AT the recent Goresbridge Breeze Up Sale the bloodstock agent Federico Barberini paid €24,000 for a Dandy Man colt out of At Our Ease. The colt was twice before at the sales, selling as a foal for €2,400 at Goffs, and for €6,000 as a yearling at Tattersalls Ireland.

Bred by Paul McEnery, the juvenile is the second offspring of his Golan dam who showed little in a point-to-point, a bumper and over hurdles. Her first foal is a now three-year-old Windsor Knot colt named Bronislav and he won a couple of races last year and the weekend after the Goresbridge Sale went on to win the Polish 2000 Guineas, named the Nagroda Rulera.

Bronislav was a graduate of the Tattersalls Ireland September Yearling Sale where he cost his now trainer Adam Wyrzyk and agent Bobby O’Ryan just €3,500. His sire Windsor Knot stands with Paul McEnery’s brother John at Rossenarra Stud and this year is covering at a giveaway fee of €1,500. The group winning son of Pivotal is also the sire of blacktype winners Euphrasia, Mamma Giovanna and Flaxen Flare.

Bronislav is not the first classic winner from the family, though you have to go back a bit to find the others. At Our Ease is a great-granddaughter of a French winner called Bronislava and she was a half-sister to the Group 1 winner and Prix de l’Arc de Triomphe runner-up Comtesse De Loir, and to the grandam of Miesque, Six Perfections and Kingmambo.