EMMA Capon is surely a very happy lady after last weekend. She is the owner of the five-year-old Oasis Dream mare African Plains, purchased for her from the Juddmonte draft at the Tattersalls December Sale by Charlie Gordon-Watson for 65,000gns.

At the time she was the first foal of the Group 1 winning sprinter African Rose and she had been placed a number of times in France when trained by Criquette Head. Her first visit to stud saw her covered by Poet’s Voice and by whom she has her first foal this year, a colt.