Panadol was an eye-catching 7 3/4-length debut winner going a mile at Meydan on a non-carnival card on Feb. 13, and he employed the same tactics in his second start and stakes debut on Saturday by going to the lead and never looking back.
Breaking on terms from the extreme outside barrier, Mickael Barzalona had guided Panadol to the lead by the time they passed under the wire the first time. The advantage down the backstretch was three-quarters of a length while Speight'spercomete (Speightstown) perched three-wide. The stalkers began to close in approaching the quarter pole and the Uruguayan invader El Patriota (Uru) (Ecologo {Arg}) began to make up ground, but none of them proved any match for Panadol, who kicked two lengths clear at the top of the lane. Speight'spercomete bravely saw off the challenge of El Patriota to secure runners-up honours, but Panadol was ultimately three-quarters of a length the best.
Said pilot Mickael Barzalona, “He is the kind of horse we want on this kind of surface, especially in Meydan. Today he felt even greener than on his first race, so I really appreciate that he had a second run this season before going for the UAE Derby. He does the distance well, he has got some good talent, and we will see whether he is able to perform on [Dubai] World Cup night.”
“He has only recently started with us,” said Salem bin Ghadayer. “We had two options with him, either to go directly to the (UAE) Derby or give him one more run, just to give him a little more experience. I spoke with HH Sheikh Hamdan and his opinion was to give him one more run. The horse showed that he could recover well. We hope to carry on till the last goal.”
Panadol is out of the winning Dixieland Band mare Arradoul, and he becomes her third stakes horse and first stakes winner, she having already produced the listed-placed Backwood Bay (Girolamo) and Permanent Vacation (Elusive Quality). Arradoul is a half-sister to the two-time listed winner and multiple group-placed Ender's Sister (A.P. Indy), who produced the GI Forego S. and GI Albert G. Vanderbilt H. winner A.P. Indian (Indian Charlie), as well as the GII Indiana Derby victor Tiz Shea D (Tiznow). Arradoul and Ender's Sister are also siblings to Ender's Shadow (A.P. Indy), a listed winner and Grade III-placed. Arradoul has a 2-year-old filly by Alpha named Alarra, and was bred to Runhappy and Audible in the past two seasons.
Saturday's Results:
AL BASTAKIYA (SPONSORED BY ARABIAN ADVENTURES)-Listed, $150,000, Meydan, 3-6, NH3yo & SH3yo, 1900m, 1:58.13, ft.
1–PANADOL, 121, c, 3, by Flatter
1st Dam: Arradoul, by Dixieland Band
2nd Dam: Gold Rush Queen, by Seeking the Gold
3rd Dam: Fit For A Queen, by Fit to Fight
1ST STAKES WIN. ($180,000 2yo '20 OBSJUN) O-Sheikh
Hamdan bin Mohammed Al Maktoum; B-Chester Broman &
Mary R Broman (NY); T-Salem bin Ghadayer; J-Mickael
Barzalona. $90,000. Lifetime Record: 2-2-0-0, $103,479. *1/2
to Permanent Vacation (Elusive Quality), SP-Ven; and
Backwood Bay (Girolamo), SP-US, $107,000.
2–Speight'spercomete, 121, c, 3, Speightstown–Perfect La
Comete, by Perfect Soul (Ire). O/B-Charles Fipke (KY); T-Doug
Watson. $30,000.
3–El Patriota (Uru), 131, c, 3, Ecologo (Arg)–Patria Mia (Arg), by
Pure Prize. O-Stud La Pomme; B-De La Pomme (URU);
T-Antonio Cintra Pereira. $15,000.
Margins: 3/4, 2HF, NK.
Also Ran: Fire Group, Endifaa (GB), Grand Dubai (Ire), Mayehaab (GB), Effectif (Arg), Khatun (GB), Nayefah, Sharp Spun (GB), Leopardo.
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