THE debut win for Pamplemousse at Chantilly on Tuesday could not have been more impressive. In a field of nine unraced three-year-old fillies there were no fewer than four representatives of the Andre Fabre yard.

Pamplemousse was one of that quartet and she started favourite, an indication in itself of the high regard in which she was obviously held. She won as a favourite should – indeed, even more impressively as her almost five-length winning margin shows. Many notebooks have her name entered as a filly to watch out for in the months ahead.

Lady Bamford races Pamplemousse and were she to develop into a top-class racemare she would be joining a select group that have carried her colours in recent years. Heading that list is the Epsom and Irish Oaks winner Sariska, the Prix de Diane (French Oaks) winner Star Of Seville, and the Group 2 Park Hill Stakes winner The Lark.

A daughter of Siyouni, Pamplemousse was a hugely expensive pinhook from yearling to breezer, both times at Arqana. She was sold by Haras de Grandchamp for her breeder Aleyrion Bloodstock as a yearling for €250,000 and purchased by agents Alex Solis and Jason Litt. The following May she was back at Deauville for the breeze-up sale as part of The Channel Consignment, operated by Jamie Railton and Alban Chevalier du Fau. This time her value increased to €400,000, at which figure Charlie Gordon-Watson acquired her for her now owner.

Having won just a maiden race, it is arguable that she has already enhanced her value as she is bred in the purple and comes from a family of high-achieving females. She is the sixth foal and sixth winner for her unraced Efisio (Formidable) dam Acatama who has graduated from a modest start at stud to becoming a highly valuable broodmare.

None of her first five offspring sold for more than 40,000gns when first put through a sale ring, but that changed with the emergence of her best runner to date, the Falco filly Odeliz. She raced with huge success for Swiss-based owner Barbara Keller and won the Group 1 Prix Jean Romanet in France and the Group 1 Premio Lydia Tesio in Italy. She sold privately at the Tattersalls December Sale in 2015 for one million guineas.

Pamplemousse has been followed by Nation’s History, a two-year-old Dawn Approach colt that realised €190,000 as a foal, while Acatama has a yearling colt by Exceed And Excel, her eighth offspring.

Acatama is a daughter of the winning Alzao mare Tanzania and she bred seven winners, three of which won stakes. The Astronomer Royal filly Table Ronde was a listed winner in France, while her Giant’s Causeway half-brother Uncoiled was a stakes winner in Japan. However their performances pale by comparison with Amorama, a daughter of Sri Pekan.

She grew from humble beginnings to become a dual Grade 1 winner in the USA, annexing the John C Mabee Handicap and the Del Mar Oaks. Having risen to the top of the racing tree she sold as a six-year-old for $2.1 million and is the dam of the Group 2 Prix Hocquart winner and Group 1 Grand Prix de Paris runner-up Ampere, a son of Galileo.

Skip back two generations and Pamplemousse’s fourth dam is the champion racemare in France and the USA, Hail To Reason’s daughter Trillion. She won the Group 1 Prix Ganay and was second in the Prix de l’Arc de Triomphe and she went on to breed and even better racemare in Triptych. That Riverman mare won an Irish 2000 Guineas (a rarity for a filly) and Irish Champion Stakes, emulated her dam by landing the Prix Ganay in France in addition to the Prix Marcel Boussac at two, and she was a multiple Group 1 winner in England and in the USA.

Who knows what the future holds for Pamplemousse, but it is short odds that she will gain blacktype and it will be fascinating to see how high up the scale she can go as a racemare.

The Group 1 winning juvenile Siyouni is fully booked for the 2017 at the Aga Khan stud in France where he covers for €45,000. The son of Pivotal did not win after his two-year-old season but he did run second to Dick Turpin in the Group 1 Prix Jean Prat. A half-brother to the Group and Grade 1 winner Siyouma, his dam is a stakes winner by Danehill and she is a half-sister to Group 1 winner and Group 1 sire Slickly.

Siyouni made a sensational start at stud and his first two crops include the classic and triple Group 1 winner Ervedya and 11 stakes winners to date.