Showed his inexperience first time out at Fairyhouse, started slowly and generally looked raw; top stable is in good form, and he should know more about it now.
Ardad colt is closely related to stakes-placed US 1m turf 2yo winner Iriseach, half-brother to 1m winner Far From Dandy; dam 7f winner, half-sister to Group-placed winner Sky Seven.
Gun Runner colt is the first foal of Queen Mary/Prix Morny and Commonwealth Cup winner Campanelle; Jack Cleary aboard, with Wayne Lordan on Man's Best Friend.
No Nay Never colt was apprentice-ridden and one of two stable outsiders on debut at the Curragh last month; emerged with credit in finishing fourth behind the subsequent Superlative Stakes runner-up Abraham Lincoln, runner-up Haffner also franked the form at a lower level at Newmarket; likely to prosper over further, but should be hard to beat all the same.
$125,000 Y; E200,000 2yo; fifth foal; half-brother to Canadian 6.5f/7f AW winner A Little Frisky (inc 2yo Listed); dam Canadian 6f AW 2yo winner, half-sister to useful and prolific 7.5f-1m1f winner Conquest Sandman.
E82,000 F, E125,000 Y; seventh foal; brother to 1m/1m2f winner Antipodes (RPR 105), half-brother to four winners inc Mackaar (8.6f 2yo/1m2f AW; 101) and Lexington Belle (Listed-placed 7f-8.6f inc 2yo/AW; 94); dam unplaced 7f/10.5f in France (66).
Second foal; half-brother to UAE 1m turf winner Samhahn (RPR 90); dam unraced half-sister to winners Franklyn (1m-1m3f) and Waterboy (1m), out of unraced half-sister to French Derby winner Study Of Man, family of top-class miler/broodmare Miesque.
Half-brother to a French winner; dam was a Group 3-winning sprinter, closely related to 6.5f Group 1 winner Polydream (Prix Maurice de Gheest), half-sister a to 7f/1m Listed winner.
65,000gns yearling, 200,000gns Breeze Up purchase; slowly away and ran green when odds-on for a Cork maiden won by the smart Ballinea Star; likely to pose a more serious threat now.
