G3 Prix Eclipse

Ballyhane Stud were able to tick an important box for their first-crop sire Soldier's Call (GB) on Saturday as his daughter Dawn Charger (Ire) captured Chantilly's G3 Prix Eclipse. Runner-up in ParisLongchamp's G3 Prix d'Arenberg over five furlongs last month, Saif Mohammad Alketbi and Elaine Burke's €40,000 Tatts Ireland September graduate travelled easily for Pierre-Louis Jamin close to the early pace. In front before two out, the 9-2 shot had first run on the strong-staying Laulne (Fr) (Starspangledbanner {Aus}) and found the line a neck ahead of that rival to...

There will be further sorting of the juvenile pecking order on Friday, with Chantilly's six-furlong G3 Prix Eclipse featuring Hisaaki Saito's unbeaten Topgear (Fr) (Wootton Bassett {GB}). Having beaten TDN Rising Star Shaikha (Fr) (Ribchester {Ire}) in the 6 1/2-furlong Prix Irish River conditions race at Deauville Aug. 26, the Fabrice Chappet-trained colt is one of a clutch of unexposed types looking to break through in pattern company. They include Abu Khadra Stables' Fai Fai (GB) (Acclamation {GB}), an Andre Fabre-trained colt who scored on debut over that same course...

Friday, Chantilly, France PRIX ECLIPSE-G3, €56,000, Chantilly, 9-18, 2yo, 6fT, 1:08.48, g/s 1--PLAINCHANT (FR), 121, f, 2, by Gregorian (Ire)                 1st Dam: Nadinska (GB), by Doyen (Ire)                 2nd Dam: Funny Girl (Ire), by Darshaan (GB)                 3rd Dam: Just For Fun (Fr), by Lead On Time 1ST GROUP WIN. (€3,000 RNA Wlg '18 ARDEC; €5,000 Ylg '19 AROCT). O-Alain Jathiere, Maurizio Guarnieri & Sauro-Andrea Fiordelli; B-EARL Elevage des Loges (FR); T-Maurizio Guarnieri; J-Valentin Seguy. i28,000. Lifetime Record: 5-3-1-1, €77,900. The very fast and now Group 3 winner 2-year-old...