Redoute's Choice's Enbihaar Toughs It Out in Park Hill Stakes

Mark Smith - Friday September 13

Powerfully built Redoute's Choice mare Enbihaar took her seasonal tally to four wins from five starts when grinding out a short-head success over the three-year-old Galileo filly Delphinia in Thursday's Group II Park Hill Stakes (1m6½f) at Doncaster.

Ridden by Jim Crowley for trainer John Gosden, Enbihaar conceded the runner-up 13lb and needed to call on all her courage to add a third consecutive Group II following victories in the Lancashire Oaks at Haydock and the Lillie Langtry Stakes at Goodwood. (image Sporting Life)

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"She was always doing enough when in front and it was a good performance again giving away lumps of weight," Crowley told Sporting Life. "She's actually slipped on the bend turning in and it took a while to get her confidence back.

"She's a big unit and it's probably taken to the back end of this season for her to strengthen and fill her frame. She's got a massive stride on her, she doesn't do a lot quickly but she really lengthens."

The daughter of Redoute's Choice will try for a Group 1 next, in either the Qipco British Champions Fillies & Mares Stakes or the Qatar Prix de Royallieu at Longchamp over Arc weekend.

Richard Hills, assistant racing manager to owner Sheikh Hamdan, said: "We've got Ascot as an option and then we've got Longchamp and we'll discuss [it] once everyone returns (from the Keeneland Sales). It's great that we kept her in training and she has really repaid us. She's a lovely filly with a beautiful action who has done nothing but improve it."

Bred by Haras Du Mezeray, Enbihaar was a €500,000 purchase at the 2016 Arqana August Yearling Sale.

A half-sister to the stakes-placed Silent Attack (Dream Ahead) and King Bolete (Cape Cross), Enbihaar is out of Chanterelle (Trempolino) a sister to multiple Group III winner Cox Orange (the dam of Group 1 One Thousand Guineas third Vista Bella) and a half-sister to Group 1 Prix Marcel Boussac winner Amonita (Anabaa).

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