By Tom Frary
Making all in Sunday's G3 Irish 1,000 Guineas Trial over a mile at Leopardstown, Ballydoyle's Joan of Arc (Ire) (Galileo {Ire}) was in the process becoming a sixth pattern-race winner from seven foals for Coolmore's remarkable You'resothrilling (Storm Cat). Last seen finishing sixth in the seven-furlong G3 Ballylinch Stud 1,000 Guineas Trial at this track Apr. 11, the full-sister to Gleneagles (Ire) set an honest tempo under Ryan Moore and stayed on strongly to deny Flirting Bridge (Ire) (Camelot {GB}) by 1 3/4 lengths on a day when racing prominently offered an advantage. “She's a high-class filly and a beautiful mover, so quicker ground will help her again,” Moore said of the 11-4 favourite who had broken her maiden in testing conditions over seven furlongs at The Curragh Mar. 21. “She deserves to take her chance at a higher level–she's beautifully-bred and there is every chance she'll stay a little bit further.”
Aidan O'Brien is looking at the G1 Irish 1000 Guineas in a fortnight's time. “She won making the running the first day of the season and last time the pace was a little bit too fast up front, so we thought she'd leave that run behind her. She'd been working lovely and the plan was always to come here and then the Irish Guineas. She's a relaxed filly and nice and balanced and bowled along into that headwind which wasn't easy. She galloped home very well she'll have no problem going up to a mile and a quarter.”
Joan of Arc also maintains her dam's 100% record of producing group performers, with the year-older Vatican City (Ire) the only one not to score in that company although he was second in the 2020 G1 Irish 2000 Guineas. All by Galileo, her siblings other than the aforementioned G1 English and Irish 2000 Guineas hero and sire Gleneagles include the Irish 1000 Guineas heroine Marvellous (Ire), the G1 Moyglare Stud S. and G1 Grand Criterium winner Happily (Ire), the triple group-winning Taj Mahal (Ire) and the G3 Park S. winner and GI Belmont Oaks Invitational-placed Coolmore (Ire).
You'resothrilling, who captured the G2 Cherry Hinton S. and has an as-yet unnamed 2-year-old filly by the Coolmore great to come, is a full-sister to the six-times group 1-winning champion and leading sire Giant's Causeway, as well as to the dam of the G1 Irish Champion S. hero and first-season sire Decorated Knight (Ire) also by Galileo. They are out of the six-times graded-stakes winner Mariah's Storm (Rahy).
Sunday, Leopardstown, Ireland
IRISH 1,000 GUINEAS TRIAL-G3, €50,000, Leopardstown, 5-9, 3yo, f, 8fT, 1:42.64, gd.
1–JOAN OF ARC (IRE), 128, f, 3, by Galileo (Ire)
1st Dam: You'resothrilling (GSW-Eng, GSW-Ire, $219,415), by Storm Cat
2nd Dam: Mariah's Storm, by Rahy
3rd Dam: Immense, by Roberto
1ST BLACK TYPE WIN, 1ST GROUP WIN. O-Derrick Smith, Susan Magnier & Michael Tabor; B-Coolmore (IRE); T-Aidan O'Brien; J-Ryan Moore. €30,000. Lifetime Record: 4-2-1-0, $48,749. *Full to Taj Mahal (Ire), MGSW-Aus, GISP-US, GSP-Ire, $838,037; to Happily (Ire), Hwt. 2yo Filly-Fr, G1SW-Fr, G1SW-Ire, MG1SP-Eng, $878,482; to Coolmore (Ire), GSW-Ire, GISP-US, $238,593; to Marvellous (Ire), G1SW-Ire, $262,665; to Gleneagles (Ire), Hwt. 2yo Colt-Ire, Hwt. 3yo-Eur at 7-9 1/2f, Hwt. 3yo-Ire at 7-9 1/2f, MG1SW-Eng, MG1SW-Ire, G1SP-Fr, $1,427,036; & to Vatican City (Ire), G1SP-Ire. Werk Nick Rating: C+. Click for the eNicks report & 5-cross pedigree.
2–Flirting Bridge (Ire), 128, f, 3, Camelot (GB)–Rachevie (Ire), by Danehill Dancer (Ire). (€30,000 Wlg '18 GOFNOV; €55,000 Ylg '19 GOFSPT). O-Heather de Bromhead; B-T O'Dwyer & K O'Brien (IRE); T-Henry de Bromhead. €10,000.
3–Thinking of You, 128, f, 3, American Pharoah–Fabulous (Ire), by Galileo (Ire). O-Michael Tabor, Susan Magnier & Derrick Smith; B-Orpendale/Chelston/Wynatt (KY); T-Joseph O'Brien. €5,000.
Margins: 1 3/4, 1 3/4, HF. Odds: 2.75, 50.00, 40.00.
Also Ran: More Beautiful, Fantasy Lady (Ire), Sense of Style (Ire), Shandra (Ire), Acanella (GB), My Generation, Climate (Ire), Hazel (Ire). Click for the Racing Post result or the free Equineline.com catalogue-style pedigree.
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