First-season sires in Brocklesby and Ghaiyyath's brother among Doncaster entries

The 2021 British Flat season looks set to start with a bang as a number of first-season sires hold entries for the Brocklesby - the first juvenile race of the year - while Ghaiyyath's full-brother has been entered for the maiden contest later on in the card.

Among the 18 entries for the traditional season opener are two-year-olds by freshman sires Aclaim, Ardad, Cotai Glory, Galileo Gold and The Grey Gatsby.

Aclaim, who was represented by his first runner in Satin Snake at the Curragh on Sunday, has two entries in Banana and Claim To Fame, while the popular The Grey Gatsby, winner of the French Derby and Irish Champion Stakes for Kevin Ryan, could be represented by Major Gatsby.

Galileo Gold - a son of Paco Boy who won the 2,000 Guineas and St James's Palace Stakes - also has representatives in Denim Shorts and Mahak, while Group 2 scorer Ardad and the smart Group 1-placed sprinter Cotai Glory have one candidate each in Vintage Clarets and Forca Brasil.

Forca Brasil is a particular eyecatcher on paper, being a half-brother to Muker, the first British winner for last season's freshman champion sire Mehmas and who was also third in the Windsor Castle and a neck second in the Group 3 Mercury Stakes at Dundalk.

Ghaiyyath: his full-brother could make his debut on SaturdayCredit: Pool

Love De Vega is another who catches the eye on pedigree. A son of leading sire Lope De Vega, the chestnut colt is the first foal out of Ribble, a Motivator half-sister to Al Quoz Sprint scorer The Right Man and Listed-placed juvenile Black Velvet.

Later on, Charlie Appleby could unleash the full-brother to Ghaiyyath - last year's world champion and winner of the Coronation Cup, Eclipse and Juddmonte International - in Khaiz.

The three-year-old son of the brilliant Dubawi, who also holds an entry at Kempton earlier in the day, was a 700,000gns foal purchase from the Tattersalls December Foal Sale when selling to Stroud Coleman Bloodstock from the Castlebridge Consignment.

Bred - just like his illustrious brother, who now stands at Kildangan Stud - by Dermot Weld's Springbank Way Stud, Khaiz is out of Galileo's first Classic winner, the 1,000 Guineas heroine Nightime, and will race in the silks of Sheikh Mohammed's son, Sheikh Hamdan.

Other names to note in the mile-and-a-quarter maiden are the Karl Burke-trained Uccello, a Frankel relation to Beresford Stakes scorer Curtain Call among three stakes performers, and the Anthony Oppenheimer-bred Purple Ribbon, a Gleneagles close relation to the Listed winner and Group-placed Crimson Rosette.

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