MANY congratulations to breeder Tom Wallace of Lemongrove Stud on the weekend success of the four-year-old Sir Prancealot (Tamayuz) filly Beau Recall. Grade 1 placed last year in the Del Mar Oaks, she gained a breakthrough stakes success when she won the Grade 2 Royal Heroine Stakes over a mile at Santa Anita.

He was doubly delighted as a week earlier a full-sister to Beau Recall was born, and now Tom has the great decision to make about where to send the mare for covering this year.

Tom has also got great cause to be pleased with a decision he made regarding the potential sale of Beau Recall’s dam. Tom bought Greta D’Argent (Great Commotion) for €3,000 at the Goffs November Sale in 2008. She was sold from Airlie Stud and was carrying to Chevalier (Danehill), who at the time stood at Tally-Ho Stud at an advertised fee of €500 more than the mare’s sale price! The subsequent produce, a filly later named Summer Time, sold as a foal for €20,000.

Two and a half years after buying Great D’Argent, Tom entered the mare for the Goffs February Sale and obviously had a change of heart and she was withdrawn. Now 18 years old, she has compiled the most honourable record of seeing her first seven foals all race, and five have won and the other pair have been placed.

In addition to Beau Recall, she is also the dam of a second stakes performer, her daughter Coolmix (One Cool Cat) being a five-time winner, listed-placed in England and now the dam of a winner with her first foal.

One of the two placed runners from the mare is Bo Bridget and she was catalogued for this year’s February Sale at Goffs from Tom’s Lemongrove Stud, but she was another to fail to take up her date in the sale ring.

Beau Recall was sold for €17,000 at the Tattersalls Ireland September Yearling Sale to Ado McGuinness (who bought her Morpheus (Oasis Dream) half-sister for €34,000 last year) and she won at Tipperary as a two-year-old. She then sold to the USA and was put in training with Simon Callaghan. She won on her American debut in early 2017 but didn’t win again until last weekend. However she was placed in a number of stakes races in the intervening time and her Grade 2 success was well deserved. Now the plan is to go for the Grade 1 Gamely Stakes.

Greta D’Argent was sold from Airlie Stud as a yearling for 15,000gns to trainer Mark Johnston and she proved to be a sound investment, winning on her final start at two and adding three successes the following year. Her dam Petite-D-Argent (Noalto) won a nursery at Newmarket at two and a handicap at Epsom in her second season racing.

At stud she had 10 foals, all of which ran, and all of them earned prizemoney. Her seven winners were headlined by the stakes winner Winged D’Argent (In The Wings) and he put up a career best performance in defeat when running third to Westerner in the Group 2 Prix Vicomtesse Vigier over nearly two miles at Longchamp.

Beau Recall is the second Grade 2 winner for her former Tally-Ho Stud sire this year, joining the San Clemente Handicap winner Madam Dancealot.

Breeders, stallion masters and readers are invited to contact Leo Powell at leopowell@theirishfield.ie with news and updates.