Sunday’s Racing Round-Up features UK success at Longchamp…
George Boughey's Rosy Affair made a successful trip over from the UK to win the Group 3 Prix de Meautry at Longchamp. The daughter of Havana Grey had taken the Listed Flying Fillies' Stakes at Pontefract in the UK on her previous start and connections were keen to make the step up to Group 3 class in France. Breaking well with an immediate two length lead, she was pushed along by jockey Billy Loughnane at the two-furlong marker and never saw another rival, easily came home to win by three-quarters of a length ahead of a closing Daylight in second. Megarry was a further length behind in third.
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Ollie Sangster's Shuwari gained her first success of 2025 when coming home strongly to land the Listed Prix de la Cochère.
A high-class daughter of New Bay, she finished runner-up in the 2023 Group 1 bet365 Fillies' Mile, Ollie Sangster's filly was forced to miss the whole of 2024 due to an injury.
Following a season off the track, Shuwari returned to action by finishing sixth in the Listed Snowdrop Fillies' Stakes at Kempton before a pleasing third-place finish in the Listed Dick Hern Stakes at Haydock recently.
Having been dropped in at the rear of the field from stall twelve, Shuwari made steady progress between rivals and caught the eye travelling best of all with 400m to travel. Once switched out wide by Barzalona, she picked up strongly to strike the front deep inside the final half-furlong before showing a willing attitude to fend off the fast-finishing Zabeel Light by a neck, with Star Of Galaxy a further three parts of a length behind in third.
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The Hamad Al Jehani-trained The Strikin Viking recorded his first career success in the colours of Wathnan Racing when taking the Group 3 Goldene Peitsche at Baden-Baden. An exciting juvenile debut winner, he finished second in the Group 2 Railway Stakes on his second outing and was immediately sold for an undisclosed sum to Wathnan Racing. Transferring to Al Jehani, the son of Inns Of Court failed to make the same impression and was gelded before his three-year-old career. The six-furlong success represented a first Group victory for The Strikin Viking and a first success in Germany for Wathnan Racing.
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The winner of the 2024 Group 2 Hardwicke Stakes, Isle Of Jura, will not make his belated seasonal return in Saturday's September Stakes. The George Scott-trained gelding had
achieved an unprecedented hat-trick in the 'Bahrain Triple Crown' before translating his success to the UK. Not seen on the track since last year's Royal Ascot meeting, the gelding is being aimed at a return to Bahrain for the Bahrain International Trophy.
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Connections of Arizona Blaze have revealed that they will target the Group 1 Prix de l'Abbaye at Longchamp despite his disappointing effort in the Group 1 Nunthorpe Stakes at York.
Adrian Murray's sprinter was well fancied for the Nunthorpe earlier in the month following his success in the Group 2 Barberstown Castle Sapphire Stakes and following a sluggish beginning he never looked like getting involved, eventually finishing well-beaten behind the Australian-trained winner Asfoora.
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