Charlie Appleby
With this win, Charlie Appleby reached 9 Group 1 wins this season, level with Aidan O'Brien at the top of the trainers' table. Next in the table: Chad C Brown (8) and Bob Baffert (7).
With this win, Charlie Appleby reached 9 Group 1 wins this season, level with Aidan O'Brien at the top of the trainers' table. Next in the table: Chad C Brown (8) and Bob Baffert (7).
With this win, William Buick and trainer Charlie Appleby combined for 8 Group 1 successes this season. The jockey moved to 9 Group 1 wins this season, two wins behind leader James McDonald in the jockeys' table.
Godolphin had come close here before: Santin was second in 2023. With this win, the owner leads the owners' table on 12 Group 1 wins. Next in the table: Coolmore Group (11) and Yu Long Investments (5).
Nations Pride is out of Important Time (Oasis Dream), a stakes winner in Germany who took the Listed Stutenpreis des Gestuts Winterhauch, and is a half-brother to two winners. Important Time is a half-sister to two winners, to the three times placed Amerindia (Dubawi) and to the dam of Lucky Vega.
Second dam Satwa Queen (Muhtathir) won the Gr.1 Prix de l'Opera in 2007. Two of her other daughters produced Militarize (Dundeel), champion 2-year-old colt in Australia in 2023, a triple Group 1 winner and sire out of Amerindia, and Lucky Vega (Lope de Vega), a Group 1 winner in Ireland in 2020 when taking the Gr.1 Phoenix Stakes and now a sire. Satwa Queen is a half-sister to the sire Spadoun (Kaldoun), winner of the Gr.1 Criterium de Saint-Cloud, to Anbella (Common Grounds), winner of the Listed Prix Roland de Chambure and dam of the dual winner and twice Listed-placed Masaya, to the Listed hurdle winner Fier Danseur (Fabulous Dancer) and to the dual winner Stolga (Baillamont). Stolga produced Master Kid, an eight-time winner placed in the Gr.3 Scandinavian Open Championship, and the winner Eko Negresco, runner-up in the Listed Danish Jockey Club Cup.
Third dam Tolga (Irish River) finished in the frame on four occasions as a three-year-old. She comes from the close family of the sire Signe Divin (Bering), winner of the Gr.2 Criterium de Maisons-Laffitte and placed in the Premio Vittorio di Capua, then a Group 1.
Important Time has an unraced 2-year-old full sister to Nations Pride named Good Old Days and a yearling colt by Ghaiyyath.