AS soon as one puts pen to paper and lists the Group 1 winners by Banstead Manor Stud’s Frankel (Galileo), you can be sure another one comes along.

Last weekend’s main story in this column concerned the Group 1 Prix de l’Arc de Triomphe success for Frankel’s daughter Alpinista, one of his 25 winners then at the highest level who, between them, had won 43 Group or Grade 1 races.

Now you can add one more to both of those figures after Chaldean appended the Dewhurst Stakes to prior wins in the Group 2 Champagne Stakes and the Group 3 Acomb Stakes.

Chaldean carries the silks of Juddmonte but, unlike most of their major race winners, he was not a product of that organisation. This 550,000gns foal buy at Tattersalls was bred by the Harper family at their Whitsbury Manor Stud, and they might well see the colt’s sale value put in the shade when they consign Chaldean’s half-sister by Kingman (Invincible Spirit) at this year’s foal sale in Newmarket.

That foal is the seventh offspring of Suelita (Dutch Art), and the first six are winners. Not only that, but all bar one of them earned blacktype, three of them now being stakes winners, and that particular list could yet grow too. Suelita’s three-year-old daughter Get Ahead (Showcasing) will surely be looking for a stakes win after being placed a few times at listed level.

Chaldean is now the best of Suelita’s offspring, and he joins Alkumait (Showcasing) and The Broghie Man (Cityscape) as a third stakes-winning son of their dam.

Alkumait has just completed his first season at stud in Ireland, the Group 2 Mill Reef Stakes hero covering in excess of 100 mares at Castlefield Stud in Bennetsbridge, Co Kilkenny where he stood for an initial fee of €5,000.

Fairytale

Suelita’s story of success has been something of a fairytale. Though she comes from an excellent female line, she was the first of three foals out of the unraced Venoge (Green Desert), and from the first crop sired by Cheveley Park Stud’s Dutch Art (Medicean).

With two unknowns as sire and dam when she was offered for sale, Suelita was sold for 3,2000gns to Marco Bozzi, less than a third of her sire’s covering fee. She went to Italy where she won four times and was placed on 20 occasions.

Sent back to be sold from Joe Hernon’s Castletown Stud as a four-year-old, it took a little wheeler-dealing by Whitsbury Manor’s Chris Harper to secure Suelita for breeding, and the deal was completed in a private transaction for 21,500gns, about the same amount of money she had compiled when racing.

Suelita’s sale prospects were helped too by the fact that her half-brother Outer Space (Acclamation), a 140,000gns yearling, was runner-up in the Group 3 Cornwallis Stakes that year.

Though he failed to better that effort in stakes races, Outer Space did go on to win a total of eight times. He and Suelita had just one other sibling, the twice-placed Ayr Missile (Cadeaux Genereux). She is making her own mark as a broodmare and three years ago her daughter Living In The Past (Bungle Inthejungle) won the Group 2 Lowther Stakes.

Anticipation

Whitsbury Manor, now run by Chris Harper’s son Ed, will be looking forward with huge anticipation next spring to the arrival of the next progeny of Suelita, by Showcasing (Oasis Dream), and it must be short odds that she will be among the elite mares who will be considered for a covering by Juddmonte’s Frankel in 2023.

Meanwhile, Cheveley Park Stud has the only non-blacktype performer out of Suelita, her 425,000gns yearling buy and subsequent winner Praised (Pivotal). That mare produced a filly foal this year by Showcasing, her first produce.