By Sean Cronin
Poet's Word, who won a handicap at this meeting last year, closed his sophomore term with a Sept. 8 handicap second at Doncaster and opened this campaign with another handicap score at Chelmsford Apr. 13. Lining up here off a runner-up finish in Chester's May 11 Huxley S., he provided trainer Sir Michael Stoute with a fifth renewal by recording a first black-type score in game fashion. The bay stalked the pace in fourth initially before taking a share of third at halfway. Taking closer order in the straight to launch his bid approaching the quarter-mile marker, he seized control with 1 1/2 furlongs remaining and was driven out inside the final eighth to assert for a career high. “He's got a great attitude and handled that ground well,” explained winning rider Ryan Moore. “He jumped out smoothly, but it was one of those races where everything didn't go exactly as I had planned. He does everything right and, hopefully, will keep progressing. I think he could be Group 1 class, he's lightly raced and can only get better. He'll make up into a proper horse in the long term.”
Poet's Word becomes the second black-type winner produced by Listed Harvest S. third Whirly Bird (GB) (Nashwan) and he is a half-brother to G3 Prestige S. and G3 Thoroughbred S. victress Malabar (GB) (Raven's Pass). He is also kin to a yearling filly by Kingman (GB), the hitherto unraced 3-year-old colt Yuno Tesoro (Ire) (Rip Van Winkle {Ire}) and to the winning dam of G2 Railway S. victor Beckford (GB) (Bated Breath {GB}). His third dam is G2 Child S. victress and G1 Coronation S. runner-up Inchmurrin (Ire) (Lomond), whose many black-type descendants include MGSW sire Inchinor (GB) (Ahonoora {GB}), last term's G1 St Leger hero Harbour Law (GB) (Lawman {Fr}) and GI E.P. Taylor S. heroine Miss Keller (Ire) (Montjeu {Ire}).
Friday, Goodwood, Britain
BETFRED GLORIOUS S.-G3, £100,000, GOO, 8-4, 4yo/up, 11f 218yT, 2:42.60, sf.
1–POET'S WORD (IRE), 127, c, 4, by Poet's Voice (GB)
1st Dam: Whirly Bird (GB) (SP-Eng), by Nashwan
2nd Dam: Inchyre (GB), by Shirley Heights (GB)
3rd Dam: Inchmurrin (Ire), by Lomond
*1st stakes win. (300,000gns Ylg '14 TAOCT). O-Saeed Suhail; B-Woodcote Stud Ltd. (IRE); T-Sir Michael Stoute; J-Ryan Moore. £56,710. Lifetime Record: 9-4-2-1, $163,645. *1/2 to Malabar (GB) (Raven's Pass), MGSW-Eng, $213,277. Werk Nick Rating: B. Click for the eNicks report & 5-cross pedigree.
2–Second Step (Ire), 127, g, 6, Dalakhani (Ire)–My Dark Rosaleen (GB), by Sadler's Wells. O/B-Merry Fox Stud Ltd (IRE); T-Roger Charlton. £21,500.
3–Scarlet Dragon (GB), 127, g, 4, Sir Percy (GB)–Welsh Angel (GB), by Dubai Destination. (38,000gns Wlg '13 TATFOA; 32,000gns Ylg '14 TAOCT). O-HP Racing Scarlet Dragon; B-Usk Valley Stud (GB); T-Eve Johnson Houghton. £10,760.
Margins: 1HF, NK, 5. Odds: 1.75, 3.30, 4.50.
Also Ran: Snoano (GB), Lord Yeats (GB), Majeed (GB). Scratched: Crimean Tatar (Tur), Frontiersman (GB). Click for the Racing Post result or the free Equineline.com catalogue-style pedigree. Video, sponsored by Fasig-Tipton.
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