TIMING is so important, and never more so than when you are heading to the yearling sales, and a new winner pops up on the pedigree page.

This week’s one-day Tattersalls Somerville Yearling Sale on Tuesday has a draft of five yearlings from Rathbarry Stud, though the farm also has another two as agent. Their homebred quintet include Lot 268, a filly by Kodi Bear (Kodiac) out of the Exceed And Excel (Danehill) mare Quality Time, and the pedigree had a significant update on Monday when She’s Quality won at Newbury.

A daughter of Acclamation (Royal Applause) and the already mentioned Quality Time, She’s Quality was ambitiously named, but her record to date indicates that she may well have been appropriately named. Purchased by her trainer Jack Davison for €195,000 as a yearling at Goffs, She’s Quality made her debut as a long-priced outsider at the Curragh at the end of June, where she was a fine third to the subsequent group winner Ylang Ylang.

The complete outsider of eight starters for the Group 3 Anglesey Stakes three weeks later, She’s Quality missed out on third place by half a length, and was beaten two and a half lengths by the winner, Kairyu. Three weeks later, and again at the Curragh, she was beaten less than a length in a six-furlong maiden, with the subsequent group winner Letsbefrankaboutit three lengths back in third.

Little wonder then that She’s Quality started at odds-on to win her maiden when Davison sent her to Newbury this week for the Qipco British Champions Series Maiden Fillies’ Stakes, and she was hugely impressive when winning by almost four lengths, with plenty in hand. She has some tasty entries, notably in the Group 1 Cheveley Park Stakes, and she could be up to that standard if she maintains her present rate of progression.

The second foal of her dam, She’s Quality is now that mare’s first winner, while her year-older full-sister Saeda Time (Acclamation), a €78,000 yearling, was placed last year in France on her only start. The team at Rathbarry must have liked what they saw with the first two fillies by Acclamation, and this year they welcomed a full-sister to She’s Quality and Saeda Time.

Delivers

This is a family that delivers in every generation. Since Rathbarry bought Quality Time, a two-year-old winner in England, fourth in a Group 3, and twice a winner at five in the USA, for $65,000 at Keeneland five years ago, two of her half-brothers have won and earned blacktype. Highland Dress (Shamardal) is a stakes-placed winner of five races, but his half-brother Make A Challenge (Invincible Spirit) became a leading sprinter in Ireland, half of his 10 victories coming in listed races, and he was twice a Group 2 runner-up.

She’s Quality’s third dam, the unraced Out Too Late (Future Storm), bred Saoirse Abu (Mr Greely). A $260,000 yearling, that filly won the Group 1 Phoenix Stakes and Group 1 Moyglare Stud Stakes, was classic-placed, and sold on for 1,950,000gns at the end of her second season racing. Out Too Late was a half-sister to the dam of Balanchine (Storm Bird), a rare Group 1 Irish Derby winner being a filly, and this came in the aftermath of her victory in the Group 1 Oaks at Epsom.