THE Raceology Partnership have horses with William Jarvis, and their name popped up as the purchaser of a Cape Cross (Green Desert) mare named Luzia at the Tattersalls December Sale in 2019 for 3,500gns.

Why would I be interested in knowing more? Well, the mare’s first foal just happens to be last weekend’s surprise Group 1 Sun Chariot Stakes winner, Fonteyn (Farhh).

Owned and bred by Sheikh Mohammed Obaid Al Maktoum, Fonteyn has never been worse than fourth in seven starts, and was a listed winner earlier this year at York.

In the year that Fonteyn was foaled, and having failed to go back in foal, Luzia was sent to the sales as one of the lesser lights in the Godolphin draft.

At the time she was a half-sister to a single winner (that number has now grown to four) and you had to go back to her this dam to find any blacktype. Her new owners sent Luzia to be covered by Time Test (Dubawi) at the National Stud and she now has a yearling colt on the ground.

Mind you, that blacktype I mentioned earlier is not to be sneezed at. Luzia’s third dam is The Perfect Life (Try My Best), a Group 3 juvenile winner in France who also bred a Group 3 winner in Rabah (Nashwan), the Group 1 Cheveley Park Stakes-third Najiya (Nashwan), and is grandam of the Group 3 winner and Group 1 Irish Oaks runner-up Ice Queen (Danehill Dancer). In all, The Perfect Life had seven winners.

Noteworthy

While seven winners is noteworthy, The Perfect Life is actually one of 11 winners herself from her own dam Mill Princess (Mill Reef), and that list is headed by her full-sister Last Tycoon (Try My Best). He won eight of his 13 starts, including the Group 1 King’s Stand Stakes, William Hill Sprint Cup and Grade 1 Breeders’ Cup Mile and was later a champion sire.

Mill Princess has been a huge influence on the breed, and the list of Group 1 winners descending from her grows and grows.

Her granddaughters include Group and Grade 1 winners Immortal Verse (Pivotal), Valentine Waltz (Be My Guest), Sense Of Style (Thunder Gulch) and Tie Black (Machiavellian). The first named in that list is herself the dam if European champion Tenebrism (Caravaggio).

This is also the family of full-siblings The United States, Hermosa and Hydrangea, all sired by Galileo (Sadler’s Wells).

Fontyn is now the second Group 1 winner for Farhh, the other being Derrinstown Stud’s Queen Elizabeth II Stakes winner King Of Change. Two other sons of Farhh (Pivotal) stand here in Ireland, Far Above at Starfield Stud and Dee Ex Bee at Arctic Tack Stud.