BIG Break rounded off her two-year-old campaign with an easy win in the Group 3 Killavullan Stakes over seven furlongs at Leopardstown, and as a daughter of Dansili (by Danehill) and of a Quest For Fame (by Rainbow Quest) mare, combined with being a full-sister to a prolific stakes winner who excelled from eight to 10 furlongs, one might have expected her to follow a similar pattern, possibly even getting the Irish Oaks distance.

Instead, Big Break is now a dual pattern scorer over shorter trips having added Sunday’s Group 3 Coolmore Stud Home of Champions Concorde Stakes, over seven and a half furlongs at Tipperary, to that earlier juvenile success.

She was only beaten two lengths when fourth behind Just The Judge in last year’s Group 1 Irish 1000 Guineas, she was fourth in the Group 3 Lanwades Stud Stakes over that course and distance in May, and this Juddmonte Farms homebred may run once more before retiring to the paddocks.

Big Break is out of Fame At Last, and that makes her a full-sister to Famous Name, the now Irish National Stud-based stallion who came within a head of winning the Group 1 Prix du Jockey-Club, and whose tally of 20 stakes and pattern wins is among the highest recorded anywhere in recent years.

Their half-sister Zaminast (by Zamindar) won the Listed Trigo Stakes over 10 furlongs, and was Group 3-placed over a half-furlong less at Gowran Park.

Fame At Last won over seven furlongs, her dam Ranales (by Majestic Light) was a juvenile winner in the USA, and her grandam Katsura (by Northern Dancer) was placed in the Group 3 Brownstown Stakes and in the Group 3 Silken Glider Stakes, but it is one of Ranales’s half-sisters who catches the eye on the page as she is the ancestor of a superstar who, like Big Break and Famous Name, also represents the Danehill (by Danzig) sire line.

Rambushka (by Roberto) won the Listed Virginia Stakes at Newcastle, was runner-up in the 10-furlong Listed Pretty Polly Stakes at Newmarket, and she is the grandam of the multiple Australian champion Makybe Diva (by Desert King), the mare famous as being a triple Group 1 Melbourne Cup heroine.

In addition to her historic treble in that two-mile spectacular, Makybe Diva also won the Group 1 Cox Plate and Group 1 Australian Cup over 10 furlongs, the Group 1 BMW Classic over a mile and a half, and she was a Group 2 scorer over seven furlongs just over two months before her third Melbourne Cup success.

Big Break is a dual pattern winner who came within a neck of being classic placed last year, and the seven-furlong Knockaire Stakes is a potential final target for her before she goes on to what could be an exciting career at stud.