WHILE her nephew Andrew Thompson has been glorying for some time in the success of Ribchester, a colt he co-bred, Audrey Thompson has been quietly going about the business of breeding winners. The latest is the two-year-old colt Loch Ness Monster, winner second time out having been placed on his debut. Trained by Mick Appleby, he is the fifth winner from the first five foals for his dam, but the first of her offspring to do so as a juvenile.

Sold for €26,000 as a foal, resold for £26,000 as a yearling and finally for £35,000 as a two-year-old (all at Goffs or Goffs UK), Loch Ness Monster is one of nine first crop winners for his sire War Command (War Front). The Coolmore-based stallion won the Group 1 Dewhurst Stakes at two,

Audrey Thomson has bred many good winners at her Kilmore Stud in Co Tipperary and she paid 18,000gns for Loch Ness Monster’s dam Celestial Dream (Oasis Dream) as a winning filly out of training. She ran five times, being successful once and placed on all her other starts, and her first foal was the winner Hesbann (Acclamation), a €70,000 foal who was followed by The Last Marju (Marju). He did even better and sold for €88,000.

The first of two fillies was Justice Lady (Dream Ahead) and this €40,000 foal has won five times. Queen Of Dreams (Epaulette) was a €45,000 foal and won this year, while winner number five is Loch Ness Monster. Waiting in the wings are a yearling colt by Kingston Hill (Mastercraftsman), and a 2018 colt by No Nay Never (Scat Daddy) who has made an explosive start to his stud career with his first runners this year.

Celestial Dream was one of five winners for Lochangel (Night Shift) who won the Group 1 Nunthorpe Stakes and a listed race at Bath among her three career victories. Her sole juvenile success was at Ascot when she was one of seven winners for Frankie Dettori as he went through the card! Lochangel’s unraced daughter Angel Wing (Barathea) bred the Group 2 winner Norse King (Norse Dancer).

Lochangel matched the feat of her older half-sister Lochsong (Song) when wining the Nunthorpe Stakes, but Lochsong left an indelible mark as a racemare, winning no fewer than 15 times including the Group 1 Prix de l’Abbaye de Longchamp twice and the Group 2 King’s Stand Stakes at Royal Ascot. She bred a pair of stakes winner at stud.