WITH his victory in the Tattersalls October Auction Stakes at Newmarket, the Marco Botti-trained, Ahmed Bintooq-owned Tatsumaki took his unbeaten run of success to three, and in the process has netted £92,613 for his connections.

This is a fine return on the 16,000gns he cost last year at the Tattersalls Ascot Yearling Sale when the hammer fell in favour of Alessandro Marconi.

Tatsumaki is from the second crop of the Group 1 Middle Park Stakes winner Charming Thought (Oasis Dream) who covered this season for £4,000 at Dalham Hall Stud in Newmarket. He beat Ivawood and Muhaarar to land his most important win.

Tatsumaki was bred by Viscountess Trenchard, sister of the trainer Hughie Morrison, and he is the third living produce, runner and winner for his dam Kasumi, a stakes winning daughter of Inchinor (Ahonoora).

Kasumi was bred at the historic Fonthill Stud, 10 miles from Shaftesbury in Wiltshire, where several classic winners have been raised, including Oaks heroines and half-sisters Juliette Marny (Blakeney) and Scintillate (Sparkler), and their St Leger winning sibling Julio Mariner (Blakeney).

Classic winners

Those three classic winners are out of Set Free (Worden), a winner and group-placed mare who produced nine winners in all. One of her non-winning offspring was Thundercloud (Electric) who was placed, and she is the third dam of last weekend’s winner Tatsumaki. The best of Thundercloud’s five winners was Moving On Up (Salse) and he was trained by Dermot Weld to win the Listed Patsy Byrne Handicap Hurdle at Tralee under A.P. McCoy.

Kasumi is the best of three winners from the placed Raindrop (Primo Dominie), and she was listed as sold as a yearling for 5,000gns in Part 2 of the Tattersalls October Yearling Sale. Kasumi then raced for Viscountess Trenchard, trained by her brother, and her six wins and 14 placings included victory on the 23rd of her 25 career starts in the Listed Weatherbys Bank Pipalong Stakes at Pontefract. On her final run she was placed in a listed race at Ascot.

Kasumi’s perfect record as a winner producer has not been matched to date with rewards in the sale ring for her offspring. The mare’s first offspring, Geranium (Sakhee’s Secret) was ‘sold’ for £3,800 at the Tattersalls Ireland Ascot Yearling Sale, and ended up running and winning a few times for Viscountess Trenchard, her trainer Hughie Morrison, and that pair’s brother, Lord Margadale. It was their grandfather who founded Fonthill Stud in the 1950s.

Ascot Adventure

Kasumi’s second foal is Ascot Adventure (Mayson), and this £4,800 yearling raced for Adrian Costello and trainer Andy Slattery and made a winning debut last September at Cork. He then sold for £150,000 at the Tattersalls Horses In Training Sale and nine days ago won again, this time for Clive Cox.

Now the mare’s most successful produce has emerged in the shape of Tatsumaki, while the breeder will no doubt be hopeful that the next in line, a colt foal by Land Force (No Nay Never), will prove to be more successful should he come up for sale in the future.