KITTY Cowhey’s Loughmore Stables has a lovely yearling colt by Champs Elysees going to the Tattersalls Ireland September Sale next month, catalogued at Lot 281. Kitty expects him to sell well, but has even more reason to do so following the victory of Eirene in the Listed St Hugh’s Stakes recently. The win was a late present, gained a day after Kitty celebrated her birthday.

Eirene is a daughter of Declaration Of War (War Front). She sold for 85,000gns as a yearling and is the second stakes winner in the first crop of juveniles by that winner of both the Group 1 Juddmonte International and Queen Anne Stakes. She was beaten to that honour by the Group 3 winner and Group 1 placed filly Actress.

More important, in the context of this story, is that Eirene is a half-sister to Kitty’s yearling at Fairyhouse and her listed race win will bring even more lookers to the stable. The yearling is just the fourth offspring of the stakes-placed Za Za Zoom (Le Vie Dei Colori) and the first three have all run and won. Following on this year is a colt foal by the hugely popular and successful Iffraaj (Zafonic).

Champs Elysees is a son of one of the most successful crosses in breeding, that of Danehill (Danzig) and the listed winner Hasili (Kahyasi). That particular mating produced Champs Elysees, the multiple champion and Breeders’ Cup winner Banks Hill, the dual Grade 1 winner and sire Cacique, another Breeders’’ Cup winner and Eclipse champion in Intercontinental, and the ‘mere’ Group 2 winner but now outstanding sire of more than 20 Group 1 winners, Banstead Manor Stud’s Dansili.

Hasili actually bred five Group or Grade 1 winners, one of just a pair of mares to ever do so, and the fifth was the outstanding racemare Heat Haze, a daughter of Green Desert and thus a very close relation to her Danehill siblings as that sire is also by Danzig (Northern Dancer).

Could there be any better recommendation for Champs Elysees as a stallion? Actually yes, as he is himself a proven Group 1 sire on the flat too.

Za Za Zoom was trained by Barry Hills and won a six-furlong maiden at Windsor on her second outing. She stepped up to seven and finished second in a listed race at Newbury, also at two. A full-sister to the 10-time winner and stakes-placed Highland Colori, Za Za Zoom is one of eight winners from 10 foals out of the winning three-year-old Emmas’s Star (Darshaan). The best of these was Genki (Shinko Forest) and he won the Group 3 Chipchase Stakes over six furlongs and had Kingsgate Native and Starspangledbanner immediately behind him when third in the Group 1 Haydock Sprint Cup.

This a female line that produces winners galore and smart performers to boot, Eirene is continuing the trend and hopefully this will be to the benefit of Kitty Cowhey in a few weeks’ time.