Portrush Moves Enable's Dam Concentric to 6-For-6

Enable's dam Concentric made it six winners from as many runners July 15 when her 3-year-old Frankel filly Portrush won a 1 1/4-mile maiden race at Yarmouth in her second start.

Khalid Abdullah's homebred filly—second to subsequent Investec Oaks (G1) runner Gold Wand in her debut at Newbury last month—got up in the final strides under a strong drive from Robert Havlin to deny the Raven's Pass filly White Mountain by a neck. 

John Gosden trains Enable and her closely related half sister Portrush, who like her illustrious sibling by Nathaniel is inbred 2x3 to Sadler's Wells, with the pair both by Galileo stallions out of a Sadler's Wells mare. 

Enable has struck 10 times at the highest level including the Qatar Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe (G1) in 2017 and 2018, and she became the first Arc winner to win a Breeders' Cup race the same year when she took the Longines Breeders' Cup Turf (G1T) at Churchill Downs in November 2018.

Concentric has also produced the group 2-placed Champs Elysees mare Contribution and the Musidora Stakes (G3) runner-up Entitle, by Dansili.

The mare's other two winners, Tournament and Centroid, are by Oasis Dream and Dansili respectively, while she also has a 2-year-old Sea The Stars colt named Derab in training with Gosden, a yearling full brother to Enable, and paid a return visit to Sea The Stars last year. 

Portrush hails from a deep Juddmonte pedigree—a hypothetical catalog page would not stretch beyond the second dam—with Concentric a sister to the group 2 winner Dance Routine, best known as the dam of multiple top-flight scorer Flintshire  and the granddam of group 2 winner Headman. 

Concentric is a daughter of group 3 winner Apogee and granddaughter of the multiple Oaks-placed Bourbon Girl, whose own dam Fleet Girl entered the Juddmonte fold when Khalid Abdullah purchased Dr. Hubert Schnapka's Ferrans Stud in 1982. 

Portrush, wearing a hood once again, completed a first-third for her sire Wednesday, with Frankel filly Tanita getting a placing for the third time in as many starts.

The latter is out of Shoal, an Oasis Dream sister to the exceptional middle-distance racemare Midday, whose own runners to date include the Bet365 Classic Trial (G3) winner Midterm and the Ribblesdale Stakes (G2) runner-up Mori.