Well-Bred Newcomers to Run April 25 in Britain, Ireland

Great News, a Godolphin homebred son of the operation's much-missed Shamardal and out of the U.A.E. Hydra Properties Falmouth Stakes (G1)-winning Nahoodh , will make his debut April 24 for Saeed Bin Suroor at Salisbury. 

The 3-year-old is the ninth foal out of the daughter of Clodovil , who won the Jaguar Cars Lowther Stakes for Mick Channon and Jaber Abdullah before switching to Mark Johnston and Hamdan Al Maktoum the following year. 

Only 19,000 guineas (US$37,801) as a yearling when purchased by Gill Richardson from Ballybin Stud at the Tattersalls December Yearling Sale in 2005, Nahoodh enjoyed her finest hour in the Falmouth when defeating the Infallible—the dam of 2019 Falmouth heroine Veracious—and Heaven Sent.

She also finished a close second in the Coolmore Fusaichi Pegasus Matron Stakes (G1), defeating Boylesports Irish One Thousand Guineas (G1) and Blue Square Nassau Stakes (G1) winner Halfway To Heaven—the dam of Magical and Rhododendron, no less—into third.

Nahoodh, who was bred by Petra Bloodstock Agency, has produced three winners to date, including the listed-winning Shamardal gelding Hawkesbury, who was also second to Belardo in the Denford Stud Washington Singer Stakes. 

Among Great News' nine rivals in the seven-furlong first division of the novice 3-year-old contest are the winning Camacho  colt George Morland—who is out of a half sister to Nahrain, the dam of Benbatl —and Top of The Shop, a son of Mehmas  out of a half sister to a German group 2 winner. 

Bin Suroor will also saddle Wild Rhythm, a Dubawi  colt out of a Brazilian group 2 winner in Mandinga, in the second division. 

Wetherby's opening 1 1/4-mile contest for fillies sees the return of Noon Star, a Juddmonte-bred daughter of Galileo  and the brilliant Midday . An easy winner of her second start at Nottingham last October, the 3-year-old holds an entry for the Cazoo Oaks (G1) and is a full sister to group 3 scorer Midterm  and a close relation to the stakes-winning Ribblesdale Stakes (G2) runner-up Mori . 

She faces 14 rivals including the Gosdens' and Lady Bamford's Franklet, a daughter of Frankel  and the listed-winning Martlet  from the family of Irish Oaks (G1) heroine Margarula; the Bin Suroor-trained Moment of Beauty, a daughter of Teofilo  from the family of classic scorer Cape Verdi; and Lordship Stud's Loving Dream, a daughter of Gleneagles  and Moyglare Stud Stakes (G1) third Kissable . 

Among the interesting newcomers in the first contest at Navan—the Irish Stallion Farms EBF Maiden for 2-year-olds—is Jupiter Express.

The son of Kodiac , who was bred by Gerry Flannery Developments, was a €140,000 ($155,097) purchase as a foal from Goffs and is related to four stakes performers.