Who could have imagined George Washington's influence spreading so far so quick?

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Classic’s impressive all-the-way victory in a Newmarket novice stakes on Friday, and trainer Richard Hannon’s optimistic forecast for the colt’s future in the aftermath of the race, will have been music to the ears of pedigree buffs.

That’s because the son of Dubawi, who could head to the Champagne Stakes at Doncaster for his next start, is out of the most famous one-off in breeding: Date With Destiny, the sole offspring produced by the magnificent, mesmerising and mercurial George Washington.

Classic (for how long was that name reserved with Weatherbys?!) carries the silks of Julie Wood, just as his dam did, having been purchased by Peter and Ross Doyle at Book 1 of the Tattersalls October Yearling Sale for 260,000gns.

Date With Destiny had originally been consigned to Goffs as a foal by the Irish National Stud on behalf of her lucky breeder Azienda Agricola Loreto Luciani, whose placed Rainbow Quest mare Flawlessly was the only one that the subfertile George Washington successfully impregnated during his fleetingly brief stallion career at Coolmore.

Glidawn Stud purchased the filly for €280,000 as part of a bold pinhooking venture, and made a fair profit when selling her to the Doyles for 320,000gns in the following year. Wood picked her auspicious name and must have derived plenty of enjoyment from her racing career, as she saw her score well on debut at Newbury and run with credit in several big races, collecting precious black type when third in the Lingfield Oaks Trial.

Date With Destiny was offered as a broodmare prospect at Tattersalls at the end of her three-year-old season, and was bought by John Warren on behalf of Newsells Park Stud for 185,000gns. She has done sterling work in keeping her ill-fated sire’s name alive in pedigrees against all the odds, and made a few bob for connections along the way.

Beautiful Morning, the Galileo filly who was her first offspring, was sold as a yearling for 650,000gns and won the Royal Whip and John Musker Fillies’ Stakes for Jon Kelly before being sold to Hugo Lascelles on behalf of Lady Bamford for 1,400,000gns.

Galileo filly Beautiful Morning as a youngsterCredit: Edward Whitaker

She has a two-year-old colt by Dubawi, named Rajasthan and in training with John and Thady Gosden, as well as a yearling filly by the same sire and a filly foal by his upwardly mobile son Night Of Thunder.

Date With Destiny’s next four offspring – Janabiya, a 2015-foaled filly by Nathaniel; Archon, a 2016-foaled gelding by Lope De Vega; Date In Vegas, a 2017-foaled filly by Lope De Vega; and Dialled In, a 2018-foaled filly by Iffraaj – were all either non-starters or non-winners, but crucially the three daughters, all by top sires, are being given every chance of prolonging George Washington’s survival in bloodlines.

The twice-placed Janabiya, owned by Aislabie Bloodstock, has a two-year-old filly by Iffraaj, named Margaret Beaufort and in training with George Scott, as well as a yearling colt by New Bay and a colt foal by Mohaather.

Ballygallon Stud meanwhile welcomed the placed Date In Vegas’s first foal, a chestnut filly by Waldgeist, in January, and Norelands Stud is the breeder of the unraced Dialled In’s initial offspring, a bay filly by Without Parole who was born in March.

Date With Destiny’s next produce was the three-year-old Churchill filly La Gloire, sold to Godolphin as a yearling for 350,000gns and entrusted to Andre Fabre. She was the decisive winner of a Chantilly maiden in May and was last seen finishing fourth in Listed company at Longchamp in June, and still ranks as a promising racing prospect for her patient trainer.

I make that a total of ten fillies and mares in existence who are descended from Date With Destiny already, so her family looks set to grow at an exponential rate in the coming years.

There’s also a small chance that Classic might one day propagate George Washington’s genes even more widely in a stallion career. It’s wishful thinking, I know, but not entirely a forlorn hope based on his stylish success at Newmarket and his trainer’s high opinion of him.

George Washington and Kieren Fallon show them the way home in the 2,000 GuineasCredit: Edward Whitaker

All that, and Date With Destiny is still in production at the age of 14. Her colt by Waldgeist will be offered by Newsells Park at Book 2 of the Tattersalls October Yearling Sale this autumn, and she was covered by the in-form Night Of Thunder this year.

Who could have imagined when George Washington managed to get one mare in foal 15 years ago that his influence would end up spreading so far in such a relatively short space of time? In death as in life, the Gorgeous One is springing surprises and stirring the emotions.

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