By Tom Frary
Last seen winning Doncaster's Listed Gillies Fillies' Stakes in November, Cheveley Park Stud's Estrange was back with a bang in Saturday's G3 Lester Piggott Fillies' Stakes at Haydock. Confidently ridden by Danny Tudhope anchored in rear early, the 13-8 second favourite loomed on the outer approaching two out as if she had just joined in. Sent on soon after, the David O'Meara-trained daughter of Night Of Thunder responded with relish to record an emphatic 4 1/4-length success from the 11-8 market-leader Shaha.
Estrange has been entered in the Arc, which says a lot about the regard in which she is held, and O'Meara was not keen to pour cold water on the enthusiasm. “Potentially she could be the best we've had,” he said. “Danny said she's great to ride. She shuts down and saves energy, you can put her anywhere and give her a small squeeze and she comes alive. For me, for the yard, for everyone it is brilliant to have a horse like her.”
“She handles cut in the ground, she's gone on good ground today. I think we'll stay away from quick conditions, but the [G1] Pretty Polly could be considered or there's a race back here, the [G2] Lancashire Oaks, and then the [G1] Yorkshire Oaks and if she is good enough it would be great to be considering Longchamp. It never looked in doubt at any stage today.”
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Pedigree Notes
Estrange was a purchase by the Stud, a 425,000gns one at Tattersalls October Book 1 due to her dam Alienate being Oasis Dream's half-sister to the G1 St Leger hero Logician. Responsible also for Frankel's G2 Park Hill Stakes third Lmay and the Listed-placed Basalt by Pinatubo, the unraced Juddmonte cast-off is also kin to four other black-type performers including Champs Elysees's triple Graded-Stakes scorer and GI E. P. Taylor Stakes runner-up Suffused who is the dam of Sunday's unbeaten G3 Prix de Royaumont contender Sunly by Estrange's sire Night Of Thunder.
Alienate's full-sister Sleep Walk is responsible for Caravaggio's dual GI Diana Stakes heroine Whitebeam and another Frankel colt in Nightwalker who was third in the G3 Autumn Stakes and lines up in Saturday's Derby. This is the family of the smart sires Cityscape and Bated Breath, whose Oasis Dream-sired half-sister Tarentaise produced Equiano's G2 Meydan Sprint winner and G1 King's Stand Stakes runner-up Equilateral. Alienate's 2-year-old colt by Lope De Vega was a 62,000gns purchase by Andrew Oliver at the Tattersalls Somerville Yearling Sale.
Saturday, Haydock, Britain
BETFRED NIFTY 50 LESTER PIGGOTT FILLIES' STAKES (PINNACLE STAKES)-G3, £85,000, Haydock, 5-31, 4yo/up, f/m, 11f 175yT, 2:31.55, gd.
1–ESTRANGE (IRE), 128, f, 4, by Night Of Thunder (Ire)
1st Dam: Alienate (GB), by Oasis Dream (GB)
2nd Dam: Scuffle (GB), by Daylami (Ire)
3rd Dam: Tantina, by Distant View
1ST GROUP WIN. (425,000gns Ylg '22 TATOCT). O-Cheveley Park Stud; B-A Stroud, T Stewart & J Hanly; T-David O'Meara; J-Daniel Tudhope. £48,204. Lifetime Record: 4-3-0-0, $144,240. *1/2 to Lmay (Ire) (Frankel {GB}), GSP-Eng; and Basalt (Ire) (Pinatubo {Ire}), SP-Eng. Werk Nick Rating: A. Click for the eNicks report & 5-cross pedigree, or the free Equineline.com catalogue-style pedigree.
2–Shaha (Ire), 128, f, 4, Cracksman (GB)–Board Meeting (Ire), by Anabaa. 1ST GROUP BLACK TYPE. (280,000gns Ylg '22 TATOCT). O-The Thoroughbred Racing Corporation Ltd; B-Newstead Breeding; T-John & Thady Gosden. £18,275.
3–Chorus (GB), 128, f, 4, Kingman (GB)–Koora (GB), by Pivotal (GB). 1ST BLACK TYPE; 1ST GROUP BLACK TYPE. O/B-Fittocks Stud; T-William Haggas. £9,146.
Margins: 4 1/4, 2, 5HF. Odds: 1.63, 1.38, 11.00.
Also Ran: Beautiful Love (Ire), Sioux Life (Ity), Our Golden One (Ire), Invisible Friend (Ire), Bay Of Sanibel (Ger).
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