MAKING Light’s victory in the final group race of the 2016 season in Ireland, the Group 3 Killavullen Stakes, was surely special for her owner Eva-Maria Bucher-Haefner and her Moyglare Stud. She is just the latest in a long and lengthening list of top-class fillies to emerge from her family, all of which carried the stud’s distinctive colours. Many of them raced during the lifetime of Eva-Maria’s father Walter.

Making Light, by Tamayuz, is the third offspring and second winner for her dam Instant Sparkle, an impressive winner at Galway during her racing career when she helped trainer Dermot Weld to one of his many leading trainer titles there. A daughter of Danehill, Instant Sparkle’s first foal was the Pivotal gelding Instant Update and he ran once for Weld before being sold to Mohammed Ghazali, the leading trainer in Qatar. The gelding won there as a four-year-old.