What's In a Name: Cabaletta

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There is plenty of music in the pedigree of Newbury listed winner Cabaletta (GB). She is out of Allegretto (Ire) (Galileo {Ire}) (moderately fast tempo in classical music, 102-110bpm technically speaking), herself out of Alleluia (GB) (Caerleon). Still, the name of this filly is particularly fitting: a “cabaletta” can be defined as an operatic aria with a simple, animated rhythm, and, according to Wikipedia, “the word may derive  from the Italian cavallo (horse), a reference to the pulsating rhythm of a galloping horse”. In fact, both jockey David Egan and the TDN race reporter seem to agree that this talented and promising filly has to be kept in a steady and controlled rhythm until the finale, when, as Walt Whitman would put it, “with music strong she comes”.

BET365 APHRODITE FILLIES' S.-Listed, £25,500, Newbury, 7-18, 3yo/up, f/m, 12fT, 2:32.10, gd.
1–CABALETTA (GB), 117, f, 3, by Mastercraftsman (Ire)
   Allegretto (Ire) (Hwt. Older Mare-Eng at 11-14f, 2x Hwt.
   Older Mare-Eng at 14f+, G1SW-Fr, MGSW & MG1SP-Eng,
   $962,172), by Galileo (Ire). 'TDN Rising Star'. 1ST BLACK-TYPE
   WIN. O/B-Cheveley Park Stud Ltd (GB); T-Roger Varian; J-David
Egan. ,14,461. Lifetime Record: 4-2-1-0, $35,663. *69th SW for
her sire (by Danehill Dancer {Ire}).

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