By Sean Cronin
Marc Chan's homebred G2 Golden Fleece Stakes winner Green Impact (Wootton Bassett), who defeated G1 Derby favourite Delacroix twice last year, went postward for Thursday evening's Listed Irish Stallion Farms EBF Glencairn Stakes at Leopardstown returning off a G1 2000 Guineas sixth and bounced back in style to claim a second black-type success in the nine-furlong contest.
The 11-8 favourite asserted for an early advantage and set an even tempo through halfway. Holding sway throughout, he was driven to subdue TDN Rising Star Azada (Siyouni) approaching the final furlong and found extra to withstand the late challenge of Currawood (Acclamation) by a half-length in game fashion. Azada finished three lengths adrift in third.
“Nobody wanted to go on and Shane [Foley] said he was squeezing him along all the way,” said trainer Jessica Harrington, who won this in 2022 with dual Group winner Cadillac (Lope De Vega). “He only dosses in front and when the other horse came to him it looked like he was going to go past him, but he keeps lengthening. All being well, he'll now go straight to the [G1] Irish Derby. Shane can't wait to see him run over a mile-and-a-half. I know he's by Wootton Bassett, but he's out of a Galileo mare, so you'd hope that he will stay. It's good ground out there with no yielding in it. That's ideal for him, but I think he can go on any ground.”
Green Impact is the first of two foals and lone performer out of a half-sister to multiple Group-placed G2 Flying Five second Alphabet (Lawman) and the stakes-winning duo Mirage (Oasis Dream) and Amnesia (Invincible Spirit). Amnesia, in turn, is the dam of multiple stakes winner St Anthony (Noble Mission). The January-foaled bay's second dam Applauded (Royal Applause) is a half-sister to dual Group 1-winning sire Power (Oasis Dream), GI E P Taylor Stakes heroine Curvy (Galileo) and G2 Ribblesdale Stakes victrix Thakafaat (Unfuwain). Green Impact, whose fourth dam is Group 3-winning matriarch Glatisant (Rainbow Quest), is kin to a yearling colt by Siyouni.
✅ Green Impact back in business @LeopardstownRC @Jessica_Racing pic.twitter.com/2pa5rfHoSa
— Racing TV (@RacingTV) June 5, 2025
Thursday, Leopardstown, Ireland
IRISH STALLION FARMS EBF GLENCAIRN STAKES-Listed, €45,000, Leopardstown, 6-5, 3yo/up, 9fT, 1:54.21, gd.
1–GREEN IMPACT (IRE), 129, c, 3, Wootton Bassett (GB)–Emerald Green (GB), by Galileo (Ire). O-Marcstown Farms SC; B-Marc Chan; T-Jessica Harrington; J-Shane Foley. €27,000. Lifetime Record: GSW-Ire, 5-3-1-0, $151,601.
2–Currawood (Ire), 124, c, 3, Acclamation (GB)–Mohassan (Ire), by Sea The Stars (Ire). (€240,000 Ylg '23 GOFOR). O-Glyn Davies; B-Rathbarry Stud; T-Paddy Twomey. €9,000.
3–Azada (Ire), 133, f, 4, Siyouni (Fr)–Azmiyna (Ire), by Galileo (Ire). TDN Rising Star. O/B-Aga Khan Studs; T-Dermot Weld. €4,500.
Margins: HF, 3, SHD. Odds: 1.38, 2.00, 12.00.
Also Ran: Layfayette (Ire), Cristal Clere (Ire), Bravais (GB), Eastwatch (Ire). Scratched: Norwalk Havoc (GB).
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