Notable Speech returned to the winner’s circle in a big way with a rousing, come from behind victory to win the G1 Woodbine Mile on Saturday, 13 September.
The victory earned the four-year-old son of Dubawi an automatic, fees-paid berth in the G1 Breeders’ Cup Mile at Del Mar. Already boasting wins in both the G1 2000 Guineas and G1 Sussex Stakes as a three-year-old, Notable Speech notched both his first win this year and his first G1 win this season. He entered the Woodbine Mile off sharp second-place finish (beaten just a head) in the G1 Prix Jacques Le Marois last month.
Off to a hesitant beginning from gate two and pinched back a few strides out of the gate, Notable Speech was hustled along to take up a position in mid-field as My Boy Prince took them along through decent fractions up front. Traveling strongly into the final three-eighths of a mile, Notable Speech was steered out four-wide at the top of the lane and stormed home full of run to score by two lengths over the pacesetter. Gas Me Up (Hard Spun) finished well to get third.
A homebred for Godolphin, Notable Speech is out of the Group-placed Invincible Spirit mare Swift Rose, herself a half-sister to G1 winner Wild Beauty and fellow Dubawi Group winner Desert Wisdom.
The incredible Dubawi has enjoyed another exceptional year, with 27 individual Stakes winners so far, including the globetrotting hero Rebel’s Romance, who gained an eighth victory in G1 company in the Grosser Preis von Berlin. Dubawi’s ever-growing list of sons at stud received another boost recently, when his three-time G1 winner Space Blues sired his own first G1 winner, Power Blue in the Phoenix Stakes at the Curragh.
