By Tom Frary
Starfield Stud's first-crop sire King Of Change (GB) (by Farhh {GB}) has a black-type winner after his daughter Lady With The Lamp (Ire) caused a 66-1 upset in Friday's Listed Irish Stallion Farms EBF Legacy Stakes at Dundalk. Third behind Powerful Nation (Ire) (Sioux Nation) over this track and five-furlong trip last month, the Joseph O'Brien-trained €14,000 Goffs Orby Book 2 purchase was held up towards the back early by Declan McDonogh.
Arriving wide in a frantic finish, the daughter of the Godolphin cast-off Caring Touch (Elusive Quality) from the family of Fortify (Distorted Humor) gained the edge close home to prevail by a head from Revoke (GB) (Blue Point {Ire}), with Powerful Nation a neck behind in third. “I just said to the part-owner there 'Listed only in name really',” McDonogh said. “It was a really strong pace and I couldn't go early but as soon as she straightened up, I had loads of horse. She came home well the last day, but she has got a very willing attitude.”
🚨 66/1 winner of the Listed @IrishEBF_ Legacy Stakes 🚨
It's a cracking finish too as Lady With The Lamp finishes strongest under @declanmcdonogh for the in-form @JosephOBrien2.
We imagine joint-owner @nickluck enjoyed that! @DundalkStadium pic.twitter.com/2pJkMh574o
— Racing TV (@RacingTV) October 4, 2024
Lady With The Lamp, who was a rare winner for the stable at Bath in June, is the second of two current foals out of the aforementioned dam, who was acquired for just 12,000gns at the 2018 Tattersalls December Mares Sale. Alongside the GI Champagne Stakes-placed Fortify, who was a leading sire in Argentina, the family also features the GIII Discovery Handicap-placed Bay Of Plenty (Medaglia D'Oro).
IRISH STALLION FARMS EBF LEGACY STAKES-Listed, €47,500, Dundalk, 10-4, 2yo, 5f (AWT), :59.60, st.
1–LADY WITH THE LAMP (IRE), 126, f, 2, by King Of Change (GB)
1st Dam: Caring Touch, by Elusive Quality
2nd Dam: Blue Petrel, by Distorted Humor
3rd Dam: Kotuku (GB), by A.P. Indy
1ST BLACK TYPE WIN. (€14,000 Ylg '23 GOFOR2). O-Kevin Blake & Emma Palmer & Michael Wilson & N E F Luck; B-Billy McEnery & Paul McEnery (IRE); T-Joseph O'Brien; J-Declan McDonogh. €28,500. Lifetime Record: 5-2-0-2, $60,185.
2–Revoke (GB), 126, f, 2, Blue Point (Ire)–Discipline (GB), by Dansili (GB).
1ST BLACK TYPE. O-Juddmonte; B-Juddmonte Farms Ltd (GB); T-Ger Lyons. €9,500.
3–Powerful Nation (Ire), 131, c, 2, Sioux Nation–Atlantic Queen (Ire), by Society Rock (Ire). (€40,000 RNA Ylg '23 GOFOR2). O-Kevin Sean Tommy Walsh Partnership; B-Kevin Walsh (IRE); T-Andrew Slattery. €4,750.
Margins: HD, NK, NK. Odds: 66.00, 2.50, 3.00.
Also Ran: Arizona Blaze (GB), Morning Vietnam (GB), Sayidah Dariyan (Ire), Flash The Cash (Ire), Oxford Rock (Ire), Snapdragon (Ire), Sir Yoshi (Ire), Lethimfly (Ire), Amazing Athena (Ire), Red Evolution (Ire). Scratched: Lightning Bear (Ire), Twinkling Toes (Ire).
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