NEXT year’s Group 1 Commonwealth Cup may have another potential candidate in Quiet Reflection, the Karl Burke-trained filly who took the Listed Shadwell Stud/EBF Stallions Harry Rosebery Stakes at Ayr eight days ago, coming home four lengths clear in the six-furlong contest.

Bred by Springcombe Park Stud, and a dual Doncaster sales graduate, she represents the global second crop of Whitsbury Manor Stud stallion Showcasing (by Oasis Dream), one of eight stakes winners (up to Monday night) on a list headed by the Grade 1-placed Grade 2 scorer Prize Exhibit and by last year’s Group 2 Mill Reef Stakes winner Toocoolforschool.

Showcasing’s early success augurs well for his future as a potential leading source of speed, a roll that the Group 1 July Cup winner Compton Place (by Indian Ridge) fulfilled for the Whitsbury Manor team for so long.

The sire of dual Group 1 Nunthorpe Stakes scorer Borderlescott, of current Group 1-placed Group 2 scorer Pearl Secret, and of classic-placed stakes winner Shifting Power, among many more of note, Compton Place died last Saturday following a severe bout of colic. He was 21.

Quiet Reflection is the first foal out of My Delirium (by Haafhd) and her full-brother made £54,000 at the recent Doncaster Premier Yearling Sale.

Her dam won over six furlongs as a juvenile, the mare’s half-sister Finesse (by Shamardal) won four times from five to seven furlongs for the Ralph Beckett stable, and the next dam Clare Hills (by Orpen), who had just the two foals, won the Listed Hilary Needler Trophy at Beverley a fortnight before finishing fourth behind Flashy Wings in the Group 2 Queen Mary Stakes, that year held at York.

The third dam, Morale (by Bluebird), was unplaced and had just four winners among 13 siblings, but one of those was her full-brother Bluebeard whose 14 wins in Sweden included a listed contest.

The non-winners include Zing Ping (by Thatching), dam of the Group 1 Moyglare Stud Stakes runner-up Fear And Greed (by Brief Truce) and grandam of Areen (by Kodiac), the Kevin Ryan-trained colt who was beaten a head in the Listed Windsor Castle Stakes at Ascot in June and then took third behind Gutaifan in the Group 2 Prix Robert Papin at Maisons-Laffitte.

This is a family that gets just the occasional blacktype horse, but the way that Quiet Reflection won at Ayr suggests that she may be better than just a listed-class filly.