SOMETIMES one gender provides more stars in a family than others, with the balance probably in the main in favour of colts. In the case of the Group 1 Tattersalls Falmouth Stakes winner, Cinderella’s Dream (Shamardal), it is a real case of girl power.

There are nine blacktype winners in the first three generations, and all but one are fillies. The Group 2 Champagne Stakes winner Iberian, himself a son of Lope De Vega (Shamardal), is the odd-man out. Cinderella’s Dream is one of two to win at racing’s highest level, and the other to do so is the ill-fated Just The Judge (Lawman), whose life was cut short at an early stage of her career as a broodmare after she had just three offspring.