Content material took the shortest route across the within the course to get the higher of the strong-traveling Emily Upjohn and You Received To Me to win the Yorkshire Oaks (G1) Aug. 22.
Educated by Aidan O’Brien and ridden by Ryan Moore, Content material was eager all through the primary half of the 1 1/2-mile race, however powered down the within of the monitor as Emily Upjohn and You Received To Me fought it out down the center.
Content material’s likelihood appeared compromised by her early keenness, with Moore struggling to get the filly to drop her head as stablemate Port Fairy made the operating. Emily Upjohn was at all times sat near the tempo with You Received To Me monitoring her.
Because the horses swung into the straight, Emily Upjohn was shifting ominously nicely as Port Fairy took the sphere down the middle of the monitor. That was besides Content material, who steered nearer to the within rail.
Emily Upjohn had each likelihood with two furlongs to go however the acceleration didn’t come when jockey Kieran Shoemark requested for it as they approached the ultimate quarter of a mile. As an alternative, she simply stored galloping whereas You Received To Me began to eat up the bottom.
Nevertheless, whereas You Received To Me was capable of overhaul Emily Upjohn, on the within of the course Content material was staying on powerfully regardless of her antics early within the race. On the line, it was one other winner for the Coolmore companions, O’Brien, and Moore.
“If she had executed every part proper she would have received simply,” Moore stated. “It is taken some time to get her to do issues proper and she or he’s nonetheless not there.
“My solely pondering within the race was to try to get her to calm down, which I did not obtain, after which it was a case of creating the very best of a nasty state of affairs. She’s a typical Galileo, she’s very courageous and tried laborious.”
With the Yorkshire win, Content material additionally achieved the consideration of being Galileo’s one hundredth group/grade 1 winner. The late Coolmore stallion, euthanized in 2021, reached the milestone a 12 months after he sired his 99th top-level winner with Heat Coronary heart within the 2023 operating of this race.
Content material was reversing kind with You Received To Me from the Irish Oaks (G1), and O’Brien was eager to reward the filly and the trip given to her by Moore.
“She was unbelievable,” he stated. “She’s come ahead for the reason that Curragh once we had a pacemaker who did not go quick sufficient for her and the race by no means opened for her that day.
“Ryan gave her an unimaginable trip as she’s not simple or straightforward. The tempo was stronger at present and she or he did preserve coming. She was a really courageous filly and can be higher in a faster-run race.”
A bunch 3 winner as 2-year-old, Content material was unplaced in each the French One Thousand Guineas (G1) and Coronation Stake (G1) earlier than handing over admirable runner-up showings within the Fairly Polly Stakes (G1) and Irish Oaks (G1) because the distances grew longer.
Upon victory within the Yorkshire Oaks, a Breeders’ Cup Problem Collection occasion, Content material was assured her place within the beginning gate with an all-expenses-paid berth to the Breeders’ Cup Filly and Mare Turf (G1T) at Del Mar Nov. 2. It will be the second Breeders’ Cup begin for Content material, who was fourth in final 12 months’s Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Fillies Turf (G1T).
