer (Ire)
(€42,000 Ylg '15 AR15; €105,000 2yo '16 ARQMAY). O-HRH Prince Faisal bin Khaled; B-Jean Bugada & Brigitte Bugada (FR); T-Andre Fabre; J-Pierre-Charles Boudot. £51,039. Lifetime Record: G1SP-Fr, 4-3-1-0, $246,939. Werk Nick Rating: D+. Click for the eNicks report & 5-cross pedigree.[bullet ad=”frbc-chantilly”]
2–Spirit of Valor, 127, c, 3, War Front–Stone Hope, by Grindstone. ($850,000 Wlg '14 KEENOV). O-Derrick Smith, Susan Magnier, Michael Tabor & Stonestreet Stables; B-Nursery Place (KY); T-Aidan O'Brien. £19,350.[bullet ad=”irt-shell”][bullet ad=”us-bred-ky-bred-keen-grad”]
3–Mubtasim (Ire), 127, c, 3, Arcano (Ire)–Start the Music (Ire), by King's Best. (€22,000 Wlg '14 GOFNOV; 38,000gns Ylg '15 TAOCT). O-Sheikh Rashid Dalmook Al Maktoum; B-Mrs Natasha Drennan (IRE); T-William Haggas. £9,684.
Margins: NK, 2 1/4, HD. Odds: 2.00, 66.00, 20.00.
Also Ran: Parfait (Ire), Dream Castle (GB), Daban (Ire), Chessman (Ire), True Valour (Ire), Bacchus (GB), Beat the Bank (GB), Winning Ways (Ire), Sir Dancealot (Ire), Escobar (Ire), Taamol (Ire), Whitecliffsofdover, Solomon's Bay (Ire), Sutter County (GB), Barrington (Ire), Top Score (GB), Glastonbury Song (Ire). Click for the Racing Post result or the free Equineline.com catalogue-style pedigree. Video, sponsored by Fasig-Tipton.
Reflecting on the performance of runner-up Spirit of Valor, Aidan O'Brien commented, “We always thought he was a nice horse, but would be much better on fast ground and that has helped today. On fast ground he might even get a mile.” Son and rider Donnacha O'Brien added, “He ran very well, but I just got left on my own in front a little too long and the winner came late and got me.”
Bruce Raymond, on behalf of third-placed Mubtasim's owner Sheikh Rashid Dalmook Al Maktoum, said, “Pat [Cosgrave] was very pleased and thinks the trip suited him better than six furlongs, but he wants the ground very fast. Any movement in the ground and the horse just isn't happy.” Raymond, also representing sixth-placed Daban's owner Abdullah Saeed Al Naboodah, continued, “Daban was following the winner for a long way and that effort probably meant she didn't quite finish. She might have been better coming from a little way off the pace. I'm not sure if that's an excuse, but she's a filly taking on some very good colts.”
Le Brivido, half-brother to the hitherto unraced 2-year-old filly La Blizzia (GB) (Le Havre {Ire}), is out of a half-sister to Dansant (GB) (Dansili {GB}), who registered a sextet of stakes victories, and his third dam is MGSP Listed Prix Phil Drake victress Belle Tempete (Fr) (Lovely Dancer {Ire}), herself the dam of five-time stakes placegetter Folle Tempete (Fr) (Fabulous Dancer) and Listed Prix Panacee runner-up Tempete d'Honneur (Fr) (Highest Honor {Fr}).
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