By Tom Frary
Stall Lintec's Best of Lips (Ire) (The Gurkha {Ire}) provided Coolmore's first-season sire (by Galileo {Ire}) with his first black-type winner on Sunday when scoring with authority in the prestigious G3 Preis des Winterfavoriten at Cologne. Having won over nine furlongs at Dortmund Sept. 20, the 14-5 shot was forced to race wide throughout the early stages from his high draw as Franny Norton exercised restraint more than halfway down the field. Sent forward when straightened for home to take command passing the two-furlong pole, the bay galloped on strongly to the line despite looking at the stands and had 3 1/2 lengths to spare over Sea of Sands (Ger) (Sea the Stars {Ire}) there. “Fair play to Andreas [Suborics], he had a plan before the race but everyone else was on to it and I was caught a little bit deep,” Norton commented. “He had to show a bit of class and picked up well.”
Best of Lips is the first foal out of the Wildenstein homebred Beata (Fr) (Silver Frost {Ire}), a daughter of the multiple group winner Bright Moon (Alysheba) and therefore a half-sister to the G1 Prix de Diane and G1 Prix de l'Opera heroine Bright Sky (Ire) (Wolfhound) and to the dual group 3 winner Board Meeting (Ire) (Anabaa) who was also placed in the Opera and the G1 Prix Vermeille and G1 Prix Jean Romanet. The latter is the dam of the Listed Prix Michel Houyvet winner and G3 Prix de Conde runner-up Big Blue (GB) (Galileo {Ire}), while Bright Moon is out of the GII Golden Harvest H. and G3 Prix Corrida winner Bonshamile (GB) (Ile de Bourbon). The dam's yearling filly is by Mastercraftsman (Ire).
Sunday, Cologne, Germany
PREIS DES WINTERFAVORITEN-G3, €155,000, Cologne, 10-11, 2yo, 8fT, 1:40.19, sf.
1–BEST OF LIPS (IRE), 128, c, 2, The Gurkha (Ire)
1st Dam: Beata (Fr), by Silver Frost (Ire)
2nd Dam: Bright Moon, by Alysheba
3rd Dam: Bonshamile (GB), by Ile de Bourbon
1ST BLACK-TYPE WIN; 1ST GROUP WIN. (90,000gns RNA Ylg '19 TAOCT). O-Stall Lintec; B-Stall Parthenaue (IRE); T-Andreas Suborics; J-Franny Norton. €85,000. Lifetime Record: 2-1-0-1, €88,600. Werk Nick Rating: A. Click for the eNicks report & 5-cross pedigree.
2–Sea of Sands (Ger), 128, c, 2, Sea the Stars (Ire)–Salve Haya (Ire), by Peintre Celebre. O/B-Gestut Hony-Hof (GER); T-Jean-Pierre Carvalho. €31,000.
3–Mythico (Fr), 128, c, 2, Adlerflug (Ger)–Madhyana (Ger), by Monsun (Ger). (€24,000 RNA Ylg '19 BBAGS). O-Stall TMB; B-Thomas Bretzger (FR); T-Jean-Pierre Carvalho. €20,500.
Margins: 3HF, 4, 2 1/4. Odds: 2.80, 3.10, 5.40.
Also Ran: Juanito (Ger), Sardasht (Fr), Kings of Leon (Fr), Ponntos (Ire), Imi (Ger), Lommerzheim (Ire). Scratched: Sampras (GB). Click for the Racing Post result or the free Equineline.com catalogue-style pedigree.
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