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Two-year-old filly Monday breaks maiden at Leopardstown
Well-bred filly Monday (2 f ex Ballydoyle by Galileo) got trainer Aidan O’Brien’s Irish Champions weekend off to the best possible start as she broke her maiden at the second time of asking when taking out the Ingabelle Stakes (Listed, 7f) at Leopardstown and in the process brought up stakes winner number 159 for Coolmore Stud shuttler Fastnet Rock (Danehill).
The filly finished fourth on debut at Punchestown on September 3, but she put that defeat behind her when winning from the front to beat No Speak Alexander - who is by Arrowfield Stud shuttler Shalaa (Invincible Spirit) - by three-quarters of a length, while A Taad Moody (Awtaad) finished another length and a half away in third.
Monday is the first foal to race out of 2015 Prix Marcel Boussac (Gr 1, 1600m) winning Galileo (Sadler’s Wells) mare Ballydoyle, who is herself a sister to multiple Group 1-winning filly Misty For Me.
As well as being a champion racemare on the track, Misty For Me has proved herself a top-class broodmare, producing three-time elite level winner Roly Poly (War Front), Group 3 winner Cover Song and Listed winner Twirl (Galileo), while she is also the dam of three-time Group 1 scorer US Navy Flag (War Front), who shuttles to Valachi Downs in New Zealand.
Meanwhile, the filly’s third dam Mr P’s Princess (Mr. Prospector), who in turn produced dual Group 1-winning champion Fasliyev (Nureyev) and Group 3 scorer Kamarinskaya (Storm Cat).
The filly becomes the eighth stakes-winning two-year-old produced by Fastnet Rock in the northern hemisphere, with the octad headed by Group 1 winners Rivet and Intricately, who are incidentally both out of Galileo mares. The stallions total stakes-winning haul in the northern hemisphere now stands at 46, headlined by nine top-flight winners.
Monday becomes the 19th stakes winner bred on the Galileo / Fastnet Rock cross, which is headed by seven elite level scorers.
Fastnet Rock has shuttled to Coolmore’s Irish base for ten years and is currently standing at their Jerrys Plains stud in the Hunter Valley for a fee of $165,000 (inc GST).
No Blue Monday for team @Ballydoyle
— Racing TV (@RacingTV) September 12, 2020
The opening race of @IrishChampsWknd goes to Monday (Fastnet Rock) who breaks her maiden in the €100,000 Listed Ingabelle Stakes at @LeopardstownRC under Seamie Heffernan
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