There was Group success for two Darley stallions in the US and France at the weekend. Irish-bred Royal Applause colt Whatsthescript bagged his biggest prize to date when landing the $250,000 G2 American Handicap over nine furlongs at Hollywood Park on Saturday.
The four-year-old has now won five races and has been placed three times from ten starts. Having started his career in Ireland, where he won and was third to Teofilo in the Listed Tyros Stakes at two, his previous best victory had come at the back-end of his juvenile campaign when he won the G3 Generous Stakes over a mile after being sold to race in the US.
Whatsthescript was bred by Chris MacHale and Jimmy Hyland and is out of the Lion Cavern mare Grizel, a half-sister to Halling's Listed-winning daughter Queen Of Poland.
Treat Gently, a three-year-old daughter of Cape Cross, took the G2 Prix de Malleret on Sunday after a sustained battle with Leo's Starlet and Dar Re Mi (Singspiel), who finished third, beaten two short-heads. The Juddmonte homebred has now run four times for two wins and two seconds. She is out of the In The Wings mare Kid Gloves, a half-sister to the great broodmare Hasili, and holds an entry for the Darley Irish Oaks at the Curragh on 13 July.
