By Tom Frary
January's flat action at Cagnes-Sur-Mer continued apace on Tuesday, when the debutante Eostre (St Mark's Basilica) produced an eyecatching display in the mile conditions event. Always travelling easily for Antonio Orani tracking the leading trio, the 13-2 shot opened up passing the 300-metre marker to record an impressive 4 1/2-length success from the experienced Zaura (Goken).
“She is one of our fillies that we like,” trainer Jerome Reynier said. “She had been working well in the morning and confirmed it in the afternoon. This bodes well for the future, because I think she has a lot of room for improvement.”
Another taking winner at the meeting for the Reynier stable, the winner who is owned by her breeder Erika Gilliar is out of the unraced 105,000gns Tattersalls December Juddmonte cast-off Tanita (Frankel), a granddaughter of Midsummer (Kingmambo) who is the dam of the luminary Midday (Oasis Dream) and the Group winners and Group 1-placed Sun Maiden (Frankel) and Hot Snap (Pivotal).
Midday has produced four Stakes performers and Frankel's Daytime who is the dam of last year's G3 Prix la Rochette winner and Prix Jean-Luc Lagardere runner-up Nighttime (Wootton Bassett). Also related to Reams Of Verse (Nureyev) and Elmaamul, Tanita's two-year-old filly is by Dark Angel.
🇫🇷Prix Freddy Palmer @hippocotdazur
Cagnes Sur Mer – Maiden – 3 ans – 1600m – 10 Pts – 21 000 €🏆Eostre (f3) 🏇Antonio Orani
📖(St Mark's Basilica (Fr) @coolmorestud – Tanita (Gb) par Frankel?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#Frankel (Gb))🕶️Jerome Reynier @EcurieReynier
🎩Erika Gilliar… pic.twitter.com/FXTT5FcRQa— French and International Horse Racing (@Vincenzo0612) January 20, 2026
2nd-Cagnes-sur-Mer, €21,000, Cond, 1-20, 3yo, 8f (AWT), 1:37.80, st.
EOSTRE (IRE) (f, 3, St Mark's Basilica {Fr}–Tanita {GB}, by Frankel {GB}) Sales history: €85,000 RNA Ylg '24 GOFORB. Lifetime Record: 1-1-0-0, €10,500. O/B-Erika Gilliar; T-Jerome Reynier.
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