THE Thoroughbred Daily News has a ‘TDN Rising Star’ accolade which it gives to horses who impress their analysts. Their ability to spot the early talent of winners is world renowned. Maybe I should consider something similar for my column, as a look back on the previous 119 columns shows that I have (modestly) predicated future success on a number of occasions.

One of these occasions was just seven weeks ago when I wrote about a pair of maiden winners in Ireland and France, and both have gone on to enjoy stakes wins recently. The French winner was Luminate who ran away with the Group 3 Prix de Conde and in the process provided the most timely of boosts for her sibling, who days later was going under the hammer in Book 2 of the Tattersalls October Yearling Sale.

Philip and Jane Myerscough gave just €35,000 for Kalandara at the Goffs November Sale in 2013. Part of the annual cull of mares and fillies by the Aga Khan Studs, she was in foal to the Group 1 winner Siyouni (Pivotal) and the resulting colt was traded by them for 85,000gns as a foal before going on to make 320,000gns as a yearling.

Last year Kalandara’s yearling filly by Lawman (Invincible Spirit) was sold through Baroda & Colbinstown Studs (the sales operation operated by the Myerscough’s son David and business partner David Cox) at Goffs for €85,000. This is Luminate. She races in the colours of Highclere Thoroughbred Racing and trainer Freddy Head believes she has classic potential. Before that she is likely to take in a Group 1 juvenile contest.

Early on Tuesday morning Kalandara’s yearling filly by Lope De Vega (Shamardal) was part of this year’s draft of yearlings consigned from Baroda & Colbinstown Studs and she became the most valuable sale offering for her dam when she passed into the ownership of Godolphin at 370,000gns.

Luminate is the first stakes winner for Kalandara, a placed daughter of Rainbow Quest (Blushing Groom) who is a half-sister to seven winners. They include Kalanisi (Doyoun) who raced in the colours of the Aga Khan, winning the Group 1 Champion Stakes and the Grade 1 Breeders’ Cup Turf. He also won the Group 2 Queen Anne Stakes at Royal Ascot, now a Group 1, and placed in a host of Group 1s. Today he is a successful sire at Boardsmill Stud. His half-brother Kalaman (Desert Prince) won the Group 2 Scottish Derby and was runner-up in the Group 1 St James’s Palace Stakes.

Lawman won the Group 1 Prix du Jockey Club (French Derby) and Prix Jean Prat and his seventh crop of racing age are this year’s two-year-olds. Luminate is the first of this crop to win a stakes race. The Ballylinch Stud sire’s five Group 1 winners are Just The Judge, Marcel, Harbour Law, Most Improved and Law Enforcement.

That same week I speculated about what the future might hold for a maiden winner, the Oasis Dream (Green Desert) colt Gobi Desert, and wondered if connections might resist offers for him and keep him as a potential stallion. The owner is Annette O’Callaghan and she and husband Gay, together with son David, operate Yeomanstown Stud.

Gobi Desert was runner-up next time out in the Listed Ballyhane Blenheim Stakes at Fairyhouse but last weekend took his revenge on Brick By Brick and in the process won the Listed Legacy Stakes. So the dream lives on and hopefully he will continue on an upward curve. Gay and Annette purchased the son of Oasis Dream (Green Desert) and the Zamindar (Gone West) mare Household Name as a foal for 95,000gns at the Tattersalls December Sale two years ago. The colt was bred by Countess De La Warr.

Household Name was bred and raced by Juddmonte Farms and was placed a few times in France. Gobi Desert is her first foal, followed by a yearling filly by Frankel (Galileo) who sold to Japan last year for 350,000gns. This year she had a filly by Dansili (Danehill).

Household Name has six winning siblings, all but one of which earned blacktype. Reefscape (Linamix) won the Group 1 Prix du Cadran, while his full-brother Martaline gained his biggest success at Group 2 level in France where he is now a successful stallion. Their half-brother Coastal Path (Halling) was a dual Group 2 winner and placed in the Group 1 Ascot Gold Cup, and has also enjoyed success as a stallion. The other blacktype earners were Clear Thinking (Rainbow Quest) and Prankster (Rock Of Gibraltar).

Gobi Desert’s third dam Bahamian (Mill Reef) was a listed winner and Group 2 placed and bred, among seven winners, the Group 1 Irish Oaks winner Wemyss Bight, a daughter of Dancing Brave (Lyphard). Her best produce is the multiple Group 1 sire Beat Hollow (Sadler’s Wells) and he stands at Ballylinch Stud, also home to his relation New Bay (Dubawi) who beat Highland Reel to capture the Group 1 Prix du Jockey Club – French Derby and has just completed his first season at stud.

Wemyss Bight’s own-sister Hope went one better than her classic-winning sister at stud, breeding a pair of Group 1 winners in Oasis Dream and Zenda. The latter, like Gobi Desert’s dam, is a daughter of Zamindar and she was an outstanding racemare, winning the Group 1 French 1000 Guineas. In turn she is dam of Kingman (Invincible Spirit) whose first crop yearlings are selling well.

A champion at two and three, Oasis Dream is an outstanding stallion and is responsible for 53 group winners, 109 stakes winners and two champions in Muhaarar and Midday.