Where Did They Come From?

[Wandering Eyes]

We look at the origins of the G1 Poule d’Essai des Pouliches lineup; they span the whole range from homebreds to foal to yearling pinhooks and breeze-up buys.

COEUR DE BEAUTE (FR) (Dabirsim {Fr}) was a €30,000 graduate of Osarus’s September Yearling Sale. The dual black-type winner is the first stakes winner for her unplaced dam, but bigger riches are present further back on the page, her second dam being a sister to those good producers Listen (Ire) and Sequoyah (Ire). It is therefore the family of Henrythenavigator, Magician (Ire) and Cliffs of Moher (Ire). B-Haras De Grandcamp Earl.

TEPPAL (FR) (Camacho {GB}) was picked up by Con Marnane from Arqana’s v2 Yearling Sale for €60,000 from the Ellon consignment and pinhooked at the same firm’s Breeze-Up Sale for €105,000 when bought by Blandford Bloodstock. George Strawbridge’s recent standout filly We Are (Ire) (Dansili {GB}) appears under the third dam. B-Gestut Zur Kuste Ag.

MISSION IMPASSIBLE (IRE) (Galileo {Ire}) is the first foal out of the G1 Nunthorpe S. winner Margot Did (Ire) (Exceed and Excel {Aus}) and as a stakes winner and Group 1-placed already, has paved a promising path for the yearling full-sister that follows her. B-Premier Bloodstock.

MOISSON PRECOCE (GB) (Lawman {Fr}) was a 40,000gns buy from Book 2 at Tattersalls October. She is closely related to the top-class sprinter Signs Of Blessing (Ire), who is a son of Lawman’s sire Invincible Spirit and who appears under her second dam. B-Mascalls Stud.

WIND CHIMES (GB) (Mastercraftsman {Ire}) was signed for by Broadhurst Agency for €130,000 at Arqana August. The listed-winning 2-year-old is a half-sister to the stakes-placed Golden Fastnet (Fr) (Fastnet Rock {Aus}). B-Ecurie Des Monceaux.

RED LINE (FR) (Sageburg {Ire}) races as a homebred for breeder Jean-Pierre-Joseph Dubois.

ELLTHEA (IRE) (Kodiac {GB}) was selected by Mark Gittins at the Tattersalls Ireland September Yearling Sale for €88,000 from the Ballybin Stud consignment. She is out of the triple group winner Tropical Lady (Ire) (Sri Pekan). B-George Kent.

MUSIS AMICA (IRE) (Dawn Approach {Ire}) is a homebred for Godolphin. She is a descendant of the GI Alabama, GI Kentucky Oaks and GI Delaware Oaks winner White Star Line (Northern Dancer), that $3-million mare being her second dam, and she is the second stakes winner produced by White Star (Ire) (Darshaan {GB}) following Harland (GB) (Halling).

ZONZA (FR) (Alex The Winner) was raced by co-breeder Jean-Pierre-Joseph Dubois on debut, after which Alain Jathiere bought her privately. Jathiere was joined in the ownership by Martin Schwartz and Gerard Augustin-Normand after the filly extended her record to three-for-three, and she now races for Schwartz and Jathiere. B-H Rousseau & J-P Dubois.

COULD IT BE LOVE (War Front) with withdrawn from Keeneland September, and the half-sister to the champion 2-year-old and prolific young sire Uncle Mo now races in the colours of Magnier, Tabor and Smith. She broke her maiden by 6 ½ lengths at Dundalk at fourth asking on Apr. 10. B-Playa Maya Syndicate.

SEA PROSE (FR) (Lope de Vega {Ire}) was selected by Crispin de Moubray for €115,000 at Arqana’s August Yearling Sale. The runner-up to Musis Amica in the G3 Prix de la Grotte last month is from the immediate family of the group-winning siblings Johnny Barnes (Ire) (Acclamation {GB}) and Albisola (Ire) (Montjeu {Ire}), as well as last year’s G1 1000 Guineas third Daban (Ire) (Acclamation {GB}) and the G1 St. James’s Palace-winning sire Most Improved (Ire) (Lawman {Fr}). B-Ecurie La Boetie.

CAPLA TEMPTRESS (IRE) (Lope de Vega {Ire}), at €26,000, is the least expensive of this field to have passed through a sales ring, having been bought by Jamie Lloyd from Pier House Stud at Goffs Orby. Capla Temptress was bought privately by Team Valor, likely for much more, after winning her first two starts, and she continued her upward trajectory with a win in Woodbine’s GI Natalma S. last fall. B-Pier House Stud.

POLYDREAM (IRE) (Oasis Dream {GB}) is a homebred for Wertheimer et Frere and is out of their French listed winner and U.S. graded placed Polygreen (Fr) (Green Tune), and is the third stakes horse for the dam.

BARKAA (FR) (Siyouni {Fr}) is a €66,000 graduate of Arqana’s v2 Sale, bought by MAB Agency from Ellon and was therefore from the same consignment as Teppal. Barkaa, winner of the G3 Prix Vanteaux on Apr. 8, is a half-sister to three stakes horses. B-Jean-Pierre Columbu.

 

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