Moyglare Stud Stakes
Group 1, Curragh 15:00
€400,000 guaranteed,
2yo fillies only, 7f   
Sunday 14th September 2025

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Venetian Sun will soon shine at the Curragh, her path now set for the Moyglare Stud Stakes after adding another sparkling chapter to her unbeaten record with a hard-fought success in the Prix Morny at Deauville.

Karl Burke’s Starman filly, carrying the colours of Tony Bloom and Ian McAleavy, has been inching her way up the ladder with poise and power—Carlisle on debut, then the Albany at Royal Ascot, followed swiftly by Newmarket’s Duchess of Cambridge Stakes. Each step another layer of proof that she belongs in the very highest company.

Deauville was the stiffest assignment of all, Group One, six furlongs, colts in opposition—and Aidan O’Brien’s Coventry hero Gstaad standing in her way. But Clifford Lee seized the moment, guiding her home by a neck to claim his first victory at the highest level, and underlining the boldness of connections in daring to test her so soon.

Now the target moves to seven furlongs and September 14 at the Curragh, before she is put away for a Classic campaign next spring.

“Karl Burke has never disguised how much he thought of this filly, even before she ran and made her debut at Carlisle,” said Sean Graham, racing manager to Bloom.

“I actually travelled from London that day, three and a quarter hours on the train, because he was waxing lyrical about her work at home.

“She went and did it well enough without blowing us away with the performance, and when she went to Ascot you’d probably have struggled to fancy her based on that form.

“But her work between Carlisle and Ascot was just sensational, she was working with Lethal Levi and he couldn’t get away from her.

“Karl was working her with these five- and six-year-olds, proper Listed and Group sprinters, and they couldn’t get her off the bridle.

“The performance at Ascot was very, very good, the plan was then to give her a break and bring her back for the Lowther or an autumn campaign, but she only lost four kilos having travelled up to Ascot and back to Middleham on the box and then run in sweltering heat.

“Karl said the race hadn’t taken a thing out of her so that’s why we decided to go to Newmarket, and though on the day it didn’t look as though she won it that impressively, the second-placed horse of Ed Walker’s (Royal Fixation) has gone and won the Lowther since so the form stacks up.

“Our plan was just to go to the Moyglore because we think she’ll be better over seven furlongs, but Karl said the filly was in fantastic form at home and though it was a Group One over six furlongs against the colts, Ian and Tony are great sports people.

“We thought we’d have a crack and that she’d lose nothing in defeat if she was beaten by a very impressive winner.

“Like her other wins, the race wasn’t really run to suit but she wasn’t giving an inch and she still won.

“All being well we will go to the Moyglare for her next and probably final start of the year, then we’ll put her away and hopefully bring her back for the Guineas next year.”

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Moyglare Stud Stakes (Group 1)
€400,000 guaranteed, 2yo only, 7f
48 entries
Going:

NO. FORM HORSE AGE WGT TRAINER JOCKEY
1    Alphecca 2 9-2 Joseph G Murphy
2 32 Amelia Earhart 2 9-2 A P O'Brien
3 11 Amora Queen 2 9-2 Charlie Johnston
4    Anushka 2 9-2 Henry De Bromhead
5    Armada De Lope 2 9-2 P Twomey
6 221 Awaken 2 9-2 George Boughey
7 213 Aylin 2 9-2 K R Burke
8 41325 Balantina 2 9-2 Donnacha O'Brien
9 31 Beautify 2 9-2 A P O'Brien
10 34 Black Caviar Gold 2 9-2 P Twomey
11 4 Bofa Beach 2 9-2 Mrs John Harrington
12 144 Brownstown 2 9-2 Gavin Cromwell
13 396 Cactus 2 9-2 A P O'Brien
14 0 Cameo 2 9-2 A P O'Brien
15 2222 Cape Sounion 2 9-2 Donnacha O'Brien
16 77 Celestial Siren 2 9-2 A Oliver
17 5111 Composing 2 9-2 A P O'Brien
18 3 Conquering Marin 2 9-2 Donnacha O'Brien
19    Creative Queen 2 9-2 William Haggas
20 1 Diamond Necklace 2 9-2 A P O'Brien
21 413 Evolutionist 2 9-2 K R Burke
22 2516 Fairy Oak 2 9-2 M D O'Callaghan
23 21412 Fitzella 2 9-2 Hugo Palmer
24 1 Flash Of Fire 2 9-2 James Ferguson
25 1 Gesayed 2 9-2 K R Burke
26 12013 Green Sense 2 9-2 Joseph O'Brien
27    Institute 2 9-2 A P O'Brien
28 1021 Ipanema Queen 2 9-2 Adrian Murray
29 32 Josh's Joy 2 9-2 Donnacha O'Brien
30 37 Justiciar 2 9-2 G M Lyons
31 2474 Luna Mia 2 9-2 M D O'Callaghan
32 103 Magny Cours 2 9-2 Daniel McLoughlin
33 41244 Midnight Tango 2 9-2 Ed Walker
34 3922 Minerva 2 9-2 A P O'Brien
35 13 Moments Of Joy 2 9-2 A P O'Brien
36 51 Phenomenal Filly 2 9-2 P Twomey
37 51 Pivotal Attack 2 9-2 Joseph G Murphy
38 211 Precise 2 9-2 A P O'Brien
39 28 Saint Agatha 2 9-2 J A Stack
40 6 Sky Watch 2 9-2 M D O'Callaghan
41 3326 Skydance 2 9-2 W McCreery
42 112 Suzie Songs 2 9-2 G M Lyons
43 546 Tahcawin 2 9-2 Joseph G Murphy
44 245 Thenandnow 2 9-2 Mrs John Harrington
45 22112 True Love 2 9-2 A P O'Brien
46 1443 Venetian Lace 2 9-2 Charlie Johnston
47 1111 Venetian Sun 2 9-2 K R Burke
48 46 Venosa 2 9-2 A P O'Brien

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