SATANICJIM changed hands but not stables last month at the Arqana Autumn Sale, realising €30,000 in the sale ring.

Last weekend he won exactly the same amount when he earned his first black type and won the Listed Prix Max Sicard at Toulouse. He still races from Alain Couetil’s stable.

Bred in Ireland by a partnership of the Conneally’s Moorpark Stud in Galway and Cheveley Park Stud (who stand his sire Pivotal), Satanicjim is the best of three winners out of Infinity, a placed daughter of Bering. Her own dam Specificity was a stakes winner in England and has been a most prolific winner producer, her 11 successful offspring headed by Pride. She is also the grandam of a classic winner.

The Peintre Celebre mare Pride won nine races and eight of them were at group level. They include three Group 1 races in three different countries – the Champion Stakes in England, the Hong Kong Cup and the Grand Prix de Saint-Cloud. She was also runner-up in the first two of those events and in the Prix de l’Arc de Triomphe to Rail Link.

Pride’s half-sister Fate, a daughter of Teofilo, has been a most consistent group performer and won at that level when she captured the Group 3 Prix de Flore. She also ran third in the Group 1 Prix Ganay and was placed in a couple of Group 2 races this year.

Infinity’s half-sister Specifically was a two-year-old winner in America before going to stud in Ireland for a while with Kevin and Meta Cullen and for whom she bred the 1000 Guineas winner Speciosa. Sold on by the Cullens, she later in life realised 1,850,000gns to John Warren for Newsells Park Stud. Specifically is the dam of 10 winners from 11 runners and in addition to Speciosa she bred the Grade 3 winner Major Rhythm, the listed winner Special Meaning and is grandam of the Irish Derby third Festive Cheer.

Breeding many winners is a feature of this family and Specificity’s 11 winning offspring matched the achievement of her own dam Mandera, the Group 3 Princess Royal Stakes winner, The most important of her winners was the dual St Leger winner Touching Wood who also ran second to Golden Fleece in the Derby. He has his own place in racing history, being the first classic winner in Britain owned by a member of the Maktoum family.