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Post by Badactor on Sept 16, 2019 16:58:49 GMT -5
CAFE ALMA is entered to run on Wednesday!
Race 1 Saint-Cloud, September 18th.
She will be leaving the 10 hole of 17 with Augustin Madamet booked to ride.
Post time is 3:52 PM in France which is 9:52 AM EDT.
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Post by Badactor on Sept 16, 2019 17:03:38 GMT -5
 GO TEAM... GOOD LUCK!  |
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Post by 1hooper on Sept 16, 2019 18:00:57 GMT -5
And we have to butt heads with
Juddmonte
The AgaKhan
Hamdan Al Maktoum
Flaxman
Goerge Strawbridge
Wertheimer Bros
Hooper
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Post by tenfurlongs on Sept 18, 2019 7:18:55 GMT -5
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Post by Badactor on Sept 18, 2019 9:15:23 GMT -5
Not a winner today, but oh so beautiful on the turf course @ Saint Cloud.
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Post by Badactor on Oct 12, 2019 10:15:38 GMT -5
CAFÉ ALMA has been entered to run in race 6 at Pornichet on Saturday, October 12th.
She will be leaving the 4 post of 9 traveling 1,700 meters with Soufiane Saadi booked to ride.
Post time is 7:35 PM in France which is 1:35 PM EDT and 10:35 AM on the west coast. CAFÉ ALMA returns today for her second start, having just gone through the motions at Saint- Cloud
on the occasion of her racing debut at 2 in France. The 1 1/16-mile all-weather race will be contested today.
H.A. Pantall expects her to relish the going as she trains well on a similar surface at home. A big run is fully anticipated. |
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Post by Badactor on Oct 15, 2019 17:59:24 GMT -5
CAFÉ ALMA finished last but one beaten just under 9 lengths on Saturday on a synthetic track at Pornichet in France. Unlike in her debut, when she basically trailed throughout, this time she was close up tracking the action. She looked to be lacking fitness and, sure enough, when the real running began, she could not keep pace and fell back in the final sixteenth of a mile. Barry Irwin said “She is a big, good-looking specimen with a nice stride, but she is not inspiring confidence so far. This race will promote her fitness, so we should find out what we’ve got in her next start. She needs to step up now.” SALZENGEL, another of the French yearlings bought last season,
is showing trainer Jane Soubagne talent in her training,
but she is having trouble “getting over the hump.”
The Dabirsim filly goes weak after her breezes.
The trainer hopes to race her this season, but she is not confident in doing so. HELIABEL has breezed a few times on the grass for French trainer Simone Brogi,
who says she can run, and he plans to debut her in the South of France towards the very end of the season.
The very big (he says she enormous!) daughter of high-flying Coolmore sire Camelot has come around nicely
given her size and backward nature. She was bought last October at the Arqana yearling sale in Deauville.
New in the filly’s third dam since purchase are Tacitus (G1 Wood Memorial)
and unbeaten Irish 2yo Group 1 winner Siskin, both racing this season.
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Post by Badactor on Feb 20, 2020 22:38:59 GMT -5
Three year old filly ATTENDANTE,
half-sister to Group winner FLEETING,
at work in France. She is trained by Yan Durepaire
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Post by Badactor on Feb 21, 2020 11:11:42 GMT -5
HELIABEL, one of the Valor French Yearling Venture fillies bought in the fall of 2018,
is among 28 sophomore fillies entered to run next Thursday for trainer Simone Brogi
over 2150 meters (50 meters shy of 11 furlongs) on the all-weather surface at La Soie Racecourse in Lyon.
The maiden race features entries for top trainers like Andre Fabre and Carlos Laffon-Parias.
One of the entrants has placed in 11 of 13 races and comes off consecutive runner-up finishes. CAFÉ ALMA, reports trainer Henri-Alex Pantall,
“Everything is going on, the filly is gently preparing to resume competition,
she has had a good winter and should be able to return to a racetrack in mid- March.”
In a few starts at 2 on all-weather and turf, she did not show a lot.
The Dabirsim filly was bought as a yearling in France in the fall of 2018. |
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Post by Badactor on Feb 27, 2020 10:17:37 GMT -5
10 minutes to post... LYON LA SOIE racecourse (FR).
Bonne chance to Heliabel, 1hooper, tenfurlongs & moi. |
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Post by Badactor on Feb 27, 2020 10:41:02 GMT -5
YES! We won... oh my goodness, this is great!!!  |
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Post by Badactor on Feb 27, 2020 11:20:32 GMT -5
 #14 HELIABLE |
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Post by tc on Feb 27, 2020 12:44:12 GMT -5
Bravo a vous trois!
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Post by tenfurlongs on Feb 27, 2020 13:48:40 GMT -5
THAT was awesome!!! We won!!! Horse looked good doing it, too. Hooper, you are aces, man. How about that Mr. Yount?
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Post by propro on Feb 27, 2020 21:55:11 GMT -5
Awesome job! Big finish there. Off to the turf when the grass opens up over there?
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Post by 1hooper on Feb 28, 2020 7:30:02 GMT -5
Saw the replay last night while in Virginia. Not much can beat the feeling of a winning stretch drive.
Congrats to my partners!
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Post by tenfurlongs on Feb 28, 2020 11:40:51 GMT -5
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Post by Badactor on Feb 28, 2020 13:01:14 GMT -5
Love the translation.
Constamment en dehors, près du groupe de tête,
a été prise de vitesse au début de la ligne droite,
mais s'est très bien relancée, faisant preuve de supériorité à la fin.
...showing superiority at the end.
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Post by Badactor on Feb 28, 2020 14:44:49 GMT -5
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Post by 1hooper on Feb 28, 2020 19:14:21 GMT -5
The latest from the trainer.
Posting from Savannah Georgia tonight. Spotty e-mail.
Partners enjoying the win!
Heliabel, the second runner to represent the 4-filly yearling partnership formed in October of 2018, made a winning debut yesterday at Lyon’s La Soie racecourse in France, when she “ran in on” trainer Simone Brogi, who admitted he was “pleasantly surprised” with the outcome.
The Italian-born, French-based second-generation trainer said “It was a nice and welcome surprise. She had worked well a couple of times and I thought she had talent, as I had advised you the day before, but as big as she is and as tight as that track at Lyon on the all-weather is, I did not expect to see a winning race on debut.
“Whatever she was capable of accomplishing today, I fully expect to see much better next time and in the future, as she will progress from race to race, as we stretch her out even farther and place her on the grass. She is a promising filly.”
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Post by propro on Feb 28, 2020 21:58:12 GMT -5
Saw the replay last night while in Virginia. Not much can beat the feeling of a winning stretch drive. Congrats to my partners! Like on a sloppy track in Delaware? Still a memorable day for me watching your filly win there with you. Seems like forever ago. |
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Post by Deleted on Feb 29, 2020 0:17:27 GMT -5
Felicitations mes amis!
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Post by 1hooper on Feb 29, 2020 7:39:43 GMT -5
Pro,it was forever ago. July 2004. That winners circle photo still brings a smile.
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Post by Badactor on Mar 6, 2020 16:16:13 GMT -5
Still savoring the victory...
HELIABEL
has returned in good shape from her victory last week in Lyon according to her trainer Simone Brogi,
who will now look for another likely spot for the gigantic Camelot filly.
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Post by Badactor on Mar 11, 2020 10:51:22 GMT -5
HELIABEL shown last Friday at the yard of Simone Brogi in the South of France,
where the filly will not race again until there is a grass contest for her at about 11⁄2 miles.
“She is quite well proportioned when one considers how tall she is at over 17 hands high,” Barry Irwin said this week.
There is a race for her on the all-weather in Deauville, but Irwin scotched that race as it was back too soon
and over too short of a distance. “We want to see her stretch out on the grass.”
SALZENGEL is among 10 maiden males and females set to race 2100 meters
Friday in her racing debut at Toulouse racecourse in the South of France
for The Black Album’s former trainer Jane Soubagne.
Jockeys have not yet been named nor post positions drawn, so there is not much to report.
The tall 3-year-old Dabirsim filly was among those yearling bought in October of 2018
as part of the French Yearling Venture.
She has been a long time in coming around because of immaturity and a lack of strength.
The trainer has been extremely patient with her.
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Post by 5wide on Mar 11, 2020 12:09:09 GMT -5
Congrats to all involved. WELL DONE !
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Post by Badactor on Mar 12, 2020 13:34:19 GMT -5
Salzengel: entered to run race 4 at Toulouse on Saturday, March 14th.
She will be leaving post 6 of 8 traveling 2,100 meters with Mickael Forest booked to ride.
Post time is 1:27 PM Eastern Standard Time.
This race can be watched live with a free account on the France-Galop website
by clicking 'Live' at the top of the screen. The screen will show the race name,
in this case 'Prix D'Essai', until a few minutes before they load into the gates
at which point the video will start playing automatically.
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Post by Badactor on Mar 14, 2020 11:35:54 GMT -5
SALZENGEL DRAW 6 IN FIELD OF 8 GOING 101⁄2 FURLONGS IN FRANCE DABIRSIM FILLY
RIDDEN BY JOCKEY WHO WON LAST WEEK ON HELIABEL. SHE FACES COLTS/FILLIES
IN RACE RESTRICTED TO FIRST-TIME STARTERS. Salzengel, among 4 yearlings bought in France by Team Valor, will become the third to race
when she is among 9 debutantes racing Sat. at Toulouse over 2100 meters (101⁄2 furlongs) on grass
for her trainer Jane Soubagne. Best known to TVI partners and the racing world as the developer of Group-winning French juvenile
and multiple stakes winner The Black Album, third-generation trainer Soubagne has been exceedingly
patient with the out-sized daughter of Dabirsim, a son of Barry Irwin’s ex-stallion Hat Trick. A brilliant juvenile in France and the Champion Freshman there as well,
he lately has been making a name for himself as a sire of middle-distance types.
“When I bought this filly I was expecting an early runner, but she never stopped growing
and is only now able to make it to the races,” Irwin said. Trainer Soubagne has been steadfast and determined in her patient handling of the filly
and waited until she had gained the required strength to make her first racecourse appearance.
Asked what she expected on Sunday, she responded as follows: “More we approach the race,
more she seems to me to be more awake now, she is in good condition. I hope to see her begin properly
by finishing in the first three. I don’t hide my stress and I hope she and I won’t disappoint you.” As none of the debutantes has yet to make a start and workouts are neither clocked or reported,
there is very little to go on before the race, other to handicap the pedigrees and connections. As for Salzengel (which translates to Salt Angel with a nod to her family that “has a lot of Salt names in it,”
named Kathleen Irwin says), she will be ridden by Michael Forest. “Mickey,” as TVI will refer to him going forward
in an effort to more Anglicize it, won last week aboard Heliabel, the first winner to represent the yearling venture.
Forest currently ranks 25th on the nation’s standings with 6 wins this season. He rides in the South of France.
Madame Soubagne has 4 wins this season, which is a reasonable figure for the number of horses she trains in her locale. As seems to be the case with virtually every race worth winning in France,
the Wertheimer Brothers are represented by a homebred that usually is the horse to beat.
In this instance, their Euclidia is a daughter of sire failure Maxios out of a Galileo mare
and is trained by far and away the winningest trainer among those with stock in the race
in Mon. Cristophe Ferland (16 wins, ranked third nationally in 2020) and ridden by far and away
the premier rider in the race, the first-rate jockey Maxim Guyon.
FYI there are 6 fillies and 2 males in the cast of 8 on Sat.
RACE STARTS IN UNDER AN HOUR... good luck to our Salzengel!
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Post by Badactor on Mar 14, 2020 12:43:13 GMT -5
She wasn't a monster, but she showed some interest. Still love her.
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Post by shoes on Mar 19, 2020 8:31:39 GMT -5
Just now reading this thread. How exciting, love the names too.
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