By Tom Frary
6th-NAV, €17,110, Mdn, 9-2, 3yo/up, 8fT, 1:44.05, yl.
GOLDRUSH (IRE) (f, 3, Frankel (GB)#tot">Frankel {GB}–Alexander Goldrun {Ire} {Hwt. 3yo Filly-Ire at 9 1/2-10 1/2f, Hwt. Older Mare-Ire at 9 1/2-10 1/2f, MG1SW-Ire, G1SW-Eng, Fr & HK, G1SP-Sin, $3,387,103}, by Gold Away {Ire}), a daughter of the same stable's remarkable Alexander Goldrun who had taken time to make her debut after costing €1,700,000 as a GOFORB yearling, raced behind the leading duo throughout the opening stages. Sent to the front with a quarter mile to race, the 6-1 shot was pushed out to assert for a ready three-length success from Wooster (Ire) (Duke of Marmalade {Ire}). “It's always nice to win with a filly as well-bred as she is,” Jim Bolger told Irish Racing.com. “She has been working well, but we've had a few little hiccups along the way. She was a bit weak last year so we didn't run her and a few times we had her ready to run this year and she had small little problems, nothing serious. She was declared to run a few times and she got rained off one day. She doesn't want soft ground, but she handled that well today so she might handle a little ease in it. Hopefully she will go on now and be a Stakes filly.” Alexander Goldrun was the winner of the G1 Pretty Polly S. twice in her native Ireland, the G1 Nassau S. in Britain, G1 Prix de l'Opera in France and G1 Hong Kong Cup and that is only half her story. Also a half-sister to the sire Medecis (GB), who won the G3 Prix de la Jonchere and placed second in the G1 Poule d'Essai des Poulains and G1 Prix de la Foret, she has a 2-year-old daughter of Shamardal named Une Alliance (Ire) who sold at Goffs Orby last year for €600,000. Lifetime Record: 1-1-0-0, $10,594. VIDEO, sponsored by Fasig-Tipton.
O-China Horse Club International Ltd; B-Noel O'Callaghan (IRE); T-Jim Bolger.
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