LAST year David and Diane Nagle’s Barronstown Stud offered a daughter of Frankel and the Grade 3 winner Cassydora for sale. She was unsold at 275,000gns, much to everyone’s disappointment no doubt.

Now named Toulifaut, she is unbeaten in her first two starts in France, including winning a conditions race at Deauville last weekend. She is on the upgrade and blacktype looks a formality for her now. This will all be music to the ears of her breeders who consign a full-sister in Book 1 of the Tattersalls October Sale. Hopefully she will not suffer the fate of her sibling this time.

The Frankel juggernaut continues apace and has increased the demand for his stock already. This was very evident at Arqana.

In addition to being a full-sister to Toulifaut, the upcoming Barronstown offering is a half-sister to Ernest Hemingway, a son of Frankel’s sire Galileo. He was a triple Group 3 winner.

Cassydora was a listed winner in England and placed second to Alexander Goldrun in the Group 1 Nassau Stakes before transferring to the USA where she won at Grade 3 and listed level. She is one of two stakes-winning daughters of Claxon, trained by John Dunlop for Hesmonds Stud to win the Group 2 Premio Lydia Tesio in Rome. The daughter of Caerleon was also a multiple stakes winner in England.

Claxon was the best of the quartet of winners from the Fred Darling Stakes winner Bulaxie and she bettered the performance of her dam in Italy who had been runner-up in the Premio Lydia Tesio.

This is the family also of Zoffany, winner of the Group 1 Keeneland Phoenix Stakes and now off to a flyer at stud with his first couple of crops of runners.

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