CHARLIE Johnston found a lovely race this week for the Lordship Stud-bred two-year-old Carolina Reaper, and the daughter of Too Darn Hot (Dubawi) proved to be too good for her rivals as she won the 150th running of the Group 3 Zukunfts-Rennen, run in honour of Renate and Albrecht Woeste.

This is the third group winner for Too Darn Hot with his first crop of runners, an achievement at this stage of the year that has not happened for any other first-season sire in the past 20 years. On Thursday afternoon, at ParisLongchamp, Godolphin’s homebred filly Bauhinia, another by the Dalham Hall Stud resident, earned rave reviews when demonstrating an impressive turn of foot to land the one-mile Prix de Cascade. André Fabre’s charge holds an entry in the Group 1 Prix Marcel Boussac.

Bauhinia, a 12th individual winner for Too Darn Hot, is out of the Group 2 placed Desert Blossom (Shamardal), and that mare’s previous winners include the listed Ascot winner and Group 3 runner-up Duneflower (Dubawi).

Charlie Johnston bought Carolina Reaper last year for just 46,000gns. She is the fourth winner for her dam Dark Promise (Shamardal), a three-time winner when trained by Michael Jarvis. She continued her career in the care of Roger Varian when he took over the licence, and he sent her out to win twice more, notably enjoying victory in a listed race at Newmarket on her final start.

Dark Promise was one of seven winners out of the group-placed La Sky (Law Society), five of whom gained blacktype. Far and away the best of these was the Group 1 Oaks winner Love Divine (Diesis), and she later bred a classic winner in Sixties Icon (Galileo). He won the Group 1 St Leger.

While she made just a single unplaced start, Dark Promise’s half-sister Love Excelling (Polish Precedent) became a very successful broodmare and the best of her offspring was Dunboyne Express (Shamardal). He won the Group 3 Anglesey Stakes at two, and later sold to Hong Kong where, as Dan Excel, he earned some £3.7 million, his three Group 1 victories in Hong Kong and Singapore coming in the Champions Mile at Sha Tin and in two editions of the International Cup at Kranji.

Book 2 of the Tattersalls October Yearling Sale contains a yearling colt, from Peter Stanley’s New England Stud, and this son of New Bay (Dubawi) is a little more than just a half-brother to Carolina Reaper, both being by sons of Darley’s flagship sire.

Darnation

Victory for Carolina Reaper came just days after Darnation (Too Darn Hot) won for the second time in three outings, as she annexed the Group 3 Prestige Stakes at Goodwood for her owner/breeder Newtown Anner Stud. She is the first foal out of the unraced Monday Monday (Galileo). Offered for sale carrying last weekend’s group winner, Monday Monday was retained at €195,000.

Monday Monday is a half-sister to the dual classic winner Blue Bunting (Dynaformer). She won the Group 1 1000 Guineas a dozen years ago, added the Group 1 Irish Oaks and Yorkshire Oaks, but she has not enjoyed as much success as a broodmare, and last year the Gredley family purchased her, at the age of 14, for just 70,000gns with a covering by Masar (New Approach). This spring she had a colt foal.

A winning full-sister to Monday Monday, Stars At Night (Galileo), has been doing her bit to enhance the immediate family, and last weekend her son Poker Face (Fastnet Rock), a stakes winner in England, stepped up a grade and won the Group 3 Prix Quincey at Deauville. He is the second blacktype winner for his dam, his year-older own-brother Star Devine (Fastnet Rock) being a stakes winner at Saratoga and Aqueduct. With Fallen Angel winning the Group 3 Sweet Solera Stakes, it is incredible to think that a quarter of all of Too Darn Hot’s winners have already been successful at pattern level.

Ten Sovereigns

Another sire on a roll with his first runners is Ten Sovereigns (No Nay Never),

His son Inquisitively, who ran third in the Listed Windsor Castle Stakes at Royal Ascot as a maiden when trained by Ollie Sangster, opened his winning account at the third time of asking, when he landed the spoils in the Listed Roses Stakes at York, this time in the care of Kevin Philippart de Foy. .

Purchased by Sangster as a yearling for 40,000gns, a little less than he cost as a foal, Inquisitively is just the third winner out of his two-year-old winning dam, Ballyalla (Mind Games). Incredibly, at the age of 16, Ballyalla was culled last July at Tattersalls for 5,500gns. You might imagine that she was probably barren, but this spring she produced a colt by none other than Havana Grey (Havana Gold).

In fairness, at sale time she had only produced six foals of racing age, two winners and one of these was stakes-placed, and now four of her daughters are multiple winner producers. This is a family that has got a serious injection of success in recent times, and it will be interesting to see what the next plans are for Inquisitively.

Inquisitively is the second stakes winner in Ten Sovereign’s first crop, after Asean, but the Coolmore stallion is also responsible for four others that have been placed at group or listed level. Five of those half a dozen stakes performers are among 17 individual winners he has sired to date. His daughter Kalispera was third in the Group 2 Debutante Stakes but has yet to win.