TUTTIPAESI was bred by Eithne Hamilton who has had a long association with the family. The now five-year-old daughter of Clodovil is out of the unraced Acatenango mare Ruby Ridge who was bred by Gainsborough Stud Management but acquired at a later stage by Eithne. The attraction was obvious as Eithne had purchased Ruby Ridge’s dam Desert Frolic and with her bred a number of good horses, notably Dubai Prince, Jakarta Jade and Cadre.

Tuttipaesi is now trained by Bill Mott, the Hall of Fame trainer most famously associated with Cigar. On Saturday he sent her to run in the inaugural $75,000 Suffolk Downs Distaff Turf Stakes and she brought her win total to five with an easy three and a quarter length victory, raising her earnings to more than $300,000.

Sold as a foal through Rathasker Stud to Paula Flannery for €18,000 at Goffs November Sale back in 2010, the filly was reoffered in Book 2 of the Tattersalls October Sale from Egmont Stud and bought by Marco Bozzi for 12,000gns. She went to Italy where she won two listed races before moving to the USA to continue her career. She won the Ginger Brew Stakes at Gulfstream Park on arrival and her placed efforts include being runner-up in the Grade 1 Ashland Stakes at Keeneland. She is now a four-time stakes winner.

On Wednesday Edie Murray-Hayden’s Gormanstown Stud will offer a full-brother to Tuttipaesi at Tattersalls and this latest update will be good news. The colt looks well bought as a foal, having cost €24,000 last year. He is a half-brother to three winners, while every generation of the family produces its share of blacktype winners.

Ruby Ridge is a half-sister to seven winners and her dam, Desert Frolic, had a colt foal this year by Born To Sea at the great age of 22. Desert Frolic’s winning offspring include the dual Group 3 winner Dubai Prince, by Shamardal, the €200,000 foal Cadre – a stakes-placed son of King’s Best, and the listed-placed Jakarta Jade. One of the most interesting of her progeny was Mojave, a 200,000gns breeze-up graduate who won two of his three starts but died at three. He was rated as a Group 1 horse by his trainer.

Desert Frolic is a half-sister to the Champion Stakes winner Storming Home and he was twice a Grade 1 winner in the USA. He is also a Group 1 sire and he famously was disqualified after winning the Arlington Million.

One of Desert Frolic’s half-sisters is the unraced Darshaan mare Sandrella, the dam of Glencadam Gold, a Group 1 winning son of Refuse To Bend who captured the Metropolitan Handicap in Australia in 2012.