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Sprint Cup winner G Force and Louvain, the dam of Poule d’Essai des Pouliches and Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Fillies Turf heroine Flotilla, herself a half-sister to the dam of 2022 Poule d’Essai des Pouliches winner Mangoustine, by Dark Angel.

Family At War was also the dam of the once-raced Land Army, a daughter of Desert Style who in turn produced July Cup and Diamond Jubilee Stakes winner Lethal Force, another by Dark Angel.

Lot 381

B f Kodiac - Dubai Rainbow (Tamayuz) Tally-Ho Stud Tally-Ho needs no introduction and the O’Callaghan family’s County Westmeath operation presents a filly by its flagship stallion and from a family with plenty of class.

The Kodiac filly is the first foal out of the winning Tamayuz mare Dubai Rainbow, a daughter of the Giant’s Causeway mare In Dubai.

That makes Dubai Rainbow a half-sister to Railway Stakes winner and Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Turf Sprint second Go Bears Go, also top-level placed when third to Ebro River in the Phoenix Stakes.

The winning In Dubai is out of Ribblesdale Stakes winner and Oaks second Bahr, making her a half-sister to dual Group/ Grade 1 winner Nahrain, the dam of Godolphin’s top-class globetrotter and Japan-based sire Benbatl.

It is also the family of Group 3 winner and Starfield Stud sire Far Above, whose first yearlings sell this year.

Lot 405

B c Pinatubo - Fig Roll (Bahamian Bounty)

Longview Stud Pinatubo was retired to Dalham Hall Stud as the highest-rated son of Shamardal courtesy of his nine-length romp in the National Stakes at two – he was officially rated above Frankel at the same age and his mark of 128 was the best for a juvenile in Europe for 25 years. All of which will undoubtedly equal great

Egmont Stud

Martin Stevens talks to a team with a fine track record at Goffs UK anticipation for his first crop of yearlings coming under the hammer this summer and autumn.

BUYERS, take note: the Flannery family’s Egmont Stud in County Cork has a remarkably good record of selling talented horses at the Doncaster Premier Yearling Sale.

The three-time Group 1 winner received more than 300 high-class mares in his first two books and it seems safe to assume that quality will out as the yearling sales season progresses.

This colt is out of a juvenile stakes winner in Fig Roll, making him a half-brother to another fine juvenile in Group 3 Prix d’Arenberg winner Al Raya, by Siyouni.

Fig Roll is out of another juvenile stakes winner in Acclamation’s daughter Cake, also the dam of another speedy black-type performer in Tomily, while also on the page is Hong Kong Listed winner Classic Fountain and Hungerford Stakes third Brazos.

Lot 415 B c Aclaim - Freedom Spirit (Muhaarar)

Wood Hall Sales

This colt by Classic-winning sire and Group 1 winner Aclaim hails from a speedy family, being out of an unraced half-sister to champion sprinter Sole Power, whose impressive CV included two wins in both the King’s Stand and Nunthorpe Stakes, as well as strikes in the Al Quoz Sprint and Flying Five Stakes.

Consigned by Wood Hall Sales, the bay is the second foal out of Freedom Spirit, a daughter of Muhaarar. Her first, named Great Acclaim, is a brother to this yearling and has not yet raced for the Eve Johnson Houghton yard, though he has been given entries in sales races at Newmarket this month and in October.

The colt’s second dam, the unraced Distant View mare Demerger, has also produced the stakes-placed Sotka, by Dutch Art and the dam of two Group scorers in Prix Sigy winner Fas and Prix Bertrand de Tarragon victress Silva.

Fast Flow, the dam of Champagne Stakes winner and Dewhurst second Auction House, also features in the family, alongside Nunthorpe second Fine Edge.

What’s more, many of the lots it has sent through the ring at the South Yorkshire venue are the holy grail for trainers and owners, in that they are not only precocious but also durable, able to compete in big races long past their juvenile seasons.

For example Chiswick Bey, sold to Gill Richards for £90,000 in 2009, won the Brocklesby Stakes and finished third in the Premier Yearling Stakes at two, and retired at the age of ten with 11 victories and £110,000 in prize-money under his belt.

Then there was Lathom, who was sold to Highfield Farm for £39,000 in 2014 and won connections three times his purchase price when successful in the Weatherbys Super Sprint at two, and was still hoovering up handicaps at the age of six.

Brian The Snail is another case in point. Sold to Bobby O’Ryan for £50,000 in 2015, he was unbeaten in two starts at two, when he was bought by Godolphin, and later developed into a solid sprint handicapper. He won his tenth race at the age of nine this year, pushing his earnings further into six figures.

Edward Cornelius, Lucky Lucky Man and Hartswood are among the other Egmont Studconsigned Doncaster yearlings who won at two and kept on winning over multiple seasons.

The farm even took a future Group 1-winning juvenile to Doncaster a decade ago this year, as the Verglas colt it sold to Joseph Murphy for £32,000 won the Criterium International at Saint-Cloud by fourth lengths under the name Vert De Grece, before being sold to Hong Kong, where he competed as The Monarch.

The Egmont Stud draft in Doncaster this month therefore demanded close attention anyway but, as it happens, it also contains a colt with a highly important pedigree update.

Lot 64, consigned on behalf of his breeder Sandra Russell, is a Dandy Man half-brother to Excellent Truth, who already had lower-case black type for finishing second in the Prix Chloe and Prix Melisande, but graduated to upper-case when scoring in the Prix de Psyche at Deauville at the end of last month.

The colt, also a half-brother