CURVY (by Galileo) gave her future paddocks value a tremendous boost last Sunday when winning the Group 3 Airlie Stud Gallinule Stakes over 10 furlongs at the Curragh.

The David Wachman-trained three-year-old does not hold any classic entries but is engaged in several pattern events and may now head to Ascot for next month’s Group 2 Ribblesdale Stakes.

Her half-sister Thakafaat (by Unfuwain) won that race when it was held at York in 2005, and although that filly disappointed next time when unplaced behind Shawanda in the Group 1 Irish Oaks, Curvy has three close relations who have been successful at the highest level.

Her half-brother Power (by Oasis Dream) was speedier and more precocious than his sisters, winning the Listed Marble Hill Stakes and the Group 2 Coventry Stakes in the first few weeks of his juvenile campaign.

He was beaten a neck by La Collina in the Group 1 Phoenix Stakes on his fourth start, beat Dragon Pulse in the Group 1 National Stakes and then chased home Parish Hall in the Group 1 Dewhurst Stakes.

He won the Group 1 Irish 2000 Guineas at three, stands at Coolmore Stud and his first crop are yearlings.

Curvy was bred by the partnership of Norelands & Hugo Lascelles, as was Power, and her half-brother’s prospects at stud look good given that their dam Frappe (by Inchinor) is a half-sister to Footstepsinthesand (by Giant’s Causeway).

He ran just three times, winning a Naas maiden, the Group 3 Killavullan Stakes and then the 2000 Guineas, and his five Group/Grade 1 stars among more than 40 individual stakes winners include the Matron Stakes heroine Chachamaidee, the French-based stallion Shamalgan (first foals now), and Pure Champion.

The latter, a pattern scorer in Ireland before doing well in Hong Kong and then getting a Group 1 victory over a mile in New Zealand, was known here as Steinbeck, he is out of a sister to the stakes-winning dam of Nannina (by Medicean), was retired recently and is to be found a place at stud.

Frappe is out of the Group 3 Prestige Stakes winner Glatisant (by Rainbow Quest), which means that she is also a half-sister to the Group 1 Phoenix Stakes scorer Pedro The Great (by Henrythenavigator), who stands at Haras de la Haie Neuve, and his first crop are foals.

Half-sister

Their half-sister Belle D’Or (by Medaglia d’Oro) is trained by John Gosden and although the stakes-winning four-year-old was unplaced in the Group 2 Middleton Stakes at York recently, she was third in the Group 2 Dahlia Stakes 11 days earlier and her entries include the Group 1 Pretty Polly Stakes at the Curragh.

Curvy has three Group 1 winning male relatives at stud, one of whom has sired Group 1 winners of his own, and that will make her an exciting prospect when she eventually goes to stud.

Before then there should be more good prizes to be won with this improving filly, and it will interesting to see how highly in the rankings the 775,000gns Tattersalls October Yearling Sale graduate can climb.