2-y-os 2016 incorporating First Season Sires

In the 6.30 at Windsor, Jule In The Crown provides FSS HARBOUR WATCH with his first winner. That will make at least one of our members feel just a little better.
 
Eleanora Duse said:
Sorry but I've been watching Bell's gallops again. I can't help myself.
Last year I was worried I was watching the porridge gallops. This year I don't know. He has his first runner today in Elementary. He is a half-brother to the useful Husbandry. He has only been seen once by me and he put himself near the front of the queue of Bell's 2yos. So will not be surprised if he runs well but probably should just be watched on his debut.
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A bit premature. He was withdrawn and goes now on Satyrday at Newmarket. A good sign?
 
Colin Phillips said:
In the 6.30 at Windsor, Jule In The Crown provides FSS HARBOUR WATCH with his first winner. That will make at least one of our members feel just a little better.
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This ran well I thought, but the commentator I think was going a bit overboard suggesting it was possibly meant for the Queen Mary. Wasn't that impressive a win. However if the second in the race franks the form next time out with an impressive run then maybe it's possible. Think it was called Bashida on debut for Clive Cox and once it got the idea ran on really well.
 
Have to revise my comments as Hart Stopper now becomes Bell's first 2yo to run (Friday Haydock). Elementary (Exceed and Excel) looked very reasonable in a gallop with a horse called Winston C and another called Ronald R, who had both seemed near the top of the pile in earlier gallops: this prompted my earlier post about him. However Elementary was seen for a 2nd time in a gallop with Hart Stopper, Cheval Blanche and Notalot. HS andElementary looked to be cruising over the others but in the end HS had it over Cheval Blanche (who needed stoking up) with Elementary very much 3rd. This looked serious work to me. A later gallop saw Cheval Blanche easily take his galloping companions, one of whom, Dancing Elegance, is not far behind Ronald R and Winson C.
So I'd say Hart Stopper (a Compton Place colt) is at the top of the pile and that Bell will be disappointed if he doesn't show some promise. The problem for everyone watching the gallops is that you only see a selection of gallops so never have a complete picture.
 
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Hart Stopper (mentioned by Eleonora Duse) fell out of the stalls and was green at first but improved from halfway to finish a promising third, in the Haydock 7.00.
 
Some better class 2-y-os beginning to appear now.

A few to have a look at today.

Newmarket 1.50
SEE THE CITY is a Lawman half-brother to Corsica (third in 2010 St. Leger) and Tenor (fifth in 2014 Cambridgeshire and winner of an 8f. Listed at Sandown).

Curragh 3.20
HOW (16/1) didn't show a lot on debut at Naas over %f. but she is a full-sister to Minding (the 1,000 Guineas winner) and Kissed By Angels (winner of the Group 3 1,000 Guineas Trial at Leopardstown last year).

Goodwood 4.00
PEPITA, by Sir Prancelot (who has made a good start as a sire), is a half-sister to Redolent (winner of the 8f. Listed Heron Stakes at Sandown in 2008).

York 4.20
MEGAN LILY, by FSS DRAGON PULSE, is a half-sister to Yellow Rosebud(Group 3 winner at Tipperary) and Seeharn (second in a Listed event at Saint-Cloud). She is trained by Richard Fahey whose first-time-out 2-y-os are always worth a look.

Curragh 4.30
Caravaggio is a short-priced O'Brien favourite for this but his stablemate AMBIGUITY is of interest being a full-brother to Cougar Mountain (third in last year's Queen Anne). Ambiguity won on debut over five furlongs but couldn't compete with Psychedelic Funk on his second run.
 
Of the five I mentioned yesterday only one failed to give an each-way return.

That's not important, here is the up-to-date table of winners for First Season Sires:

STALLION WINNERS–RUNNERS WINS RUNS 2ND 3RD 4TH WIN PRIZE TOTAL PRIZE
Sir Prancealot 5–20 25% 6 40 7 6 2 £31,534 £44,984
Helmet 4–6 67% 5 10 3 1 0 £18,041 £30,180
Sayif 2–6 33% 3 12 0 2 3 £10,027 £13,298
Elzaam 3–9 33% 3 14 4 2 0 £17,451 £24,837
Delegator 2–3 67% 2 5 0 0 1 £6,469 £6,661
Power 2–7 29% 2 10 2 0 2 £10,018 £15,256
Mayson 2–9 22% 2 13 3 3 2 £9,537 £24,151
Dragon Pulse 2–12 17% 2 20 7 2 2 £8,798 £23,448
Bated Breath 2–12 17% 2 20 3 3 4 £6,469 £13,046
Frankel 1–1 100% 1 1 0 0 0 £6,469 £6,469
Sepoy 1–2 50% 1 2 1 0 0 £4,528 £7,138
Requinto 1–4 25% 1 4 0 0 0 £7,439 £7,439
Foxwedge 1–10 10% 1 16 5 2 1 £2,911 £9,297
Harbour Watch 1–13 8% 1 18 2 1 3 £4,270 £8,412
Famous Name 0–1 — 0 1 0 0 0 £0 £0
So You Think 0–1 — 0 2 0 0 1 £0 £697
Nathaniel 0–2 — 0 2 0 0 1 £0 £216
Born To Sea 0–3 — 0 3 0 1 0 £0 £962
Casamento 0–5 — 0 6 1 1 2 £0 £2,214
Excelebration 0–6 — 0 10 2 1 4 £0 £4,713
 
Bell runs his second 2yo today and it is Notalot who is by the FSS Sir Prancealot. He was the 4th member of the Hart Stopper/Elementary gallop and very much 4th in terms of performance. However with a hood applied he’s apparently come on a great deal. So I’ve now seen him in a two-horse gallop with Elementary and though Elementary looks to hold Notalot for most of the gallop at the business end it is Notalot who has the upper hand. So a good run from Notalot would increase any confidence Bell has, and we should have, in his 2yos.
 
Notalot's run not too encouraging, ED.

Loved the chat with Giles Bravery, the winning trainer, difficult to take him seriously but makes me laugh, I once was interviewed by him in his kitchen with his young baby on his lap.
 
Colin Phillips said:
Notalot's run not too encouraging, ED.

Loved the chat with Giles Bravery, the winning trainer, difficult to take him seriously but makes me laugh, I once was interviewed by him in his kitchen with his young baby on his lap.
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So far not looking too kushti for Bell.

I remember an interview with Bravery after he'd won the Cherry Hinton, think the filly was Zeit Unseen or something. He was very ebullient and his message was 'give me the tools and I'll finish the job'. With some trainers I wonder if give me the the job and I'll finish the tools shouldn't be their catchphrase.

Barrington's win backs up the the form of that race at Newbury the other day.
 
FSS FRANKEL has his second runner tomorrow, Majoris in the Haydock 2.40. He is the first foal of his dam, Drops, who was no great shakes on the racecourse but she is out of Alexandrova and is a half-sister to Alex My Boy, a winner at Group 2 level in France. Majoris is available at 4/1 at the moment.
 
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