GEMOLOGIST is a sire I mentioned here already this year and for whom I predicted a bright future. Last weekend he sired his first stakes winner in his first crop and it was the Grade 1 Frizette Stakes heroine Yellow Agate. The winner’s grandam Flabbergasted, by Sadler’s Wells, is an own-sister to Dewhurst Stakes winner and sire Scenic.

Evie Stockwell bred the Galileo filly Photo Call and this Grade 1 winner, sold for $3 million last November, added the Grade 1 First Lady Stakes to her record at Keeneland. She is now a six-time winner of more than $825,000. Her dam Theann, by Rock Of Gibraltar, is a Group 3 winner and half-sister to Halfway To Heaven, winner of the Irish 1000 Guineas and dam of the recent Group 1 Dubai Fillies’ Mile winner Rhododendron.