QUEEN Catrine (by Acclamation) was among the leading juvenile fillies of 2013 when she was placed in the Group 1 Prix Marcel Boussac, Group 2 Lowther Stakes, Group 2 Duchess of Cambridge Stakes, and in the Group 3 Princess Margaret Stakes.

A short-head second in a mile listed handicap was her only time in the frame from six starts at three, and although she won a seven-furlong conditions race at Leicester in June, and added a listed placing in Italy a few weeks later, her four-year-old campaign has also been some way below her peak.

All of that form was while a member of the Charlie Hills team but on her first run from the Ger Lyons stable, she won the Listed Clodovil European Breeders Fund Garnet Stakes over a mile at Naas on Sunday.

She will go to stud as at least a Group 1-placed stakes winner, one of the many all-caps blacktype horses from the famous family of Treve (by Motivator).

THIRD DAM

Her relationship to that great mare is remote, but they share a third dam – the unraced Trevilla (by Lyphard) – and so will appear on the same catalogue pages.

Queen Catrine was bred by Mount Coote Stud, she is a 55,000gns graduate of Book 2 of the Tattersalls October Yearling Sale, and her Zebedee (by Invincible Spirit) half-brother made €200,000 at the recent Goffs Orby Sale, bought by Shadwell.

A half-sister to the dual winner Vastitas (by Green Desert), she is out of Kahira (by King’s Best) and that mare is, in turn, a half-sister to the Group 1 Sprint Cup hero Tamarisk (by Green Desert).

Their dam Sine Labe (by Vaguely Noble), whose four foals also include the 13-times scorer Grand Selection (by Cricket Ball), was a half-sister to the Group 1 Prix Saint-Alary winner Treble (by Riverman), and that filly’s full-sister Trevillan is the grandam of Treve.

These are the generations of the family that will appear on the catalogue pages of any further sales offspring of Queen Catrine and they will be more than enough to draw plenty of interest.

The next dam is the Group 1 Prix Ganay star Trillion (by Hail To Reason), and in addition to being the mare who gave us the brilliant but tragically ill-fated Triptych (by Riverman), her own siblings of note included the influential Doff The Derby (by Master Derby).

She was the dam of the Timeform 139-rated superstar Generous (by Caerleon) and of his classic-winning half-sister Imagine (by Sadler’s Wells), and others who descend from her include the ill-fated juvenile Group 1 scorer Horatio Nelson (by Danehill) and the Timeform 129-rated prolific Group 1 star Moonlight Cloud (by Invincible Spirit).

It will be interesting to see if Queen Catrine returns to action as a five-year-old or heads to the paddocks instead, as a filly with her racing and pedigree profile could become a Group 1 producer at stud.