Champion sire-elect Night Of Thunder registered a new Stakes winner on Sunday, 19 October, when his four-year-old daughter Rainbows Edge comfortably won the Listed Prix Casimir Delamarre over 1800m at ParisLongchamp.
Drawn widest of all, Oisin Murphy kept Rainbows Edge to the outside, before making his way over to take up the running. The filly maintained her length advantage throughout and extended nicely when asked inside the final two furlongs, going on to win by a length.
A Royal winner at ParisLongchamp! 👑
Rainbows Edge strikes in the Listed Prix Casimir Delamarre under a fine front-running ride from @oismurphy... 🇫🇷 pic.twitter.com/PIbB4wswm1
Bred by Queen Elizabeth II, Rainbows Edge is a half-sister to US G2 winner Call To Mind, plus G3 winners Recorder and Learn By Heart. Her dam Memory (Danehill Dancer) was herself a winner at G2 level.
Night Of Thunder looks assured to follow in his father Dubawi’s footsteps this year, in claiming the UK and Ireland Champion sires’ title. He currently leads his closest pursuer, Wootton Bassett, by over £600,000. His remarkable year has included 1,000 Guineas winner Desert Flower, as well as Ombudsman, who finished a gallant second in the G1 Champion Stakes having already won the G1 Prince Of Wales’s Stakes and G1 Juddmonte International this year.
