Darley first-season stallions Manduro (pictured) and Authorized both recorded new winners at Kempton Park on Thursday November 10, when Madgenta and Tumooh won both divisions of the mile fillies’ maiden.
First to take the money was Madgenta, a daughter of Manduro, who was making her third start for trainer Richard Hannon. Relishing the step up to a mile, she won well by one-and-a-quarter lengths. This was Manduro’s second new winner in the space of two days after Miss Manduro’s devastating 13-length debut victory in Italy.
Bred by Peter Hodgson and Star Pointe Limited, she cost 50,000Gns as a yearling and is a half-sister to the Listed Stakes scorer Hammadi. Her dam Ruby Affair (Night Shift) is a half-sister to 2,000 Guineas hero Island Sands.
Manduro, the scintillating Horse of the Year and world Champion racehorse of 2007, has now sired seven first-crop winners. Bonfire won well on his debut before finishing a luckless third in the G1 Criterium International, Mandaean earned TDN rising star status when winning his only start in France and will likely start at prohibitive odds in Saturday’s G1 Criterium de Saint-Cloud and Kolonel, another unbeaten colt in Germany, who is very well-regarded by his trainer Andreas Wohler.
Half an hour later in the second division, Tumooh (Authorized) made a successful winning debut when getting up near the finish to win going away by half-a-length, in the style of a promising middle-distance filly for next season.
Bred by Shadwell Farms and out of the Darshaan mare Sulaalah, she is a half-sister to three-time Stakes-placed filly, Mooakada. Sulaalah herself is a daughter of Bint Shadayid, a G3-winning juvenile who is out of the Classic winner Shadayid.
Authorized, broke his Maiden in the G1 Racing Post Trophy as a juvenile before becoming Europe’s Champion three-year-old the following season when winning the Derby and International Stakes. Now sire of nine winners, he has a number of very promising individuals including the impressive winning fillies Witnessed (rated 95p by Timeform) and Estrela (93p) and unbeaten colt Tamarrud. In France, both Tenenbaum and Wintergreen showed immense potential when running places on their debuts.
