A PAIR of smart juveniles recorded important recent wins, and both came in time for their siblings who are due to go under the hammer shortly.

First Law was a newsmaker as a yearling when he sold from Airlie Stud for 1,000,000gns at Book 1 of the Tattersalls October Yearling Sale last year. He has an outstanding pedigree, and at Haydock he won the Listed Ascendant Stakes, and talk now is that he will go for the Group 3 Autumn Stakes next, while also holding an entry for the Group 1 Dewhurst Stakes.

Bow Echo won the Ascendant Stakes last year, while other recent winners on the race have been Triple Time, Pyledriver and Naval Power. The race is clearly seen as a stepping stone for future Group 1 performers. If that race is storied, it still does not compare with the Autumn Stakes. First Law sports the Godolphin blue, and is trained by Charlie Appleby.

The trainer, along with First Law’s winning rider at Haydock, William Buick, have in the past decade joined forces to win the Autumn Stakes with subsequent Group 1 winners Ghaiyyath, Coroebus and Ancient Wisdom, and the Group 1 runners-up One Ruler and Silver Knott. It is a race that is used by Appleby as a launching pad for his better colts. Others value the race highly too, as André Fabre and Aidan O’Brien have won it in the last few years with Persian King and Delacroix respectively.

After the Haydock win, Appleby said: “It was very pleasing to see First Law win, and hopefully he will come on again for that run.” Buick added: “First Law landed in front and didn’t know what to do. He just got up at Sandown, so it was the first time he has been in front for so long in a race, and it was a good performance today. It was a learning curve and I thought the end product was very good.”

Different route

This year, Anthony and Sonia Rogers have chosen a different sale route for First Law’s yearling half-brother by Kingman (Invincible Spirit). He heads to Book 1 of the Goffs Orby Sale, and few in the sale can boast of a pedigree as good as his. He is a full-brother to a listed winner, while four of the dam’s seven winners are stakes winners. The star among them is the Group 1 Moyglare Stud Stakes winner Skitter Scatter (Scat Daddy).

As if all of this was not enough, another of the offspring of Dane Street (Street Cry) is the Grade 3-placed Data Dependent (More Than Ready), and she has already made an impact at stud as the dam of the Grade 1 Belmont Oaks Invitational Stakes heroine Aspen Grove (Justify). Can Dane Street’s son First Law emulate the achievement of her own half-brother Intense Focus (Giant’s Causeway) who won the 2008 Dewhurst, and his sire Too Darn Hot (Dubawi) who annexed it 10 years later?

First Law is stakes winner number 38 for Too Darn Hot (Dubawi). The sire has completed his seventh season at Dalham Hall, his fee of £100,000 being double that which he started out at. He has eight Group 1 winners among his haul of stakes winners.

Sirenia Stakes

Moonrise added the Group 3 Sirenia Stakes at Kempton to her previous victory in the similarly rated Princess Margaret Stakes at Ascot. She has now won three of her four starts for her owner/breeder Ahmad Alkhallafi, and the Andrew Balding-trained juvenile suffered her only racing reversal when a half-length second in the 25-runner Listed Windsor Castle Stakes at Royal Ascot.

Banstead Manor Stud-based and Juddmonte-owned, Kingman gets a mention in the Moonrise story as he is the damsire of the dual Group 3 winner. She was the Mick Channon-trained Queen Of Silca who sold, after winning three times at three, for 35,000gns to Federico Barberini. Her first living foal, the three-year-old Silca Blue (Space Blues), has now won three times in Qatar, and he is followed by Moonrise. Luke Barry’s Manister House Stud will offer their Ghaiyyath (Dubawi) half-brother in Book 3 of the October Sale at Newmarket.

Moonrise is another good race filly in a family that is well regarded for doing so, and so many of the winners in the pedigree, going back to the stakes-placed Silca-Cisa (Hallgate), born in 1989, and beyond carry the word ‘Silca’ in their names. This testifies to a lifetime involvement by one man, Eddie Aldridge, whose business bore the same name. Many of the best winners were also trained by his friend Mick Channon.

Silca’s Sister

The standout name on the page is that of Silca-Cisa’s daughter Silca’s Sister (Inchinor). She was one of nine winners from her dam, a third of which were stakes winners. She only won twice, but ran out a two-length winner of the Group 1 Prix Morny 21 years ago from the Aidan O’Brien hotpot Ivan Denisovich. Silca’s Sister was foaled seven years after her full-sister Golden Silca (Inchinor). She was successful eight times, won over £500,000, and was a dual Group 2 winner as a juvenile.

Golden Silca was placed behind another O’Brien runner, Orpen, when she contested the Group 1 Prix Morny at two, and would get even closer to landing what ultimately proved to be an elusive Group 1 in her second season, beaten a neck by Hula Angel in the Irish 1000 Guineas and occupying the runner-up spot at Royal Ascot in the Group 1 Coronation Stakes.