{"id":124075,"date":"2025-05-23T02:15:45","date_gmt":"2025-05-23T02:15:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/124075\/"},"modified":"2025-05-23T02:15:45","modified_gmt":"2025-05-23T02:15:45","slug":"dan-briden-two-year-old-guide-harry-herbert-highclere-thoroughbred","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/124075\/","title":{"rendered":"Dan Briden Two-Year-Old Guide: Harry Herbert, Highclere Thoroughbred"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dan Briden&#8217;s series continues as Harry Herbert takes him through some of the Highclere two-year-old team for 2025.<\/p>\n<p><strong>ANCESTOR <\/strong><br \/>7\/2 b c Sea The Stars &#8211; Tidal Stream (Redoute\u2019s Choice)<br \/>Trainer: William Haggas Owner: Highclere Thoroughbred Racing &#8211; Oak Sales price: 200,000gns (Highclere Agency)<\/p>\n<p>Third foal of an unraced half-sister to Solario Stakes winner Reach For The Moon (113), Australian 12f Listed winner Chalk Stream (113; both by Sea The Stars) and Group 1-placed 8.5-10f winner Invictus Prince (111). <\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe most beautiful son of Sea The Stars. A backend two-year-old who will be one to follow well into his three-year-old season. From a wonderful family of the late Her Majesty The Queen\u2019s, he could be absolutely anything!\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>ANGEL GABRIEL (IRE)<\/strong><br \/>28\/4 b c Mehmas &#8211; Nahoodh (Clodovil)<br \/>Trainer: Ralph Beckett Owner: Highclere Thoroughbred Racing &#8211; Cedar Sales price: 140,000gns (Highclere Agency)<\/p>\n<p>Half-brother to 2024 Japanese 7f 3yo Grade 2 winner Etes Vous Prets (110) and UAE 1m Listed winner Hawkesbury (113). Dam a Falmouth Stakes winner (119).<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA very nice son of Mehmas who looked very precocious initially, but he grew quite a bit so fell behind schedule. He should be ready to start over 6f at the beginning of June.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>AWAKEN (IRE)<\/strong><br \/>8\/3 b f Mehmas &#8211; Circulation (Oasis Dream)<br \/>Trainer: George Boughey Owner: Highclere Thoroughbred Racing &#8211; Maple Sales price: 160,000gns (Highclere Agency)<\/p>\n<p>Third foal of a 10f 3yo winner (78) who was a half-sister to four-time 10\/10.5f Group 1 winner Twice Over (128) out of a Lingfield Oaks Trial winner (102) and the dam of Group 1 winners Passage of Time (10f; 115) and Timepiece (1m; 117).<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis could be our next star with George, following on from Believing, Cachet and Soprano. She recorded a highly impressive debut at Yarmouth, finishing second to a well-regarded filly and pulling well clear with her. She heads straight to the Albany at Royal Ascot. Exciting!\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dan Briden&#8217;s series continues as Harry Herbert takes him through some of the Highclere two-year-old team for 2025.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":124076,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4107],"tags":[1071,79,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-124075","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\/114554740871431693","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124075","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=124075"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124075\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/124076"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=124075"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=124075"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=124075"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}