TWO stallions achieved a significant first in their budding careers last weekend, and one of the pair is Lanwades Stud’s regally-related Group 1 star Archipenko (by Kingmambo).

He comes from the famous stallion-producing family of Sadler’s Wells, Nureyev, and Fairy King, his representatives include the Group 1-placed stakes winner Lady Penko, the recent Group 2 Beresford Stakes runner-up Clonard Street, and last Sunday’s Group 3 Premio Dormello runner-up Marabea, and they are headed, so far, by Madame Chiang.

She is owned and bred by Kirsten Rausing, she won the Group 3 Musidora Stakes at York in May, and she added the Group 1 Qipco British Champions Fillies/Mare Stakes over 12 furlongs at Ascot last Saturday.

The David Simcock-trained three-year-old represents the first crop of her sire, and although she is now arguably the best among plenty of European blacktype horses within the first three generations of her pedigree, she is not the only member of her recent family to have won at the highest level.

Madame Chiang is out of the dual winner Robe Chinoise (by Robellino), and that mare is a half-sister to Kiswahili (by Selkirk), who is the stakes winning dam of the multiple pattern-placed stakes winner Kinetica (by Stormy Atlantic).

She is also a half-sister to the placed Kiruna (by Northern Park), who is the dam of the Group 2 German 1000 Guineas third Senafe (by Byron), and to Kimono (by Machiavellian), the unplaced dam of the French and US stakes-winning filly Briviesca (by Peintre Celebre).

Their dam Kiliniski (by Niniski) won the Group 3 Oaks Trial at Lingfield before finishing fourth at Epsom, and she later earned placings in two more Group 1 contests, finishing runner-up in the Yorkshire Oaks and fourth in the Gran Premio del Jockey Club Coppa d’Oro. Fourth counted for blacktype in those days.

Kiliniski was a grand-daughter of Nijinsky (by Northern Dancer), which means that Madame Chiang is inbred 3x4 to that hugely influential star, and she had five winning siblings of whom the dual scorer Puget Sound (by High Top) deserves particular mention.

That filly became the dam of the pattern-placed, stakes-winning middle-distance filly Ninotchka (by Nijinsky), and her descendants include several blacktype scorers, one of whom was a Grade 1 classic-placed pattern winner in Brazil.

Kiliniski’s six non-winning siblings, however, also include one who did her bit for the family, as Nakterjal (by Vitiges), who was unplaced at two and three years of age, became the dam of the triple US Grade 1 star Bienamado (by Bien Bien), a turf ace who had won the Group 3 Prix de Conde and been placed in the Group 1 Criterium de Saint-Cloud, Group 2 Great Voltigeur Stakes and Group 3 Prix Niel before crossing the Atlantic.

That is the first three generations of the family, but if you take one more step backwards you find that the fourth dam of Madame Chiang is Special (by Forli), and this means that she is also inbred 3x4 to the mare who was the dam of Nureyev, grandam of Sadler’s Wells, and third dam of Archipenko. It will be fascinating to see how her stud career turns out, whenever that time comes.