CHARM Spirit has made a charmed start to his stud career, his first crop being responsible, at the time of writing, for 15 individual winners of some 20 races. His son Charming Kid earned the first piece of blacktype for the stallion when he ran third in the Group 2 July Stakes, but last week his daughter Yourtimeisnow gave him his breakthrough first stakes winner.

This was achieved when the Roger Varian-trained daughter of Maid For Winning (Gone West) was successful in the Group 3 Shadwell Dick Poole Stakes at Salisbury. The 120,000gns Book 1 October Yearling Sale filly also became the first stakes winner for her dam who was snapped up for a mere 27,000gns as a broodmare in 2011 when carrying Stroll Patrol (Mount Nelson), who was actually placed in the race won by her half-sister last week.

Stroll Patrol’s own-sister Hors de Combat (Mount Nelson0 won three races and was placed many times, being somewhat unlucky not to win a group race. He was runner-up in a couple and third in the Group 2 Shadwell Joel Stakes. With earnings to date (he won this year in the UAE) of £230,000 has more than repaid his 40,000gns yearling purchase price.

Yourtimeisnow has a yearling half-brother by Pivotal (Polar Falcon) which is catalogued in Book 1 of this year’s Tattersalls October Sale from Jamie Railton as agent and this latest update will boost his sale prospects no end.

Maid For Winning was originally sold for $350,000 as a yearling, a couple of years after her half-brother Stroll (Pulpit) won the Grade 1 Turf Classic at Churchill Downs, one of seven career victories. He went to stud at Claiborne Farm but these days stands at Iowa State University Horse Farm at a fee of $2,000. He sired a number of stakes winners at up to Grade 3 level, the best of which was the champion Canadian juvenile filly Van Lear Rose.

Stroll was the best of seven winners from Maid For Walking (Prince Sabo), a group-placed daughter in turn of Stinging Nettle (Sharpen Up). The latter gained her sole victory in the Listed Duke Of Edinburgh Stakes at Ascot and produced half a dozen winners. She is also grandam of the Group 2 Sun Chariot Stakes winner Lady In Waiting (Kylian) and third dam of the Grade 1 Donn Handicap winner Lea (First Samurai).

Charm Spirit retired to stud at Tweenhills Farm and Stud in 2015 and has switched between there and Haras de Bonneval each year since. He is a triple Group 1 winning miler by Invincible Spirit (Green Desert) and that sire’s highest earning son, winning some £1.66 million in his two season career. He beat the likes of Night Of Thunder, Toormore, Integral, Shifting Power and Kingsbarns to win the Group 1 Queen Elizabeth II Stakes, Prix du Moulin de Longchamp and the Prix Jean Prat.