THE simply brilliant Frankel had a day to remember at ParisLongchamp on Sunday. He was grandsire of the Group 1 Prix de l’Arc de Triomphe winner, sire of the race’s second and third, and he ended the day when his three-year-old daughter Kelina soared to a Group 1 victory in the Group 1 Prix de la Foret.

This was a welcome return to the highest levels of success for the Wertheimer brothers, and a great payback for their 420,000gns investment in the filly’s dam, Incahoots (Oasis Dream), eight years ago. Then a three-year-old, Incahoots topped the first session of the 2015 Tattersalls December Sale, and the George Strawbridge-owned and bred filly was trained by Freddy Head and won once. On her last two starts that year she was not far away from getting blacktype, and the Wertheimer brothers stated their intent to pursue that aim. It was achieved at Cagnes-Sur-Mer at four.

Incahoots is an own-sister to the dual stakes winner and group-placed Dream Clover (Oasis Dream), and both are among the eight winners from George Strawbridge’s wonderful broodmare In Clover. That daughter of Inchinor (Ahonoora) is responsible for six stakes winners, half of them successful at Group 1 level. She is on the cusp of becoming a breeding rarity, a ‘Blue Hen’ dam of four Group or Grade 1 winners.

Winner of the Group 3 Prix de Flore, In Clover’s son Call The Wind (Frankel) won the two and a half mile Group 1 Qatar Prix du Cadran at ParisLongchamp in 2020, and this followed a victory earlier in the year for his half-sister With You (Dansili) in the Group 1 Prix Rothschild. The latter’s full-sister We Are (Dansili) was previously successful in the Group 1 Prix de l’Opera Longines.

In Clover’s dam Bellarida (Bellypha) was also a Group 3 winner, in the Prix de Royaumont. She too had eight winning offspring, including three stakes winners, while she is grandam of the Australian Group 2 winner Adjusted (Montjeu) and Group 3 winner and Group 1 Matron Stakes runner-up Lily’s Angel (Dark Angel).

Bellarida is the third dam of Dominant (Cacique), winner of the Group 1 Hong Kong Vase, classic heroine Teppal (Camacho), winner of the Group 1 Poule d’Essai des Pouliches-French 1000 Guineas, and, most recently, the Group 1 Prix Jean Romanet winner Arista (Starspangledbanner).