2nd-Curragh, €16,500, Mdn, 8-20, 2yo, 7fT, 1:24.70, gd.
CONTINUOUS (JPN) (c, 2, Heart's Cry {Jpn}–Fluff {Ire}, by Galileo {Ire}) broke well and led after the initial strides of this first go. Rowed along with three furlongs remaining, the 10-3 pick came under sterner urging inside the final quarter mile and was driven out in the closing stages to hold King Of Scotia (Ire) (Kessaar {Ire}) by an ultimately snug 1 1/2 lengths, becoming the first winner in Ireland for his sire (by Sunday Silence). “Ryan [Moore] was very happy with him and said he's still a baby,” commented Aidan O'Brien. “He said before he got up on him that the Heart's Cry horses that he knew in Japan all stay well so that's why he made it. I think the mare went over to be covered by Deep Impact, but then he had the accident so that's how it came about. He's the only Heart's Cry that we have. He kept on really well and could go for the [G2] Beresford. That's over a mile, but he's well capable of stepping up.” Continuous, half to a yearling filly by Lord Kanaloa (Jpn) and a weanling colt by Wootton Bassett {GB}), is the third of five foals and second scorer out of a winning full-sister to G1 Moyglare Stud S. heroine Maybe (Ire) (Galileo {Ire}, herself the dam of G1 2000 Guineas-winning sire Saxon Warrior (Jpn) (Deep Impact {Jpn}). The March-foaled bay's dam is also a full-sister to dual Group 1-placed G3 Silver Flash S. victrix Promise To Be True (Ire). His stakes-winning second dam Sumora (Ire) (Danehill) is kin to G1 Oaks and G1 Preis der Diana (German Oaks) heroine Dancing Rain (Ire) (Danehill Dancer {Ire}) from the family of multiple Group 1-winning sire Dr Devious (Ire) (Ahonoora {GB}). Lifetime Record: 1-1-0-0, $9,939.
1ST-TIME STARTER. O-Derrick Smith, Susan Magnier, Michael Tabor & Westerberg; B-Orpendale, Chelston & Wynatt (JPN); T-Aidan O'Brien.
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