CARLA Temptress became the fifth Group or Grade 1 winner for her sire, Lope De Vega, last weekend when she nailed the Natalma Stakes at Woodbine in Canada on her first start outside Britain. She won twice and was third in the Group 3 Sweet Solera Stakes in three previous starts and will now join the stables of Bill Mott.

Marco Botti has handled the career to date of this two-year-old and a consequence of her latest victory is that she has a guaranteed berth in the Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Fillies Turf in November. This is now her stated aim for new owners Team Valour.

Carla Temptress joins Belardo as the second Group/Grade 1 wining juvenile for the Group 1 Prix du Jockey Club - French Derby winner Lope De Vega, a son of Shamardal (Giant’s Causeway) who stood this season for €50,000 at Ballylinch Stud.

Bred by Brendan and Ger Morrin at Pier House Stud on the Curragh, Carla Temptress was sold last year at the Goffs Orby Sale for just €26,000, almost recouping the €32,000 her dam Mrs Beeton cost at the November Sale in the same ring when she was sold carrying the recent Grade 1 winner. This was the second time Mrs Beeton traded, having sold as a four-year-old carrying her first foal for 16,500gns to Emerald Bloodstock for David Ryan’s Lawn View Stud.

Mrs Beeton was bred by Peter Harris’s Pendley Farm and trained for him by his son-in-law Walter Swinburn. The daughter of Dansili (Danehill) won and was placed from just three starts and was covered at four by Compton Place, by whom she produced a filly named Currently Inlondon. She failed to place.

Next up was Four’s Company (Fast Company) and she won a couple of times at two for Tom Dascombe before being sent to Italy. The current three-year-old from Mrs Beeton, the gelding Borntosin (Born To Sea), was beaten a neck on his third start for Marco Botti this year and has now gone to race abroad. Carla Temptress is her dam’s fourth foal.

Now waiting in the wings for Brendan and Ger is a filly foal from the first crop of Rathasker Stud’s Group 2 July Stakes winner Anjaal (Bahamian Bounty), while Mrs Beeton is in foal to Epaulette (Commands) who stands at Kildangan Stud.

In addition to Carla Temptress, Dansili is broodmare sire of Irish Oaks winner Chiquita, Middle Park Stakes winner Astaire and the Pretty Polly Stakes winner Nezwaah – a select group. This year’s Epsom Derby runner-up Cliffs Of Moher is also out of a Dansili mare

Carla Temptress is a welcome Group/Grade 1 winner in a family that for three generations has been knocking at the door of producing a winner at the highest level. Mrs Beeton is one of four winning offspring from the two-year-old winner Eliza Action (Shirley Heights) and the best of the rest is Stotsfold, a son of Barathea (Sadler’s Wells) who won four Group 3 races and was third in the Grade 1 Arlington Million Stakes.

Eliza Action was a half-sister to Supreme Sound (Superlative) and he came closer again to a Grade 1 victory, having to settle for second place in the United National Handicap. He won at Grade 3 level in the USA and listed level in England. Their dam Sing Softly (Luthier) was a very smart racemare who won the Group 3 Lancashire Oaks and the Listed Pretty Polly Stakes at Newmarket. She won or placed in all of her seven career starts (five group races) and was runner-up in the Group 2 Ribblesdale Stakes at Royal Ascot.

Sing Softly bred five winners, is grandam of the Danehill (Danzig) stakes-winning siblings Leporello, Poppy Carew and Calypso Grant, and third dam of Grade 2 Oak Tree Derby winner Devious Boy (Dr Devious), Group 3 winner and Group 1 Irish Derby placed Stellar Mass (Sea The Stars) and stakes winner and Grade 1 runner-up Marzelline (Barathea).