WHAT do the recent Galway Hurdle winner Ndaawi (Cracksman) and Jm Jungle (Bungle Inthejungle), successful in the five-furlong Group 2 King George Stakes at Goodwood, have in common? They both trace on the female side of the family to the 1983 two-year-old winner Eljazzi (Artaius).

Jm Jungle was gaining a first stakes win with his victory at Goodwood, his sixth in all, but he earned some prior blacktype when third in a listed race at York. He thus becomes the 13th stakes winner for his sire, who holds court at Maurice Burns’ Rathasker Stud where he stood this year for €7,500. Jm Jungle is inbred 3x3 to Danehill (Danzig), his sire being a son of Exceed And Excel (Danehill), while his stakes-placed dam, The Shrew, is a daughter of Dansili (Danehill).

This latest win for Jm Jungle took his winnings to a shade over £460,000, which is 10 times what he cost as a yearling at the Goffs UK Premier Yearling Sale, purchased by Richard Knight and Sean Quinn. He was bred by another branch of the Burns family, at Lodge Park Stud, and last year they sold Jm Jungle’s full-brother Wonderful Friend (Bungle Inthejungle), again at Doncaster, for £36,000 to Kevin Ross. He was second on his most recent start, behind a long odds-on favourite, and should in time credit his dam with a fifth winner.

More importantly, the Goodwood triumph provides a timely and valuable update to the pedigree of Lot 403 at this year’s Premier Yearling Sale at Doncaster, Galbertstown Stables’ yearling daughter of Coulsty (Kodiac). She was purchased as a foal for €18,000, and looks set to provide her pinhooker with a tidy profit. Pa Doyle and Galbertstown team will be pleased with this catalogue update, and the filly was signed for as a foal by DJ Bloodstock.

The yearling is the tenth offspring of The Shrew, and all of her first nine foals have raced. Eight of them have won or been placed, and Jm Jungle is her most important and prolific winner, followed by Petruchio (New Approach), four of whose five wins were gained in Australia. The Shrew raced for her breeder, Bill Gredley, and was trained by John Gosden. Twice a winner, including at two, she was beaten a neck on her penultimate start in a listed race. She sold at four for 175,000gns, carrying her first foal, the subsequent winner Caitie (Canford Cliffs).

Chesham Stakes

Jm Jungle’s grandam Whazzat (Daylami) won the Listed Chesham Stakes at Royal Ascot at two, and became a most prolific winner producer, throwing a dozen in all. They are headed by a close relation to Jm Jungle, James Garfield (Exceed And Excel), a smart runner at two and three when he won the Group 2 Mill Reef Stakes and Group 3 Greenham Stakes. He was Group 1-placed in the Prix Maurice de Gheest. His half-sister Eva Maria (Sea The Stars) is the dam of last year’s Group 2 Royal Lodge Stakes winner and Group 1-placed Wimbledon Hawkeye (Kameko).

Winner at two of a pair of Group 3 races, the Cornwallis and Molecomb Stakes, Bungle Inthejungle’s best winner to date has been Winter Power, victorious in the Group 1 Nunthorpe Stakes. Other pattern winners include Group 2 Lowther Stakes winner Living In The Past, Givemethebeatboys, Jungle Peace and Rumble Inthejungle.

HOMEBRED at his Highfield Farm, owner David Armstrong’s two-year-old colt Coppull (Bated Breath) showed that his third-place finish at 66/1 in the Group 2 Coventry Stakes at Royal Ascot was no fluke when he won the Group 2 Richmond Stakes at Goodwood by a comfortable two lengths.

Trainer Clive Cox has now won the Richmond three times in the past decade, with Supremacy and Golden Horde also, while other winners in that period include Mehmas, Land Force and Vandeek. Hopefully Coppull can go further, and the Group 1 Middle Park Stakes is possibly his next aim.

He is a sixth Group 2 winner for Banstead Manor Stud’s Bated Breath (Dansili), whose sole winner at the highest level remains Viadera, successful in the Grade 1 Matriarch Stakes.

I have to admit to being a Bated Breath fan, and if his stud record has not been in the same league as his stud mates Frankel and Kingman, I am never going to fall out of love with the Group 2 winning sprinter.

One wonders would his career at stud have been different had Bated Breath won a Group 1. He tried his best to do so, and was four times runner-up in such races. He raced against the very best sprinters, beating Sole Power in the Temple Stakes, and found only Dream Ahead too good in both the Group 1 Haydock Park Sprint and July Cup.

Banstead Manor and the Juddmonte group continue to support Bated Breath, and the sire’s current juveniles are his tenth crop. A consistent winner producer, he has sired 29 stakes winners already and no doubt there will be more. I must put a date in the diary to go and see him again very soon. He really catches the eye every time.

Private deal

David Armstrong got involved with Coppull’s family 10 years ago when he went to the Tattersalls July Sale and paid 20,000gns in a private deal for Ocean Boulevard (Danehill Dancer).

Bred by Meon Valley Stud, she was unsold as a yearling for 75,000gns, put in training with Luca Cumani, and was placed on all three of her runs as a three-year-old. She was sold in foal to Mayson (Invincible Spirit) a decade ago, carrying her first foal.

That filly foal was named Springwood Drive and she won twice at three. Her first foal, Worthington Lake (Mehmas), won at two last year, Coppull is her second, and she has two other fillies on the ground, a yearling by A’Ali (Society Rock) and a foal by Perfect Power (Ardad). Ocean Boulevard has been to a number of different sires, but all three of her winners have been by Mayson, who is now in Ireland at Springfield House Stud. She has a fourth by that stallion, a two-year-old filly, and this year she dropped a filly by Oasis Dream (Green Desert).

This is a branch of a family that has a long association with Meon Valley Stud. If this branch has been quieter than others, then Coppull has now redressed that. Ocean Boulevard has five winning siblings, and the best of these was the Group 3 Lingfield Derby Trial Stakes winner Alessandro Volta (Montjeu). He was one of a pair of 300,000gns yearlings sold out of the unraced Ventura Highway (Machiavellian), and he was bought by Demi O’Byrne for Ballydoyle.

Sale ring

In addition to being good on the racecourse, many of this family were stars in the Tattersalls sale ring. The further back you go in this pedigree, the better it gets. Today I will stop at Coppull’s fourth dam, the dual listed winner Hyabella (Shirley Heights). She bred seven winners, and the best of these was another Demi O’Byrne purchase, Poet (Pivotal). Five of his seven wins on the flat were in stakes races, headed by Group 3 victories at Haydock Park and Leopardstown.

O’Byrne paid 320,000gns for Hyabella’s grandson France (Desert Prince), and that Group 3 winner was runner-up in the Group 1 Irish 2000 Guineas. More recent performers of note to descend from Hyabella include the Group 2 Dante Stakes winner Telecaster (New Approach), and also Al Suhail (Dubawi), a two-time Group 2 winner of the Challenge Stakes and another in Meydan, and he placed in both the Group 1 Jebel Hatta Stakes and Al Quoz Stakes.