WHEN Tosen Gift was offered for sale as a yearling at the Goffs Orby Yearling Sale in 2016, the page of the catalogue only had room for the first two dams. The daughter of Lope De Vega (Shamardal) was the fifth living offspring of the unraced Miracolia (Montjeu) and she was a half-sister at the time to a single winner, the gelding Searching (Mastercraftsman).

Bred by Peter and Antoinette Kavanagh’s Kildaragh Stud, Tosen Gift was sold for the unusual sum of €98,000 to Japan Health Summit, the ownership name in which she races today. She was sent to be trained in France by Satosha Kobayashi and two weeks ago she was a runaway winner of the Listed Prix Rose de Mai over 10 furlongs at Saint-Cloud.

A winner last year on her second outing, she has now added invaluable blacktype to her own CV and to the excellent female line from which she descends. In the meanwhile her half-sister Vincita (Lawman) is a winner in the colours of Antoinette Kavanagh and this ensures that the stud will continue to have the line well into the future. There is a yearling full-sister to Vincita at Kildaragh, while another half-sister Omoor (Tamayuz) raced for Hamdan Al Maktoum and he bred from her.

Miracolia is an own-sister to Group 3 winner Stagelight and a half-sister to four other stakes winners. Stagelight’s principal victory was gained in the UAE 2000 Guineas, but he was outperformed by his sibling Ivan Luis (Lycius). He won the Group 2 Premio Ellington, a listed race in England and he was third in the French Derby.

The other stakes winners out of Zivania (Shernazar), the grandam of Tosen Gift, include the French listed winner Amathia (Darshaan) and the English listed winner Hathrah, and both of these fillies have subsequently made a mark at stud. Hathrah was placed in the 1000 Guineas and her daughter Hadaatha (Sea The Stars) was placed in the Group 1 Prix de l’Opera.

Amathia has done even better, producing three stakes winners in Group 3 winner Distant Memories (Falbrav), the Grade 1 placed Mutatis Mutandis (Mastercraftsman) and the listed winner Mohedian Lady (Hurricane Run). This is a family that continues to deliver each and every year.

Lope De Vega stands for €60,000 at Ballylinch Stud where the owners simply advertise him as “one of the world’s best young sires”. What’s the evidence for this claim? Group 1 winners such as Vega Magic, Belardo, The Right Man, Santa Ana Lane, Jemayel and Carla Temptress is a good starting point. They come from a lifetime 28 blacktype winners to date – a number that will grow substantially in the years to come. Only 11 years of age, Lope De Vega was a dual classic winner in France, capturing both the Poule d’Essai des Poulains (2000 Guineas) and Prix du Jockey Club (Derby). His sire Shamardal (Giant’s Causeway) did the same classic double and his number of blacktype winners is now approaching 90. Shamardal stands under the Darley banner.