IT is arguably easy to forecast future success for a two-year-old filly who has already gained a stakes win. However, there is still a lot of improvement in Head Mistress, winner of the Listed Curragh Stakes to add to her debut victory at Down Royal three weeks earlier, and she could make an even bigger splash should she take up her entry next month in the Group 1 Cheveley Park stakes.

What a great story that would be for co-owners and breeders, John Brady and Brian Gleeson.

The latter, under the name Brucetown Farm, bought the dam of this Profitable (Invincible Spirit) filly, Rag And Bone (Street Cry), for just $17,000 at the Keeneland November Sale in 2017, in foal to Shanghai Bobby (Harlan’s Holiday).

At the time she had a single winner to her name, with a lot of youngstock. Now Head Mistress is her fifth winner, and this year Rag And Bone welcomed a filly foal by Territories, another son of Invincible Spirit (Green Desert). Rag And Bone sold as a yearling at Goffs, having been acquired as a foal in the USA, for €260,000, and she won three times in Canada. She is one of 10 winners from Something Mon (Maria’s Mon).

Tactical family

The best of Something Mon’s offspring was the Group 3 winner Raymi Coya (Van Nistelrooy), and that mare is now the grandam of last year’s Group 2 July Stakes winner Tactical (Toronado) and this year’s Group 3 Italian 2000 Guineas winner Fayathaan (Mehmas).

Something Mon’s dam Try Something New (Hail The Pirates) won the Grade 1 Spinster Stakes in the USA.

Head Mistress is one of 16 first crop winners for Profitable who stood for €10,000 this year at Kildangan. She is the sire’s second stakes winner, after the Group 2 Queen Mary Stakes heroine Quick Suzy.

Head Mistress is a growing rarity in today’s world, a filly who possesses no inbreeding for five generations.