By Tom Frary
Sunday's black-type action is spread across Europe, with Goodwood's Listed Weatherbys/British EBF Agnes Keyser Fillies' S. one of the lesser of its kind in terms of status but possibly the most interesting of all given that it acts as the platform for the second act of TDN Rising Star Sea Just In Time (Ire) (Sea The Stars {Ire}). Sunderland Holdings' homebred impressed on debut at Newmarket's Guineas Festival and holds an entry in the G1 Irish Oaks.
“She's taking a while to come to herself and still looks a bit backward in her coat,” William Haggas said. “The race at Newmarket took the stuffing out of her and I've wanted to run her before now to see if she was a Ribblesdale type. We missed those because I wasn't happy with her, but she's fine now. She won't run in the Ribblesdale and we will just see how we go on Sunday, she might not even win on Sunday but hopefully she will run a good race. We will take one step at a time with her.”
ParisLongchamp boasts five black-type events, with the pick being the G3 Prix Paul de Moussac where Nurlan Bizakov's winning machine Lazzat (Fr) (Territories {Ire}) goes again. Up to a mile for the first time, the G3 Prix Djebel scorer has to navigate the European Pattern open to geldings and there are a lot of those upcoming. In the G3 La Coupe, Al Shaqab Racing's 2022 Arc fourth Al Hakeem (GB) (Siyouni {Fr}) is on the comeback trail, while the day's other notable race is Hoppegarten's G3 Diana Trial where Gestut Rottgen's unexposed Erle (Ger) (Reliable Man {GB}) is on the path to emulate the 2010 G1 Preis Der Diana victory of her second dam Enora (Ger) (Noverre).
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