A well-bred daughter of Dubawi (Ire), Opulent Restraint donned cap and gown at second asking upstate Sept. 1. The gray was well-backed by the public here at 75 cents on the dollar.
Settling at the rear of the field into the first turn with Rare Art (Munnings), the filly was on hold up the backstretch, but started to get underway before the top of the lane. Shifting into high gear in the three path, the juvenile took command with a furlong left and despite a challenge from her rival Rare Art was able to realize her first black-type score.
“We are very proud of her [Opulent Restraint],” said breeder Peter Brant, whose wife Stephanie Seymour Brant owns the horse. “She has a full-sister coming over here to Chad [Brown] for next year, a yearling that is really special as well, so we are very blessed to have these two fillies. She is by Dubawi as well.”
About breeding Significant Form to Dubawi, Brant said: “He was when we bred to him, arguably one of the best stallions in the world. So, we thought that she [Significant Form] looked like she was a solid miler, mile and a sixteenth, seven-eighths, middle distance horse, and that maybe Dubawi would give her a little bit more distance, but kind of like-to-like in terms of distance. We've been lucky with her she's had some very nice foals, Significant Form. She's doing very well. She was bred to Justify last. We brought her over here to breed her to Justify, so she is in this country now.”
The winner's is her dam's first registered foal. Opulent Restraint's yearling full-sister who Brant mentioned is Isadora Duncan (Ire). The breeder purchased Significant Form at the 2017 OBS 2-Year-Olds In Training Sale for $575,000. This dam foaled a filly by Kingman (GB) Feb. 29 and she was sent to Justify for next term. Her half-sister to GIII Commonwealth Turf Cup Stakes hero Hay Dakota (Haynesfield).
CHELSEY FLOWER S., $145,500, Belmont The Big A, 10-20, 2yo, f, 1 1/16mT, 1:41.83, fm.
1–OPULENT RESTRAINT (IRE), 120, f, 2, by Dubawi (Ire)
1st Dam: Significant Form (MGSW, $817,216),
by Creative Cause
2nd Dam: Church by the Sea, by Harlan's Holiday
3rd Dam: Witness Post, by Gone West
1ST BLACK TYPE WIN. O-Stephanie Seymour Brant; B-White Birch Farm Sc (IRE); T-Chad C. Brown; J-Flavien Prat. $82,500. Lifetime Record: 3-2-0-0, $143,500.
2–Rare Art, 120, f, 2, Munnings–Adjudication, by Giant's Causeway. ($170,000 Ylg '23 KEESEP). 1ST BLACK TYPE. O-Woodford Racing, LLC and Team D; B-Ralph Ebert (KY); T-Anthony W. Dutrow. $30,000.
3–She's Our Tiz, 120, f, 2, Munnings–Tizsomethingroyal, by Tizway. ($130,000 Ylg '23 SARAUG; $170,000 2yo '24 OBSMAR). 1ST BLACK TYPE. O-Gary Anderson and Janet Anderson; B-Triumphant Trio (NY); T-Michelle Giangiulio. $18,000.
Margins: NO, 1 1/4, 4 1/4. Odds: 0.75, 1.75, 18.80.
Also Ran: Mangetsu, Grace and Grit. Scratched: Duboff, Fortuna Mia.
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OPULENT RESTRAINT wins the Chelsey Flower Stakes in a close finish! Jockey Flavien Prat and trainer Chad Brown team up for another victory. pic.twitter.com/wDnmeyFZZ1
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