G3 success for Golan's son Regime

6th May 2008

Four-year-old Regime (4c Golan-Juno Madonna, by Sadler’s Wells), winner of last season’s G3 Classic Trial at Sandown, landed a second Pattern race victory at the Curragh on Sunday in the G3 High Chaparral EBF Mooresbridge Stakes.

Pat Smullen’s mount hit the front in the final furlong of the 1m 2f contest and stayed on well to beat Alarazi.

The winner, who was bred by Philip Brady, is trained by Michael Bell for the Highclere Thoroughbred Racing syndicate.

"That was great to see," said Highclere Thoroughbred Racing’s Harry Herbert. "He was so deserving of another big-race victory, he was unlucky in France last year and he's has had a tough old time of it.

"We’ve got him in a G2 in Germany in three weeks’ time and we'll look carefully at that."

Meanwhile Golan’s three-year-old full-brother Tartan Bearer could run in the G2 Dante Stakes at York next week or another trial en route for a tilt at the G1 Derby at Epsom.

"Golan is a good-looking rangy type while Tartan Bearer is medium-sized and more close-coupled. He will work at the end of this week, and we will see how he works," trainer Sir Michael Stoute told the Daily Telegraph.