WHAT a weekend it was for Lanwades Stud’s Study Of Man (Deep Impact), as he made his mark at Group 1 level, thanks to the Juddmonte owned and bred Kalpana, winner of the British Champions Fillies & Mares Stakes. The win certainly made up for any regrets Juddmonte might have had about selling the winner’s dam Zero Gravity (Dansili) for 35,000gns, the same year that the new Group 1 winner was born.

Blandford Bloodstock conducted the purchase of Zero Gravity, a stakes winner, at the Tattersalls December Sale in 2021, and the mare was carrying a full-brother to Kalpana. That now two-year-old, unraced to date, failed to sell at 9,000gns as a yearling, but that disappointment was surely well forgotten when Zero Gravity’s yearling this year, a filly by Too Darn Hot (Dubawi), was purchased by Shadwell for 425,000gns in Book 2.