FROZEN Power (Oasis Dream) ended his days as a stallion in Italy, having stood for four seasons at Ballyhane. He is largely forgotten now, except for leaving behind some fillies that have gone on to produce group and graded winners. The best of these is Sagely.

Sold privately as a foal to Jim Doyle at Goffs for €3,000, she proved to be a nice pinhooking success when resold for €35,000 at Tattersalls Ireland the following September, bought by the trio of Anthony Stroud, Federico Barberini and Ed Dunlop. From the first crop by Frozen Power, Sagely joined Dunlop to be trained. At two she raced twice, started at 66/1 on both occasions, and was runner-up on her second start at Wolverhampton.

She started her second season well, winning twice, placed a few times and was kept in training at four. She didn’t manage to win again and went to the December Sales after 15 starts, where she was bought by Tally-Ho Stud for 47,000gns. She had a solid pedigree in her first two generations, and her third dam was Saganeca (Sagace), dam of the Group 1 Prix de l’Arc de Triomphe winner Sagamix (Linamix). Saganeca sold to John Magnier as a 15-year-old at Keeneland for $2 million.

Sagely was mated for her first season at stud with Ardad (Kodiac), a horse that Tally-Ho bred and who was a smart juvenile, taking the Listed Windsor Castle Stakes at Royal Ascot before adding the Group 2 Flying Childers Stakes. He too was standing his first season, at Overbury Stud where he remains today, and the resulting colt out of Sagely was unsold at 16,000gns as a yearling. He proved to be a smart breezer instead and was bought by Blandford Bloodstock for £110,000 at Goffs UK.

Wise investment

It was a wise investment, as over two seasons racing the colt, named Perfect Power, was the French champion juvenile after winning the Group 1 Prix Morny, and the champion three-year-old sprinter in Europe after landing the Group 1 Commonwealth Cup at Royal Ascot. This was his second win at the royal meeting, as at two he scored in the Group 2 Norfolk Stakes. He won twice at the highest level as a juvenile, adding the Group 1 Middle Park Stakes to his Morny victory.

Four years later, and 1,000,000gns yearling purchase Wise Approach (Mehmas) has given Sagely her second Group 1 Middle Park Stakes winner. Like his half-brother, he too raced in the Norfolk Stakes and Prix Morny, finishing second at Royal Ascot and third in France. If Wise Approach could make a million guineas as a yearling, what is his full-sister worth? She is Lot 393 in this week’s Book 1 of the Tattersalls October Yearling Sale.

Sagely has two other offspring, a filly who didn’t race, and Golden Mind (Galileo Gold). Placed in the Listed Chesham Stakes at Royal Ascot, Golden Mind has won three times, and he too is set for a sale date at Tattersalls at the end of this month.

The unraced progeny of Sagely is Margaret Elizabeth (Kodiac), and she was bought as a yearling by Bond Thoroughbred. While it may be disappointing that she never started, they have a very valuable broodmare now, being a sibling to two Group 1 winners.

Tally-Ho’s Mehmas

Mehmas (Acclamation), who stood at a low of €7,500 in his fourth season at Tally-Ho, in 2020, commanded a high of €70,000 this year. Bred by Denis Brosnan, he only raced at two, winning half of his eight starts and never out of the money. He beat Blue Point in the Group 2 Richmond Stakes, won the Group 2 July Stakes, both over six furlongs, and chased Churchill home when second in the Group 1 National Stakes.

Wise Approach is the ninth Group or Grade 1 winner for Mehmas, and five of these gained their biggest success at two. He is the second winner of the Middle Park after Supremacy, Scorthy Champ won the National Stakes, Magnum Force landed the Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Turf Sprint, while Vertical Blue won the Prix Marcel Boussac. Minzaal, whose first yearlings are being well received, won the Group 2 Gimcrack Stakes at two, ran third in the Middle Park Stakes, and went on to triumph in the Group 1 Haydock Sprint Cup.

A SURPRISE defeat in the Group 1 Keeneland Phoenix Stakes for True Love was quickly forgotten when she made her breakthrough at the highest level, winning what looked to be a very good edition of the Group 1 Cheveley Park Stakes. Her three wins now have all come in pattern races, as she took both the Group 1 Queen Mary Stakes at Royal Ascot and the Curragh’s Group 2 Railway Stakes.

True Love is a full-sister to Group 2 winner Truly Enchanting, and one of three pattern winners for her dam Alluringly (Fastnet Rock). The other is also a Group 2 winner, Lily Pond (Galileo). It’s hard to believe that the Coolmore-bred True Love provided Aidan O’Brien with his first winner of the Queen Mary Stakes this year.

With her Group 1 win now, she further embellishes one of the most famous families in the stud book.

The Cheveley Park Stakes heroine is one of five foals produced by the listed winner Alluringly. She gained her stakes win at Gowran Park, was beaten less than two lengths by Enable when second in the Listed Cheshire Oaks, but was a well-beaten third to the same filly in the Group 1 Oaks at Epsom.

Alluringly has a yearling filly by Frankel (Galileo), her fifth offspring and all fillies. her first four are made up of three runners, three winners, and all group winners.

I can really sum up the female side of this pedigree by saying that True Love’s third dam was All Too Beautiful (Sadler’s Wells), the Group 1 Oaks second and Group 3 winner whose siblings include Galileo (Sadler’s Wells), Sea The Stars (Cape Cross), My Typhoon (Giant’s Causeway) and Black Sam Bellamy (Sadler’s Wells) – all Group or Grade 1 winners. Their dam was Urban Sea (Miswaki) who won the Group 1 Prix de l’Arc de Triomphe 32 years ago.

That said, it is worth pointing out that All Too Beautiful, bought for 1,100,000gns as a foal in 2001, bred just three winners, all of whom earned blacktype.

Her daughter Wonder Of Wonders (Kingmambo) won the Listed Cheshire Oaks, and placed in three Group 1 races with Oaks in their title, the classic at Epsom, its Irish equivalent, and the Yorkshire version. Wonder Of Wonders’ half-sister Sparrow (Oasis Dream) was group-placed and is dam of the Group 1 Cox Plate hero Sir Dragonet (Camelot).

Ten Group 1 winners

When True Love won the Queen Mary Stakes, she became the 40th group winning son or daughter of No Nay Never (Scat Daddy). The Group 1 Prix Morny winner and Grade 1 Breeders’ Cup Turf Sprint second has eight European crops of racing age, and the same number of Group 1 winners.

In addition, his Australian-bred daughter Madame Pommery and Chilean-bred daughter Brooke are Group 1 winners. Seven of the eight won a Group 1 at two – the odd one out being this year’s inaugural City Of York Stakes winner Never So Brave.

What a collection of juvenile stars he has produced – True Love, Whistlejacket, Alcohol Free (who added three more Group 1s), Blackbeard, Little Big Bear, Meditate and Ten Sovereigns. This week No Nay Never sired the sale-topper at Goffs.