LAST week I celebrated the second stakes winner among the first crop of three-year-olds for Tasleet (Showcasing), the Shadwell stallion who stands at Nunnery Stud, and was used this season by canny breeders for a bargain £6,000.

Tasleet served another reminder of why he must be considered one of the best value sires in Britain and Ireland when his first-crop son Bradsell recorded back-to-back Royal Ascot victories, striking in the Group 1 King’s Stand Stakes on Tuesday. In so doing he gave his sire a landmark first Group 1 win. The colt was a clear-cut winner of the Group 2 Coventry Stakes last year, before sustaining an injury in the Group 1 Keeneland Phoenix Stakes. Placed twice on his first two outings at three, both in group company, Bradsell relished the drop back to five furlongs in the King’s Stand, holding off the triple Group 1 heroine Highfield Princess.

Bradsell was bred by Deborah O’Brien out of the Newbury listed-winning Archipenko (Kingmambo) mare Russian Punch, and was bought by Blandford Bloodstock from Mark Grant Racing for £47,000 at the Goffs UK Breeze-Up Sale, having earlier sold to Highflyer Bloodstock and Harry Dunlop for 12,000gns at the Tattersalls Somerville Sale,

A second winner for his dam, Bradsell’s victory in last year’s Coventry Stakes boosted the value of his now juvenile half-brother, Tribal Rhythm (Ulysses), who sold to Manor House Farm for £150,000 at last year’s Goffs UK Premier Yearling Sale. Remarkably, Bradsell and his dam are the only two stakes winners or placed horses in the first four generations of the family.

Tasleet was a fast and tough son of Showcasing (Oasis Dream) who carried the Shadwell silks to victory in the Group 2 Duke of York Stakes and to run second in the Group 1 Diamond Jubilee Stakes, Group 1 Haydock Sprint Cup and Group 1 British Champions Sprint.