TCHOUPINMINZAC. What a mouthful, and what a nightmare name for a racing commentator.

However, they and we will probably need to get our tongues around it. The five-year-old French-bred son of Falco (Pivotal) won his second bumper this week for trainer Dr Richard Newland, and is making his purchase price of £35,000 at September’s Goffs UK Horses In Training Sale look like great value.

Indeed, that sale was only achieved after some dealing, the gelding having been led out unsold in the ring. He went to the sale from Wilson Dennison’s Loughanmore Farms, an outstanding nursery, and Tchoupinminzac did so with a record of having finished runner-up the previous month in a Ballinrobe bumper. That, combined with his pedigree, obviously didn’t excite the masses and he would have appeared at the time to be value at £35,000.

He is, after all, a son of the classic-winning Falco who has shown his ability to sire high-class winners under both codes, notably the dual Group 1 winner Odeliz and the Grade 1 Triumph Hurdle winner Peace And Co. He covered last year for a fee of £3,500 at James Gray’s Hundred Acre Farm in Lincolnshire.

Tchoupinminzac is the first foal from the six-time winner Ninive, a daughter of Sinndar (Grand Lodge). Five of that mare’s six wins were over jumps in France and she was placed three times in listed company. She is the best offspring from the dual winner, including at two, Narcose (Valanour).

Go back one more remove, to Tchoupinminzac’s third dam Nabita (Akarad), and up crops a very familiar name. Nabita had no fewer than 10 winning progeny, four of which earned some blacktype, but far and away the best was Nakir (Nikos).

Bred by His Highness the Aga Khan, the gelding was partnered to a pair of Grade 1 successes by Jamie Osborne. Trained by David Nicholson, Nakir landed both the Arkle Chase at Cheltenham and followed up with victory in the Maghull Novices’ Chase at Aintree.