DERRINSTOWN Stud stallion Tamayuz (by Nayef) reached a career landmark last Saturday when his daughter Blond Me won the Listed Coral Distaff over a mile at Sandown, the victory making her the 10th individual blacktype scorer for her sire.

A Group 1-winning miler from the famous stallion-producing family of Galileo (by Sadler’s Wells) and Sea The Stars (by Cape Cross), Tamayuz’s roll of honour also includes the Group 1-winning sprinter G Force and the juvenile Group 2 scorer Sir Prancealot, the latter a Tally-Ho Stud stallion whose first foals made up to 120,000gns at auction last year.

Blond Me was bred by Wardstown Stud Ltd, she is trained by Andrew Balding, and she has now won two of her four starts, all of them in the past three months.

It will be interesting to see how her career turns out, but no matter what she achieves on the track she is already a very valuable prospective broodmare and not just because she’s a stakes-winning daughter of a regally-related stallion.

The fourth foal of her winning dam Holda (by Docksider), and a half-sister to two winners, this 65,000gns Tattersalls October Yearling Sale graduate is out of a half-sister to the Australian Group 1 star Glass Harmonium (by Verglas) and to this year’s pattern scorer Arab Spring (by Monsun).

That Sir Michael Stoute-trained five-year-old is entered in the Group 1 Qipco Irish Champion Stakes and, as many will know, he is a Ballymacoll Stud homebred and a representative of one of their most famous families.

Blond Me’s grandam, therefore, is Spring Symphony (by Darshaan), a winning full-sister to the Group 2 Great Voltigeur Stakes winner Hard Top and what could be described as being a three-parts sister to that horse’s half-brother Conduit (by Dalakhani), the St Leger, King George and dual Breeders’ Cup Turf hero.

Their dam Well Head (by Sadler’s Wells) is a half-sister to the classic and Champion Stakes winner Spectrum (by Rainbow Quest), to the Grade 1-placed Grade 2 scorer Stream Of Gold (by Rainbow Quest) and also to Ballet Shoes (by Ela-Mana-Mou), the winning dam of the outstanding Petrushka (by Unfuwain).

She won her only start at two and was unplaced in her only start at four, but she excelled in between, winning the Group 1 Irish Oaks by five and a half lengths, adding the Group 1 Yorkshire Oaks and the Group 1 Prix de l’Opera, and taking third place in the Group 1 1000 Guineas at Newmarket.

If you go further back in the family you will find the classic-placed Group 1 Coronation Cup winner Saddlers’ Hall (by Sadler’s Wells) and the Arc-placed Yorkshire Oaks, St Leger and 12-length Oaks-winning heroine Sun Princess (by English Prince) among others of note.