THE fourth lot in the ring in Book 1 of the Tattersalls October Sale on Tuesday was a son of Frankel and the listed winning Diktat mare Dash To The Front. Bred by Meon Valley Stud, he realised 500,000gns when selling to Shadwell Estate.

His prospects were not harmed when the James Fanshawe-trained Speedy Boarding agonisingly denied Jim Bolger’s Godolphin-owned Pleascach in the Group 1 Prix de l’Opera Longines.

PRIOR SUCCESSES

Racing for her breeders, Speedy Boarding was adding to prior successes in the Group 1 Prix Jean Romanet at Deauville, the Group 2 Prix Corrida at Saint-Cloud and a listed race at Newbury. Both her Group 1 wins came after the catalogue for the sale was printed.

Dash To The Front has three winners and she in turn is one of four for her own dam Millennium Dash, a daughter of Nashwan. The quartet also includes the stakes winner Dash To The Top and this Montjeu filly was runner-up in the Group 1 Yorkshire Oaks.

This is a female line developed over many years at Meon Valley Stud. Speedy Boarding’s third dam was the Group 1 Queen Elizabeth II Stakes winner (beating Miesque and Sonic Lady) Milligram who was runner-up in the English and Irish 1000 Guineas. She was by Mill Reef out of the Rarity mare One In A Million, winner of the 1000 Guineas and grandam of Juddmonte International winner One So Wonderful.