Observations on the European Racing Scene turns the spotlight on the best European races of the day, highlighting well-pedigreed horses early in their careers, horses of note returning to action and young runners that achieved notable results in the sales ring. Thursday's Insights features a son of Breeders' Cup heroine ZAgora (Fr) (Green Tune).
2.25 ParisLongchamp, Debutantes, €27,000, 2yo, f, 9fT
RIVER ROCK (IRE) (Fastnet Rock {Aus}) cost 450,000gns at the Tattersalls October Book 1 Sale and debuts in the silks of Sheikh Mohammed Obaid Al Maktoum representing the Henri-Francois Devin stable. Out of a half-sister to Zoffany (Ire) and other Ballydoyle notables Rostropovich (Ire) (Frankel {GB}) and Wilshire Boulevard (Ire) (Holy Roman Emperor {Ire}), the Croom House Stud-bred bay meets Al Shira'aa Farms' Turko Beach (Hard Spun), a Carlos Laffon-Parias-trained half-sister to Sergei Prokofiev (Scat Daddy).
3.00 ParisLongchamp, Debutantes, €27,000, 2yo, c/g, 9fT
ASHGABAT (GB) (Dubawi {Ire}) starts out in the Al Shaqab colours for Andre Fabre and is the latest progeny out of the GI Breeders' Cup Filly & Mare Turf and GI Diana S. heroine Zagora (Fr) (Green Tune). Among those he encounters is another product of a top-level winner in Royal Ghost (Ire) (Invincible Spirit {Ire}), a Freddy Head-trained son of Queen's Jewel (GB) (Pivotal {GB}) whose day in the sun came in the 2015 G1 Prix Saint-Alary.
6.30 Chelmsford, Novice, £7,499, 2yo, 7f (AWT)
LAW OF ONE (IRE) (Galileo {Ire}) is a significant newcomer for the Niarchos Family and Sir Michael Stoute as a half-brother to the G1 Prix Ganay winner and dual Arc-placed Cloth of Stars (Ire) (Sea the Stars {Ire}). The May-foaled chestnut is out of a half to Shiva (Jpn) (Hector Protector) and the G1 Epsom Oaks heroine Light Shift (Kingmambo), whose son Ulysses (Ire) also by Galileo was a high-achiever for these same connections.
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