25 June 2020
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Thursday, June 25th, 2020, ParisLongchamp. - The odds-on favourite Telecaster (New Approach) annihilated the field in La Coupe (Gr3), the opening race of a morning event at ParisLongchamp.
Trained in Berkshire by Hughie Morrison, the winner was the best)-rated in the race with a 112lbs tag. He travelled in third place in a race led by the runaway Diamond Vendôme (Style Vendôme), who faded in the last straight. Telecaster took over about two out and won by 4 lengths, beating Romancière (Dansili), who ran in 5th place throughout the race. Mr Satchmo (Mr Sidney) stayed on in 3rd after leading the field while Subway Dancer (Shamardal) finished 4th after trailing the field.
A Dante Stakes (Gr2) winner, Telecaster had beaten the champion 2yo Too Darn Hot in the Derby prep race but failed in both the Epsom classic and the Eclipse Stakes (Gr1). Out the whole season after that, he had just come back finishing 3rd less than 2 lengths behind Lord North, who won the Prince of Wales’s Stakes (Gr1) at Royal Ascot after that.
Telecaster was unsold £180,000 at the Tattersalls October sales in 2017, consigned by his breeder Meon Valley Stud. His dam Shirocco Star (Shirocco), also bred at Meon Valley, was placed in the Epsom and Irish Oaks, and also in the Qatar Prix de Royallieu (Gr2). Her last foal to date, Al Suhail (Dubawi), now 3, was sold £1.1m at Newmarket and is now in training by Charlie Appleby for Godolphin. He won at Yarmouth and was twice placed in Gr3 races and finished 13th in the Two Thousand Guineas lately. He's in the Prix du Jockey Club (Gr1) and the Juddmonte Grand Prix de Paris (Gr1).