Hello Youmzain doubles Group tally

 
Hello Youmzain doubles Group tally23 Sep 2024

The good times continue to roll for our shuttle stallion Hello Youmzain with his first crop Northern Hemisphere representatives breaking new ground.

The multiple Group 1-winning son of Kodiac is the only freshman sire in Europe to have produced a brace of Group winners following the latest success of Electrolyte.

It was a richly deserved victory for the colt in the G3 Prix Eclipse at Chantilly after his narrow defeat in the G2 Royal Ascot Coventry Stakes.

It was another close call for Electrolyte, but this time he was on the right side of a tight finish.

"They were taking their time with the camera angles and I thought poor horse, if he’s been done again,” trainer Archie Watson told the Racing Post.

"He deserved that and I think we’re learning more about him. We stepped him up to seven furlongs at Goodwood, but I think he showed there that coming back to six furlongs was the right thing. I think six furlongs on good ground is going to be his thing."

Watson is now considering a return to France in three weeks for the G2 Criterium de Maisons-Laffitte.

"If the ground was good, that would be our aim. If he doesn't go there, I would imagine he'll be put away for next year and hopefully he can be a Commonwealth Cup (G1, 1200m) horse, as we know he likes Ascot,” he said.

Should Electrolyte take aim at the Maisons-Laffitte, he would be chasing a notable family double.

The 1200 metre feature was claimed in 2018 by his sire, whose son Beau Gars also won in France at the weekend.
He has now produced 12 winners in Europe from 31 runners and a tally that features the G3 Prix Des Chenes victor Misunderstood.

Meanwhile, Hello Youmzain’s first Southern Hemisphere crop of two-year-olds are up and running and includes the Darryn and Briar Weatherley-trained Bulgari, a winner at his first trial outing at Rotorua last week.

The colt was sold by breeder Jamieson Park at New Zealand Bloodstock’s National Yearling Sale for $220,000 to Weatherley Bloodstock and is a son of the stakes performed O’Reilly mare O’Naturelle and the family of the stable’s G1 2000 Guineas winner Pier.