By Sean Cronin
Frankel Light bettered a May 8 debut runner-up finish tackling one mile at Saint-Cloud when graduating over the same trip at Fontainebleau last time May 30, and duly obliged in this black-type bow. Recovering from a sluggish exit to enjoy a soft lead until turning for home, she was shaken up when threatened approaching the quarter-mile marker and kept on resolutely under continued urging thereafter to register a career high in game fashion.
Frankel Light is one of four winners and the leading performer produced by MGSP dual German stakes winner Mambo Light (Kingmambo), herself a daughter of G1 Prix Marcel Boussac second Piquetnol (Private Account), and she is a half-sister to Listed Grand Prix du Nord and Listed Prix Jacques Laffitte third Le Juge (Ire) (Dansili {GB}), the 2-year-old colt Fearless Warrior (Fr) (Sea the Stars {Ire}) and a yearling filly by Siyouni (Fr).
Thursday, La Teste de Buch, France
PRIX LA SORELLINA – TATTERSALLS-Listed, €55,000, La Teste de Buch, 6-21, 3yo, f, 8fT, 1:39.06, gd.
1–FRANKEL LIGHT (IRE), 128, f, 3, by Frankel (GB)">Frankel (GB)
1st Dam: Mambo Light (MSW & MGSP-Ger), by Kingmambo
2nd Dam: Piquetnol, by Private Account
3rd Dam: Aviance (Ire), by Northfields
1ST BLACK-TYPE WIN. (360,000gns RNA Ylg '16 TATOCT). O/B-Rashit Shaykhutdinov (IRE); T-Francis-Henri Graffard; J-Pierre-Charles Boudot; €27,500. Lifetime Record: 3-2-1-0, €45,000.
2–Moisson Precoce (GB), 128, f, 3, Lawman (Fr)–Arch of Colours (GB), by Monsun (Ger). (40,000gns Ylg '16 TAOCT). O-Isabelle Corbani, Ecurie Pandora Racing, Ahmed Mouknass & Serge Boucheron. €11,000.
3–Spirit of Nelson (Ire), 128, f, 3, Mount Nelson (GB)–Spirit of Pearl (Ire), by Invincible Spirit (Ire). O-Jean-Claude Seroul. €8,750.
Margins: 1 1/4, SHD, 3/4. Odds: 2.90, 3.50, 5.50.
Also Ran: Sonjeu (Fr), Ghazawaat (Fr), Manaha (Fr), Lawanda (Ire), Rapunzel (Fr), True Amiitie (Fr), Cazaline (Fr). Click for the Racing Post result. Video, sponsored by Fasig-Tipton.
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