By Tom Frary
4th-CHY, €25,000, Debutantes, 4-3, 3yo, f, 9 1/2f (AWT), 1:59.92, st.
+RUEING (f, 3, Street Cry {Ire}–Wavering {Ire} {G1SW-Fr, $243,653}, by Refuse To Bend {Ire}), backed into 27-10 favouritism, travelled strongly in third throughout the early stages. Looming on the front end with 300 metres remaining, the homebred only needed to be pushed out to stave off the threat of Jedi Princess (Ire) (Sea the Stars {Ire}) and record a comfortable 1 1/4-length success. Troarn (Fr) (Wootton Bassett {GB}), the full-sister to the G1 Prix du Jockey Club and G1 English and Irish Champion S. hero Almanzor (Fr), ran a race full of promise after finding herself too far back at the top of the straight, finishing strongly to be fourth. Rueing is only the second foal out of the operation's G1 Prix Saint-Alary winner Wavering, the first being the G3 Prix de Flore runner-up Switching who is also by Street Cry. The second dam is another who made an impact in the Saint-Alary in Summertime Legacy (GB) (Darshaan {GB}), who was third in that top-level contest having captured the G3 Prix des Reservoirs as a juvenile. Aside from Wavering, she also produced another to win in elite company in Mandaean (GB) (Manduro {Ger}), whose finest hour came in the G1 Criterium de Saint-Cloud, while her daughter Winters Moon (Ire) (New Approach {Ire}) was third in the G1 Fillies Mile. From the extended family of Golden Fleece, Wavering has a 2-year-old full-sister to the winner and a yearling colt by Medaglia d'Oro. She has been bred to War Front for 2017. Lifetime Record: 1-1-0-0, €12,500. Video, sponsored by Fasig-Tipton.
O-Godolphin SNC; B-Darley (KY); T-Andre Fabre.
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