Siyouni Filly Wins French Oaks

Tara Madgwick - Monday June 18
Announced last week as being available for Southern Hemisphere time coverings by Aga Khan Studs, Siyouni was making news at the weekend when his top class filly Laurens won the Group I Prix de Diane at Chantilly.

SiyouniWinner of the Group I Newmarket Fillies Mile last season at two and then second in the Group I English Thousand Guineas before winning the Group I Longchamp Prix Saint-Alary, Laurens had a class edge over the field and it showed at the finish.

The Karl Burke trained filly was prominent throughout and kicked hard to the line to win by a neck over Dawn Approach filly Musis Amica, taking her overall record to five wins and two seconds from seven starts.

"She's not an Enable that was going to destroy her field by five or six lengths, but she has great ability, a great stride, great cruising speed and she just grinds it out and does what she has to do," said Karl Burke.

The Group I Arc de Triomphe is firmly under consideration, but Burke and owner John Dance will look at a couple of targets closer to home first.

"I would say sitting here there's no reason why we won't be lining up in the Arc, but there's at least one race in between now and then that she should be going for," said Burke.

"We'll get her home and hopefully she recovers as quick as she did in the Saint-Alary. She's in the Irish Oaks, which is in four weeks' time, so she'll have a week longer than the Saint-Alary to here.

"Then John and I would like to take her to the Yorkshire Oaks, which is our home race."

Bought for 220,000 pounds from the Goffs Doncaster Premier Yearling Sale, Laurens is the best of three winners from staying bred Cape Cross mare Recambe, a half-sister to Hong Kong Derby winner Helene Mascot.

"It's fantastic! When we bought Laurens, this was the race we talked about, literally the day we bought her, so to actually come here and win it, it's incredible. She's French-bred and she obviously loves France and coming back home. She's a superstar. She's achieved so much already, it seemed a bit greedy to think she could win again today, but she's proved she's top-class and it's a dream come true," said her owner John Dance.

Laurens is one of 23 stakes-winners for Pivotal stallion Siyouni, the sire of Australian Group II winning 2YO Aylmerton.

Advertisment
More Reading...
New Stakes-Winner for Star Aussie Mare Sea Siren
Aussie bred Fastnet Rock mare Sea Siren has certainly made her mark both on the racetrack where she was a triple Group I winner and at stud with her produce record is headed by triple Group I winner Warm Heart and over the weekend she produced another stakes-winner and he won the richest race in Poland.
Evaporate Caps Off Great Week for Per Incanto
Evaporate crowned a stellar period for his sire across the Tasman when he produced a gallant performance to land the thick end of the stake in Saturday’s Gr.3 Sandown Stakes (1500m).
Juvenile Trial Watch – Rosehill
The big guns were in action at the Rosehill trials on Monday morning including Winx and Redzel, but there was still plenty of interest in the two year-old trials with seven heats including one taken out by a son of the 2017 Champion 2YO Sire in France, Siyouni.
Record-Breaking Weetwood Win To Dundeel’s Tavs
Having not raced since fourth in the Listed BRC Spear Chief Handicap (1500m) during the Brisbane Winter Carnival, the Mark Currie trained Tavs (Dundeel) resumed from a spell to record his first black type victory, winning the Listed Weetwood (1200m) at Toowoomba on Saturday in track record time.
Juvenile Trial Watch - Hawkesbury
Last season there was a single two-year-old by gun French sire Siyouni in Australia, the stakeswinning Aylmerton, so it was interesting when the lone Siyouni two year-old this season won a barrier trial at Hawkesbury on Friday.
Bred to Win a Caulfield Guineas?
It’s been a good weekend for Yarraman Park's champion sire I Am Invincible with a G1 winner and a colt soon to roll the dice in a G1 of his own.
Siyouni Available for Southern Hemisphere Time Covers
The Aga Khan Studs SIYOUNI, who has created a sensation in the European bloodstock ranks and made his mark in Australia this season as the sire of leading juvenile colt Aylmerton, is to be offered to Southern Hemisphere breeders at the Haras de Bonneval.
Golden Rose Brings Second Season Shake Up
We are two months into a new racing season and the second season sires table was given a good shake up over the weekend with the $1million Group I Golden Rose and $300,000 Group II Stutt Stakes both producing a quinella for sires in this cohort.
Favourite Whisky On The Hill (GB) Wins Listed R.M. Ansett Classic
With just a small field of seven runners jumping away in the Listed MRC R.M. Ansett Classic (2415m) at Mornington on Sunday, it was the Glen Thompson trained Whiskey On The Hill (GB) (Ribchester) who took the prize, securing his first black type victory.
‘Petrol in the Tank’ – Why Buying Mares from Godolphin is a Good Idea
From the point of view of the bloodstock world, Beiwacht was the most significant winner from last weekend with his Group I Golden Rose victory propelling his sire Bivouac to the top of the second season sires list, but it wasn’t just Godolphin cheering him home with a number of other Aussie breeders now invested in his family.