LAST week’s column was a review of all the winners on the first three days of the Royal Ascot meeting, and this time I will conclude my look at the week’s winners with profiles of the 18 winners on the Friday and Saturday of the five-day extravaganza.

Pride of place has to go to the trio of Group 1 winners, a pair of three-year-old fillies by Kodiac (Danehill) and No Nay Never (Scat Daddy), and a seven-year-old gelded son of Dream Ahead (Diktat) who finally bagged the Diamond Jubilee Stakes. All three were landing their second Group 1 success.

Campanelle gained her Group 1 Commonwealth Cup victory thanks to the racing officials on duty, and thus recorded her second success at the royal meeting, having won the Group 2 Queen Mary Stakes last year. That win 12 months earlier was a stepping stone to a juvenile Group 1 win in the Prix Morny, earning the Wesley Ward-trained filly the title of best two-year-old of her sex in France and the joint-best in Europe.

Bred by Tally-Ho Stud, she is a daughter of their leading sire Kodiac, and one of his five Group 1 winners. Three of them have been fillies, all of whom won a Group 1 at two. Campanelle now joins another Tally-Ho Stud-bred, Fairyland, to have gone on to add to that tally at three. Kodiac’s Group 1 winning sons are Hello Youmzain, who has just completed his first season at Haras d’Etreham at €25,000, and Best Solution who has his first foals on the ground and stands at Gestüt Auenquelle.

This is a family that is improving with each generation. Campanelle’s third dam Spout House (Flash Of Steel) was bred at the Murless family’s Curragh Stud and raced in Britain and Ireland. She was placed nine times, being beaten 10 lengths when runner-up at two and also being placed in a bumper, but her form was just average. At stud she bred four winners and the best of these was Lady Dominatrix.

Nerys Dutfield

That daughter of Danehill Dancer (Danehill) was from her sire’s first crop and she sold twice, making IR1,400gns as a foal and IR2,000gns as a yearling at Goffs. She was bought on the latter occasion by the late Nerys Dutfield who trained her to win four races, including at Group 3 and listed level.

A smart sprinter, Lady Dominatrix went on to breed five winners, one of which was successful at stakes level. Janina (Namid) sold for 40,000gns as a foal and was a profitable pinhook, costing Shadwell 110,000gns as a yearling.

She only raced five times, won twice, and one of these successes was in the Listed Marygate Stakes at York. Janina bred three winners for Shadwell before being sold for 39,000gns to Tally-Ho in foal to Exceed And Excel (Danehill).

Covered by Kodiac, she produced Campanelle who sold for 190,000gns as a yearling to bloodstock agent Ben McElroy. Carrying the colours of Stonestreet Stables, she has more than repaid her yearling sales price, and she will be a most exciting broodmare prospect in time.

Alcohol Free

Also successful for the second time at Group 1 level was Alcohol Free (No Nay Never). She added the Coronation Stakes to her two-year-old win in the Juddmonte Cheveley Park Stakes, while the third of her four successes to date came in the Group 3 Fred Darling Stakes.

Bred by Tom Gaffney’s Churchtown House Stud, Alcohol Free sold as a foal to Jeff Smith’s Littleton Stud in Goffs for €40,000. Gaffney also sold the foal’s dam Plying (Hard Spun) at the same sale to Martin Cooney of Jossesstown Stud in Tipperary for a bargain €21,000 (she cost $200,000 as a yearling!). Since her purchase she is dam of three winners, one a dual Group 1 heroine and another a stakes winner in France.

Cooney later sold the foal Plying was carrying at the time for €40,000, though she went on, thanks to emergence of Alcohol Free, to make 130,000gns as a yearling. That half-sister by Starspangledbanner (Choisir) is named Hooked On You, and is in training for John Dance with Karl Burke. Last year Cooney sold a colt foal by Dandy Man (Mozart) to Ballyhane’s Joe Foley for €80,000.

For sale

This year Cooney has a Gleneagles (Galileo) half-sister to Alcohol Free, and has put the dam of last week’s queen of Royal Ascot in foal to Lope De Vega (Shamardal). The mare has a ‘for sale’ sign on her, and she will head to the sales if someone doesn’t snap her up in the meanwhile.

Though Alcohol Free is the outstanding runner in four generations, this is a female line that consistently produces winners and useful performers. Alcohol Free is now one of two stakes winners from the Hard Spun (Danzig) three-time winner Plying, the other being Alexander James (Camelot).

Plying is out of Nasaieb (Fairy King), a 100,000gns yearling who was stakes-placed at two, her only season to race. At stud she had 10 foals, all of which raced, and nine of them won. Just one earned blacktype, Kissing Lights (Machiavellian) who was placed in the Group 2 Flying Childers Stakes. Nasaieb’s half-brother Raise A Grand (Grand Lodge) won the Group 3 Solario Stakes at two.

Alcohol Free is one of three Group 1 winners for No Nay Never, following Ten Sovereigns and the Chilean Oaks winner Brooke.

Dream again

Beaten a head by Blue Point and Hello Youmzain in the two previous editions of the Diamond Jubilee Stakes, Dream Of Dreams went one better this year and was a popular winner of the race for Sir Michael Stoute. The seven-year-old son of Dream Ahead was adding to last year’s Group 1 success in the Haydock Park Sprint Cup.

Bred in Ireland by James Cloney’s Prostock Ltd, Dream Of Dreams was sold as a foal for 37,000gns and now, with nine victories under his belt, his career earnings are nudging towards €1.1 million. Cloney bred another Group 1 Royal Ascot winning speedster in Golden Horde.

Dream Of Dreams is one of four Group 1 winners for the former Ballylinch Stud, now Haras de Grandchamp-based, Dream Ahead, joining Donjuan Triumphant, Glass Slippers, and the Prix Jacques Le Marois hero Al Wukair.

Dream Ahead won the Haydock Sprint Cup a decade ago, adding to triumphs in the July Cup and Prix de l’Abbaye the same year and following wins in the Group 1 Middle Park Stakes and Prix Morny at two.

Upgraded

Now the dam of six winners, including the Group 2 placed Silverheels (Verglas) and the stakes-placed Lasilia (Acclamation), Dream Of Dreams’ unraced dam Vasilia (Dansili) has been upgraded in recent years and has a winning three-year-old colt Fantastic Fox (Frankel) who ran at Royal Ascot, and a two-year-old filly by Galileo (Sadler’s Wells) who sold last year for 1,400,000gns.

Vasilia is a half-sister to two Group 1 winners, Nunthorpe Stakes heroine Jwala (Oasis Dream) and Airwave (Air Express). The latter won the Cheveley Park Stakes and is responsible for four stakes winners. They include Meow (Storm Cat) who has enhanced the pedigree further by producing two champions in Churchill (Galileo) and Clemmie (Galileo), winners of five Group 1 races between them.