REDPENDER Stud owner Jimmy Murphy was celebrating on the double last Sunday, when two offspring of his mare Swirral Edge (Hellvelyn) made it into the winner’s enclosure at Deauville, but more importantly they did so in listed races.

One of these wins in particular provided an important and highly significant update to the pedigree of Lot 137 in the upcoming Tattersalls October Sale Book 1, a yearling colt by Mehmas (Acclamation). That yearling is the third offspring of Swirral Edge, and the mare in back in foal this year to Minzaal (Mehmas) at Derrinstown Stud.

A one-time £10,500 yearling buy, and later a dual winner, Swirral Edge’s first foal was a son of Showcasing (Oasis Dream), Asymmetric, and he was sold by Murphy as a December Sale yearling at Tattersalls for 65,000gns. A few months later, having been broken and ridden by Katie Walsh at her Greenhills Farm near Kill, he resold for 150,000gns as a breezer, and it was not long before Asymmetric looked to be something of a bargain, winning the Group 2 Richmond Stakes at Goodwood and placing in the Group 2 July Stakes at Newmarket.

A third-place finish in the Group 1 Prix Morny established Asymmetric as a very smart, if not quite top drawer, runner, and he was sent to continue his racing career in the USA. There he failed to sparkle, managed to be placed in a minor stakes, and he reappeared last weekend at Deauville, winning the Listed Prix du Cercle over the minimum trip.

Asymmetric, now a four-year-old, was followed a year later by Mill Stream (Gleneagles), and the latter sold for 350,000gns thanks to the juvenile efforts of his half-brother. Mill Stream proved to be a smart juvenile last season, was fourth in the Group 3 Acomb Stakes, but he really came good when he captured the Listed Prix Moonlight Cloud at Deauville. This is an especially important update to the catalogue for the Mehmas yearling.

A real feature of this family is the fact that each of the first four dams in the pedigree have almost faultless records at stud. Swirral Edge is two for two with her first foals, and she in turn is one of five winners from five runners for Pizzarra (Shamardal). The best of that quintet is the listed winner and group-placed Fashion Queen (Aqlaam). Last year, at the Tattersalls December Sale, Joe Foley bought the barren Pizzarra for 30,000gns.

Deepened

Jimmy Murphy’s belief in this family has been deepened, as he now has a two-year-old daughter of Pizzarra, Zarra Ellis (Eqtidaar), in training with Willie McCreery. He bought her as a foal for 55,000gns, while a few years earlier Murphy made a profit from reselling Pocotaligo (Helmet), a son of Pizzarra, for 145,000gns, having spent 92,000gns on him as a foal.

Pizzarra was placed a few times, and she was the only one of the nine runners out of Pizzicato (Statoblest) not to win.

The eight successful progeny included a pair of blacktype winners, both fillies, and both have gone on to breed stakes winners. Wunders Dream (Averti) was the first of the pair, and she won the Group 2 Flying Childers Stakes and the Group 3 Molecomb Stakes as a juvenile. She went on to breed the Newmarket listed winner Inyordreams (Teofilo).

Three years after the birth of Wunders Dream, along came her half-sister, Grecian Dancer (Dansili). Her best win was at the Curragh where she landed the Group 3 Ridgewood Pearl Stakes, while at Royal Ascot she placed in the Group 2 Windsor Forest Stakes. Her best winner has been Muffri’ha (Iffraaj), a Group 3 winner in England and in the frame in the Group 1 Jebel Hatta at Meydan.

Successful

Pizzicato won a couple of races and she was one of six successful offspring of Musianica (Music Boy). Those half a dozen came from seven runners, and two of the six were top-class in Hong Kong. Mensa (Rudimentary) was a champion there where his victories included the Group 1 Queen Elizabeth II Stakes. Mensa was originally trained by Mark Tompkins, and the Newmarket handler also initially trained his half-brother Firebolt (Flying Spur), and that Group 3 winner in England was runner-up in the Group 1 Hong Kong Sprint.

Whitsbury Manor Stud’s Showcasing (Oasis Dream) is responsible for five stakes winners in 2023, and they are among 37 he has sired to date. A trio of three-year-olds by Showcasing have won pattern races this year, while his other two listed winners are four-year-olds. Hopefully it will not be long before he adds to his Group 1 tally, which now consists of Advertise, Quiet Reflection, Mohaather and Belbek.

Showcasing has 10 crops of racing age, while Gleneagles (Galileo) has just five, but he has already amassed 28 stakes-winning sons and daughters, and seven of them have been successful at that level this year. Gleneagles has two Group 1 winners, one each from his first two crops. They are Highland Chief and Loving Dream.