IT will be interesting to see if Lot 159 takes up its date with the auctioneer on Wednesday in Doncaster. Goffs UK’s Tim Kent will be hoping so, as the mare, Bercasa, is one that he would surely love to wield the gavel for.

The daughter of Sunnyhill Stud’s Casamento (Shamardal) won at Galway on Wednesday, and by the time you read this she may have turned out again and added further form.

Bercasa is one of a pair of winners from her unraced dam Berocco (Danehill Dancer), and that mare’s third runner Clondaw Dancer (Big Bad Bob) was placed in a point-to-point this year. Berocco’s three winning siblings include Jubilance (Oratorio) who won in England but made a name for himself in Scandinavia, winning a listed race in Denmark and being placed in blacktype races there, in Norway and Sweden.

Casamento returned to Ireland this season to begin the next phase of his career. He won the Group 1 Racing Post Trophy and Group 2 Beresford Stakes as a juvenile, went to Kildangan Stud upon his retirement, moved to Dalham Hall Stud after three seasons, and then stood in Sweden in 2018 – a year that was a breakthrough one for him.

His Gavin Cromwell-trained daughter Princess Yaiza won the Group 2 Prix de Royallieu at ParisLongchamp last October, the same afternoon his Mark Johnston-trained son Communique was runner-up in the Group 3 Cumberland Lodge Stakes at Ascot. The pair are from their sire’s second crop, and just a week earlier Communique had won a listed race at Newmarket.

This year Amade won the Grade 2 Belmont Gold Cup, while the first runners over jumps have shown that Michael Hickey did the right thing in bringing Casamento back to Ireland.