Book 1 buy Campanelle lands the spoils for US connections in Prix Morny

Campanelle became the fifth top-flight scorer for Tally-Ho Stud stalwart Kodiac when blitzing clear of her rivals in the Prix Morny at Deauville on Sunday, leading home a one-two for the sire with colt Nando Parrado in second.

The winner was following up on her success in the Queen Mary Stakes at Royal Ascot and carried the same colours as the 2016 Morny winner Lady Aurelia.

Campanelle was bred by Tally-Ho Stud out of the Namid mare Janina, who they sourced for 39,000gns at the 2016 Tattersalls July Sale, and was snapped up by agent Ben McElroy for 190,000gns at Book 1 of the Tattersalls October Sale.

Campanelle completes a three-generational sequence of stakes winners with Janina having won the Listed Marygate Stakes at York and her dam Lady Dominatrix, by Danehill Dancer, having struck in Group 3 company at Newbury.

Campanelle is inbred 2x4 to Danehill, sire of both Kodiac and Danehill Dancer.

Janina visited Mehmas last year and was covered by Galileo Gold earlier this year.

Kodiac, a half-brother to Invincible Spirit out of French Oaks heroine Rafha, has sired two winners of the Cheveley Park Stakes in Tiggy Wiggy (2014) and Fairyland (2018), with the latter going on to win the Flying Five Stakes at the Curragh.

His other two top-flight winners are four-year-old colt Hello Youmzain, the winner of last year's Haydock Sprint Cup and the Diamond Jubilee Stakes in June, and the exceptional middle-distance performer Best Solution, who earned a place at stud in Germany, where he won twice at the highest level.

Kodiac easily ranks among the best sires of two-year-olds having fielded a world record 61 juvenile winners in 2017, and he stood the past two seasons for a career-high fee of €65,000, having initially retired to Tally-Ho at a €5,000 fee in 2007.

Lady Aurelia's story did not end after winning the Morny in 2016, as she followed up in the King's Stand Stakes at Royal Ascot the following year, before Barbara Banke of Stonestreet Farms bought out her partners in the mare for $7.5 million at Fasig-Tipton's Night of the Stars Sale in November 2018.

The daughter of Scat Daddy was covered by Curlin last year but did not get in foal, however she is carrying a colt foal by the same sire after a successful mating earlier this year.

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