By Tom Frary
Heading into the unknown trip-wise, Ahmed Mouknass's Coeur de Beaute (Fr) (Dabirsim {Fr}) thoroughly saw out her first seven-furlong test as she battled to a hard-fought verdict over Zonza (Fr) (Alex the Winner) in Monday's G3 Prix Imprudence at Deauville. Last seen winning the six-furlong Listed Prix Zeddaan at this race's traditional home, Maisons-Laffitte, in October, the bay raced towards the rear under Stephane Pasquier early and steadily wore down Zonza to gain the lead 100 metres from the finish. Staying on for a half-length success, with the strong-finishing unexposed Talbah (GB) (Style Vendome {Fr}) 3/4 of a length away in third, she is ready to shoot for the stars now. “I think that was a good field and it was a very nice performance,” trainer Mauricio Delcher-Sanchez said. “She was a nice 2-year-old filly with a good record in speed races and today the problem was whether she would settle. We have done a lot of work on her during the winter and she settled beautifully. Her turn of foot was amazing and obviously she has improved. We will see, but she could be very good and will go for the [G1 Poule d'Essai des] Pouliches [at ParisLongchamp May 13] now. The fact that they have changed that race to the middle course is good for her, as a mile is her limit.”
Coeur de Beaute, who was also second to Sound and Silence (GB) (Exceed and Excel {Aus}) in the G3 Prix Eclipse at six furlongs at Maisons-Laffitte in September, hails from the first crop of Haras De Grandcamp's classy juvenile Dabirsim, who was put firmly on the map last term by the talented Different League (Fr). Twilight Tear, whose 2-year-old colt Coeur de Pierre (Fr) (Zanzibari) was like this filly snapped up by MAB Agency from Osarus September, was a once-raced Lady Bamford homebred sold for just 15,500gns at the 2010 Tattersalls December Sales. Her immediate relations carry significant gravitas, with her dam being a full-sister to Sadler's Wells's pair of group 1-winning juveniles Listen (Ire) and Sequoyah (Ire). Both were later responsible for top-level performers themselves, with the latter throwing the G1 English and Irish 2000 Guineas, G1 Sussex S. and G1 St. James's Palace S. hero and sire Henrythenavigator (Kingmambo). This excellent family also features last year's G1 Epsom Derby runner-up Cliffs of Moher (Ire) (Galileo {Ire}), the G1 Irish 2000 Guineas and GI Breeders' Cup Turf hero Magician (Ire) (Galileo {Ire}) and, further back, a trio of group 1 winners in Dolphin Street (Fr) (Bluebird), Saffron Walden (Fr) (Sadler's Wells) and Insight (Fr) (Sadler's Wells).
Monday, Deauville, France
PRIX IMPRUDENCE-G3, €80,000, DVL, 4-9, 3yo, f, 7fT, 1:30.35, vhy.
1–COEUR DE BEAUTE (FR), 126, f, 3, by Dabirsim (Fr)
1st Dam: Twilight Tear (GB), by Rock of Gibraltar (Ire) 2nd Dam: Clara Bow (Ire), by Sadler's Wells
3rd Dam: Brigid, by Irish River (Fr)
1ST GROUP WIN. (€30,000 Ylg '16 OSLATE). O-Ahmed Mouknass, Alain Jathiere, Ecurie Pandora Racing & Gerard Decocq; B-Haras de Grandcamp (FR); T-Mauricio Delcher Sanchez; J-Christophe Soumillon. €30,000. Lifetime Record: 6-2-2-0, €76,100. Werk Nick Rating: A++. Click for the eNicks report & 5-cross pedigree.
2–Zonza (Fr), 126, f, 3, Alex the Winner–Zanyeva (Ire), by Oasis Dream (GB). O-Alain Jathiere, Martin S Schwartz Racing & Gerard Augustin-Normand; B-Hugues Rousseau & Jean-Pierre-Joseph Dubois (FR); T-Didier Guillemin. €16,000.
3–Talbah (GB), 126, f, 3, Style Vendome (Fr)–Lamorlaye (Ire), by Danehill Dancer (Ire). O/B-Al Shaqab Racing (GB); T-Nicolas Clement. €12,000.
Margins: HF, 3/4, HF. Odds: 4.20, 2.80, 11.00.
Also Ran: Moisson Precoce (GB), Long Island (Fr), Tantheem (GB), Spaday (Ire), Fou Rire (Ire). Scratched: Yori (Ire). Click for the Racing Post result or the free Equineline.com catalogue-style pedigree. Video, sponsored by Fasig-Tipton.
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