THE Prix Joseph Biancone at Bordeaux was run recently and it had a winner whose pedigree would suggest that this was a quiet start to a career that hopefully will deliver much more important performances.

The winner was a three-year-old called Getback In Paris and he has a sire and dam whose names will be well-known to all.

Galileo is simply the best stallion in the world and Getback In Paris is one of his sons. The colt is the second foal out of Elusive Wave and she transformed from being a €20,000 Goffs yearling purchase by Peter Doyle into a classic winner who twice lit up the sales rings in France and England.

Trained at two by Richard Hannon to win first time out, she then went to France and Jean-Claude Rouget sent her out to win a listed race, followed by the Group 3 Prix du Calvados. She was consigned to the Arc Sale in 2008 and Martin Schwartz paid €660,000 for her. That weekend she was runner-up in the Group 1 Prix Marcel Boussac.

She remained in training with Rouget and he sent her out to land the French 1000 Guineas, the Poule d’Essai des Pouliches, and at the end of her third season racing she was again offered for sale, this time at Tattersalls where M.V. Magnier signed for her at 800,000gns.

She visited Galileo the next season and her first offspring is Brandybend. This four-year-old filly was runner-up in the Listed Prix Zarkava at Saint-Cloud this year and she, like Getback In Paris, is a winner.

Elusive Wave’s third produce is a two-year-old Japanese-born daughter of Frankel which is named Elusive Happiness, while the mare’s fourth offspring is a yearling filly by Deep Impact. There may be much more and better to come from the classic winning Elusive Wave.