TIFOSA is a filly very much on the upgrade and she produced the best of her efforts to date when successful in the Listed Prix La Camargo at Saint-Cloud. Trained by Pia Brandt, this was the filly’s second win in 2019 and followed three promising runs at the end of her juvenile season last year.

Bred at the Egan’s Corduff Stud and by John Corcoran, Tifosa was sold as a yearling for €150,000 at the Goffs Orby Sale to Meridian International. Her sale price reflected the demand for the offspring of Kodiac (Danehill) and she was conceived when his fee was €25,000. It has risen three times since to €65,000. No doubt the price also reflected the fact that Tifosa comes from a family well known for producing lookers.

Tifosa is the second offspring of Toquette, an unraced daughter of Acclamation (Royal Applause). She was in training with Jim Bolger but never started and her first foal, now a four-year-old, was Rifft (Iffraaj). He sold for 240,000gns as a yearling to the Hong Kong Jockey Club and has made one start this year. Tifosa is followed by Platinum Star (Lope De Vega) and that 150,000gns yearling purchase is in training, while there must be great hope for Toquette’s fourth produce, a yearling colt by Kingman (Invincible Spirit). Last year she was covered by the classic winner Awtaad (Cape Cross).

Toquette is a half-sister to Arcano, the Group 1 winning juvenile son of Oasis Dream (Green Desert). That victory came at the expense of Special Duty and Canford Cliffs in the Prix Morny over six furlongs at Deauville, He accounted for Showcasing when winning his maiden and his unbeaten two-year-old season also included success in the Group 2 July Stakes. He only raced twice at three and was third to Dick Turpin in the Group 3 Greenham Stakes.

Originally at Derrinstown Stud, Arcano moved to Allevamento Agricola di Besnate in 2016 and his first Italian crop will are two-year-olds this year. His 10 stakes winners to date include five group winners.

Arcano is the first foal and one of two winners for his unraced dam Tariysha (Daylami) who is also resident at Corduff Stud. He was followed by the 450,000gns El Muqbil (Medicean) who won for Sheikh Hamdan, while her third foal was also purchased by Shadwell, the unraced Min Banat Alreeh (Oasis Dream) selling for 700,000gns. Tariysha has a yearling filly by Dark Angel (Acclamation).

This is a family developed by the Aga Khan and Tifosa’s third dam was Tarwiya (Dominion). That homebred was precocious enough to win three times as a two-year-old, including the Group 3 C L Weld EBF Park Stakes at the Curragh and the Listed EBF Rochestown Stakes at Leopardstown. She was runner-up that year in the Group 1 Moyglare Stud Stakes and at three she added a placed effort in the Group 1 Irish 1000 Guineas to her efforts.

While she had a record of just three winners from 11 foals, it is also a fact that just five of her offspring made it to the races. Four of her daughters, none of which won a race, went on at stud to breed stakes winners.

Tariysha bred Arcano, while Tahara (Caerleon), who was twice unplaced, also produced a Group 1 winner. This was Gilt Edge Girl (Monsieur Bon) and she earned her biggest success in the Prix de l’Abbaye de Longchamp. Gilt Edge Girl’s son Time’s Arrow (Redoute’s Choice) is a stakes winner.

Tarbela (Grand Lodge) is another daughter of Tarwiya and she was placed at two. The best of her winning offspring are the Group 2 Curragh Cup hero Sword Fighter (Galileo) and the Royal Ascot winner Big Audio (Oratorio), victorious in the Listed Chesham Stakes.

Finally, Taraya (Doyoun) was unraced but her stakes winner was in France, namely Messager Du Roi (King’s Theatre).