Their dam Crystal Crossing (Royal Academy) won a single race, but it was the Listed Rose Bowl Stakes at two, and she was born a couple of years before her full-sister Circle Of Gold (Royal Academy), a Group 3 winner. ![]() The reason Katyusha sold for such a large sum was that, in addition to being a daughter of a hugely successful sire, she was an own-sister to the Group 1 St Leger winner and Group 1 Derby runner-up, Rule Of Law (Kingmambo). A three-time winner, he was runner-up in the Group 2 Prix Conseil de Paris, beating Group 1 winners, but he failed to build on that. In fact, her own dam Katyusha (Kingmambo) was also unraced, having been purchased as a foal for $850,000, and had just three successful offspring, the best of which was Migwar (Sea The Stars). Knyazhna has done something that the next two dams in the family have failed to do, and that is to breed a pair of stakes winners. In addition to the above, Knyazhna (Russian for noblewoman and bred by Viktor Timoshenko) is also dam of the Group 2-placed winner Khagan (Le Havre), the placed broodmare Queen Of The Sea (Sea The Stars), and a two-year-old colt, Gulf Legend (Dubawi), who sold in a private transaction last year to Mark McStay’s Avenue Bloodstock for €300,000. She was acquired for €700,000 carrying the subsequent winner Savoureuse (Siyouni), but that filly was unable to find favour at the yearling sales and was retained at €190,000, despite her full-brother Sacred Life (Siyouni) being a multiple Group 3 and Grade 3 winner in France and the USA, and Grade 1-placed. Purchased by Gerard Larrieu for $270,000 at the Arqana Yearling Sale, Feed The Flame has quickly jumped to the head of the winners produced by his unraced dam, Knyazhna, a daughter of Montjeu (Sadler’s Wells). It is an anomaly of the system, but in 95% of cases the animal is also foaled in the country of origin. If memory hasn’t failed me completely, Gerald Leigh was unhappy that one of his winners was being advertised as an Irish-bred, the dam having been sent to Ireland to foal and be covered. I recall a similar incident many years ago when the introduction of suffixes came about. However, the colt was foaled in England, the determining factor when adding the (GB) suffix to his name, is by a British-based stallion, and has a British component to his breeding partnership. His Group 2 winners include Calyx, who this week had his breakthrough first stakes winner.īred in partnership by Ecurie des Monceaux, Lordship Stud and Clear Light, Feed The Flame’s success led to some unhappiness on social media that he was being promoted as a British-bred, while Ecurie des Monceaux was proud of the fact that he was raised by them in France. Fascinatingly, he has achieved all of this without a single member of his 2019 crop, this year’s four-year-olds, winning at either Group 1 or Group 2 level - yet. One of the eight top level winners for Kingman is the Australian-born King Colorado, while the remainder come from the first five European crops by the four-time Group 1 winner. ![]() ![]() Unraced at two, he tackled stakes company for the first time when he was thrown in at the deep end, and was not disgraced, though well beaten, running fourth in the Group 1 Prix du Jockey Club-French Derby. This week I will give pride of place to the latter, as he sired his eighth Group/Grade winner when the three-year-old Feed The Flame landed the Group 1 Grand Prix de Paris on only his fourth start. Mind you, they appear more often than most, given that their two superstars are none other than Frankel (Galileo) and Kingman (Invincible Spirit). HOW timely that, on the weekend that Juddmonte sponsors the Irish Oaks, their stallions should feature so prominently in this column.
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