JESSICA Harrington’s love affair with Mastercraftsman (Danehill Dancer) continued last weekend when Barrington Court, a four-year-old daughter of the champion European two-year-old of 2008, won for the first time in four starts. This was no ordinary win, but rather the Listed Coolmore NH Sires Irish EBF Mares bumper at Navan.

Runner-up on her first three starts earlier in the year, she was offered at the Goffs Punchestown Sale and retained for €100,000.

She had finished second in a listed bumper at Limerick by then, and connections obviously had great faith in her ability. This victory would appear to totally vindicate their decision.

Bred by the exotically named Las Pampas Polo Team, Barrington Court was sold as a foal through Eagle Lodge Stud for €32,000 at Goffs to Paddy Kelly’s Ballybin Stud. She has amassed earnings in excess of her initial price and the future looks rosy for the Rolix Syndicate who own her.

Barrington Court is the better of the two winning offspring of the unraced Desert Prince (Green Desert) mare Arabian Hideway. The other was Novay Essjay (Noverre) and that gelding won five times on the flat, including as a two-year-old. They are among seven foals out of their dam, two of which were never named.

Arabian Hideway’s full-brother Foss Way (Desert Prince) was a IR£220,000 Goffs Orby Sale yearling purchase by John Gosden and that investment looked smart when he won the Group 3 Solario Stakes at two on his third start. Beaten just two lengths by the winner Hold That Tiger when he was fifth in the Group 1 Grand Criterium on his next outing, he was then transferred to Saeed bin Suroor but did not see a racecourse again.

Foss Way was three years older than his sibling Casino Clique (Medicean) who made a little less than half the price of his half-brother when he sold to race in Singapore for €115,000. There he won nine races, a number of times at stakes level and including the Raffles Cup at Kranji racecourse. Named for Sir Stamford Raffles, founder of Singapore, the domestic Group 1 Raffles Cup is the second leg of the Singapore Triple Crown. It comes after the Kranji Mile and is followed by the Singapore Gold Cup. Casino Clique was runner-up in the other legs of the Triple Crown.

Foss Way and Casino Clique were the best of the five winning offspring of Lishaway (Polish Precedent) and while she herself did not win, she was a sibling to 10 winners and the best of these were a trio of group winners in Gold Away (Goldneyev), Danzigaway (Danehill) and Blushing Gleam (Caerleon).

Gold Away earned the title of best older miler in Europe as a four-year-old in 1999 but has achieved more fame as the sire of the globe-trotting, multiple Group 1 winner Alexander Goldrun. Danzigaway won the Group 3 Prix Perth and she is the dam of a couple of sons at stud, Silent Name (Sunday Silence) in Canada and Galiway (Galileo) in France.

Silent Name is the leading sire in Canada this year by earnings and stakes winners. However the best of his runners to date has been the Group 1 Brazilian winner Jaspion Silent.

Galiway, meanwhile, has his first crop of yearlings and they have been well enough received this year, averaging some 10 times his stud fee.

Mastercraftsman’s 2019 fee rises slightly from €25,000 to €30,000 and no wonder. This year he is sire of the Cartier Award winning three-year-old filly Alpha Centauri, the dual American Grade 1 winner A Raving Beauty, and the Chilean Group 1 winning three-year-old colt Cambridge.