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| Group 1, Leopardstown 16:55 €300,000 added, 3yo plus, fillies, 1m, Class 1  |
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135nu
1 Pearls Galore 16/1
2 Saffron Beach 2/1
3 Tenebrism 15/2
9 ran NR: Agartha, Panama Red
Distances: 3l, 1l, 1½l Time: 1m 44.36s (slow by 4.86s)
Whoosh 💨
— Horse Racing Ireland (@HRIRacing) September 10, 2022
Pearls Galore goes one better than last year to land the @coolmoreamerica ‘Justify’ Matron Stakes 💪
What a performance for @paddytwomey & @wjlee24786 in the final @BreedersCup ‘Win and You’re In’ race of the day ✔#LICW22 | @coolmorestud pic.twitter.com/T1trRFTcfu
Paddy Twomey’s Pearls Galore hardly saw another rival as she set the pace from the front throughout under Billy Lee.
Jane Chapple-Hyam’s Saffron Beach plugged away in her slipstream but neither she, nor the third-placed horse Tenebrism, could winner.
Eventually prevailing by three lengths, Pearls Galore went one better than her second-placed run in the same race last year, where she was beaten a neck by No Speak Alexander.
The victory was a turnaround in form from the Prix Rothschild in Deauville, where Pearls Galore had been fifth to Saffron Beach.
Twomey said: “She was good today. She’s been in good form at home and I said to Billy we’d put the cheekpieces on. She’s five years old and was just doing what she had to do, just going through the motions.
“ didn’t work out the last day and we came home disappointed but not upset. The ground was quick and it was a straight mile.
“This is more her jazz, an ease in the ground and a turn. The best race of her life was this race last year.
“I knew she was in good form and I said to Billy with the cheekpieces on I don’t think we should be taking her back.
“She has got speed and she stays. She has a lot of ability and can go at a high pace and burn off other horses. That’s her true running.
“The aim was to win a Group One and she’s after doing it.”
Coolmore America Justify Matron Stakes
Group 1, 1m , Race Value: €300,000
9 ran
Going: Soft
POS. (DRAW) DIST HORSE AGE WGT TRAINER JOCKEY SP
1 (7) Pearls Galore 5 9-7 P Twomey W J Lee 16/1
2 (8) 3 Saffron Beach 4 9-7 Jane Chapple-Hyam Hollie Doyle 2/1
3 (1) 1 Tenebrism 39 3 9-2 A P O'Brien Ryan Moore 15/2
4 (2) 1½ Homeless Songs 3 9-2 D K Weld Chris Hayes 5/4F
5 (5) 3½ Honey Girl 3 9-2 Henry De Bromhead Shane Foley 125/1
6 (11) ½ Affogato 3 9-2 G M Lyons Colin Keane 66/1
7 (10) 7 Star Girls Aalmal 3 9-2 Henry De Bromhead Wayne Lordan 33/1
8 (6) ¾ Concert Hall 3 9-2 A P O'Brien Seamie Heffernan 33/1
9 (3) 6 Lights On 5 9-7 Sir Michael Stoute Christophe Soumillon 17/2
NR (4) Agartha 3 9-2 Joseph Patrick O'Brien NON RUNNER
NR (9) Panama Red 3 9-2 G M Lyons Gary Carroll NON RUNNER
