By Tom Frary
Stepping up a furlong having broken her maiden at the third attempt over six at Naas Sept. 15, Charles Fipke's homebred filly Spirit Gal (Fr) (Invincible Spirit {Ire}) made all to annexe Friday's Listed Irish Stallion Farms EBF StarAppeal S. at Dundalk. Sent off the 4-1 joint-second favourite, the bay gave generously for Seamie Heffernan as she had last time and never let Ballydoyle's Cairo (Ire) (Quality Road) make a fight of it as she kept that 11-10 market-leader at bay to score by 2 1/4 lengths. “She is in a group 3 in France, but she needs good ground and the Breeders' Cup could be on the cards–we'll have to see,” trainer Willie Browne said.
The dam Awesome Gal (Ire) (Galileo {Ire}), whose full-sister to the winner sells at the upcoming Arqana Deauville October Yearling Sale, is a daughter of the stakes-placed Always Awesome (Awesome Again). She produced the stakes scorer Street Secret (Street Cry {Ire}), who in turn threw the G1 Storm Queen S. and G1 Australian Oaks-placed Frankely Awesome (Aus) (Frankel {GB}). The third dam Anzille (Plugged Nickle) is a half to the great Urban Sea (Miswaki) and the brilliant 2000 Guineas hero King's Best, linking Spirit Gal to Galileo (Ire) and Sea The Stars (Ire) et al.
IRISH STALLION FARMS EBF STAR APPEAL S.-Listed, €47,500, Dundalk, 9-30, 2yo, 7f (AWT), 1:24.84, st.
1–SPIRIT GAL (FR), 126, f, 2, by Invincible Spirit (Ire)
1st Dam: Awesome Gal (Ire), by Galileo (Ire)
2nd Dam: Always Awesome, by Awesome Again
3rd Dam: Anzille, by Plugged Nickle
1ST BLACK TYPE WIN. O/B-Charles E Fipke (FR); T-Willie Browne; J-Seamus Heffernan. €28,500. Lifetime Record: 4-2-1-0, $41,114.
2–Cairo (Ire), 131, c, 2, Quality Road–Cuff (Ire), by Galileo (Ire).
1ST BLACK TYPE. O-D Smith,Mrs J Magnier,M Tabor,Westerberg; B-Coolmore (IRE); T-Aidan O'Brien. €9,500.
3–Pearling Path (Fr), 131, c, 2, Holy Roman Emperor (Ire)–Sacrifice My Soul (Ire), by Nayef. (£80,000 Ylg '21 GOFFUK). O-Fawzi Abdulla Nass; B-Fair Salinia Ltd (FR); T-John O'Donoghue. €4,750.
Margins: 2 1/4, 3, HF. Odds: 4.00, 1.10, 12.00.
Also Ran: Borletti (Ire), Navalny (Ire), Imadpour (Ire), Spirit Genie (Ire), As It Was (Ire), Daamberdiplomat (Ire), Sheyya (Ire).
Spirit Gal was up in trip for the Listed Irish Stallion Farms European Breeders Fund Star Appeal Stakes at @DundalkStadium but it just gives her supporters more time to enjoy her! pic.twitter.com/KTHkGG6B4g
— Racing TV (@RacingTV) September 30, 2022
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