Railton’s joy as brothers win on the double

WHEN Jamie Railton paid $345,000 at the recent Keeneland January Sale for a yearling filly by War Front (Danzig), he knew he was buying a full-sister to two stakes-placed winners, including King Neptune who was runner-up last year to Siskin in the Listed Marble Hill Stakes at the Curragh. King Neptune is the fifth named foal from his dam, the fifth runner and fifth winner.

Now Railton has a yearling filly with two stakes winning siblings, neither of which had any blacktype when the Keeneland Sale was held last month. Notably too, one of those stakes winners is a son of War Front, and incredibly he and his half-brother won listed races on the same day and at the same meeting.

Alkaraama (War Front) races for Sheikh Hamdan and last year won three times for Sir Michael Stoute over six furlongs. Now in training in Dubai, last week he won the five-furlong Listed Jebel Ali Sprint, an hour after his half-brother won over twice that distance. Mark Of Approval (Lemon Drop Kind) gained his first piece of blacktype when he won the Listed Shadwell Jebel Ali Stakes.

Two stakes winners and two stakes-placed winners from her first five runners is quite a start for the unraced Agreeable Miss and this daughter of Speightstown (Gone West) is out of a stakes-winning daughter of El Prado (Sadler’s Wells), Sweet And Ready. She won the Grade 2 Princess Stakes at Hollywood Park and bred nine winners from 11 runners. None were stakes winners but one of her pair of winners who earned some blacktype was Matikanetamakakuza (Kingmambo). She was a $900,000 yearling who won in Japan and was listed-placed.