WHEN Ervedya won last month’s Group 1 Poule d’Essai des Pouliches (French 1000 Guineas) she became the third member of her family to achieve that feat.

One could be forgiven for not noticing that accolade and for failing to come up with the names of those relations as, truth be told, they are a very long way back in her pedigree.

Esmeralda (by Tourbillon), who won the Prix Morny as a juvenile, took the classic and the Prix de la Foret in 1942, which was seven years before her astonishingly inbred but unquestionably brilliant daughter Coronation (by Djebel) took the honours at Longchamp.

Inbred 2x2 to Tourbillon (by Ksar), Coronation won both the Queen Mary Stakes and the Prix Robert Papin as a juvenile and she crowned her career with victory in the Prix de l’Arc de Triomphe.

Her full-sister Ormara, born in 1958, gave us the Prix Jean Prat scorer Locris (by Venture VII), she is the third dam of the high-class performer Idris (by Ahonoora), and she was also the seventh dam of Ervedya.

They are, of course, much too far back in the family to have any bearing on the talent shown by their very distant relation but the presence of two fillies whose exploits would have seen them described today as being multiple Group 1 winners, deserve a mention even if only to show that the recent Group 1 Coronation Stakes heroine is not the first star filly to have emerged from the line.

She is the fourth foal out of Elva (by King’s Best), she is a half-sister to a couple of winners in France, and she represents the first crop of the Group 1 scorer Siyouni (by Pivotal), a stallion who stands at Haras de Bonneval. He, like Ervedya, was bred by the Aga Khan.

He was the top French first season sire of 2014, he also has the pattern scorers Bourree and Souvenir Delondres to his name, as well as the listed scorer Mocklershill and several who have been pattern or stakes-placed, and he looks set to become one of an important stallion.

Elva, who won over eight and nine and a half furlongs, earned her blacktype when runner-up in the Group 3 Prix Vanteaux and she has a juvenile filly named Elennga (by Exceed And Excel) waiting in the wings.

She is the only foal out of the nine furlong Fairyhouse juvenile scorer Evora (by Marju), that mare’s siblings include the dual winner Edaliya (by Askhalani), and their dam Eviyrna (by The Minstrel) ended up in Turkey.

If these three generations were all we could see then one might wonder how Ervedya came to be so talented, but her fourth dam is the Group 3 Prix de Royallieu scorer Euliya (by Top Ville) and that mare’s siblings included Erdelistan (by Lashkari), winner of the Group 1 Gran Premio del Jockey Club e Coppa D’Oro and whose placings included second in the Group 1 Gran Premio di Milano and third in the Group 1 Prix du Jockey-Club (French Derby).

His distance preference was in keeping with what you would expect of his sire, just as Ervedya’s appears to match that of Siyouni, and so her combination of speed and talent seems more akin to being a throw-back to the sprint and mile ability of those even more distant relations Esmeralda and Coronation than reflecting what Erdelistan achieved.