Coolmore recruit Wootton Bassett fields second Group 1 winner

Audarya became the second Group 1 winner for Coolmore recruit Wootton Bassett when landing the Prix Jean Romanet at Deauville on Sunday.

The James Fanshawe-trained filly denied Oaks heroine Talent a first Group 1 winner as a broodmare as her Dubawi daughter Ambition finished a neck second. In third was Dansili filly Romanciere.

Coolmore swooped to buy Wootton Bassett, also the sire of European champion three-year-old and sire Almanzor, from Haras d'Etreham recently and he has already arrived in Fethard.

The Prix Jean-Luc Lagardere scorer sired three podium finishers in both French Guineas this year in the shape of Mageva, Speak Of The Devil and The Summit, with The Summit going on to finish second in the Prix du Jockey Club.

Audarya is one of 44 registered four-year-olds by the sire conceived at a €4,000 fee in 2015, a fee which climbed to €40,000 for the latest breeding season.

Audarya was bred by Haras d'Ecouves out of the Green Tune mare Green Bananas, who also has a two-year-old colt by Linamix stallion Polarix named Orpaill'eure.

Green Bananas, out of the Group 3-placed Anabaa mare Anabaa Republic, was sold privately to Haras de Saint Roch for €2,000 at the 2017 Arqana February Sale.

Audarya was purchased by Stroud Coleman bloodstock for €125,000 at the Arqana October Yearling Sale the same year.

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