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BREEDING INSIGHTS: First stakes winner for Unfortunately 2023-03-24

St Mark’s Basilica completed a French Classic double on Sunday and in the process gave Irish trainer Aidan O’Brien his first victory in the Qatar Prix du Jockey Club at Chantilly.

It is rare enough  to have the form from the business end of the 2,000 Guineas represented in the Paris equivalent but to have the Newmarket winner Poetic Flare bouncing out to do battle again just two weeks on sets a pretty high standard for anyone hoping to deny him a Classic double. A repeat of his Racing Post Rating of 120 from the Guineas would have been enough to win 17 of the 21 editions of the Poulains this century and on only his sixth career start the son of Dawn Approach is open to scaling greater heights.  He faces the winner of both the Dewhurst and the Prix Jean-Luc Lagard...

Past The Wire Search May 19, 2021 The 2020 top-rated European colt, St Mark’s Basilica, began his three year old career with victory in the Group 1 Poule d’Essai des Poulains (French 2000 Guineas) at ParisLongchamp.  The Aidan O’Brien-trained colt finished last season winning the Group 1 Dewhurst Stakes over seven furlongs at Newmarket, England, in October. Given a rating of 120 at the end of his juvenile campaign, the son of Siyouni was the seventh consecutive winner of the Dewhurst Stakes to top the two-year-old ratings. His 120 mark, however, was the joint-third lowest...

Australian-owned French 2,000 Guineas competitor out of luck at Longchamp