America’s
darling, 13-times Group One winner Zenyatta, was in the news again on Friday
when her 3YO half-sister, Eblouissante (below), won by 4.25-lengths on debut over
1700m.
Unlike
Zenyatta, who was sold as a yearling for US$60,000, Eblouissante was retained
by her breeder Eric Kronfeld when he sold Vertigineux to Coolmore in 2009.
“She has
so many mannerisms like Zenyatta, so when she left and Eblouissante came in, it
was like she was still there,” trainer John Shirreffs told thoroughbreddailynews.com.
“It’s a
thrill, it really is. We’re very excited about her. She’s such a beautiful
racehorse. I thought she handled everything well. As a first-time starter, she
didn’t really know what was going on. Going a mile and a sixteenth the first
time, that was really something. It’s like something clicked and she knew she
was supposed to catch the horses in front of her.”
Eblouissante
means glamorous and dazzling in French.
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