MOST horses win or are at least placed before notching up their first blacktype success, but when she has one of the best pedigrees in the book then we should not be too surprised if the horse does something different.

Time will tell us just how good Kind Of Magic (by Galileo) is, and having been beaten a total of 16 and a quarter lengths when fifth and fourth in a pair of seven furlong maidens, her 14/1 starting price in last Sunday’s Listed Flame Of Tara European Breeders Fund Stakes was understandable.

Whether it was the ease in the ground, the extra furlong, the proverbial penny finally dropping, or a combination of all these factors, only her connections may know for sure, but even they might have been were surprised that she beat her stable companion How High The Moon by a neck.

Kind Of Magic was entered in the Group 1 Moyglare Stud Stakes, but no matter what she may achieve this year, she looks like a potentially high-class candidate for next year’s best fillies’ events, probably at around 10 furlongs and possibly over a bit further.

Her sire needs no introduction and many will remember her dam Look At Me (by Danehill Dancer), who was also trained by Aidan O’Brien and whose name forms that of the syndicate that bred her daughter.

She won an eight and a half furlong listed contest at Cork, was placed in the Group 2 Blandford Stakes and in the Group 3 Kilternan Stakes over 10, but beaten 13 lengths when fourth in the Group 2 Ribblesdale Stakes, her only attempt at a mile and a half.

Her full-brother Francis Of Assisi won over six furlongs and took a listed contest over seven at Leopardstown, and her dam is the mile Group 3 scorer Queen Cleopatra (by Kingmambo), a filly who was third in the Group 1 Irish 1000 Guineas and in the Group 1 Prix de Diane (French Oaks).

Queen Cleopatra is, of course, a full-sister to the multiple Group 1-winning miler and Grade 1 Breeders’ Cup Classic runner-up Henrythenavigator (by Kingmambo) and their dam is the Group 1 Moyglare Stud Stakes heroine Sequoyah (by Sadler’s Wells).

A full-sister to the Group 1 Fillies’ Mile scorer Listen, Sequoyah is a half-sister to the speedy Oyster Catcher (by Bluebird) and also to Lady Windermere (by Lake Coniston), the mare whose sprint stakes-winning daughter Absolutelyfabulous (by Mozart) gave us the Group 1 Irish 2000 Guineas and Grade 1 Breeders’ Cup Turf winner Magician (by Galileo), who has completed his first season at Ashford Stud.

His presence in the family will give encouragement to those who hope that Kind Of Magic will stay the Oaks trip in 2016.

However, he was not guaranteed to stay 12 furlongs, his full-sister Outstanding, who is a Grade 1-placed stakes winner over 10 this year, was last of 11 in the Group 1 Yorkshire Oaks last month, and her big-race entries are in the eight to 10 furlong range.

The fourth dam of Kind Of Magic is Brigid (by Irish River), a full-sister to Or Vision, the stakes-winning dam of the Group 1 Irish 2000 Guineas victor Saffron Walden (by Sadler’s Wells), of the Grade 1 E P Taylor Stakes scorer Insight (by Sadler’s Wells), and of the Group 1 Prix de la Foret winner Dolphin Street (by Bluebird).

There is no doubt that Kind Of Magic is bred to be a star on the track, and at stud.

The way she won on Sunday suggests that she will stay further, but given how so many of her relatives fared at three, I wonder if the Group 1 Prix de Diane may be more her trip than the Oaks or Irish Oaks.