FRENCH classic weekend stole the racing headlines, though mainly for the wrong reasons. The ground at ParisLongchamp proved problematic and is likely to be a headache for some time to come.

Nonetheless, the French 1000 and 2000 Guineas, the Poule d’Essai des Pouliches and Poulains respectively, provided interesting winners, and show that value can be found in the sale ring and among stallions if you look hard enough.

There was quite an ‘Irish feel’ to the winner of the fillies’ classic, the Camacho (Danehill) daughter Teppal. Foaled in France, bred by the German-based Gestut zur Kuste, she is by the Yeomanstown Stud stallion Camacho and she was pinhooked from yearling to a two-year-old by Bansha House Stud’s Con Marnane.

Camacho’s stud career had been solid rather than spectacular after he went to Morristown Lattin Stud initially. He was good value at €4,000 for six of his first seven seasons there, dropping to €3,000 for the year that his first juveniles were due to appear.

He moved to Mickley Stud for the 2013 season and stood for £2,750, but the O’Callaghan’s brought him back to stand in Ireland when he started to enjoy lots of success with his runners and his half-brother Showcasing (Oasis Dream) had his first yearlings sell well. For the past five seasons Camacho has commanded a fee of €7,500 and is very popular with breeders.

With the quality of mares he is getting continuing to improve, it is likely that Teppal will not be the only Group 1 winner he gets. She comes from the first crop conceived on his repatriation to Ireland. Camacho now has four group winners and a total of a dozen stakes winners in all. Watch those numbers grow.

Teppal is now unbeaten in three starts, and this was her first run in a stakes race. She won at Lingfield and Kempton as a juvenile and, based on her classic success, she could be a filly with star quality. She sold in the Arqana v2 Yearling Sale for €60,000 to Con Marnane and last year he sold her on for €105,000 to Blandford Bloodstock.

The best of five winners to date for her dam, Teppal is a half-sister to the multiple stakes-placed Another Party, a speedster who was runner-up in a couple of Group 3 races as a juvenile. Another Party is by Pomellato (Big Shuffle) who stands in France and he is the best runner for his sire to date. Teppal is the 10th foal for her dam and coming after her is a yearling colt by the aforementioned Showcasing.

The dam of Teppal is Jummana, a daughter of Cadeaux Genereux (Young Generation). She showed distinct promise as a two-year-old when she won and was fourth is a listed race. In spite of two more years of racing she failed to make the frame again.

Jummana is a full-sister to Party and she won the listed race that her sibling was fourth in as a juvenile, the Radley Stakes over seven furlongs at Newbury. At stud she has added value to the female line as her son Observational (Galileo) won the Group 3 Easter Cup at Caulfield last year, also adding a second victory in the Listed Golden Mile at Bendigo. Party and Jummana are out of the Forty Niner (Mr Prospector) mare Forty Belles.

One more generation back and many familiar names appear. Teppal’s third dam is Bellarida (Bellypha), a Group 3 winner in France and the dam of three stakes winners. Best of these was In Clover (Inchinor) and she has already gone one better than her dam and bred four stakes winners, among them the Group 1 Prix de l’Opera winner We Are (Dansili).

Another of the trio of stakes winners out of Bellarida is Bellona (Bering) and her grandsons include the Group 1 Hong Kong Derby winner Dominant (Cacique) and the Group 2 winner Es Que Love (Clodovil) whose first crop are runners in 2018. This is also the immediate family of the Group 1 Matron Stakes runner-up Lily’s Angel (Dark Angel) and the 2016 Group 2 Herbert Power Stakes winner Adjusted (Montjeu).