Even So (horse)

Even So (foaled 25 April 2017) is an Irish Thoroughbred racehorse. After showing promise as a juvenile in 2019 she showed top-class form in 2020, taking both the Naas Oaks Trial and the Irish Oaks.

Even So
SireCamelot
GrandsireMontjeu
DamBreeze Hill
DamsireDanehill
SexFilly
Foaled25 April 2017[1]
CountryIreland
ColourBay
BreederLynch Bages
OwnerSusan Magnier & Mrs Paul Shanahan
TrainerGer Lyons
Record6: 3-0-2
Earnings£164,676
Major wins
Naas Oaks Trial (2020)
Irish Oaks (2020)

Background

Even So is a bay filly with no white markings bred in Ireland by Lynch Bages Ltd, a breeding company associated with the Coolmore Stud. She entered the ownership of Susan Magnier and Mrs Paul Shanahan and was sent ino training with Ger Lyons at Dunsany, County Meath. She was ridden in most of her races by Colin Keane.

She was from the third crop of foals sired by Camelot who won the 2000 Guineas and the Epsom Derby in 2012.[2] Even So's dam Breeze Hill little racing ability, failing to win in six starts.[3] She was a half-sister to both Dr Devious and the influential broodmare Rain Flower, whose descendants have included Dancing Rain, Maybe and Saxon Warrior.[4]

Racing career

2019: two-year-old season

On her racecourse debut Even So started at odds of 10/1 for a maiden race over seven and a half furlongs at Tipperary Racecourse on 29 August and stayed on well from the rear of the field to finish third behind Blissful and Tasalka.[5] Four weeks later the filly started 5/4 favourite for a maiden over one mile on soft ground at Gowran Park] and recorded her first success, winning "comfortably" by three and three quarter lengths from Azila after taking the lead soon after the start.[6]

2020: three-year-old season

Even So was moved up in class and matched against older fillies when she made her first appearance of 2020 in the Group 3 Park Express Stakes over one mile at Naas Racecourse on 23 March. She started the 5/6 favourite but after being bumped at the start she came home third behind Lemista and Hamariyna. The Irish flat racing season was then disrupted by the COVID-19 pandemic and Even So did not reappear until 13 June, when she started a 16/1 outsider for the Irish 1000 Guineas at the Curragh and came home fifth behind Peaceful, staying on steadily in the last quarter mile without ever looking likely to win.[7] On 4 July Even So was moved up in distance for the ten furlong Naas Oaks Trial and started 13/8 favourite with the best fancied of her five opponents being the Salsabil Stakes winner Silence Please. She led soon after the start and after being headed by the Aidan O'Brien-trained Laburnum inside the final furlong she rallied to reagin the advantage and won by a neck.[8]

The Irish Oaks run behind closed doors over one and a half miles at the Curragh two weeks after her win at Naas saw Even So stepped up to the highest class and start at odds of 10/1 in and eight-runner field. Cayenne Pepper (runner up to Magical in the Pretty Polly Stakes) started favourite while the other contenders were Ennistymon (second in the Epsom Oaks), Passion (third in the Ribblesdale Stakes), Snow (Munster Oaks), Laburnum, New York Girl (Weld Park Stakes) and Yaxeni. After being settled towards the rear of the field Even So made steady progress on the outside in the straight, overtook the favoured Cayenne Pepper inside the final furlong and drew away to win by two lengths.[9] After the race Colin Keane said "It was very straightforward. I got a lovely pitch and I couldn't believe how well my filly was going between the two and the one pole. She stretched all the way to the line" while Ger Lyons said "I love the Camelot fillies and I liked her from the very get-go. Did I think she was an Oaks filly, no, I didn’t but when she won the trial she earned the right to run. It's strange with no people here but I'll take it. I didn’t take my eyes off her up the straight but I was never in doubt at any stage". Commenting on the fact that most of Coolmore's horses were trained by Aidan O'Brien at Ballydoyle he added "it's good that these owners are now with me, with a good trainer for a change".[10]

Pedigree
Pedigree of Even So (IRE), bay filly, 2017[1]
Sire
Camelot (GB)
2009		 Montjeu (IRE)
1996		 Sadler's Wells (USA) Northern Dancer (CAN)
Fairy Bridge
Floripedes (FR) Top Ville (IRE)
Toute Cy
Tarfah (USA)
2001		 Kingmambo Mr Prospector
Miesque
Fickle (GB) Danehill
Fade
Dam
Breeze Hill (IRE)
2000		 Danehill (USA)
1986		 Danzig Northern Dancer (CAN)
Pas de Nom
Razyana His Majesty
Spring Adieu (CAN)
Rose of Jericho (USA)
1984		 Alleged Hoist The Flag
Princess Pout
Rose Red Northern Dancer (CAN)
Cambrienne (FR) (Family: 1-t)[4]
  • Even So was inbred 2 × 4 to Danehill, meaning that this stallion appears in both the second and fourth generations of her pedigree.
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References
  1. "Even So pedigree". Equineline.
  2. "Camelot - Stud Record". Racing Post.
  3. "Breeze Hill - Form". Racing Post.
  4. "Trampoline - Family 1-t". Thoroughbred Bloodlines.
  5. "Camas Park Stud Irish EBF Fillies Maiden result". Racing Post. 29 August 2019.
  6. "Irish Stallion Farms EBF Fillies Maiden result". Racing Post. 26 September 2019.
  7. "Irish 1000 Guineas result". Racing Post. 13 June 2020.
  8. "Naas Oaks Trial result". Racing Post. 4 July 2020.
  9. "Irish Oaks result". Racing Post. 18 July 2020.
  10. O'Connor, Brian (18 July 2020). "Even So lands Irish Oaks for Ger Lyons at the Curragh". The Irish Times.
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