New Approach sired his second Stakes winner inside a week on 8 July, when his tough son Nearly Caught took the Listed Coral Marathon on Eclipse day at Sandown.
Hughie Morrison’s charge was settled off the early pace, content to bowl along under James Doyle. Once asked to quicken in the straight, Nearly Caught didn’t get the run on the rail but switched back to the outside, soon moved to the front and ran on superbly to win by three quarters of a length.
Nearly Caught won last year’s G2 Darley Prix Kergolay and was third behind Teofilo’s Quest For More in the G1 Prix du Cadran. He also won the Listed Prix du Carrousel last July.
Bred by the Irish National Stud, Nearly Caught is out of the winning Danehill mare Katch Me Katie, also dam of Singspiel’s G2 Lonsdale Cup winner Pale Mimosa.
New Approach is also sire this year of G2 winner Strathspey (who took last weekend’s Prix de Malleret), fellow Group winner Beautiful Romance, plus G1 performers Pygmy and New Predator. His two-year-old son Masar (from New Approach’s first post-Dawn Approach crop) is currently the joint highest-rated colt in Europe.
