HAWKSMOOR became another classic winner for Hugo Palmer at the weekend when the daughter of Azamour raced to victory in the Group 2 German 1000 Guineas.

A few days later her Dragon Pulse two-year-old half-sister Magical Fire gained a most valuable winning bracket when she landed a maiden at Fairyhouse for Michael O’Callaghan and Kieren Fallon.

Hawksmoor continues a fine classic run for graduates of the Tattersalls Ireland September Sale, following on from Palmer’s 2000 Guineas winner Galileo Gold.

Amanda Skiffington bought Hawksmoor from Ridge Manor Stud for €80,000 and her three victories and a similar number of places from just seven starts have netted Lael Stables more than £165,000.

Last year Hawksmoor won the Group 3 Prestige Stakes at Goodwood and was third in the Group 1 Dubai Fillies Mile. She started this year with a third place finish in the Group 1 Prix Saint-Alary and it is not stretching the imagination to believe that a Group 1 triumph is within her capability.

One man hoping this will be so is Ciaran ‘Flash’ Conroy as he paid €50,000 for a Canford Cliffs colt foal last November, Hawksmoor’s half-brother.

That was the same price paid by Powerstown Stud for Magical Fire as a foal but that filly has since failed to meet her engagements with the auctioneers at Goffs last September and at Tattersalls for the Breeze-Up Sale.

Hawksmoor and Magical Fire are daughters of the Danehill Dancer mare Bridal Dance and the best of her five winning half-brothers and sisters was Millennium Dragon, a Grade 3 winner in the USA and runner-up in the Grade 1 Manhattan Handicap at Belmont Park.

He was a son of Mark Of Esteem.

Go back a few generations and you will find Kotashaan, a multiple Grade 1 winner whose successes included the Breeders’ Cup Turf at Santa Anita and four other Grade 1s. This globetrotter was runner-up in the Japan Cup and placed in the Grand Prix de Paris.