By Tom Frary
Coming into Saturday's six-furlong G3 Heider Family Stables Round Tower S. off an eye-catching third in a median sires series maiden over the same trip and Curragh track earlier in the month, Alymer Stud's Letsbefrankaboutit (Ire) (Sioux Nation) justified 2-1 favouritism to provide the Paddy Twomey stable with another notable pattern-race success.
Confidently ridden buried in mid-division early by Billy Lee, the €240,000 Tatts Ireland Goresbridge Breeze-Up purchase was produced with a smooth run to overhaul Mansa Musa (Ire) (Ten Sovereigns {Ire}) passing the furlong pole en route to a half-length score.
“He learned a lot the last day when he had to race on his own, he won his race,” Twomey said. “He was a bit babyish before the race the last day but he was very good today, didn't put a foot wrong and did what I hoped he'd do. It takes a lot for me to run a maiden in a Group 3, but I just thought he might be fit for it. He's a big horse, we won't overdo it this year and hopefully we'll have a nice horse for a couple of years to come.”
Pedigree Notes
Letsbefrankaboutit's dam Omanome (Ire) (Acclamation {GB}) is a granddaughter of the similarly precocious Dance Sequence (Mr. Prospector), who captured the G2 Lowther S. and was placed in the G3 Queen Mary S. and G3 Cherry Hinton S. From the family of the sire Doneraile Court, her filly foal is by James Garfield (Ire).
Saturday, The Curragh, Ireland
HEIDER FAMILY STABLES ROUND TOWER S.-G3, €55,000, Curragh, 8-26, 2yo, 6fT, 1:11.70, gd.
1–LETSBEFRANKABOUTIT (IRE), 131, c, 2, by Sioux Nation
1st Dam: Omanome (Ire), by Acclamation (GB)
2nd Dam: Dance Set (GB), by Selkirk
3rd Dam: Dance Sequence, by Mr. Prospector
1ST BLACK-TYPE WIN, 1ST GROUP WIN. (€40,000 Ylg '22
GOFSPT; €240,000 2yo '23 TATGOR). O-Alymer Stud; B-John
Halton & Partners (IRE); T-Paddy Twomey; J-Billy Lee.
€33,000. Lifetime Record: 2-1-0-1, $38,090. Werk Nick
Rating: A+. Click for the eNicks report & 5-cross pedigree, or
the free Equineline.com catalogue-style pedigree.
2–Mansa Musa (Ire), 131, c, 2, Ten Sovereigns (Ire)–Sundiata
(GB), by Showcasing (GB). 1ST BLACK TYPE, 1ST GROUP BLACK
TYPE. (60,000gns Wlg '21 TADEWE; 55,000gns Ylg '22 TATOCT;
€49,383 RNA 2yo '23 GOFFDU). O-Team Valor International
LLC; B-Middlelane Farm (IRE); T-Diego Dias. €11,000.
3–Chandigah (Ire), 131, c, 2, Churchill (Ire)–Inhale (GB), by
Bated Breath (GB). 1ST BLACK TYPE, 1ST GROUP BLACK TYPE.
(€20,000 Ylg '22 GOFSPT). O-Ahmad Abdulla Ali bin Ghalita
Almheiri; B-Camas Park, Lynch Bages & Summerhill (IRE);
T-Darren Bunyan. €5,500.
Margins: HF, 1 1/4, 3/4. Odds: 2.00, 7.50, 12.00.
Also Ran: Mountain Bear (Ire), Do It With Style (Ire), Buyin Buyin (Ire), Bella Colombia (Ire), Sturlasson (Ire), The Caribbean (Ire), G'Day Mate (GB).
LETSBEFRANKABOUTIT wins the Group 3 Heider Family Stables Round Tower Stakes for @paddytwomey & Allymer Stud
The son of @coolmorestud Sioux Nation was a brzup from @katiewalsh9 Greenhills Farm @tatts_ireland to @AvenueBstock
Well done to everyone ! pic.twitter.com/02xvgW7SQ2— Breeze Up Sales (@BrzUps) August 26, 2023
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