By Tom Frary
Providing connections with the big money when taking Doncaster's Weatherbys Scientific £300,000 2-Y-O Stakes last month, Calendar Girl (Advertise) added vital black-type in Friday's G3 Godolphin Lifetime Care Oh So Sharp Stakes at Newmarket. Delivered from mid-division to take over inside the last two furlongs, the 6-5 favourite battled for Callum Rodriguez to ward off Mubasimah (Frankel) by a neck.
“I thought she was a bit too short to be truthful, but she hung on in there well,” trainer Owen Burrows said of the Kennet Valley Syndicate flagbearer. “She was always doing enough when she felt the other horse there and Callum said she has not had a hard time of it.”
“She will be a miler next year,” he added. “She is a big filly and we would like to think she will improve with a winter on her back. It is great for these guys who are now dreaming. It is great that she has had a bit of experience here and the Guineas is the obvious plan. If it is a nice enough spring we might pop up to Newbury with her for the trial.”
Pedigree Notes
Calendar Girl's unraced dam Plucky Lass (Medaglia D'Oro), who is also responsible for the dual Listed-placed sprinter Gutsy Girl (Blue Point), is a daughter of the GIII My Charmer Handicap winner Valiant Girl (Lemon Drop Kid) whose two-year-old colt Title Role (Too Darn Hot) was impressive at Kempton this week.
Valiant Girl is a full-sister to the Hardwicke and Jockey Club Stakes winner Bronze Cannon and to the dam of Frankel's Gold Cup hero Courage Mon Ami and dual Listed scorer Lion's Pride (Roaring Lion), as well as the recent Lillie Langtry runner-up Danielle (Cracksman). She is also a half to the King Edward VII scorer Across The Stars (Sea The Stars). Plucky Lass's yearling son of Showcasing is in next week's Tattersalls October Book 2.
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Friday, Newmarket, Britain
GODOLPHIN LIFETIME CARE OH SO SHARP STAKES-G3, £65,000, Newmarket, 10-10, 2yo, f, 7fT, 1:23.28, gd.
1–CALENDAR GIRL (GB), 128, f, 2, by Advertise (GB)
1st Dam: Plucky Lass, by Medaglia D'Oro
2nd Dam: Valiant Girl (GB), by Lemon Drop Kid
3rd Dam: Victoria Cross (Ire), by Mark Of Esteem (Ire)
1ST BLACK-TYPE WIN; 1ST GROUP WIN. (45,000gns Ylg '24 TATOCT). O-Kennet Valley Syndicates II; B-Hascombe & Valiant Stud Ltd; T-Owen Burrows; J-Callum Rodriguez. £36,862. Lifetime Record: 4-3-1-0, $353,863. *1/2 to Gutsy Girl (GB) (Blue Point {Ire}), MSP-Ire. Werk Nick Rating: A. Click for the eNicks report & 5-cross pedigree, or the free Equineline.com catalogue-style pedigree.
2–Mubasimah (Ire), 128, f, 2, Frankel (GB)–Mubtasimah (GB), by Dark Angel (Ire). 1ST BLACK TYPE; 1ST GROUP BLACK TYPE. O-Sheikh Juma Dalmook Al Maktoum; B-Rabbah Bloodstock Ltd; T-Andrew Balding. £13,975.
3–Senorita Vega (Ire), 128, f, 2, Lucky Vega (Ire)–Miss Kittyhawk (Ire), by Hawk Wing. 1ST BLACK TYPE; 1ST GROUP BLACK TYPE. (€28,000 Ylg '24 TATIRY). O-Russell Jones; B-Nuala Lynch & Peter Molony; T-Tom Dascombe. £6,994.
Margins: NK, 2, NK. Odds: 1.20, 5.50, 7.00.
Also Ran: Coming Attraction (Ire), Blingy's Sister (Ire), Shady Dame (GB), Tavana (GB), Classic Cuvee (GB), Mood Queen (Ire), Midnight Tango (GB).
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