GAY and Annette O’Callaghan’s Yeomanstown Stud purchased a son of Oasis Dream (Green Desert) and the Zamindar (Gone West) mare Household Name as a foal for 95,000gns at the Tattersalls December Sale two years ago. The colt was bred by Countess De La Warr, wife of the 11th Earl, and sold through New England Stud at Newmarket.

Last year the then yearling failed to make it to the sales, and next appeared at this year’s breeze up in Newmarket where the O’Callaghans retained him at 100,000gns.

Sent to be trained by Ger Lyons and named Gobi Desert, the colt appeared in public last Sunday at the Curragh and readily landed the opening maiden from 15 opponents on his debut.

Offers are understood to have flowed in for the colt afterwards, and whether he stays to race in Ireland is open to question. What is certain is that in addition to his future racing possibilities, he has a stallion pedigree and how special would it be for the present owners to race such a prospect.

This is, after all, the family of Oasis Dream himself, his nephew Kingman (Invincible Spirit) and their cousins New Bay (Dubawi) and Beat Hollow (Sadler’s Wells). Household Name was bred and raced by Juddmonte Farms and was placed a few times in France. Gobi Desert is her first foal, followed by a yearling filly by Frankel (Galileo) who sold to Japan last year for 350,000gns. This year she had a filly by Dansili (Danehill).

Household Name has six winning siblings, all but one of which earned blacktype. Reefscape (Linamix) won the Group 1 Prix du Cadran, while his full-brother Martaline gained his biggest success at Group 2 level in France where he is now a successful stallion. Their half-brother Coastal Path (Halling) was a dual Group 2 winner and placed in the Group 1 Ascot Gold Cup, and has also enjoyed success as a stallion. The other blacktype earners were Clear Thinking (Rainbow Quest) and Prankster (Rock Of Gibraltar).

Gobi Desert’s third dam Bahamian (Mill Reef) was a listed winner and Group 2 placed and bred, among seven winners, the Group 1 Irish Oaks winner Wemyss Bight, a daughter of Dancing Brave (Lyphard). That mare has also excelled at stud and her best produce is the multiple Group 1 sire Beat Hollow. He stands at Ballylinch Stud and that is also home to his near relation New Bay who beat Highland Reel to capture the Group 1 Prix du Jockey Club, the French Derby, and who has just completed his first season at stud.

Wemyss Bight’s own-sister Hope may not have managed to win or place, but she got one over on her classic-winning sister when she went to stud, breeding a pair of Group 1 winners in Oasis Dream and Zenda. The latter, like Gobi Desert’s dam, is a daughter of Zamindar and she was an outstanding racemare, winning the Group 1 French 1000 Guineas. In turn she is dam of Kingman whose first crop of yearlings are already making waves. He suffered a single defeat in an eight-race career that saw him win four Group 1 races.

What can be said about Oasis Dream that is not already well known? A champion at two and three, he is an outstanding stallion and is emerging now as a sire of sires. He is responsible for in excess of 50 group winners, more than 100 stakes winners and his best son and daughter are Muhaarar and Midday.

What will Gobi Desert’s next move be? We await developments with interest.