Too Darn Hot’s juvenile daughter Simmering put up a brave performance to get off the mark on her third start to land the six furlong Group 3 Princess Margaret Stakes at Ascot on Saturday, 27 July.
The Ollie Sangster-trained filly jumped well and travelled strongly towards the rear, finding her way through the field she began to make headway with two furlongs to run and kept on well in the final furlong to snatch the race in the closing stages, prevailing by a neck.
Simmering was a promising third on her debut at York in May which was followed up by a creditable second-placed effort when beaten by just three-quarters of a length in the G3 Albany Stakes at Royal Ascot a month later. She holds an entry in next month’s G2 Lowther Stakes at York.
Bred by Lofts Hall Stud, Simmering was a Tattersalls October Yearling Sale book two purchase. She is the third foal out of the winning Fastnet Rock mare, Cashla Bay, herself a daughter of G3 Summer Stakes winner, Rose Blossom.
Crowned leading first season sire in Australia, Too Darn Hot is having an excellent year having sired two G1 winners so far, including his two-year-old dual G1-winning son, Broadsiding and G1 Irish 1,000 Guineas heroine, Fallen Angel. Simmering was this young sires’ twelfth individual Black Type winner.
In Clairefontaine, France, Dubawi’s progressive three-year-old son, Hamavi added a second Black Type win to his record with victory in the Listed Grand Prix de Clairefontaine. Trained by André Fabre, the gelding relished the step up to 2400m as he ran on well to win by three-quarters of a length under Maxin Guyon.
Hamavi was bred in Ireland by Wertheimer Et Frere, he is one of five winners out of the Anabaa Listed-winning mare, Baahama.
