By Tom Frary
She was highly unlikely to be as impressive as at Royal Ascot and while Ballydoyle's Listed Chesham Stakes-winning TDN Rising Star Bedtime Story (Ire) (Frankel {GB}–Mecca's Angel {Ire}, by Dark Angel {Ire}) wasn't as ruthless in Thursday evening's G3 Jockey Club Of Turkey Silver Flash Stakes, her class duly told in Leopardstown's joint-feature. Settled behind her course-and-distance-winning stablemate Exactly (Ire) (Frankel {GB}) by Ryan Moore, the 1-16 favourite was pulled out of her slipstream approaching the furlong pole and sent onwards to a 3 1/2-length success. There was another 1 3/4-length margin back to the Group 3 yardstick Barnavara (Ire) (Calyx {GB}) in third.
Aidan O'Brien, who was recording a 14th success in the seven-furlong contest, said, “I'm delighted with her, Ryan was delighted with her and said he didn't open her up. He said she was very green and in an ideal world he would have preferred the tempo to be quicker. He said he just came there and taught her. That's exactly what we came here for, for education. It's a great place to do it.”
“Ryan said she's very pacey and classy and sure we saw that–I'd say you couldn't go fast enough for her,” the master of Ballydoyle added. “Last year we ran Ylang Ylang here, made the running and mentally it did her a little bit of harm for the rest of the year. We had to go back and start again. That's why we let the other filly go along in front of her today, to educate her. I thought if she was well she'd go for the [G2] Debutante at The Curragh on the way to the [G1] Moyglare. The second filly is a lovely filly and she'll step up to a mile whenever we want her.”
Pedigree Notes
Bedtime Story is the fifth foal out of the dual G1 Nunthorpe S. heroine Mecca's Angel (Ire) (Dark Angel {Ire}), whose fourth is the stable's G3 Staffordstown Stud Stakes winner Content (Ire) by Frankel's sire Galileo (Ire) who has run third in the G1 Pretty Polly Stakes and second in the G1 Irish Oaks since Royal Ascot. Mecca's Angel is a full-sister to the G3 Chipchase Stakes and G3 Criterion Stakes winner Markaz (Ire) and a granddaughter of the G3 Prix d'Arenberg winner Desert Dawn (GB) (Belfort {Fr}), who was second in the G2 Norfolk Stakes here. Next up from Mecca's Angel's is a 2024 full-sister to Bedtime Story.
Thursday, Leopardstown, Ireland
JOCKEY CLUB OF TURKEY SILVER FLASH STAKES-G3, €50,000, Leopardstown, 7-25, 2yo, f, 7f 32yT, 1:32.00, g/y.
1–BEDTIME STORY (IRE), 128, f, 2, by Frankel (GB)
1st Dam: Mecca's Angel (Ire) (MG1SW-Eng, GSW-Ire,
GSW & G1SP-Fr, $999,035), by Dark Angel (Ire)
2nd Dam: Folga (GB), by Atraf (GB)
3rd Dam: Desert Dawn (GB), by Belfort (Fr)
1ST GROUP WIN. TDN Rising Star. O-Derrick Smith, Mrs John
Magnier & Michael Tabor; B-Coolmore (IRE); T-Aidan O'Brien;
J-Ryan Moore. €30,000. Lifetime Record: SW-Eng, 3-3-0-0,
$122,888. *1/2 to Content (Ire) (Galileo {Ire}), GSW &
MG1SP-Ire, $254,239. Werk Nick Rating: A+. Click for the
eNicks report & 5-cross pedigree, or the
free Equineline.com catalogue-style pedigree.
2–Exactly (Ire), 128, f, 2, Frankel (GB)–Heartache (GB), by
Kyllachy (GB). 1ST BLACK TYPE, 1ST GROUP BLACK TYPE.
O-Derrick Smith, Mrs John Magnier & Michael Tabor;
B-Coolmore (IRE); T-Aidan O'Brien. €10,000.
3–Barnavara (Ire), 128, f, 2, Calyx (GB)–Alfea (GB), by Kentucky
Dynamite. 1ST BLACK TYPE, 1ST GROUP BLACK TYPE.
(€70,000 Ylg '23 GOFOR). O-Alpha Racing; B-Mr Andriy
Milovonov & V Tymoshenko (IRE); T-Jessica Harrington.
€5,000.
Margins: 3HF, 1 3/4, 1 1/4. Odds: 0.06, 7.50, 28.00.
Also Ran: Senna's Girl (Ire), Varner (Ire).
📖 Bedtime Story 📖
The unbeaten daughter of Frankel follows up her runaway triumph in the Chesham at Royal Ascot with victory in the Group 3 Jockey Club Of Turkey Silver Flash Stakes at @LeopardstownRC under Ryan Moore. pic.twitter.com/lUN10RzAAp
— Racing TV (@RacingTV) July 25, 2024
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