MARKAZ got back to winning ways at Newcastle last weekend when he landed the Group 3 Chipchase Stakes over six furlongs in the colours of Hamdan Al Maktoum. The £200,000 DBS (now Goffs UK) Premier Yearling Sale graduate is an own-brother to the Group 1 winner Meccas’s Angel, and they are the first two offspring of the listed-placed Atraf mare Folga.

Mecca’s Angel was sold as a yearling for just 16.000gns and the daughter of Dark Angel has been a revelation as a racemare. She was followed by Markaz, while the third produce of Folga is the two-year-old Dark Angel filly Dirayah and she sold to Oliver St Lawrence in Book 1 of the Tattersalls October Sale last year for 825,000gns.