Group I Racing at Deauville

Tara Madgwick - Sunday August 23

Group I racing continued at Deauville in France overnight with a two year-old quinella for Kodiac in the Group I Prix Morny (6f), while new Coolmore acquisition Wootton Bassett sired Audarya to win the Group I Prix Jean Romanet (1m 2f).

Kodiac had two Group winners at Royal Ascot this year with Campanelle winning the Group II Queen Mary Stakes (5f) and Nando Parrado winning the Group II Coventry Stakes (6f).

They both reappeared her for the first time since then and fought out the finish with the Stonestreet Stables owned filly Campanelle getting the better of the colt to win by two lengths.



Trained by Wesley Ward and ridden by Frankie Dettori, Campanelle was ridden forward and proved too strong keeping her record perfect with three wins in as many starts.

“Campanelle is a big filly but with a lot of speed as well and we saw that right from the start when we started training her down in Florida,” sad Wesley Ward.

“What really impressed me was that she went to Ascot off a very short rest before she won the Queen Mary. Usually my horses get a chance to acclimatise to the cooler weather over there and have good spacing between their races. Everything came close together for her and she still won. Now that she's had the time I really started to see her blossom at home. We had good spacing from Ascot to the Morny and she's grown, as well as really thriving on the travel.”


Purchased for 190,000 guineas from the Tattersalls October Book One Yearling Sale, Campanelle is the best of four winners from stakes-winner Janina.
 



She is the fifth Group I winner for Kodiac, whose Group I sprinting son Hello Youmzain, will stand at Cambridge Stud in New Zealand next year.

Campanelle is also the 18th Group I winner worldwide to carry a double cross of Danehill.



Taking out the other Group I race on the program was the James Fanshawe trained four year-old mare Audarya, who was a longshot in the field, but was always in contention and scored a neck win.

It was her first Black type success taking her overall record to four wins from 11 starts.
 



"She's a filly I‘ve always loved but we were going nowhere earlier this year," said Fanshawe.

"She was unlucky at Kempton and then I don’t know what happened at Pontefract."

Fanshawe had won this race twice previously so knew what was required.

"It's a race we've always loved as it's the last time the older horses can run without the three-year-olds and we've won it twice before. But I must admit I've been walking my box the last two days wondering if I'd made a mistake."

Bought for 125,000 euros from the Arqana Deauville October Yearling Sale, Audarya is the best of two winners from Green Tune mare Green Bananas, who comes from the family of globe-trotting Champion Miler and Group I winner Jim and Tonic.



Audarya is the second Group I winner for Wootton Bassett and is one of 44 registered four-year-olds by the sire conceived at a €4,000 fee in 2015, a fee which climbed to €40,000 for the latest breeding season.

Wootton Bassett was recently purchased by Coolmore, so will be moving to Ireland to continue his stud career, while his champion son Almanzor is back in New Zealand for another shuttle season at Cambridge Stud.


 

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