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28 for No Nay Never - Nymphadora landed Marygate Fillies' Stakes
The Andrew Balding-trained Nymphadora (2 f ex Bewitchment by Pivotal) produced an impressive display to win the Marygate Fillies' Stakes (Listed, 5f) at York on Friday and in the process handed former Coolmore Stud shuttler No Nay Never (Scat Daddy) with his 28th stakes winner.
The two-year-old filly kept on well inside the final furlong to beat Canonized (Acclamation) by a length and a quarter, while Crazyland (Kodiac) was another half a length away in third.
Purchased by Church Farm and Horse Park Stud for 90,000gns at the 2019 Tattersalls December Foals Sale, before being purchased by Blandford Bloodstock for 185,000gns at Book 2 of the Tattersalls October Yearling Sale last year.
The filly is out of the placed Pivotal (Polar Falcon) mare Bewitchment, who was purchased by Tweenhills for 150,000gns at the Tattersalls December Mares Sale in 2018.
Bewitchment herself is a daughter of Listed-scorer Hypnotize (Machiavellian) and she is the dam of Group 1 winner Hooray (Invincible Spirit) and Listed winner Hypnotic (Lomitas).
The filly’s third dam is stakes-placed Belle Et Deluree (The Minstrel) and she produced nine winners headed by Group 2 scorer Dazzle (Gone West) and Listed-winning duo Baschar (Starcraft) and Fantasize (Groom Dancer).
Further back this is the same pedigree as Group 2 winner Danehurst (Danhill) and Listed winners Humouresque (Pivotal) and Rising Legend (Rock Of Gibraltar).
Bewitchment’s colt from the first southern hemisphere crop of shuttler Zoustar (Northern Meteor) was purchased by David Howden for 100,000gns at the Tattersalls December Foal Sale last year.
No Nay Never’s total stakes winners are headed by top flight-winning trio Ten Sovereigns, Brooke and Alcohol Free, while he has sired one stakes winner in New Zealand; Need I Say More.
He shuttled to Coolmore’s Hunter Valley farm for four seasons between 2016 and 2019 but did not return last spring.
Congratulations to connections of Nymphadora, winner of the Listed Marygate Stakes at @yorkracecourse
— Tweenhills (@Tweenhills) May 14, 2021
The 2yo filly was bred at Tweenhills for The Bewitchment Partnership and sold for 90,000gns at the @Tattersalls1766 foal sales.
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A few races later, Nymphadora’s stablemate Spanish Mission (5 c Noble Mission - Limonar by Street Cry) chalked up his fifth win at stakes level when he landed the Yorkshire Cup (Gr 2, 1m6f).
The five-year-old son of Noble Mission (Galileo) defeated last year’s Irish Derby (Gr 1, 1m4f) winner Santiago (Authorized) by a comfortable two and three-quarter lengths, while Sir Ron Priestley (Australia) was another length away in third.
Noble Mission - who is a brother to unbeaten superstar and now Juddmonte Farms’ sire Frankel - has sired two other stakes winners; Grade 1 scorer Code Of Honor and Grade 2 scorer Jouster and he stood at Lane’s End Farm in Kentucky, until being relocated to Shizunai Stallion Station in Japan last year.
Later on at York, the Derrinstown Stud-based sire Awtaad (Cape Cross) was handed his second stakes winner when the Ed Walker-trained Premio Bacio (3 f ex Suvenna by Arcano) landed the Oaks Farm Stables Fillies’ Stakes (Listed, 1m).
Last seen running a good third behind Alcohol Free (No Nay Never) in the Fred Darling Stakes (Gr 3, 7f) at Newbury on April 18, the three-year-old filly surged clear in the final stages to beat Creative Flair (Dubawi) by three lengths. Snow Lantern (Frankel) - who was sent off the well-fancied 10/11 favourite - never looked comfortable and eventually finished another two lengths behind in third.
Walker said he had always held the filly in high regard and she would now head to the Coronation Stakes (Gr 1, 1m) at Royal Ascot next month.
“She just had to relax to get the trip – that was going to be the key with her. She was a bit keen and a bit fresh at Newbury and got stopped dead in her tracks. Who knows how close she’d have got? She got properly stopped at a key point of a race,” said Walker.
“It was discussed afterwards whether we should supplement her for the Guineas, but it was never really an option in my mind.
“She improved so much through the winter and was working the house down, hence we ran a 79-rated filly in a Group 3. She’s got a great turn of foot and picked up very well today. The Coronation Stakes at Royal Ascot will be next.”
Purchased by SackvillDonald for 100,000gns at Book 1 of the Tattersalls October Yearling Sale in 2019, the filly is out of dual-winning mare Suvenna (Arcano) and she is herself a half-sister to Group 3 scorer Bocca Baciata (Big Bad Bob) as well as Group 3-winning duo Topeka (Whipper) and Kalsa (Whipper).
Primo Bacio joins Ebeko as Awtaad’s other stakes winner and he has sired 24 winners in total.
Spanish Mission continues his progression with success in the Yorkshire Cup at @yorkracecourse for William Buick & Andrew Balding
— Racing TV (@RacingTV) May 14, 2021
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