Sunday, Leopardstown, Ireland
LEOPARDSTOWN 1000 GUINEAS TRIAL S.-G3, €60,000, LEO, 4-10, 3yo, f, 7fT, 1:34.79, hy.
1–#@JET SETTING (IRE), 126, f, 3, by Fast Company (Ire)
1st Dam: Mean Lae (Ire), by Johannesburg
2nd Dam: Plume Rouge (GB), by Pivotal (GB)
3rd Dam: Classic Fan, by Lear Fan
(€7,000 Wlg '13 GOFNOV; 12,000gns 2yo '15 TA15). O-Equinegrowthpartners Syndicate; B-P Kelly (IRE); T-Adrian Keatley; J-Shane Foley. €35,400. Lifetime Record: SP-Fr, 7-2-2-1, $60,356. Werk Nick Rating: B. Click for the eNicks report & 5-cross pedigree.
2–Now Or Never (Ire), 126, f, 3, Bushranger (Ire)–Queenofthefairies (GB), by Pivotal (GB). (10,000gns RNA Ylg '14 TAOCT; £42,000 2yo '15 DONBRE). O-Now Or Never Partnership; B-Tally Ho Stud (IRE); T-Michael O'Callaghan. €12,000.
3–Alice Springs (Ire), 126, f, 3, Galileo (Ire)–Aleagueoftheirown (Ire), by Danehill Dancer (Ire). (550,000gns Ylg '14 TATOCT). O-Susan Magnier, Michael Tabor & Derrick Smith; B-Lynch-Bages & Longfield Stud (IRE); T-Aidan O'Brien. €6,000.
Margins: 3, 2 3/4, 3. Odds: 5.50, 7.00, 1.25.
Also Ran: Radiantly (GB), Red Stars (Ire), Miss Elizabeth (Ire), Ceol An Ghra (Ire), Queen of Sicily, Juliette Fair (Ire). Scratched: How High the Moon (Ire).
After three winless starts at Leicester, Brighton and Newmarket last spring, Jet Setting waved goodbye to the Richard Hannon stable following an eighth placing in a Doncaster nursery over 6 1/2 furlongs in September. For just 12,000 guineas at Tattersalls the following month, her current owners bought themselves a lot of horse and Adrian Keatley showed enterprise by sending her to Chantilly for the Listed Prix Herod in November and she rewarded that with a third placing after meeting trouble in running. Returning to break her maiden over an extended mile in comprehensive fashion at Cork Mar. 26, the diminutive bay used that race fitness as a sword to cut down these rivals from bigger yards and register a breakthrough win. Sent straight to the lead by Shane Foley with Now Or Never sticking close by, she turned the screw in early straight with nothing making inroads and the favourite Alice Springs too far adrift to make a difference. Game and genuine to the line, Jet Setting hit the line strong to book a potential ticket to a European Guineas, albeit not the headline ones this race is designed for. “That was her day in the sun,” Keatley said. “Hopefully she can progress. The ground would want to be soft if we were thinking about the Guineas this side of the water, but we'll have a very strong look at the German Guineas [G2 Mehl-Mulhens-Rennen at Cologne May 16]. It's bound to be soft there, it usually is. Shane said the ground felt like good ground on her today. She was a good purchase and it's job done even if she never wins again.” Click for the Racing Post result or the free Equineline.com catalogue-style pedigree. Video, sponsored by Fasig-Tipton.
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