Talk Of The Bay

Denied a tilt at Golden Horn (GB) (Cape Cross {Ire}) in Sandown’s G1 Eclipse S., Khalid Abdullah’s New Bay (GB) (Dubawi {Ire}) re-emerges in Saturday’s G2 Prix Guillaume d’Ornano at Deauville. Runner-up in the G1 Poule d’Essai des Poulains at Longchamp May 10 prior to taking Chantilly’s G1 Prix du Jockey Club over 10 1/2 furlongs three weeks later, the homebred was kept at home instead of clashing with the Epsom Derby hero in Esher after working below-par. On a line through the Jockey Club third War Dispatch (War Front), who he had back in second in the G2 Prix Eugene Adam over this trip at Maisons-Laffitte July 19, His Highness The Aga Khan’s Dariyan (Fr) (Shamardal) does not have a great deal to find to trouble the favorite and fits the profile of one of his owner-breeder’s multifarious improvers. To add more spice, New Bay’s trainer Andre Fabre also saddles Haras de Saint Pair’s Ampere (Fr) (Galileo {Ire}), and he is a prime mover based on his latest second to the Niarchos Family’s unbeaten Erupt (Ire) (Dubawi {Ire}) in Longchamp’s G1 Grand Prix de Paris over a mile and a half July 14.