Another handicap winner, this time racing in the colours of the late Sheikh Hamdan himself, that could shine at a higher level with more experience is the William Haggas-trained Al Zaraqaan, a progressive sort who won the Rosebery Handicap at Kempton, pulling three lengths clear despite an awkward head carriage. The four-year-old is a three parts brother to Irish 2,000 Guineas winner Awtaad and is by Golden Horn.
In France, last season’s G1 Prix Marcel Boussac winner Tiger Tanaka was beaten into second in the Listed Prix La Camargo (an early prep race for the French Guineas) by Sweet Lady (Lope De Vega), whose juvenile campaign had seen her pitched into G1 company against colts in the Criterium de Saint-Cloud, where she managed sixth place.
The Listed Prix Omnium II for the colts was won by Galik, who beat the well-regarded Easter into second. In this race last year (run before lockdown), The Summit filled the runner-up position, going on to win a Group Three and finish second twice in the Classics.
Galik is by Galiway who, like Golden Horn and Shalaa, is one of the Black Type Digest’s “Young sires to consider in 2021” – see the full analysis in the Sire Lists Special, which was emailed at the end of January. Galiway now has five stakes winners to his name, three from his first crop and two from his second, headed by G1 Prix Jean-Luc Lagadere winner Sealiway.
Shalaa had his first European stakes winner when King Shalaa won the Listed Prix de la Californie at Cagnes-sur-Mer in February, having also been the sire of a Group Three winner in Australia over the winter.
Aidan O’Brien introduced a smart two year old at Naas on Sunday in the shape of the beautifully-named Tenebrism (Caravaggio) – the name references the expanses of shadow in Caravaggio’s paintings, being derived from the Holy Week Tenebrae services, when darkness descends as candles are extinguished psalm by psalm. Tenebrism was the first runner for his freshman sire, and looks likely to head to Royal Ascot after this impressive three and three quarter lengths debut success. He is out of Immortal Verse, the winner of the Coronation Stakes and Prix Jacques le Marois (where she beat Goldikova) for Robert Collet in 2011.
This is the first of the weekly editions of the Black Type Digest in 2021, with results and winner’s pedigrees for stakes races in Britain, Ireland, France, Germany and Italy.
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