ANOTHER WEEKEND OF WINNERS AROUND THE GLOBE FOR DANSILI & OASIS DREAM

Articles taken from the EBN.

The handsome Ice Blue (DANSILI) is firmly on course for the Gr.1 Prix du Jockey-Club after running out the impressive winner of the Gr.2 Prix Greffulhe at Saint-Cloud one of the final trials for the Chantilly Classic. The three-year-old son of DANSILI, who won in good style last month, showed an eyecatching turn of foot to win by three parts of a length.
Homebred by Juddmonte Farms, he is is out of the Gr.3 - placed Winter Solstice (Unfuwain), who is a half-sister to the Gr.1 winners Meteor Storm (Bigstone) and Polish Summer (Polish Precedent).

A Juddmonte sire was also responsible for the winner of the Gr.3 Prix Cleopatre, when Sandbar, by OASIS DREAM, landed the second Group race on the Saint-Cloud card to take her unbeaten record in 2010 to four. Always handily placed, Lady O’Reilly’s homebred, who is now a leading Gr.1 Prix de Diane candidate, took the lead in the final furlong and ran on strongly to win by three parts of a length. The third foal of the Listed-placed Shifting Sands (Hernando), she comes from the family of the Gr.2 Ribblesdale Stakes winner Sahara Slew (Seattle Slew) and the Gr.2 winner and sire Zalazl (Roberto).

Juddmonte Farms’ stallion DANSILI can do little wrong at present, with Strawberrydaiquiri and Harbinger both winning Gr.3 events in the past week. His five-year-old son Famous Name won for the fourth time at that level when making most of the running in the Amethyst Stakes, though he had to be shaken up to hold off King Jock (Ghazi) close home.
Trained by Dermot Weld for Khalid Abdulla, Famous Name has now won eight of his 17 races and been placed eight times, his only other run being his sixth in the Gr.1 National Stakes on what was only his second start.
Weld commented, “The ground was drying up as the evening went on and that’s as fast as he wants it. I probably won’t run him on that kind of ground again. Sometime during the year we’d love to have a crack at a Gr.1 with him. He's in the Queen Anne at Ascot but that looks unlikely. A lot depends on the ground.”

Date: 10 May 2010