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Found in Cartier contention
- Updated: October 5, 2016
Found’s victory in the Group One Qatar Prix de l’Arc de Triomphe has propelled the filly firmly into contention for top honours at the 2016 Cartier Racing Awards next month.
The four-year-old daughter of Galileo, owned by a Coolmore partnership, led home an unprecedented 1-2-3 for trainer Aidan O’Brien in the world’s richest turf race and now heads the points’ standings in the Cartier Older Horse category on 152.
Fellow Cartier Older Horse contender and this year’s King George VI & Queen Elizabeth Stakes (Sponsored by QIPCO) winner Highland Reel (104) chased home Found at Chantilly ahead of Gold Cup hero Order Of St George (84), who leads the standings in the Cartier Stayer Award.
O’Brien’s dominance has not been limited to the older division this year and Ireland’s champion Flat trainer is responsible for four of the five leaders on points for Cartier Horse Of The Year, with three-year-olds Minding (188), The Gurkha (128) and Alice Springs (118), successful in the Kingdom Of Bahrain Sun Chariot Stakes at Newmarket on October 1, featuring alongside Found. Galileo Gold (136), trained by Hugo Palmer for Al Shaqab Racing, is the only horse preventing an O’Brien clean sweep.
A scintillating weekend of racing at Chantilly also saw Darley July Cup winner Limato saunter to a three-length victory in the Qatar Prix de la Foret over seven furlongs. The Henry Candy-trained four-year-old, who races in the colours of Paul Jacobs, remains in contention for both the Cartier Older Horse Award (with 80 points) and the Cartier Sprinter Award (48) and could head to America next month for the Breeders’ Cup, with both the turf sprint and the mile under consideration for the son of Tagula.
Mecca’s Angel (64) beat Limato over five furlongs in the Coolmore Nunthorpe Stakes and the Michael Dods-trained mare came home third behind Marsha (36), from the Newmarket stable of Sir Mark Prescott, and the O’Brien-trained Washington DC (44) in the weekend’s big sprint, the Qatar Prix de l’Abbaye de Longchamp, over the same trip. Quiet Reflection (96) still leads the way for the Cartier Sprinter Award.
Four-year-old filly Speedy Boarding (80), trained in Newmarket by James Fanshawe, annexed a second Group One win in France this season with a brave success in the Prix de l’Opera Longines, on her final appearance before retiring to her owner/breeder Mark Weinfeld’s Meon Valley Stud.
A fruitful weekend for British-trained …
