French touch at Goodwood

The first of the five days at the Glorious Goodwood meeting on Tuesday reminded the influence of French racing and breeding in Europe. Stradivarius (Sea the Stars) won the Goodwood Cup (Gr2), for a third consecutive year. His dam Private Life (Bering, pictured on the right) was bred in France by the Wildensteins, her owners when she placed in Listed event fro trainerAndré Fabre. Her own dam Poughkeepsie is out of the great Pawneese.
Winner of the Qatar Vintage Stakes (Gr2) on Tuesday, the Godolphin homebred juvenile Pinatubo (Shamardal, pictured left), whose sire won the first Prix du Jockey Club (Gr1) run over 2,100 metres (10 1/2 furlongs) back in 2005, is out of Lava Flow (Dalakhani, pictured below), a Prix de la Seine (L) winner for André Fabre. Her dam Mount Elbrus (Barathea) also won a Listed level, when trained by Henri-Alex Pantall for Sheikh Mohammed.

Two promising colts, Cobra Eye (Kodiac) and Fuwayrit (Gutaifan), battled to the post in a 6-furlongs maiden won by the former by a short head. The winner is owned by Phoenix Thoroughbreds, an international syndicate of investors who bought him at Arqana yearling sales for € 150,000. Fuwayrit was unraced before that and is trained by Mark Johnston. He was paid € 16,000 at  Arqana as a yearling, but was unsold last May for € 20,000 at the Arqana breeze up sale.