Sealiway

Sealiway (foaled 24 February 2018) is a French Thoroughbred racehorse. He was one of the best two-year-olds in Europe in 2020 when he won four of his seven races including an eight length victory in the Prix Jean-Luc Lagardere.

Sealiway
SireGaliway
GrandsireGalileo
DamKensea
DamsireKendargent
SexColt
Foaled24 February 2018[1]
CountryFrance
ColourChestnut
BreederGuy Pariente
OwnerLe Haras de La Gousserie & Guy Pariente
TrainerFrederic Rossi
Record7: 4-1-1
Earnings£192,163
Major wins
Prix des Jouvenceaux et des Jouvencelles (2020)
Prix Jean-Luc Lagardere (2020)

Background

Sealiway is a chestnut colt with a white blaze and three white socks bred in France by Guy Pariente. As a yearling he was consigned to the Arqana sale at Deauville in August 2019 and was bought for €62,000 by the bloodstock agent Paul Nataf on behalf of the Haras de La Gousserie.[1] Pariente, however, retained a share in the colt. Sealiway was sent into training with Frederic Rossi.

He was from the second crop of foals sired by Galiway who won two of his six races including the Listed Prix Le Fabuleux before being retired from racing at the end of his three-year-old season.[2] Sealiway's dam Kensea showed good racing ability, winning two of her eleven races including the Listed Prix Herod.[3] She was a female-line descendant of the French broodmare Nadika, making her a distant relative of Pandofell (Ascot Gold Cup), and Ranimer (Sun Chariot Stakes) as well as the leading National Hunt performers Tiger Roll and Iris's Gift.[4]

Racing career

2020: two-year-old season

Sealiway was ridden in his first three races by Pierre-Charles Boudot. The colt made a successful racecourse debut when he started at odds of 3.2/1 for a maiden race over 1200 metres at Saint-Cloud Racecourse on 12 May and won by two lengths from thirteen opponents.[5] In the following month he followed up in a minor race over the same distance at Chantilly Racecourse, going off the odds-on favourite and prevailing by a short head from the filly Cassiopea.[6] He was then moved up in class and distance and sustained his first defeat as he came home third behind King's Harlequin and Go Athletico in the Listed Prix Roland de Chambure over 1400 metres at Longchamp Racecourse in July.

Franck Blondel took the ride when Sealiway contested the Listed Prix des Jouvenceaux et des Jouvencelles over 1400 metres at Vichy Racecourse on 6 August when he started the 1.5/1 favourite and won by five lengths from Stormy Pouss with a further three lengths back to Central Park West in third place.[7] In the Group 3 Prix La Rochette at Longchamp on 6 September he was ridden by Mickael Barzalona and ran second to Go Athletico, after being outpaced by the winner in the closing stages.

Barzalona was again in the saddle when Sealiway was stepped up to the highest level to contest the Group 1 Prix Jean-Luc Lagardere over 1400 metres on heavy ground at Longchamp on 4 October. He started the 2.9/1 second choice in the betting behind the Coventry Stakes winner Nando Parrado in a five-runner field which also included Law of Indices (Railway Stakes, Libertine and Cairn Gorm (Prix de Cabourg). After racing in second place behind Cairn Gorm he took the lead 400 metres from the finish and drew right away from his opponents to win by eight lengths.[8] After the race Rossi said "Wow! I've always thought he was a really good horse, and he ran over too short a trip to begin with. We decided to ride him more positively. He loves to dominate, and you have to ride him more in the English style than the French. He doesn't sprint, he's a real steamroller. Before today he has never quite run the way he trained, and I told the jockey I was pretty confident that if he could just do what he does in the mornings, the race would be over as a contest.[9]

For his final run of the year, Sealiway was to the United States to contest the Grade I Breeders' Cup Juvenile Turf over one mile at Keeneland on 6 November. Ridden by Barzalona he raced towards the rear before making steady progress in the last three furlongs but never looked likely to win and came home fifth of the fourteen runners, four and three quarter lengths behind the winner Fire At Will.

Pedigree
Pedigree of Sealiway (GB), chestnut colt, 2018[1]
Sire
Galiway (GB)
2011		 Galileo (IRE)
1998		 Sadler's Wells (USA) Northern Dancer (CAN)
Fairy Bridge
Urban Sea (USA) Miswaki
Allegretta (GB)
Danzigaway (USA)
1996		 Danehill Danzig
Razyana
Blushing Away Blushing Groom (FR)
Sweet Revenge
Dam
Kensea (FR)
2010		 Kendargent (FR)
2003		 Kendor Kenmare
Belle Mecene
Pax Bello Linamix
Palavera
Sea Island (FR)
2004		 Gold Away (IRE) Goldneyev (USA)
Blushing Away (USA)
Equitorale Saint Estephe
En Evant (GB) (Family: 31)[4]
  • Sealiway was inbred 3 × 4 to Blushing Away, meaning that this broodmare appeared in both the third and fourth generations of his pedigree.

References
  1. "Sealiway pedigree". Equineline.
  2. "Galiway - Progeny". Racing Post.
  3. "Kensea Race Record & Form". Racing Post.
  4. "Dick Burton's Mare - Family 31". Thoroughbred Bloodlines.
  5. "Prix Kefalin result". Racing Post. 12 May 2020.
  6. "Prix d'Halatte result". Racing Post. 12 May 2020.
  7. "Prix des Jouvenceaux et des Jouvencelles result". Racing Post. 6 August 2020.
  8. "Prix Jean-Luc Lagardere result". Racing Post. 4 October 2020.
  9. Burton, Scott (4 October 2020). "Superb Sealiway Proves Best in Prix Jean-Luc Lagardere". The Blood-Horse.
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