There’s a competitive lineup for The Curragh’s G2 Kilboy Estate S. on Sunday and it’s Ballydoyle’s Lily Pond (Ire) (Galileo {Ire}), who proved the most stubborn when 3-year-olds filled in the first three positions in the nine-segment feature. Building a smart portfolio since her winning debut at Dundalk April 12, she finished second in the G3 Blue Wind S. mile and a half in Naas May 7 and third place in the G3 Munster Oaks 12 in Cork June 8 before finding the 14-step test of Leopardstown’s G3 Stanerra S. in addition to hers on Friday 10 days before the breakthrough. Settlement after the stable friend Galleria Borghese (Ire) (Caravaggio) by Ryan Moore, the 8-1 shot was threatened by the even money lover Purplepay (Fr) (Zarak {Fr}) approached two out and while a few yards she looked capable of going under the factor Galileo kicked a long shot from home and she ended up being a relative inning winner comfortable from Seisai (Ire) (Gleneagles {Ire}), with One For Bobby (Ire) (Frankel {GB}) 3/4 of the length back 1/3.
Aidan O’Brien said: “We tried the last day to go up on the trip, but it was too far. “She is a very tough, consistent person but I would say maybe a mile and a half is as far as she wants. She is very comfortable from nine to twelve years old. When she hung there for half that long time, she went back into line again. Now she can take part in a good one-mile and one-quarter race. She could be there at the Arc weekend for the mile and a half and she would go a mile and a half. “
Genealogical notes:
Lily Pond, who became the 240th group winner for her remarkable deceased male, has the illustrious King Coolmore image on both sides of her pedigree with her fourth dam being the Sea. The legendary city (Miswaki). She is the first of Listed Hurry winners Harriet S. and the third Oaks Alluringly (Fastnet Rock {Aus}), is the granddaughter of G3 winner Middleton S. All Too Beautiful (Ire) (Sadler’s) Wells), full-registered Galileo, who finished second in the Epsom Classic. Also the dam of another Oaks runner-up in Wonder of Wonders (Kingmambo), she is the second smash of G1 Cox Plate and G1 hero Tancred S. Sir Dragonet (Ire) (Camelot {GB}). Alluringly’s unlicensed 2-year-old Twinkling (Ire) is a sister to Lily Pond, while she also has a chubby pony. No, never.
Sunday, The Curragh, Ireland
KILBOY ESTATE S.-G2€120,000, The Curragh, 7-17, 3yo/up, f/m, 9fT, 1:54.39, gd.
first-LILY POND (IRE), 128, f, 3, by Galileo (Ire)
Dam One: Alluringly (SW-Ire, G1SP-Eng, $154,308), by Fastnet Rock (Aus)
2nd dam: All for Glory, of Giant’s Causeway
Strike 3: It’s All Too Beautiful (Ire), by Sadler’s Wells
BLACK WINNER 1, TEAM WIN 1. O-Mrs J Magnier / M Tabor / D Smith / Westerberg; B-Coolmore (IRE); T-Aidan O’Brien; J-Ryan Moore. 72,000 euros. Lifetime record: 5-2-1-1, $99,468. Nick Werk Rating: A. Click to eNicks report & pedigree of 5 children.
2-Seisai (Ire)128, f, 3, Gleneagles (Ire) –Lillebonne (Fr), by Danehill Dancer (Ire). (€40,000 Wlg ’19 GOFNOV; £78,000 Ylg ’20 GOFOR). O-Simon Munir & Isaac Souede; B-Peter Henley, John Connolly & Pattern Bloodstock (IRE); T-Joseph O’Brien. 24,000 euros.
3–One for Bobby (Ire)128, f, 3, Frankel (GB) –One Spirit (Ire), by Invincible Spirit (Ire).
TYPE 1 BLACK, TYPE 1 BLACK GROUP. Ms. AH Marshall; BF Dunne (IRE); T-Johnny Murtagh. 12,000 euros.
Margins: HF, 3/4, 1 1/4. Odds: 8.00, 8.00, 18.00.
Also Ran: Rumbles of Thunder (Ire), Purplepay (Fr), Galleria Borghese (Ire), Potapova (GB), Sierra Nevada, The Algarve. Click to view Free Equineline.com catalog style genealogy.
