NEWSELLS Park Stud has bred some very good horses and its latest star is Legatissimo, the filly who won the Group 1 Qipco 1000 Guineas Stakes (British Champions Series) at Newmarket last Sunday.

From a furlong out it was obvious that the prize was going to Ireland as the Jim Bolger-trained favourite Lucida (by Shamardal) went for home, but although she finished four and a half lengths clear of her closest pursuer, Tiggy Wiggy (by Kodiac), she was unable to resist the strong finish of her David Wachman-trained rival who passed her by in the closing stages to win by three-parts of a length.

The ability of Legatissimo to win a Group 1 contest over a mile has been something of a mild surprise given that she appeared to put up an improved performance when taking a nine and a half furlong listed contest at Gowran Park just a week prior, a display that suggested she may have inherited some of the stamina associated with the distaff side of her family.

It is true that the now retired Coolmore stallion Danehill Dancer gave us the 2011 Group 1 Oaks star Dancing Rain, but most of his best have excelled in the broad six to 10 furlong range, which is what one might have expected of a dual juvenile Group 1-winning son of Danehill (by Danzig).

Dancing Rain is out of Rain Flower (by Indian Ridge), a half-sister to the 1992 Group 1 Derby winner Dr Devious (by Ahonoora), and Sunday’s newly crowned classic winner is also out of a sister to a Derby horse.

Her dam Yummy Mummy comes from a prolific German blacktype family, and her grandam Grimpola (by Windwurf) won Germany’s equivalent of the 1000 Guineas, but the most famous of her relations is her full-brother Fame And Glory (by Montjeu).

The first of his five Group 1 victories came in the 10-furlong Criterium de Saint-Cloud as a juvenile, the second was his five-length score in the 2009 Irish Derby, and to those he added a seven-length win in the Tattersalls Gold Cup, he beat Sariska in the Coronation Cup, and was later a three-length winner of the Gold Cup over two and a half miles at Ascot.

The late Montjeu (by Sadler’s Wells) was an outstanding sire of Derby horses, and unlike his long-time stud companion Galileo (by Sadler’s Wells), Group 1 miler types for him were very rare, but not unprecedented.

The expectation has long been that a Montjeu will stay 12 furlongs, and that his offspring have the potential to produce middle-distance progeny of their own.

Yummy Mummy won over 10 furlongs and given her sire, and her full-brother, there has always been every chance that she could get a top-class middle-distance horse at stud.

Her first-born is the handicapper Another Cocktail (by Dalakhani), a 12-furlong winner who was runner-up in a valuable handicap over the Gold Cup course and distance last summer, and everything points to her classic daughter as being a potential winner of next month’s Group 1 Investec Oaks at Epsom.

In 1955 Meld (by Alydicon) won the 1000 Guineas, Oaks and St Leger and we had to wait another 30 years until Oh So Sharp (by Kris) also swept the Fillies’ Triple Crown.

Now a further 30 years have passed and we have a 1000 Guineas heroine whose pedigree gives her every chance of staying the trip at Doncaster in September.

Should she win the Oaks then it is to be hoped that she will get her chance to try for that particular place in the history books, a treble that would ensure that her name will never be forgotten.

But no matter what her future on the track might hold, this classic-winning 350,000gns Tattersalls October Yearling Sale graduate has established herself as one of the leaders of her generation, and as a filly who also has considerable potential as a broodmare, whenever her racing days eventually come to an end.