JACQUELINE was a racing sensation in India where she was the champion three-year-old of 2009-10. She won a total of eight races there at three and four, from six furlongs to a mile and a half, and they included four classics, the Indian Oaks, Indian Derby, Indian 1000 Guineas and Indian 2000 Guineas.

Jacqueline, a daughter of King Charlemagne (Nureyev) and the best runner for the Group 1 Prix Maurice de Gheest winner, was trained by Pesi Shroff for Pune’s Vijay Shirke, and Mumbai’s Khusro Dhunjibhoy and Bergis Minoo Desai.

Covered in India by Glory Of Dancer (Shareef Dancer), a Group 1 winning two-year-old in France who ran third to Timarida in the Group 1 Irish Champion Stakes, Jacqueline was sent to Ireland where she foaled a colt, later named Primogeniture. Still racing, he won three times on the flat, firstly for John Oxx, and is with his fifth trainer and trying to open his account over hurdles as an eight-year-old.

The reason for Jacqueline’s trip to Ireland was to be mated with Galileo (Sadler’s Wells) and their first tryst resulted in a dead foal. Mated twice more she had two colts, the now six-year-old Lord Napier and his year younger full-brother Zenon. Back in her native country Jacqueline has a three-year-old daughter by Australia (Galileo) and she returned to Ireland last year to be covered by Camelot (Montjeu).

Lord Napier (Galileo) was trained by John Gosden and on his last start for the Newmarket trainer he finished a well beaten second to Marmelo, a subsequent dual Group 2 winner. He sold in the autumn of his three-year-old season at Newmarket for 21,000gns, being turned over some nine months later for £24,000 at the Tattersalls Ireland Ascot June Sale.

He is now a four-time hurdle race winner for Peter Bowen, gaining his biggest career success at the weekend in the Grade 3 888Sport Heroes Hurdle at Sandown. His career earnings now top £80,000.

Zenon (Galileo) won twice and placed four times from just eight starts for John Gosden and he sold a year ago for 120,000gns at Tattersalls to Harold Kirk and Willie Mullins. He has yet to start for new connections, though he still holds some tasty Grade 1 entries at Cheltenham.

Jacqueline is the best of five winners for German three-time winner Talita Kumi (High Estate) who was purchased to go to India by Hugo Merry for just €11,000. She was one of 10 winners for her listed winning dam Temple Music (Northfields).

This is the family of dual German champion Tiger Hill (Danehill), a grandson of Temple Music’s half-sister Tigress Silver (St Chad) who won the Dutch Cesarewitch back in the days when it was a listed race!