Imprudence: Malavath hiking to the top again

April 7, 2022, Deauville-Touques Racecourse (Calvados). - The Prix Imprudence (Gr3) gathered again some of the most talented juvenile fillies of 2021 with Prix Marcel Boussac (Gr1) winner Zellie (Wootton Bassett) tackling Malavath (Mehmas), a Criterium de Maisons-Laffitte (Gr2) winner and Breeders' Cup Juvenile Fillies Turf (Gr1) second at Del Mar in the USA. Six of the eight runners were already black-typed performers and the question remaining was their ability on such heavy ground.

They went on a single file led by Fleur d’Iris (Shamardal), the favourite Zelliea and Accakaba (Acclamation) and they were not travelling very fast. About two out, Malavath was taken out of the line by Christophe Soumillon and went pretty decisively to take over and score by one and a half length, not quite extended. Zellie, on the other hand,k, looked like she was struggling one out and even lost the second position, only to come back to beat Accakaba by half a length for second place.

The sectional timing reveals that the Prix Imprudence was 3 seconds slower than the colts' Djebel at 1’32''25, but the last two furlongs were much faster at 23''60 against 25''17 for Rock Boy.

Malavath is out of a sister to Steip Amach (Vocalised), a Gr2 winner who was also placed in the Prix Rothschild (Gr1) and Jean Romanet (Gr1). She's the first foal out of Fidaaha (New Approach), a mare bred by Jim Bolger. Malavath has got a yearling sister by Cotai Glory and a full 2-year-old brother. Lower on the pedigree, one finds the Aga Khan bloodline of Shergar.

Bred by Tally-Ho Stud, Malavath was sold £29,000 in September 2020 at Goffs UK. Consigned by Star Bloodstock at the Arqana breeze-up held at Doncaster, she was bought for €134,400 by David Redvers and Meridian International (Ghislain Bozo). Tally-Ho Stud had presented her full brother as a yearling two days after her Critérium de Maisons-Laffitte win and Stroud Coleman Bloodstock got him against £ 210,000.