{"id":185592,"date":"2025-10-08T13:54:12","date_gmt":"2025-10-08T13:54:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/185592\/"},"modified":"2025-10-08T13:54:12","modified_gmt":"2025-10-08T13:54:12","slug":"day-two-updates-as-godolphin-and-amo-return-for-more-after-blockbuster-opening-session","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/185592\/","title":{"rendered":"day two updates as Godolphin and Amo return for more after blockbuster opening session"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Magical<\/p>\n

Magical: top-class filly and sister to Rhododendron and the debuting PropositionCredit: Edward Whitaker<\/p>\n

Navan’s eight-race card today features a juvenile mile maiden (3.52<\/a>) which has been dominated by Aidan O’Brien in recent years.<\/p>\n

The Ballydoyle trainer saddles a Frankel colt with one of the finest pedigrees in the stud book. Proposition<\/a> is a Coolmore homebred being out of brilliant race filly and producer Halfway To Heaven.\u00a0<\/p>\n

A winner of the Irish 1,000 Guineas, Nassau Stakes and Sun Chariot Stakes, Halfway To Heaven has proven – if possible – even more prolific at stud. The Pivotal mare is responsible for two top-class daughters of Galileo in Magical and Rhododendron, the latter a seven-time Group 1 winner including two Irish Champion Stakes.<\/p>\n

The legacy of this fantastic family is deepening as Rhododendron, herself a winner of the Lockinge, Prix de l’Opera and Fillies’ Mile – is the dam of dual Derby hero, Irish Champion Stakes victor and Breeders’ Cup Turf winner Auguste Rodin.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The son of Deep Impact retired to Coolmore this year and covered his first book at a fee of \u20ac30,000.\u00a0<\/p>\n

My colleague Joe Eccles takes a closer look at the two-year-old here<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Magical: top-class filly and sister to Rhododendron and the debuting PropositionCredit: Edward Whitaker Navan’s eight-race card today features…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":185593,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[3004,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-185592","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-racing","tag-racing","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185592","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=185592"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185592\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/185593"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=185592"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=185592"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=185592"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}