THE final round-up of juveniles this week features winners in Scotland, Italy and Germany.

Cheveley Park Stud’s Twilight Son (Kyllachy) recorded his ninth stakes winner when Beautiful Diamond built on her Group 2 Queen Mary Stakes run when she was third, and landed the Listed Harry Rosebery Stakes at Ayr. The filly was the second highest price at this year’s Goffs UK Breeze Up Sale when she sold to Blandford Bloodstock for 360,000gns. She is the second foal and winner for the once-raced Babylon Lane (Lethal Force).

Twilight Son and Territories (Invincible Spirit) went to stud in the same year, but the latter has one advantage over the other, as Territories recently sired his second winner at Group/Grade 1 level when Regional won the Haydock Sprint Cup. Previously, Rougir won the Group 1 Prix de l’Opera and the Grade 1 E.P. Taylor Stakes. Geologist’s win in the Listed Winterkonigin Trial in Cologne means that Territories now has 12 stakes winners.

Geologist is also a winner in England, group-placed in France, and she and five-time winner Novak (Mastercraftsman) are the first two runners and winners for the unraced Parknasilla (Dutch Art). That mare’s yearling colt by Expert Eye (Acclamation) realised a profitable £32,000 in Doncaster, sold by The Cottage Stud’s Thomas Monaghan.

Con Marnane bred the two-year-old Mehmas (Acclamation) filly Amorevole, and sold her as a foal for 30,000gns to Marco Bozzi. She is turning into quite a money-spinner with three wins and the same number of places, and she won the weekend’s Listed Premio Ubaldo Pandolfi in Rome, having been pattern-placed when runner-up in the Group 3 Premio Primi Passi.

Amorevole is the first winner for Creme De Cremes (Rio De La Plata), and she was purchased as a yearling by Marnane for €9,000, and earned more than £33,000 as a winner and placed filly in France. Creme De Cremes’ yearling this year by Far Above (Farhh) is heading to Italy after he sold in Doncaster for £24,000. He had been unsold as a foal for €5,000. Creme De Cremes’ grandam was the Group 1 Prix Marcel Boussac winner Mary Linoa (L’Emigrant).

It is a rare thing nowadays, but the Listed Premio Repubbliche Marinare winner at Rome, Sioux Life, who was winning her second stakes race, has no inbreeding for five generations. What would she be worth now as a breeding prospect, even though she will hopefully have a long and successful racing career yet to come?

Sioux Life is a two-year-old daughter of Sioux Nation (Scat Daddy), and a member of that stallion’s second crop. She is also one of 11 stakes winners he has sired to date. This is a very successful Italian family, and Sioux National is not the only star of 2023 in it. One of three winners out of the Rip Van Winkle (Galileo) mare Ninepins. Sioux Nation is the first to earn blacktype.

Ninepins was so many times a bridesmaid, but she did manage to win once, at the age of four, in Italy. Her Group 3-winning half-sister So Many Shots (Duke Of Marmalade) was placed in the 2014 Group 1 Oaks d’Italia, and this year that mare’s daughter, Shavasana (Gleneagles), righted that and won the race. For good measure, she also won the Group 1 Premio Regina Elena-Italian 1000 Guineas.

Hascombe & Valiant’s colts are set to appeal

MOST owners would give their front teeth to own or breed a Group 1 winner, and many would envy the racing successes enjoyed by Anthony Oppenheimer, owner of the famed Hascombe & Valiant Stud. Since Sasuru won a Group 1 some three decades ago, he has enjoyed numerous Group 1 wins with such as Rebecca Sharp, Balisada, Golden Horn, Cracksman and Star Catcher. He sold Courage Mon Ami before his Group 1 Ascot Gold Cup triumph this year.

However, breeding is his first love, and there will be huge interest again when he offers all his yearling colts in Books 1 and 2 of the upcoming Tattersalls October Yearling Sale. What a collection they are. Anthony has a broodmare band numbering a little over 20, and normally the balance of foals each year is a steady seven to 10 colts.

Imagine the quandary he found himself in last year when his broodmare band left him with 18 colts. As he tries to sell all his colts each year, his dilemma this autumn was which to sell, and which to keep. Aware that buyers would assume he kept the best, he has decided to offer them all this year, and 13 head to Tattersalls next month.

He starts early in Book 1 and the first of seven in that catalogue is a Sea The Stars (Cape Cross) colt from the Listed Galtres Stakes winner Our Obsession (Shamardal). From the same female line is a son of Night of Thunder (Shamardal), the first foal of a half-sister the Group 3 winner Megallan (Kingman). The colt’s grandam is a stakes-winning half-sister to Golden Horn (Cape Cross).

All but one of the rest will be offered on the second day of the sale, starting with an American Pharoah (Pioneerof The Nile) colt out of a winning own-sister to Zebedee (Invincible Spirit). Sure to be popular is a colt by Frankel (Galileo) whose dam is an own-sister to Canadian Grade 1 winner Cannock Chase, and half-sister to Star Catcher (Sea The Stars), winner of the Group 1 Irish Oaks, Prix Vermeille and British Champions Fillies and Mare Stakes.

Dame Maillot (Champs Elysees) won the Group 2 Princess of Wales’s Stakes and the Group 2 Prix de Pomone, while she placed three times at Group 1 level, her last three runs, and was runner-up to Wonderful Tonight in the British Champions Fillies and Mare Stakes. Her first produce is a yearling son of Lope Be Vega (Shamardal). He is followed quickly by a colt from the first crop of Pinatubo (Shamardal), and this is a half-brother to the 2023 stakes winner and Group 2 runner-up Crack Of Light (Kingman).

The last lot from Hascombe & Valiant in Book 1 will be the Lope De Vega colt out of the Royal Ascot heroine Frankly Darling (Frankel). He is the mare’s first foal and Frankly Darling was also placed in the Group 1 Irish Oaks.

Book 2 contains two sons of Anthony Oppenheimer’s Cracksman (Frankel), a grandson of Grade 3 winner Valiant Girl (Lemon Drop Kid) and a son of the same mare.

Blue Point also has a pair of representatives, a colt out of the stakes winner Tempest Fugit (High Chaparral), as well as the very last lot in the catalogue, a half-brother to eight winners.

Too Darn Hot (Dubawi) is having a sensational first season, and the Book 2 draft features his son of the Group 3 winner Precious Ramotswe (Nathanial), while the full-brother to stakes winner Might Ulysses (Ulysses) is out of the listed winner Token Of Love (Cape Cross).

First of many successes

CONGRATULATIONS to Knockcross Stud’s Grace Monahan. The Next Generation ITBA member enjoyed her first breeding success when the Inns Of Court (Invincible Spirit) colt Goreai won a two-year-old maiden in Italy on Sunday. He had previously been placed.

Sold as a foal for €9,000, the colt is the second produce of the unraced Abelia (Choisir) who was picked up by Grace’s father Pat for only 1,000gns as a three-year-old. This was despite the fact that she was a half-sister to a stakes winner, and now she is a half-sister to four winners. They are out of another unraced mare, Alchemilla (Dubai Destination), and last year her yearling, now named African Sunset (Exceed And Excel), was sold for 125,000gns. This week, Alchemilla’s yearling by Earthlight (Shamardal) sold for €65,000 at Goffs.

Grace’s father won a Connolly’s Red Mills/The Irish Field Breeder of the Month award some years ago for My Dream Boat.