GLENEAGLES (Galileo) won the Group 1 National Stakes at two before becoming the best miler of his generation at three, landing the 2000 Guineas double and winning the Group 1 St James’s Palace Stakes. His oldest progeny are three-year-olds and that initial crop now numbers six stakes winners. This follows Measure Of Time’s victory in the Listed Prix Michel Houyvet at the weekend.

Sold as a foal to Camas Park Stud for 80,000gns, Measure Of Time is the better of two winners from the unraced Inch Perfect (Theatrical). His victory will have pleased the principals of Cashel-based Noralla Stud Farm who bought Measure Of Time’s yearling full-sister at Goffs in February for €20,000.

Inch Perfect is a full-sister to Stage Affair (Theatrical) and he won a couple of listed races when trained by Dermot Weld and chased home Daylami in the then Group 2 Tattersalls Gold Cup. He went on to become a multiple Grade 1 winner over hurdles, a fact usually omitted on the sales pages of his relatives.

This is a family well-known to Weld as Stage Affair’s US stakes-winning dam Wooing (Stage Door Johnny) is a half-sister to the European champion sprinter conditioned at Rosewell House, Committed (Hagley). She bred a Grade 1 winner by Theatrical (Nureyev) in Pharma.