A WEEK after Space Blues stepped up to win the Group 1 Prix Maurice de Gheest, his half-sister Shuruq (Elusive Quality) had a moment in the limelight when her Hard Spun (Danzig) daughter Antoinette doubled her stakes haul in the Saratoga Oaks Invitational Stakes.

Previously successful in the Tepin Stakes at Aqueduct, Antoinette has been second in the Grade 1 Coaching Club American Oaks, also at Saratoga.