ANOTHER foal at the upcoming Tattersalls December Sale to receive a huge pedigree boost was Newsells Park Stud’s son of Poet’s Voice (by Dubawi) out of the Bishop Of Cashel mare Persario. The dam’s four-year-old son The Tin Man reached a career high last weekend when he won the Group 1 Qipco British Champions Sprint Stakes, a race won by his half-brother Deacon Blues when it was a Group 2 race.

The Tin Man is a son of Equiano and his first Group 1 winner. Himself a winner of the Group 1 King’s Stand Stakes twice, Equiano is a Newsells Park Stud stallion and The Tin Man is from his first crop. His other group or graded stakes winners include Fly On The Night, Strath Burn, Belvoir Bay, this year’s Group 2 Gain Railway Stakes winner Medicine Jack, Baciami and Dark Reckoning.

On the dam side Persario won at three and five years when trained by James Fanshawe and at stud she has a perfect record to date, all of her five runners having won. As a Group 1 winner The Tin Man might rank for many as her best offspring, though Deacon Blues was ranked more highly and was rated the champion older sprinter in Europe in 2011.

Deacon Blues was a gelded son of Compton Place and more than half of his seven victories came in group races. These also included the Group 3 Phoenix Sprint Stakes at the Curragh (a six-furlong race he won by an incredible seven lengths) and the Wokingham Stakes at Royal Ascot in a brilliant season. Sadly the gelding, also trained as The Tin Man is by Fanshawe, sustained a tendon injury after his biggest success and in spite of herculean efforts to get him back on the track, he was forced into an early retirement.

The Tin Man’s career mirrors that of his half-brother and hopefully he will, as a gelding also, get a chance to go on and add to his successes which now come to six in number. Persario’s other winners include the stakes-placed Bahamian Bounty filly Holley Shiftwell, while her current two-year-old Hilario, a son of Sepoy, holds an entry in a listed race this weekend following his recent maiden victory. He was sold for £160,000 last year at the DBS Premier Yearling Sale to Tony Nerses on behalf of owners Saleh Al Homaizi & Imad Al Sagar.

Persario is one of four winners from Barford Lady and they include five-time winner Heretic (also by Bishop Of Cashel) and the Warning colt Warningford. The latter won 10 races, three of them group races and another three at listed level. He came within a neck of gaining a Group 1 success when he was denied by Medicean in the 2001 Lockinge Stakes.

Barford Lady won a couple of races and this daughter of Stanford had five winning siblings, the best of which was the listed winner Ansellman, by Absalom. The Doncaster Stakes was the best of his 11 wins and he was placed no fewer than 41 times! While there is a lot of speed in the first three generations of The Tin Man’s family, his third dam Grace Poole was a Sallust half-sister to Tim Ding and he was placed three times at Royal Ascot, runner-up in the almost two-mile, six-furlong Queen Alexandra Stakes and third twice in the Ascot Stakes over two and a half miles.

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