{"id":122871,"date":"2025-05-22T15:33:12","date_gmt":"2025-05-22T15:33:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/122871\/"},"modified":"2025-05-22T15:33:12","modified_gmt":"2025-05-22T15:33:12","slug":"dan-briden-two-year-old-guide-george-scott","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/122871\/","title":{"rendered":"Dan Briden Two-Year-Old Guide: George Scott"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dan Briden&#8217;s series continues as George Scott takes him through some of his two-year-old team for 2025.<\/p>\n<p><strong>ALVIN (IRE)<\/strong><br \/>2\/3 b c Kodi Bear &#8211; Boston Beauties (Zoffany)<br \/>Owner: Valmont &amp; M Blencowe Sales price: \u20ac80,000 (A C Elliott, Agent\/J S Bloodstock)<\/p>\n<p>Second foal of a US 5f 2yo winner (78) who was a half-sister to Phoenix Stakes winner\/2000 Guineas third Lucky Vega (121) and fairly useful 5-5.5f winner Lady Clair (90).<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSlightly fluffed his lines on his debut at Newmarket, going right from the stalls and then racing keenly, but it was a pleasing enough start all things considered. He is a very athletic horse with a lot of speed, though he should stay a sixth furlong in time. One that we like.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>ARMED ESCORT (IRE)<\/strong><br \/>23\/2 b c Night of Thunder &#8211; American Apples (American Post)<br \/>Owner: Victorious Racing Sales price: \u20ac500,000 (JS Bloodstock\/G Scott Racing)<\/p>\n<p>First foal of a Group 3\/Listed-placed French 11f 3yo winner (100) who was the daughter of an unraced half-sister to US 1m 1f Listed winner Sharp Apple (later dam of Lancashire Oaks winner Pomology (121)).<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA strong, well-proportioned horse who is still quite immature and will take a bit of time. However, he shows enough to think he will be a lovely 7f+ horse during the second half of the year.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>BEHIKE (IRE)<\/strong><br \/>17\/3 b c Night of Thunder &#8211; Sagrada Familia (Golden Horn)<br \/>Owner: Al Shaqab Racing &amp; Amo Racing Sales price: 500,000gns (Al Shaqab\/Amo Racing)<\/p>\n<p>Second foal of an Irish 1m 1f 3yo winner (98) who was a half-sister to French 10f 3yo Group 3 winner Be My Gal (110) out of a Listed-placed maiden (98).<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA tall, scopey colt but very athletic with it. Although he hasn\u2019t started faster work yet, he possesses a lot of natural ability. One to look forward to later on.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>COMMANDER\u2019S INTENT (FR)<\/strong><br \/>7\/2 b c Victor Ludorum &#8211; Lilienbloom (Mastercraftsman)<br \/>Owner: Victorious Racing Sales price: \u20ac420,000 (Oliver St Lawrence Bloodstock)<\/p>\n<p>Second foal of a twice-raced maiden half-sister to French 1m 2yo Listed winner Lilac Fairy (91).<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe missed the start and got blocked more than once in the run before finishing well on his debut at Newbury last Friday. He is a horse we like and you\u2019ll see him over 7f next time.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dan Briden&#8217;s series continues as George Scott takes him through some of his two-year-old team for 2025. ALVIN&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":122872,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4107],"tags":[1071,79,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-122871","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-racing","8":"tag-racing","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114552216486270462","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122871","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=122871"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122871\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/122872"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=122871"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=122871"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=122871"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}