Brighton Owner Tony Bloom Nets Another Winner With Santorini Star At Doncaster

Kia Joorabchian’s big-money buys for his Amo Racing cognition person grabbed nan headlines astatine nan yearling income successful caller seasons, but different investor pinch a shot inheritance has besides been building a important beingness connected nan turf and for nan infinitesimal astatine least, nan blue-and-white silks of nan Brighton chairman, Tony Bloom, are giving their opponents nan runaround.

Santorini Star, a four-year-old filly making nan measurement up from handicaps to Group Two institution successful nan Park Hill Stakes, was a 4th victor successful nan abstraction of conscionable six days for Bloom and his partner, Ian McAleavy, connected Thursday.

It is simply a aureate tally of shape that has already banked much than £150k successful prize money and nan mode of Santorini Star’s triumph present was besides hugely encouraging pinch early targets successful mind. William Haggas’s front-running filly showed awesome grit to regain nan inaugural aft a little infinitesimal 2 retired erstwhile she faced challengers connected either side. Half a furlong later, though, she was backmost successful front, and she stayed connected powerfully to nan statement to hit Consent by a neck.

“She comes disconnected nan bridle rather early, but you ne'er really consciousness successful trouble,” Tom Marquand, nan winner’s jockey, said, “and I ever consciousness for illustration nan first flick you springiness her will springiness you a bully denotation of what she’s going to do. I gave her that first flick coming and I thought nan Prescott filly [Consent] would person to beryllium bully to hit her.

“It was a large measurement up from a handicap triumph astatine York, but she’s really uncovering her mojo and her legs now. She’s gone up a large notch to triumph a Group Two and location are plentifulness of options for her complete a mile and six (furlongs) aliases 2 miles aliases moreover further if you wanted to.”

An contiguous target for Santorini Star remains undecided, but she could beryllium a equine to travel successful Cup races adjacent twelvemonth according to Sean Graham, Bloom and McAleavy’s racing manager.

“She won complete 2 miles past clip and it was a interest coming backmost to a mile and six and a half,” Graham said. “I don’t cognize what plans William has for her this year, but you’d for illustration to deliberation she could move into a Cup filly adjacent year. Tom said she kept finding, put her caput down and didn’t extremity and that’s what you need.”

Bloom and McAleavy will now dream to widen their winning tally to Sunday’s Group One Moyglare Stud Stakes astatine nan Curragh, wherever their unbeaten two-year-old filly, Venetian Sun, will group disconnected adjacent nan caput of nan market.

Karl Burke, Venetian Sun’s trainer, will besides caput into nan play successful winning shape arsenic he took nan May Hill Stakes, nan main supporting title connected nan card, pinch Aylin, who is part-owned by Joorabchian successful business pinch Al Shaqab Racing.

“She was very good and very fresh today,” Burke said. “I don’t cognize if you’ll amended overmuch connected fittingness pinch her, and it’s conscionable a mobility of whether she tin clasp her shape for different period and we tin tally her successful 1 of nan Group Ones.”

Soumillon to onslaught pinch Mission Central

Christophe Soumillon has drawn a blank from six rides since being drafted successful to switch nan injured Ryan Moore arsenic Aidan O’Brien’s impermanent No 1 rider, but Mission Central should get him disconnected nan people successful his stand-in domiciled erstwhile he lines up for nan Flying Childers Stakes astatine Doncaster connected Friday, nan characteristic title connected time 2 of nan St Leger Festival.

The Flying Childers is 1 of conscionable 2 Group Two events for juveniles successful Britain that O’Brien has yet to win, though it is intelligibly not a title that figures prominently successful his race-planning arsenic he has saddled conscionable 4 runners this period and nary since 2017.

O’Brien is double-handed this clip around, however, pinch Kansas, nan victor of 1 of his six starts to date, besides successful nan field, but Mission Central has much scope for betterment aft conscionable 3 outings and put up a useful effort to triumph a Group Three astatine nan Curragh past clip out.

Lady Iman, nan Molecomb victor astatine Glorious Goodwood successful July, is nan top-rated runner connected Timeform ratings but she needs to bounce backmost from a lacklustre capacity successful nan Nunthorpe Stakes astatine York 3 weeks ago, and moreover a repetition of her Goodwood shape mightiness not beryllium capable if Mission Central (2.25) tin proceed his race-by-race improvement.

Doncaster 1.15 Nothing went correct for Shadow Dance successful nan Ebor astatine York past clip out, arsenic Roger Varian’s gelding stumbled connected nan location move and past made an unsustainable move into contention earlier inevitably fading successful nan last quarter-mile. He remains lightly-raced for a five-year-old and vanished a adjacent 3rd successful this title 12 months agone disconnected a 1lb higher mark.

Doncaster 1.50 Karl Burke’s Hankelow was a pricey yearling astatine 750k gns (£787k) and posted a debut effort to lucifer successful a novice arena astatine York successful June. He whitethorn person been waiting for amended crushed since and this Listed title is simply a logical adjacent step.

Doncaster 3.00 Last year’s winner, Sweet William, has a fewer quirks but remains impressively accordant each nan aforesaid and has an evident chance of a repetition success.

Salisbury 3.25 Awaken’s one-and-a-half magnitude 2nd successful a beardown renewal of nan Albany Stakes astatine Royal Ascot successful June is nan stand-out shape present and George Boughey’s filly should backmost up her consequent short-odds occurrence astatine Leicester.

Doncaster 3.40 An opening people of 93 could good underestimate Roger Varian’s Little Dorrit, who was amended than nan bare consequence erstwhile finishing wrong 3 lengths of nan victor astatine Listed level past time.