IT has been a while since Rathasker Stud’s Clodovil sired his previous Group 1 winners, Nahoodh in the Falmouth Stakes and Moriarty in South Africa, but his third came on Sunday when bargain yearling Tiger Tanaka, sold for €6,500 at the Tattersalls Ireland September Sale, won for the sixth time this year, annexing the Prix Marcel Boussac.

She was previously a Group 3 winner at Deauville and her only defeat in seven outings saw her placed in the Group 2 Prix Robert Papin. With winnings of over €200,000 she is proving to be a contender for bargain of the year.

Tiger Tanaka was claimed after winning her first outing, at Lyon-Parilly, for €23,789 by her current owner, Miguel Castro Megias. She was bred by Dermot and Catherine Dwan at their Kellsgrange Stud in Callan, Co Kilkenny and she is the first foal of a mare that they purchased from Nicky Hartery’s Caherass Stud for just €3,500 carrying Tiger Tanaka. The dam of Tiger Tanaka is Miss Phillyjinks, a two-year-old winning daughter of Zoffany (Dansili).

Miss Phillyjinks is one of four winning offspring from the $160,000 yearling purchase Smoken Rosa (Smoke Glacken), a placed half-sister to multiple Grade 3 winner Snowdrops (Gulch), herself the dam of the Group 3 Horris Hill Stakes winner and Group 2 Hungerford Stakes and German 2000 Guineas-placed Tawhid (Invincible Spirit). Miss Phillyjinks has a colt foal by the Irish National Stud’s Dragon Pulse (Kyllachy) who sired a stakes-winning two-year-old at the weekend, and is in foal to the sensational first season stallion Mehmas (Acclamation), already a Group 1 sire.

Scintillating

The five-runner Group 1 Prix Jean-Luc Lagardere was won in scintillating fashion by Sealiway, the colt running out a decisive eight-length winner. A listed winner prior to the weekend and runner-up in the Group 3 Prix La Rochette, the colt has now won four times in a busy first season.

Bred by Guy Pariente at his Haras de Colleville, Sealiway is the best runner for his sire Galiway (Galileo), a well-related stakes winner over nine furlongs at three. The sire’s first crop of three-year-olds includes a pair of stakes winners, and he has done well with very small numbers of runners. Indeed a third of all his winners have won or placed in stakes races.

Sealiway is the third foal and second winner for his dam Kensea, a stakes winner at two and a daughter of another Haras de Colleville stallion in Kendargent (Kendor). At the recent Arqana Select Yearling Sale a full-brother to Sealiway sold for €115,000 to MAB Agency, his price boosted by the juvenile’s latest win in a listed race. What would he have made this week?