By Tom Frary
In the aftermath of the Prix du Jockey Club, the Pantall family were enjoying their own red-letter day as their homebred Naomis (City Light) captured the G2 Prix de Sandringham.
Coming off a win in Toulouse's Listed Prix Aymeri de Mauleon over this mile trip in April, the 20-1 shot travelled strongly under Tony Piccone tracking the leaders.
Swooping on the front end a furlong out, the relative of Kirsten Rausing's stars Alborada and Alpinista hit the line with 3/4 of a length to spare over Vaticana (Goken). There was another 1 3/4 lengths back to Royal Chapel (Kingman) in third.
Henri Pantall revealed that Naomis was having her last run in the family silks. “It's nice to win with a filly that I bred with my wife, Yvette–she is a late foal who has developed a lot in recent weeks. She has been sold and will now leave for the United States, where she should do well,” he stated.
Smart performance!
Naomis shows a nice change of gear to strike in the Group Two Prix de Sandringham at Chantilly… 🇫🇷 pic.twitter.com/CyLo5wx9Ef
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Pedigree Notes
Naomis, who becomes the fifth Stakes winner for her Haras d'Etreham-based sire, is out of the unraced James Wigan-bred Biting (Lope De Vega) who was purchased for just €14,000 by Pantall at the 2022
Arqana December Sale. Her Listed-placed dam Nibbling (Invincible Spirit) is out of a full-sister to the Derby runner-up Dragon Dancer (Sadler's Wells), while the fourth dam Alakananda (Hernando) is kin to Alzao's Group 1-winning duo Alborada and Albanova which links the winner to the Arc heroine Alpinista (Frankel).
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