BESHARAH lost her unbeaten record when third in the Group 2 Queen Mary Stakes at Royal Ascot and was then beaten a nose by Illuminate in the Group 2 Duchess of Cambridge Stakes at Newmarket, but she made it third time lucky in pattern company when coming home a three-length winner of the Group 3 Princess Margaret Juddmonte Stakes over six furlongs at Ascot last Saturday.

The time she clocked was more indicative of good-to-soft ground rather than the official description of soft, and it was an eye-catching performance that made her entry in the Group 1 Connolly’s Red Mills Cheveley Park Stakes look more interesting.

The William Haggas-trained juvenile was bred by Gerard Kerin, she made 30,000gns in Newmarket as a foal, and she cost 85,000gns when re-offered from Book 2 at the Tattersalls October Yearling Sale last autumn.

She was the 18th stakes winner to represent Tally-Ho Stud’s rising star Kodiac (by Danehill) and she comes from a family that is full of blacktype, including Group 1 form.

The filly is the first foal out of an unraced mare called Dixieland Kiss (by Dixie Union) and her Casamento (by Shamardal) half-brother made 110,000gns in Newmarket as a foal, bought by Shadwell Estate Company.

The mare’s half-sister Kiss Mine (by Mineshaft) is a multiple Grade 3-placed prolific stakes winner in the USA and, in early June, their half-sister Kiss Moon (by Malibu Moon) won the Grade 3 Mint Julep Handicap at Churchill Downs, the same eight and a half furlong contest that their dam won in 2003.

That mare is Kiss The Devil (by Kris S), the best of five winners out of the stakes-placed Devil’s Nell (by Devil’s Bag), and her non-winning siblings include Stylish Manner (by Touch Gold), the placed dam of three blacktype horses.

City Cool (by City Zip) has won a listed contest, Super Robusto (by Smoke Glacken) is a stakes-placed handicapper, but Nonios (by Pleasantly Perfect) won a Grade 3 handicap over eight and a half furlongs, was placed in the Grade 1 Haskell Invitational Stakes, in the Grade 1 Awesome Again Stakes and in the Grade 2 Swaps Stakes, and he took up stallion duties in Canada in 2014.

If you go back another generation then you find that Devil’s Nell was a half-sister to the Grade 1 Santa Susana Stakes winner Nell’s Briquette (by Lanyon), a mare whose best progeny raced in Europe.

Sanquirico (by Lypheor) won the 1987 running of the Group 2 Royal Lodge Stakes, the same year that his half-brother Love The Groom (by Blushing Groom) won the Group 2 King Edward VII Stakes and the Group 3 Gordon Stakes.

That colt was placed in the Group 1 William Hill Futurity Stakes (now Racing Post Trophy) and in two Group 1 events in Italy before going on to some success at stud in that country.

Besharah clearly has plenty of ability and, given what some of her best relatives achieved, she could be more than just a quick early juvenile, possibly even one who might stay a mile at three.