RECENTLY I wrote about the cheaply purchased Group 1 French Oaks winner Channel, the daughter of Nathaniel having been bought from Pat O’Kelly’s Kilcarn Stud for just €18,000 as a yearling. Buying from such a famous nursery is far less risky than doing so from an unknown or unproven source, even when the price appears to say otherwise.

The same might be said about the weekend’s Listed Irish Thoroughbred Marketing Rose Bowl Stakes winner Shadn (No Nay Never), a €16,000 Goffs foal purchase who was successfully pinhooked for £42,000 at the Tattersalls Ireland Ascot Yearling Sale last year. She is the eighth winner for her Sadler’s Wells (Northern Dancer) dam Amethyst, who was herself a listed winner and ran second to Crimplene in the Group 1 Irish 1000 Guineas.

Shadn was bred by David and Diane Nagle at Barronstown Stud, one of the world’s leading nurseries, and she is a well-deserved winner of a listed race, though she is the first stakes winner for her dam and that mare’s 15th and last foal.

More than half of those offspring are winners and Colin and Melba Bryce at Laundry Cottage Stud in Hertfordshire will be very happy with the latest result. They offered Swept Away (Power), an unraced half-sister to Shadn, at last year’s Tattersalls July Sale in foal to Caravaggio (Scat Daddy) but she was retained at 25,000gns.

They now have a colt on the ground and the mare is in foal, carrying a colt, to Starspangledbanner (Choisir).

Amethyst is a full-sister to King Of Kings (Sadler’s Wells) and he won the Group 1 National Stakes at two and added the Group 1 2000 Guineas at Newmarket the following spring. He was Aidan O’Brien’s first English classic winner. Their own-sister Lucky (Sadler’s Well’s) won the Group 3 Athasi Stakes, while a half-brother was General Monash (Thorn Dance) and his biggest win was in the Group 2 Prix Robert Papin.

Furajet (The Minstrel) was placed in the Group 3 Queen Mary Stakes at Royal Ascot and this half-sister to Amethyst is the dam of the smart Group 2 Prix du Rond-Point winner and Group 1 Prix de la Foret runner-up China Visit (Red Ransom).

Coincidentally, given that the Davison’s Killarkin Stud is mentioned elsewhere in the review of the classic winner Star Catcher, it is another mare from this famous farm that is the ancestress of Shadn.

Last weekend’s stakes winner has as her fourth dam the wonderful A 1 (Abernant), and her 10 winners were headlined by champion sprinter and Group 1 winning two-year-old Steel Heart (Habitat), champion and Group 1 winning juvenile filly Smokey Lady (Habitat), Group 3 Cherry Hinton Stakes winner Ampulla (Crowned Prince) and the Group 3 winning two-year-old Chili Girl (Skymaster).

The latter bred the Group 2 King’s Stand Stakes winner Chilibang (Formidable).